AZ Republic’s odd placement choices, concealed info

Let’s see…which story should be given Page One prominence?

Bold Headline, above-the-fold accompanying a three-quarter page report —  including an oversize photo of an ASU student wearing a mouth and nose mask for protection against the coronavirus emanating from China: “It’s hard to prepare for an unknown, but the flu season has already provided helpful practice, state health officials say.” The article continues to an inside half page and a photo of another masked ASU student, riding a bicycle.

Bottom of the same front page: small font type: “27 accused of sex crimes.” It’s accompanied by a single sentence and a directive to page ‘3A’ (short-shrifted rest of the story). “More than two dozen people were arrested by Valley police in Operation Silent Predator, a crackdown on trafficking and sex crimes involving children.”

The arrested suspects, who were arranging sex acts with children, are described as between the ages of 21 and 69.  The child victims were 14-years-old and younger and were stalked online.

Of particular interest is the fact that twenty-seven Valley perverts were charged as sexual predators perpetrating crimes against children and the newspaper did not mention a single name. Could it be because Homeland Security was one of the investigating agencies, partnering with Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, and the Chandler Police Departments along with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office? Seeing Red AZ easily located the names of the suspects:

They have been identified as Samuel Puma, 69; Patrick Mai, 65; Walter Lundy, 59; Franklin Omori, 57; Roy Vasquez, 55; Daryl McCraw, 53; Hector Pano, 48; Juan Flores, 40; Andrew Kasmar, 37; Richard Gonzalez, 37; Colten Jourdain, 35; Edward Mendoza, 33; Agustin Ibanez, 32; Kristopher Broom, 31; Ezra Reynolds, 31; Fabian Hernandez, 30; Jose Sandoval, 30; Bryan Carr, 30; Lawrence Ruiz, 29; Tommy Diaz, 28; Kevin Evangelista, 26; Dovonta Owens, 25; Nicholas Benhart, 23; Jesus Mendoza, 23; Terrick Ebron, 22; and Isaac Arce, 21.

Their photos can be found on various local television outlets, though not in the seriously failing no-news newspaper.

Count on this: If any of these arrested child predators are here illegally, the Arizona Republic will never report it.

Ridiculous language distortions gain traction

…Begin with replacing the misused word “progressive” with the far more accurate,”repressive.”

Just weeks ago, we learned that Merriam-Webster declared ‘they’ its “2019 word of the year,” in a nod to gender neutrality and those who now consider themselves non-binary. Gender neutral, non-binary and transgender, words with which we had previously never had even a nodding acquaintance, have gained prominence in our celebrity-driven world. The compliant media follow like lapdogs and before long misused words dominate our language and are being described in detail and taught to our kids in school.

The dictionary company’s revelation preempted the American Psychological Association recognizing “they” as a singular third-person pronoun in its latest scholarly writing style guide. No kidding!

Language corruption and distorted meanings abound. Language, like sexuality, has lost its significance and has now veered off into the land of fluidity, where nothing means anything and venerable, known definitions have been co-opted.

Which brings us to the misuse of the word “progressive” when describing radical leftists. Progressive is a word that is embraced by those who rejected the word liberal in favor of sounding forward-thinking and cutting-edge.  What compounds the egregious trickery is that conservatives, likely in a foolish quest to sound contemporary, routinely use it. The correct usage appears in the first paragraph of this article, titled “Beware of phony conservatives.”

The dying Arizona Republic newspaper’s Sunday edition exemplifies the devaluation of definitions. In a three column report by wordsmith Daniel Gonzalez titled, “What we know about the latest caravan,” he used the words caravan and migrants interchangeably nearly four dozen times as he described Central Americans attempting passage through Mexico intending to invade the United States. He sought out a similarly agendized east coast Latina associate professor, who claims the timing is coordinated “to draw attention away from Trump’s impeachment trial and bolster support among his base during a presidential election year.”

This bonding to a flawed agenda that alienates educated readers signals the death knell for the failing newspaper. 

A much better description for leftists is “regressive,” which is exactly what they are. According to Merriam-Webster, regressive is in the bottom 40% in lookup popularity.  Let’s give it a rightful boost.

Exposing the criminal justice reform farce

We hear the words “criminal justice reform” tossed around a lot of late. Most often the tossers are Democrats, although others who should know better are also caught up in the trendy catchphrase. When boiled down to its nub, it translates to fewer penalties for criminals because, according to its advocates, minorities and males are disproportionately ensnared in the “system.”

Those who commit crimes get arrested, charged and tried, regardless of who they are. There are plenty of blue eyes in prison and interestingly, fewer Asians. The Federal Bureau of Prisons released its most recent statistics noting inmate’s race, ethnicity, gender, and sentences imposed. These numbers reflect federal incarcerations, not local jails or state prisons, which often have different demographics.

Factor in the false positives. In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, reclassifying numerous property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. CBS Channel 13 in Sacramento reports theft under $950 is now a misdemeanor. The immediate effect? The average daily incarceration population dropped by almost 10,000 between October 2014 and January 2015. Crime didn’t go down. Criminals were simply turned back out to re-offend against law abiding public.

Radical groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center see criminality as a misnomer. They state they want to reform the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems so they operate “fairly and equitably” — to “ensure the dignity and humanity of those interacting with these systems, and to reduce the population of those jailed, detained, and incarcerated in the United States.” The dignity of victims is of no consequence.

New York State crafted new bail laws that went into effect on January 1, 2020, the brainchild of Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Pretrial detention and cash bail, considered too harsh for poor criminals, have now been eliminated for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases, including some violent felonies. Crimes such as burglary, stalking, some assaults, many drug offenses — even some arson crimes and robbery — no longer require bail, which means criminals are less likely to appear for court hearings.

San Francisco, a one-time destination city, now a crime and homeless haven with human waste, rats and needles littering sidewalks, recently elected Chesa Boudin as District Attorney. The former public defender who has never prosecuted a case, fired multiple prosecutors after being sworn in. The LA Times reports Boudin heard the news that he had been elected while visiting his father in prison.

Boudin was an infant when his parents, members of the radical leftist group Weather Underground, began serving their sentences in the mid-1980s for killing three men in an armed robbery. His mother was released in 2003. His father is serving a life term.

How are such people getting elected? Here’s a memory refresher from Politico, which reported in 2016 billionaire Socialist George Soros’ under the radar commitment to overhauling the U.S. justice system.

This is serious business with drastic consequences, as is increasingly evident. 

Why the secular left abhors Christmas

Today, just in advance of the holiday, we bring you a superb column by Dennis Prager, exposing the left’s war on Christmas.

This important exposé is our Christmas gift to Seeing Red AZ’s readers.

A nationally syndicated radio talk show host, Prager is also a columnist and best-selling author, and is the founder of Prager U. Many of you may have seen his recent movie, “No Safe Spaces,” co-produced with Adam Carolla. Read Dennis Prager’s impressive bio here.

AZ integral to contrasting refugee resettlement reports

Refugee status often contrived to exploit: Arizona falls prey

First we direct your attention to a compelling commentary by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, titled, “Citizen revolt: Resist refugee resettlement dumps!”

Read it from beginning to end. We promise you the facts will shock you out of your shoes.

Then hop over to the local newspaper. Monday’s pathetic edition was so anorexic it contained only two sections. Sports was one. Leftward skewed news was the other. Characterized by oversize photos, regurgitated reports and purchased content, it is rife with hearing aid ads and even those dealing with ED, aimed at the senior citizens who are accustomed to the flaccid plop of a folded newspaper on their driveway.

You’ll find an intriguing Page One report  that coalesces flawlessly with Malkin’s stunning assessment This one, however, details the welcoming of costly “refugees.” And, of course, it’s taking place right here under our noses in Arizona.  It’s time to get up to speed on this far-reaching problem as our state thrusts its finger in the eye of our citizens, but also President Trump, who has set more rational standards.

On September 26, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order specifying a humanitarian and responsible approach to refugees that protects the welfare of American citizens. This brief fact sheet clearly states his rational approach to  dealing with refugee resettlement, which increases transparency and prioritizes America’s citizens.

Important takeaways from the White House fact sheet:

The primary goal of our refugee policy is to enable refugees to ultimately return home, where they can help rebuild their communities – which also supports our foreign policy interests.

The United States spends billions of dollars resettling refugees that could be invested in our citizens here at home.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spent more than $96 billion on programs supporting or benefiting refugees between 2005 and 2014. HHS surveys show that 45 percent of refugees arriving between 2011 and 2015 were receiving cash assistance and 49 percent were receiving Medicaid.

President Trump is prioritizing the safety and security of the American people by making sure we do not admit more people than we can vet. The United States can only admit so many refugees while ensuring we maintain a high standard of screening.

Proper controls are vital, as many refugees come from countries that are known sources of terrorism or lack the modern record keeping to help us identify their nationals.

Law enforcement has apprehended a number of alleged terrorists in recent years who passed through our refugee program.

This is the man the Democrats are intent on impeaching.

Radicals determined to take joy out of holidays

…as anarchists and their climate change theology rev up

Headlines blasted economic doom and gloom citing lower numbers of Black Friday sale shoppers in stores, while short-shrifting the fact that on-line sales have burgeoned. The anti-Trump media would like Americans to think the economy is collapsing, when just the opposite is true. Fortune.com reports the stock market has hit19 new highs in 2019.

Americans were reported to have spent a record $4.4 billion online on Thanksgiving Day alone. Nearly half of those purchases were purchased on smartphones, up 19 percent from last year.  Online spending for Black Friday is estimated at $7.4 billion this year — which doesn’t reflect the masses of shoppers who shopped in person.

The excellent economic news had no bearing on radical climate change activists such as those associated with eco-protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) or kept them from inciting disruptions. The aim of the group which claims to have chapters in dozens of countries is to create chaos surrounding their core issue of climate change. The fact that the matter remains up for debate within the scientific community, many unequivocally asserting climate fluctuation is cyclical,* is of no consequence to the disrupters, who have staged public “die ins,” shut down airports, roadways, bridges and shopping centers, while endangering public safety.

Arrests are not an inconvenience for XR activists, rather they are part of the plan, as one of the organizers stated, “Our aim is creating a law and order crisis that the state can no longer really contain.”

Its maniacal tactic is to declare the absolute correctness of unproven issues and use it to create mayhem and social unrest. Their hope is their goal of anarchy will follow.

This NASA Science site which we have previously referred to is now accompanied by a disclaimer: “This page is kept for historical purposes, but the content is no longer actively updated.” Dissent has been silenced as further evidenced by search engines that have now obliterated all but prevailing opinion.

A strident Swedish teenage climate activist who insulted the President of the United States, encouraged worldwide student school strikes for climate and blasted United Nations representatives with her “How Dare You” speech — threatening, “We will not let you get away with this…we will never forgive you” — has won. It has yet to be explained how she was able to address the United Nations.

The issue has been hijacked by anarchists and a brash teen afflicted with Asperger Syndrome who is the daughter of an opera singer and an actor. She is mysteriously financed and does not appear to attend school — yet she commands international attention as she issues threats and accuses the U.S. and industrialized nations of “stealing my dreams.” Hatred of America, the most generous nation on the planet, is a guaranteed attention grabber.

No longer private, sex becomes “fluid,” celebrated

Leftist AZ Republic drops Page One impeachment focus, when it can spotlight “gender fluidity”

It’s a good bet most of us reached adulthood, surviving nicely, without ever having heard the word “transgender.” It erupted and was planted firmly on the word map by former U.S. Olympic decathlon medal winner, Bruce Jenner. Married to three different women over the years, he decided he wanted to be like them, rather than with them. He began by growing long fingernails, which he had manicured and painted in not-to-be-missed colors. Then came the makeup. Sultry long tresses, followed, of course, by the mandatory hormones and surgeries.  Soon Bruce made a debut as a seductress on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine garbed in slinky white satin, with the words “Call me Caitlyn“ superimposed over what was previously his hairy midsection.

In August 2019, SRAZ wrote, “Drag Queen Story Hour: Libraries dedicated to corruption of our kids,” describing kindergarteners being exposed to transgender men, outrageously cross-dressed, coming into the barely out of toddlerhood classrooms to read them fairy tales in an effort to normalize the abnormal.

This American Library Association link and quote is today’s new reality:

“Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like — drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions…”

Monday’s edition of the failing Arizona Republic which revved up its downhill content slide in 2008, celebrates a headstone placed on the grave of a “transgender man who died a century ago… given back his identity.” It describes a man, Nicolai De Raylan, who came to Phoenix in 1906 for his health. He was married to two different women, who we are led to believe never suspected he was actually a she.  Now the Arizona LGBT+ History Project is putting a tombstone on his grave and garners front page attention for doing so.

We wonder if De Raylan, who lived his life as a man, would have approved being outed — whether accurately or not — without his consent. But with the Arizona Republic, agenda takes precedence over all else.