De Blasio is back in town, unfortunatly
‘Bolshevik’ Bill
Back from his self-aggrandizing tour on the Presidential Race (I believe he ranked in the high zeros in the polls) ‘Bolshevik’ Bill De Blasio is back in town just in time to enact new restrictions on the First Amendment. Seems the term “illegal” may have negative connotations, especially when used in conjunction with “aliens.” Use in this manner could result of fines up to $200,000.
Poetrooper was kind enough to forward this article from The American Thinker on the subject.
De Blasio’s NYC bans use of words ‘illegal alien’ said supposedly in ‘hate’
By Monica Showalter
Now that socialist Bill de Blasio is washed out of the Democratic presidential election primaries, he’s back to running New York City, doing the Sandinesta thing, and banning free speech.
The New York Post has identified his latest bid to make New York Cuba:
It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate.
The restrictions — violations of which are punishable by fines of up to $250,000 per offense — are outlined in a 29-page directive released by City Hall’s Commission on Human Rights.
“‘Alien’ — used in many laws to refer to a ‘noncitizen’ person — is a term that may carry negative connotations and dehumanize immigrants, marking them as ‘other,'” reads one passage of the memo. “The use of certain language, including ‘illegal alien’ and ‘illegals,’ with the intent to demean, humiliate, or offend a person or persons constitutes discrimination.”
This is an outrageous assault on free speech, as well as free thinking. The term “illegal alien” wasn’t something cooked up by racists, but a federal government legal term, perfectly legal in description.
One has to wonder why the people of New York City put up with this clown.
The entire article may be found at American Thinker
Thanks, Poe.
Category: 2020 Election, Diversity, Guest Link, Illegal Immigrants, Politics
Banning large sodas didn’t work for his predecessor, but he’s dumb enough to think banning speech will work.
Millions of people do the daily walk of shame that they were stupid enough to vote for this putz.
And they’ll just elect the next idiot with a D next to his name.
As long as there’s a spotlight and a camera, critters like this will crawl out of their dark hidey holes to get some attention.
You can get rid of cockroaches by spraying them with Formula 409 cleanser. I wonder if that would work on these creeps….
Hey, he’s gotta do something for the seven hours a month he works.
I lived in Queens County (NYC) from 1945-1971 and then moved to New York state and resided in Nassau County Long Island NY. I’m glad Herr bill de Louseio wasn’t around then. When is he going to start burning books that he doesn’t agree with unless it is Mein Komph.
Ain’t it funny to hear lefties go on and on and on about supposed “fascism,” then they turn around and pull this shit?
And imagine the massive payout that the first “offender” will get from the city of New York when they take this up the judicial chain.
That’s because our leftist indoctrination system no longer teaches the truth about fascism, communism, or any other leftist ideology, so idiots like antifa, etc have no idea how stupid they are.
That judicial chain should have begun immediately after the mandate was effected.
It’s unfortunate that justice costs money for the oppressed. Constitutional advocate attorneys should fight pro-bono for removal of such atrocities.
Something disturbing about this story is that it’s an example of how a deep-state political system works. Although the ban on using the term “illegal alien” indeed happened on De Blasio’s watch, the real credit should go, at least it seems to me, to Carmelyn Malalis who chairs the city’s Commission on Human Rights. Malalis is not an elected official, she was appointed by De Blasio in 2014.
It’s probably also significant that Malalis’ past work history was as a human rights lawyer. Which pretty much amounts to appointing an activist fox to guard the societal chicken coop.
What also seems to stand out if you do some digging is that the NYC Commission on Human Rights is opaque as an organization, and has drawn fire not only for how its 50 lawyers on staff handle discrimination complaints, but also how it’s very difficult to appeal a commission violation decision. Such decisions also cover not only immigrant issues, but also LGBTQ, the handicapped, and so forth.
Also partly to blame in this are journalists who should be acting as objective watchdogs instead of doing stenography reporting. Public officials, elected or otherwise, who are responsible for making bad decisions need to be named and shamed.
A New York democrat created an impenetrable and unaccountable bureaucracy? You don’t say!
Bill DeBlabio, friend of the ILLEGAL ALIEN, I hear that NYC went to hell in a handbasket during his reign!
Quote:
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. See, e.g., Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. at 55-56; City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent, 466 U.S. 789, 804 (1984); Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp., 463 U.S. 60, 65, 72 (1983); Carey v. Brown, 447 U.S. 455, 462-463 (1980); FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. at 745-746; Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., 427 U.S. 50, 63-65, 67-68 (1976) (plurality opinion); Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 16-17 (1976); Grayned v. Rockford, 408 U.S. 104, 115 (1972); Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92, 95 (1972); Bachellar v. Maryland, 397 U.S. 564, 567 (1970); O’Brien, 391 U.S. at 382; Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. at 142-143; Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. at 368-369.
Texas v. Johnson
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397
They (the “(D)” politicians) act as if the law does not apply to them, for they Know Best.
Alito: “Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate”. United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U. S. 644, 655
Kennedy (concurring): “A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.”
Brennan: “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
— Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 414, 1989
Warren Wilhelm is just pissed that he isn’t going to get to peddle his brand of BS on the national stage, so he’s got to pull some grandiose scheme to get his name out there. Plus he figures he can ran up a bunch of fines against his enemies to replace some of that lost tax revenue. Wondering what goes through a lib’s mind could be a scary thing, I’d sooner take an unescorted run through downtown Fallujah or Ramadi in the bad old days than do that…
Just be glad you’re not a ground hog.
What in the Ho Lee Phuk is happening to our Republic? A “Commision” making City Ordinances? That are in violation of the FIRST Amendment to the Constitution? I dug into the linkie to the post. Just pissed me off that much more. Not sure how the citizens of NYC feel about having 1 million $ of their tax money being spent on lawers for illegal immigrants. Is the seagull gonna show up here and give us the empirical data about how this is a good idea?
Good thing I’m old and ain’t got that much time left.
It must really be great living in the Socialist Utopia of NYC these days. So many are leavibng as fast as they can pack…
If Lady Liberty ain’t dead she’s on life support and in an ironlung.
Wake me when the revolution starts, even the most acute nightmare is preferable to this reality.
Drag Queen Story Time.
I rest my case.
Let me know when it starts, too. You’ll need a camp cook. And I have no qualms about roasting HOGS over an open fire. 🙂
Wow, there really is a New Speak Dictionary in New Yawk for the proglogdytes.
Looks like time to move the Statue of Liberty to Fort Pulaski. Or the middle of Iowa.
New York has lost its mind.
New York City passed the law forbidding a citizen from taking his legally registered gun anywhere except the local range.
The case is now in front of the Supreme Court in spite of the city repealing the law in an attempt to make it moot.
It is an egregious assault on property rights that the city tried to prevent citizens from taking their guns to their vacation homes in the Hamptons.
Hopefully the Supremes will rule that strict scrutiny is required for gun prohibitions and therefore NYC will be responsible for striking down all kinds of gun control all over the country.
I do like that SCOTUS, in effect, said “Oh no you don’t. Yes they -do- get to petition for a redress of grievances.”
Clown.