‘Liar! Resign!’: Athens Dem Mayor Faces Backlash For Claiming Laken Riley’s Murder Not Related To Illegal Immigration
The Democrat mayor of Athens, Georgia, Kelly Girtz faced heated backlash during a press conference on Wednesday after downplaying the murder of 22-year-old college student Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal alien.
Girtz began the press conference by defending illegal immigration and insinuating Riley’s murder was the fault of former President Donald Trump, which was quickly met with scorn by the audience.
“I want to say that we center our work here in Athens-Clarke County on people’s humanity and part of everybody’s humanity is the expectation of human dignity. While 2019 was not that long ago, you might remember the dynamic we were living in in the late teens in this country where you had the president of the United States speak in the most vile terms about people who were foreign born and you had that notion metastasizing —” he said before groans from angry residents stopped him.
“Oh, please stop it! This is an invasion!” a man said. “You are lawless, mayor!”
Tempers flare from community members at a press conference by the Mayor of Athens giving an update to the death of Laken Riley. They are calling for the Mayor to resign. @FOX5Atlanta pic.twitter.com/aVEZaZwn3y
— Eric Perry (@Ericperrytv) February 28, 2024
Girtz then tried playing semantic games, claiming that Athens is not necessarily a “sanctuary city” because that term means “different things to different people depending on the context.”
“We know what it means,” one protester retorted.
“Liar!” another added. “You’re the one guilty! You got blood on your hands for this murder, sir!”
Girtz notably declared Athens a sanctuary city in 2019.
2/ In 2019, the Athens City Council passed a resolution “to foster a community where individuals and families of all statuses feel safe,” so that “all people, including those WITHOUT documentation, feel welcome and comfortable.”
— Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) February 28, 2024
Hear it from Mayor Girtz himself: pic.twitter.com/ugqzHhcN9D
Girtz then insisted that Riley’s brutal murder at the hands of a Venezuelan national who illegally entered the U.S. was not related to illegal immigration.
“I caution against conflating immigration and crime. The data demonstrates that the two are not connected,” he said.
“You need to go, sir. We don’t want to hear from you anymore. You’re not defending us. You’re not upholding your oath of office. You are a criminal,” one protester said.
“We’re here to listen. We’re here to listen,” Girtz responded.
Of course, Riley’s death is directly linked to illegal immigration given a Venezuelan national with a criminal history who illegally entered the U.S. is charged with beating Riley to death.
Riley was beaten so badly that her skull had been disfigured.
Contrary to Girtz’s remarks, data shows illegal immigration since Biden took office is positively correlated with the rise of violent crime in the U.S.
“A 2021 Department of Justice report revealed that 64% of federal arrests in 2018 involved noncitizens, despite them comprising only 7% of the population at that time. While the Biden administration fails to provide continuous updates on illegal alien crime data, Texas’ Department of Public Safety maintains a running database of such incidents,” the Heritage Foundation wrote.
And that was data taken BEFORE Biden’s open border invasion.
Reports just emerged that an El Salvadorean illegal alien with a storied criminal history was charged for killing a 2-year-old child.
BREAKING: A criminal from El Salvador was arrested today for k*lling a 2-year-old kid. He is in our country illegally.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 28, 2024
He’s been here since 2022 and has a long criminal history. ICE requested to detain him in 2023 but local woke courts released him from custody.
How many more… pic.twitter.com/bGUSwPVizI
And a Honduran illegal immigrant was just arrested for raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint in Louisiana.
Additionally, other data shows Venezuela’s own violent crime rate has plummeted as its gang members and criminals flee the country to illegally cross into the U.S.
If only Democrats fought as hard for the rights of American citizens as they do for illegal aliens.
Watch the full press conference:
Huge! France Mobilizes For War With Russia, Macron Tells Frenchmen NATO May Invade Ukraine
Alex Jones delivers an update on the globalists’ buildup to WWIII as French President Emmanuel Macron sets to mobilize his military to fight Russia and drag NATO into an all-out war.
Dr Phil Tells The View Hosts: Kids Suffered More From Covid Lockdowns Than The Virus
Former TV host Dr. Phil McGraw managed to rattle “The View” hosts this week when he joined them to discuss, among other things, the negative impact Covid lockdowns had on children. The 73 year old […]
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From Trucker Boycotts To Grid Down – There’s Only One Way To Survive A Food Crisis
If there is one reality that Americans need to accept, it’s that every system has a breaking point and there are no exceptions. Human beings are built to adapt and this has given us incredible resilience, but it also means we have a tendency to wait too long to fix the parts of our society that are broken. Instead, we let the problems build and fester until, sadly, the final straw falls and everything comes crashing down.
Sometimes this collapse is by chance and sometimes it’s by design. In either case the catalyst is the same – The public does not prepare and they don’t take action to correct the people creating the crisis until it’s too late.
In our modern era of invasive technology, economic weakness, nuclear weapons and biowarfare, this is an unsustainable model. We can no longer ignore threats on instability in the hopes that they will go away or that governments will defuse the danger, nor can we simply pick up the pieces over and over again after each calamity. There may come a time when the mess is so big we won’t be able to clean it up. People must plan ahead, and they must stop tolerating the notion of passive involvement in the mechanisms that influence their lives and future.
I write often about hypothetical trigger events and breakdown scenarios because a large number of people still need to be educated on how fragile the western world truly is right now. For example, any significant disruption to supply chains and logistics at this time would be devastating for a large number of Americans (or Europeans).
In the past couple weeks alone there has been a rising tide of political discontent among US truckers; the very people that handle over 70% of all freight in our country. They have threatened to boycott a number of Democrat controlled cities (primarily New York City) over a host of issues and complaints including the legal treatment of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. This boycott may not play out in the near term (watch for talk of boycotts to escalate in November around election time), but the potential is on the table and it’s an important learning moment. What would happen if the US freight system actually stopped?
US supply chains operate on a “just in time” freight schedule – Meaning, all the grocery stores in your area will carry just enough backstock to serve normal business operations for about a week, when the next fleet of trucks arrive.
The just-in-time structure is the lifeblood of the supply chain, and most American cities would fall into chaos after one week without it. Trains and railway networks handle around 28% of total freight and have struggled through a long state of decline. There is no realistic alternative to trucks.
FEMA and the National Guard could try to field drivers to fill the void, but consider this: There are currently 3.5 million freight drivers in the US today, and that number is at least 80,000 drivers short of what is needed. Do you think the government or the military is going to be able to come up with enough scabs to undermine a trucker strike against blue cities? There’s no chance.
I have to say, I’m not opposed the concept of a trucker boycott; its a peaceful redress of grievances and all peaceful measures should be exhausted first. All they have to do is refuse to take on shipments to places like NYC or Washington DC – Many of them are subcontractors that can pick and choose whatever jobs they want.
However, we need to keep in mind how terrified the Canadian government was during their trucker protests; so terrified that they labeled the truckers as terrorists and started freezing the bank accounts of anyone supporting them. This action was against their own constitutional laws; that’s how effectively frightening a freight shutdown is to politicians.
Even so, if the US government responded in the same way as Canada, it still wouldn’t do much to stop a boycott. Tensions are extremely high and it’s only a matter of time before conflict erupts in one form or another. The political left (and their globalist handlers) have offered no indication whatsoever that they intend to back away from their current destructive path. Something has to give. Why not a trucker protest or red state protest cutting off blue regions from vital resources?
Unfortunately, there are still a number of conservatives and independents living in these cities that could be negatively affected by a freight shutdown along with their progressive neighbors. Maybe this strike never comes to fruition and everything will continue on as “normal.” Maybe not. The point is, anything can happen and the way our economy and supply chains currently function is not going to pass muster for much longer.
The average American has around one week’s worth of food in their pantry at any given time. With FEMA response in place a rationing system would be instituted over the course of several weeks, probably using a digital tracking method much like an EBT card. And make no mistake, there will be strings attached to any government rationing program:
“Do you have the latest covid booster? No ration card until your shots are up to date. We see that you have registered firearms…you need to turn those in before you can get rations. We see that you’ve made problematic comments in your social media history, you may not be eligible.”
It takes around 7-10 days of zero food supply for panic to set into a population (when people finally realize things are not going back to normal). It takes two weeks for starvation to take a physical toll and three weeks for people to start dying. Riots and looting are inevitable, but that won’t solve the problem if there’s no food to loot.
Some people will argue that they only need to not be where the shortages are, but there’s no way to predict this. In the case of conservative trucker boycotts, the targeted areas are obvious, but that is only one scenario. There are a host of events that could cause a crippled supply chain in both rural and urban areas, including a mass immigration crisis or a nationwide grid down scenario.
The only viable solutions is to secure a long term food storage plan, and don’t forget the protein because western governments have become increasingly hostile against animal agriculture these days. (Get your affordable freeze dried beef supply HERE with promo code “market15”)
Food storage for each family for at least a year is essential. It doesn’t have to start there; even one month of food will give you an edge over most of the population and will ensure you don’t have to go begging to FEMA. But eventually a year’s supply or more is necessary (along with community organization for mutual security). This will give you time to establish a more permanent and sustainable food plan after the worst has happened.
You can see the storm that a logistical breakdown would cause. In 30 days or less a city like New York could be brought to its knees even with government intervention. On a national scale, regardless of the cause, the result would be about the same. Ultimately there are two kinds of people in the wake of these kinds of events – The people that planned ahead, and everyone else. It’s my hope that through education and encouragement we can convince enough of the populace to prepare so that this large percentage of Americans acts as a redundancy against catastrophe (leftists won’t listen, but maybe the rest of the public will).
In other words, the goal is to give the public a natural immunity against supply chain collapse, so that when the crisis does strike the effects will be greatly diminished.
BREAKING: Dan Bongino Breaks Spy Story Of The Century, Alex Jones Sends Emergency Message
Elon Musk Warns US Being Turned Into “Refuge for the World’s Worst Criminals”
The fact that illegal migrants can cross the US-Mexico border and claim asylum without any identification has effectively turned the US into a “refuge” for criminals, Elon Musk stated in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
His comments came in response to a recent Bloomberg article, shared by the X user EndWokeness, reporting that Venezuela is experiencing its lowest homicide rate in 22 years, now that many criminals and gangs have left as part of a massive wave of emigration prompted by economic hardship.
EndWokeness commented on the report, stating “Venezuela has its lowest homicide rate in 22 years because their gangs are coming here.”
Musk agreed and claimed that “the ability to discard your identification documents (from any country), walk across the southern border and claim ‘asylum’ has turned America into a refuge for the world’s worst criminals.”
In another post later that day, the billionaire doubled down on his statement, writing that “anyone, even a literal serial killer, can toss away the ID they used to get into Mexico from anywhere in the world, then claim asylum, say they have no documents and be ushered into America.”
The ability to discard your identification documents (from any country), walk across the southern border and claim “asylum” has turned America into a refuge for the world’s worst criminals! https://t.co/ENhh2abS5G
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2024
On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO also slammed a bill proposed by Democratic Senator Laphonza Butler, asking the Biden administration for more federal taxpayer money to provide beds for immigrants in San Diego after the county shelter ran out of funding. The senator warned that between 800 and 1,000 people residing in the shelter would be released per day otherwise.
“Dams are bursting all over the country,” Musk responded, noting that “America is only 4% of Earth’s population” and if just 1% of the rest of the Earth moves to the US, it would crush all of the country’s essential services.
“I am ringing the alarm bell, because the flood of illegals is crushing the country,” he wrote.
The state of the US-Mexico border has become one of the key issues in US politics over the past year amid a historic influx of millions of immigrants. Republican lawmakers have been demanding tighter controls and more money to be set aside to deal with the border crisis, prompting them to block a multi-billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine.
Alex Jones responds to Dan Bongino’s ‘bump’ list revelations, and invites him on InfoWars to have an open discussion.
No More Ukraine Aid Until Wall Built on Entire Southern Border – US Senate Candidate
Republican candidate for US Senate John Rust told Sputnik that the United States should not fund more aid for Ukraine until it has built a wall on the entire US southern border in order to address the years-long border crisis.
Rust, of the state of Indiana, said he “absolutely, positively” agrees that funding for Ukraine aid and US border security should be tied together in one bill.
“The issue I have with Ukraine is you have to fund our own border first before we go and fund Ukraine’s border,” Rust said. “I’m not for sending any money to Ukraine until our own southern border wall is built completely and funded completely from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.”
Earlier this month, Senate Republicans blocked a $118 billion national security supplemental package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel and border policy reforms. Republicans claim the reforms in the bill would not do enough to deter illegal immigration on the US southern border.
However, the Senate sent over a $95 billion foreign aid bill that excludes border security reforms to the House of Representatives for consideration, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has been reluctant to take it up for a vote over differences on national security priorities. The supplemental bill includes $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel, among funding for other priorities.
Alex Jones responds to Dan Bongino’s ‘bump’ list revelations, and invites him on InfoWars to have an open discussion.