IS NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR GRISHAM DELIBERATELY INCITING THE CITIZENRY INTO OPEN REBELLION?
PART TWO
Soros-sanctioned high-ranking State, County, and Municipal officials do not initiate unconscionable, unconstitutional actions out of the blue. And that is no less true of New Mexico’s present Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham.
This pretentious, sanctimonious, deceitful political leader of New Mexico is a Soros-backed toady.
The New York Post reported on September 9, 2023,
“New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, whose campaign was backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros, riled up conservatives and gun owners after she issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days.”
See also the news account from a local New Mexico newspaper, the Pinon Post, that reports,
According to Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s campaign filing between October 4, 2022, and November 1, 2022, the far-left governor got a last-ditch surge of cash from the George Soros family — this time from Soros’ third child Jonathan and his wife, Jennifer.
The billionaire’s son and his wife gave $10,000 each to Lujan Grisham on October 6.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA)-linked PAC ‘A Stronger New Mexico,’ which is helping Lujan Grisham, received an October 7 surge of cash from Democrat billionaire ex-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He dunked $1 million into the PAC to help save the governor’s hide. His anti-gun group ‘Everytown for Gun Safety’ also dunked $100,000 into the PAC.
Other contributions to the pro-Lujan Grisham PAC included $150,000.00 from the abortion up-to-birth group EMILY’s List, as well as $4.7 million from the DGA, and $150,000 from the enviro-Marxist Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Votes.
The Soros-Grisham connection goes back years before, in 2017, when she ran for Governor of New Mexico for the first time, against Republican, Steve Pearce. See the article in the “Santa Fe New Mexican” newspaper.
See also the article posted by the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA).
The RGA reports that,
Desperate to stand out in a crowded Democrat gubernatorial primary field, Michelle Lujan Grisham is looking for assistance from one of America’s most infamous radical left-wing billionaires, George Soros. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Soros ‘gave Lujan Grisham $11,000, the maximum allowed under state law,’ while his son, Alexander Soros, gave an equal amount. In her campaign for New Mexico’s highest office, Lujan Grisham is now cashing checks from a far-left billionaire who has spent decades backing candidates who will support his radical anti-jobs agenda.
By taking money from George Soros for her gubernatorial campaign, Lujan Grisham has made it clear that she will side with promoting his reckless left-wing policies ahead of fighting for New Mexicans.
Not fighting FOR New Mexicans is the least of it. How about her fighting AGAINST New Mexicans?
Although the Soros connection is worth mentioning, the pressing concern is over what Michelle Lujan’s Grisham’s deep ties to Soros portends for the people of New Mexico.
It is enough to say these ties exist. Soros intends to tear down the social fabric of this Nation and the Constitutional underpinnings of it. And he is doing that. His zealous, contemptuous, attitude toward our Nation, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our History, Heritage, culture, and core Christian values knows no bounds.
The Soros TOOLS are the toadies that Soros and his myriad Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGOs”) fund to get elected.
There is no need to guess on that. Just take a look at the actions of Soros-backed (or linked) prosecutors across the Country. See the article in the Washington Examiner.
And this includes legislators and executive officials.
Do Americans honestly believe that Michelle Lujan Grisham’s unconscionable, unconstitutional actions, suspending the exercise of the fundamental, natural law right of armed self-defense in numerous jurisdictions across New Mexico, springs from a true public safety concern and that the Public Health Order is really just temporary?
Do Americans surmise Grisham happened to wake up the morning of September 8, 2023, deciding how nice it would be to issue an Executive Order that suspends the operation of the Second Amendment, ignores U.S. Supreme Court Bruen rulings, and disobeys the strictures of her own State’s Statutes and Constitution?
Are Americans that naïve?
No! They are not. Grisham is taking her cue from powerful forces both here and abroad that fully intend to destabilize American society and dismantle the only truly Free Constitutional Republic in the world: the United States. Most Americans understand this.
Governor Michelle Grisham in New Mexico, along with Governors Kathy Hochul in New York and Gavin Newsome in California, and several other Governors across the landscape of America, are “Moles.”
They are waiting to spring into action when called upon by their secretive “Case Officers” to do so, and with the U.S. Supreme Court rulings, they have begun to spring into action—some earlier, some later.
But they are all intent on assuaging the concerns of their Marxist benefactors and fully adhering to the Marxist agenda.
Soros and his International Marxist “Open Society” Initiative could never abide by U.S. Supreme Court rulings strengthening the Second Amendment natural law right to armed self-defense in accord with the plain meaning of it.
Such strong High Court rulings required equally strong responses.
Hochul provided one response with her “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” (“CCIA”), in New York. Enforcement of that Act was the subject of ongoing litigation from the get-go.*
Newsome did the same thing in California with Senate Bill 2 (the Portantino bill) that passed the State Senate just the other day, on September 12, 2023, and is headed to Newsome’s desk for signing.
Now, Grisham is doing the same in New Mexico. And her “Public Health Order” is the most serious violation of the fundamental, natural law right to armed self-defense, yet.
Governors invoke different strategies, as required, given the nuances of each State, but all are directed to the same outcome: destruction of the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
And, for those Americans who think their State is immune from the coming Soros-initiated and inspired conflagration, think again.
States like New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado were once reliably “Red States.” That was true once, but no longer. Soros and other powerful Marxists and their organizations have seen to that. And these insolent, arrogant characters intend “to turn” many other “Red States,” “Blue.”
GRISHAM’S STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING THE RIGHT OF AMERICANS TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IN NEW MEXICO.
While the news media has focused attention on the bizarre and dangerous gambit of the Governor, little to no attention is focused on why this is. What brought this on?
What motivated this Soros-Flunky to act in the bold and brazen way she did?
Grisham would like the public to believe her actions stem from what she, along with sympathetic voices, in the Press refer to as an “epidemic of gun violence” rampaging across the State.
But, if this is true, it can only mean that New Mexico is beset by a wave of criminal violence. And that is true enough.
But, given that fact, why issue an emergency Public Health Order targeting innocent citizens residing in New Mexico?
Why not mobilize the police across the State to arrest the perpetrators of violent crime, root out the criminal violence, and, if need be—if the police cannot handle this problem on their own—then call out the State militia to assist the police, to deal with violent crime and criminals and lunatics rampaging through the State, methodically and vigorously.
If the extent and intensity of violent crime caused by a myriad of psychopaths and lunatics wielding guns across New Mexico is that great, then zero in on that issue and leave average, law-abiding, rational, responsible American gun owners who reside in New Mexico alone.
But she won’t do that. She won’t do that because it is THESE average Americans in New Mexico that she wishes to target, hundreds of thousands of them.
What is going on here?
The answer or a major part of the answer is found in a story we uncovered on (of all places) on the political left, progressive website NPR.
Note: the April 14, 2023 article mentions Albuquerque and it is Albuquerque that bears the brunt of the impact of Grisham’s September 2023 “Public Health Order.” Is this just coincidence? We don’t think so.
The NPR article proceeds with this:
Home to about 2.1 million people, New Mexico has one of the highest rates of police killings per capita in the country.
Last year, 32 people — around 15 people per million — were killed by police in the state, according to data from MappingPoliceViolence.org. The project is part of Campaign Zero, a nonprofit focused on policing reform.
New Mexico is second to Wyoming, with a population of about 581,000, where around 17 people per million were killed by police.
‘Who would have thought New Mexico would have one of the highest rates in the country?’ said Howard Henderson, founding director of the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University. He's also a professor in the university's school of public affairs. . . .
Critics of police response in New Mexico say a bigger gun culture in the state compared to much of the rest of the country and lax police training play a factor in the high incidence of police killings.
Police in the state's largest cities say they are making changes to alter how police use lethal force. . . .
‘We know that commonsense policies like requiring de-escalation and a high standard for when to use force keep all of us safer,’ Jones said. ‘Despite New Mexico having one of the highest, if not the highest, per capita rate of killings by police in the nation, robust legislation addressing police use of force did not pass this year. It doesn't have to be this way.’ [Is the Governor’s issuance of a “Public Health Order” four months later the answer? It seems so.]
Gun ownership and culture play a factor
As of 2021, there were 122,968 federally registered firearms in the state, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The data is collected under the National Firearms Act, but this reflects only a subsection of weapons.
Using data from the Rand Corp., CBS News reported that roughly 46% of adults in New Mexico had at least one gun at home in 2021. The state ranked 21st in a list of states and gun ownership. Texas, with more than 1 million gun licenses and roughly 46% of adults reporting they live in a home with guns, ranked first.
Most of New Mexico ‘is rural, people rely on self protection’ and there's more of a culture of hunting compared to the rest of the country, so high gun ownership makes sense, said Maryam Ahranjani, a law professor at the University of New Mexico.
But this likely plays a role in higher levels of fatal use of force by police. Officers are more likely going to respond to a call assuming an individual may be armed, Ahranjani said. . . .
‘It makes sense from a personal safety standpoint that officers want to keep themselves safe too,’ Ahranjani said.
Because of the state's high gun ownership, Ahranjani said police should be trained in a way that prepares them to de-escalate situations rather than use lethal force.
For many years, the Albuquerque Police Department, the law enforcement agency in the state's largest city, has had difficulties with its officers' use-of-force. It has been investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for its pattern of excessive force. Federal officials reached an agreement with the city to improve training and to keep tabs on its progress. . . .
Following the federal consent decree, the department has shown that ‘97% of use-of-force incidents were within policy during the most recent monitoring period,’ Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, told NPR.
‘There's a hodgepodge of policies from Farmington, New Mexico, all the way down to southern New Mexico in Las Cruces,’ Jones said. ‘That could have something to do with [the higher levels of deadly use of force by police].’
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Under state law, all police officers in New Mexico are required to complete in-service training twice a year and report this to the state. But, according to a 2021 analysis provided by the New Mexico ACLU, during the during the last biannual training cycle ‘only 47 % of law enforcement agencies complied with state reporting requirements, with over half of agencies' compliance with statutory training requirements unclear.’
In recent years, many advocates have said law enforcement shouldn't be the ones responding to mental health-related calls.
A review of Albuquerque Police Department shootings between 2018 and 2022 showed that deadly force was used when attempting to apprehend violent suspects, when citizens were experiencing a mental health episode, or when people were acting badly while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the city's police chief said in November.
In search of a solution Albuquerque developed a specialized department staffed to react with a non-law enforcement-led response to 911 calls related to mental health, substance use and homelessness. . . .”
The NPR article would suggest the problem in New Mexico is two-fold: Inadequate police training (which may or may not be true), and New Mexico’s high rate of violent crime, which is true and very well-documented.
Assuming for purposes of argument that NPR is correct and a problem does exist with too many “trigger-happy police officers” in New Mexico, and especially in Albuquerque, then the Governor should do something concrete about improving police training.
And since New Mexico is the second most crime-ridden State in the Country, which FBI Statistics DO bear out, the Governor should crack down on incidents of violent crime. See the article in the Pinon Post. Also, see the article in “Inside Sources.”
Responding strenuously to THE LATTER (raging violent crime) would resolve any perceived problem with THE FORMER (shootings by police in defense of their own life and well-being and that of innocent others when apprehending dangerous, psychopaths and lunatics. For, violent crime would drop abruptly, once the State Government unshackles the police, allowing them to sweep violent offenders from the streets, and once the justice system incarcerates the lot in prisons or places them in lunatic asylums).
But Grisham is doing nothing to deal effectively and strenuously with the crime problem that has gotten out of hand. The same situation exists in New York and California.
Instead of dealing with crime, these Marxist Governors pretend the problem rests with “guns.” And, since most of those guns fall within the control of the non-violent, ordinary citizen, these Governors ignore the crime and target the citizen. But, that was their desire all along. For, it isn’t the violent crime that concerns the Marxist Governors. It is and always was “the armed citizen” that troubles them.
In fact, violent crime serves them well, as criminals and lunatics demoralize the citizenry and destabilize society.
The existence of violent crime allows these duplicitous Marxists to argue that the problem was never criminals but, rather, the mechanism of “the gun” that criminals may or may not use.
And even among those criminals who have used guns to commit violence and who continue to use guns, these Marxists don’t concern themselves with that issue at all, for, they have done nothing concrete to deal effectively with that.
It isn’t guns in the hands of criminals that concern these Marxist Governors. It is, rather (and always was) guns in the hands of tens of millions of average citizens that concern these Marxist State leaders. And that is who they target and they do so with a vengeance.
Getting rid of guns in the hands of tens of millions of average, responsible, rational, law-abiding citizens serves to avoid the real problem any Tyrant faces—the armed citizenry.
For, the exercise of the natural law right to armed self-defense serves as the ultimate effective deterrent to a Ravaging Tyrant.
So, of course, Grisham’s illegal Public Health Order exempts police from carrying firearms in public and, of course, there is nothing in the Order that so much as suggests an attempt to tackle violent crime.
Oh! The Irony!
New Mexican Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham concerns herself neither with purportedly “untrained” police officers nor with curbing and curtailing violent criminals.
She goes after the most innocent members of society—the law-abiding citizen who happens to own and possess firearms for his or her own safety. And what is the harm in that, she thinks?
After all, for Marxist leaders, the armed citizen is the gravest danger. But they never say that. They cannot. So, what is it they do?
They simply mask their illegal, unconscionable acts in seemingly innocuous verbiage: a quest to end the “Gun Violence Epidemic” and a desire to ensure “Public Safety.”
But neither goal is achieved. Neither goal can be achieved. Neither goal is meant to be achieved.
For, criminal violence is what these people want. That is clear from the evidence: the very existence of crime, violent crime, that keeps escalating at a frightening, precipitous rate.
A violent crime rate works to their benefit, for it is what they seek to achieve: destabilization of society, and restructuring American society to reflect a Totalitarian Marxist State.
So promoting public safety is not in the cards. It never was.
The phrase “Gun Violence Epidemic” refers to the idea that too many average, rational, responsible, non-violent, law-abiding people—ordinary Americans—keep and bear arms: tens of millions of Americans. That fact frustrates the Tyrant and the Tyrant’s Tyrannical Government.
Tyranny cannot exist and persist in an environment where the citizen is sovereign over the Government. And that is precisely what the framers of our Federal Government had in mind.
It is no wonder that Democrats, Progressives, and Marxists perfunctorily point to the right of the people to keep and bear arms as archaic and anachronistic.
They argue that the Second Amendment of America’s Bill of Rights is not consistent with the international norms of those countries that severely constrain or altogether curtail civilian ownership and possession of guns. But, so what?
Those countries have no history of or even conception of the natural law right to right to armed self-defense.
So, of course, Grisham’s illegal Public Health Order exempts police from carrying firearms in public and of course there is nothing in the Order that so much as suggests an attempt to tackle violent crime.
Such crime is therefore permitted to go unchecked and in fact to flourish in New Mexico.
And, so, psychopaths and lunatics continue on their merry way, creating mayhem and havoc whether they wield guns or not.
The phrase, ‘Epidemic of Gun Violence’ serves the New Mexico Marxist Tyrant, Governor Michelle Grisham, as a convenient makeweight. And, it goes undefined.
The Radical Left propagandist creators of the phrase “Gun Violence Epidemic” never defined the expression. They don’t need to.
But, then, they don’t want to.
Its purpose is clear even if the meaning is cunningly masked.
The phrase is a codename for a military operation. And that operation takes many forms, depending on the nuances and the needs of a given Marxist jurisdiction.
And no Soros-controlled jurisdiction is exempt from this military operation.
The goal involves, first, precluding those who keep and bear arms from employing them for self-defense (which severely compromises their ability to defend their health and well-being, (especially in the public sphere), and, second, dispossessing the civilian population of their firearms.
After releasing her “Public Health Order,” Michelle Lujan Grisham smugly and disingenuously asserted, as reported by The New York Times in an article published on September 9, 2023, that unabashedly and wholeheartedly approves of Grisham’s actions,
‘I welcome the debate and the fight about making New Mexicans safer’ . . . [and] the ban [will] be lifted at the end of 30 days if the gun violence epidemic [is] over. But she added, ‘I bet it’s not over in 30 days’ and that the ban [will] likely [need] to be modified.
‘We’ll make adjustments, and I intend to make Albuquerque the safest place in America, . . . . ‘It’s a tall order, and I am on it.’
Governor Grisham is on nothing but her high horse.
And, if it is a debate that the Governor wants then, fine, let’s have at it.
But let the public, the State Legislature, and the Governor’s Office debate “making New Mexico safer” BEFORE not AFTER executing an order that merely presumes what must be proved and that would inevitably be proved false, even nonsensical anyway——namely, guns in the hands of average, responsible, rational, law-abiding American citizens living in New Mexico are the root cause of both New Mexico’s rampaging criminal violence and New Mexico’s “trigger-happy cops.”
Is this Soros-backed Marxist Governor defiantly, ardently daring the armed citizenry to respond to her shameless brash Order through open armed revolt? It sure looks like it.
If so, she will come to rue what she has so cavalierly initiated and incited.
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* A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is likely to be handed down next month, and it is likely to be taken up by the High Court if the Second Circuit rules against New York’s gun owners. The 2023-24 term starts in October, with the Court hearing its first oral argument on October 2. _____________________________