Kevin Fagan reports for the San Francisco Chronicle:
Whats up to the town, goodbye to your baggage. That was U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s impolite introduction to San Francisco’s vexing status for automotive burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the luggage from his automotive whereas it sat in a downtown parking storage.
The heist meant the Democratic congressman received caught at a flowery feast in his shirt sleeves and a climbing vest whereas everybody else sat in fits. Not fairly the look the person from Burbank was aiming for as he rose to thank powerhouse lawyer Joe Cotchett for his help in his bid to interchange the late Dianne Feinstein.
“I assume it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco,’ ” Cotchett’s press agent Lee Houskeeper, who was on the dinner, remarked dryly.
Congressman Schiff is a “progressive” on legal justice, that means that he seeks to water down the implications of crime to criminals. See his congressional website, the place the crime web page is a group of all of the left’s commonplace fallacies and buzzwords. His method essentially means weakening deterrence and incapacitation. But he claims that his program will make us extra protected, promoting the previous snake oil that rehabilitation applications will remodel criminals into law-abiding folks in massive sufficient numbers to make an actual distinction in crime charges. That is the legal justice equal of Lucy promising Charlie Brown that she received’t draw back the soccer. The promise has been made for many years, however the applications solely change recidivism charges barely on the margins. But folks nonetheless fall for it.
The late Senator Feinstein had a greater grasp of the realities of crime. She was a liberal in some ways, however she was higher on crime than many of the of us on her facet of the aisle. She helped the Antiterrorism and Efficient Dying Penalty Act of 1996 get by the Senate. Schiff is the favourite to take her seat, which might be a loss for the reason for justice, however possibly Steve Garvey can tag him out.
Will this incident open Schiff’s eyes to the truth of crime? Unlikely. I think he’s too far gone for that.
James Freeman has this article on the WSJ.
