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"Big government tends to become deadly government, and De Blasio has no
interest in shrinking it."
At the time of his death, three misdemeanor cases were pending against
Garner, and he was out on bail. Those three cases were among the 31 times he
had been arrested prior to the confrontation that resulted in his death. The
father of six should have had an express lane with the NYPD and the prison
system.
The fact that he was out on bail has been mostly lost in today's discussions
about the case, but it's highly relevant. Out on bail, on the day of his
death he was breaking a law that he had had been caught breaking over and
over again. He was a recidivist, if petty, street criminal. But the crime he
committed was, frankly, a stupid crime that is the result of New York's
onerous, even oppressive, policies regulating daily life. Personally, that
city has too much government for me and I never want to live there or any
place like it. To each his own...
...Garner was out on bail for previous violations, which may explain why he
resisted arrest (nonviolently and unarmed) the day he died. He faced felony
charges at some point and perhaps more prison time if convicted. For some
reason, Al Sharpton never mentions any of that.
...The loosies law is really about preserving New York's ability to control
business and collect taxes, with the armed police force empowered to that
end. Collecting taxes is the one thing that the state will not cease and
will never rest from doing. That big government that New Yorkers keep voting
for is very expensive. It has a rapacious appetite for more and more money -
especially in the hands of progressives and socialists, such as New York's
current leadership.
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