{"id":5605,"date":"2017-04-17T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/needed-changes-at-doj\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:05:15","slug":"needed-changes-at-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/needed-changes-at-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Needed Changes at DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Would<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/administration\/328923-sweeping-change-at-doj-under-sessions\"> this<\/a> have happened under Hillary? (That is what we call a rhetorical question.)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">[Atty Gen&#39;l Jeff] Sessions has made immigration enforcement a top priority. Late last month he put \u201csanctuary cities&quot; on notice, announcing that grant money would be withheld from state and local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities and turn over undocumented immigrants arrested for crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Bozo de Blasio will of course scream in protest. This is the guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/316796-deblasio-to-cnn-its-ok-to-shield-undocumented-drunk-drivers\">thinks<\/a> &quot;it is OK to shield undocumented immigrants who drive drunk from federal authorities . . . .&quot; &#0160;As if drunk driving is not a very serious felony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What does it say about the citizens of New York City that they would would choose as mayor such a destructive leftist?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Once again we note the characteristic liberal-left tendency to take the side of the criminal, the loser, the underdog, regardless of what they have done to acquire their status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">An illegal alien who drives drunk is a criminal twice over, first by entering the country illegally, and then by committing the serious felony of drunk driving. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But so-called liberals have an exasperatingly lenient and &#0160;casual attitude toward criminal behavior and little or no respect for the rule of law. &#0160;Theodore Dalrymple is <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/08\/britain-and-the-barbarians.html\">good<\/a> on this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You should be grateful that Hillary was handed her walking papers and won&#39;t be coming back.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related articles<\/span><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0px; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; 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