My latest in PJ Media:
That patriot’s patriot, the winsome and wise Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu), is nothing if not tenacious. Even as crime is skyrocketing in cities that have cut police budgets and many of her own friends and allies have abandoned the suicidal “Defund the Police” initiative, Omar clings to it so indefatigably that one might even get the idea that she wants to see American cities engulfed in chaos. But surely the lovely Rep. Omar has only our best interests at heart, no?
No. On Tuesday, she appeared on MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Show and doubled down on her support of this corrosive movement when Hasan, who is slightly to the Left of Marx and Engels, asked her: “And how do you feel when you see even self-proclaimed progressives in your party like New York Congressman Ritchie Torres saying that Defund the Police is ‘dead’ in New York City and where many Democrats, including the new mayor, a former police captain, are loudly distancing themselves from the defund movement?”
There was so much that Omar could have said at that point. She could have noted that her fellow far-Left Muslim politician from Minnesota, former congressman and current state attorney general Keith Ellison, admitted in November 2021: “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing.”
Ellison was understating the case. After the Minneapolis City Council took $1.1 million from the police and gave it to the health department, Minnesota Public Radio reported in September 2020: “The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data. More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than were slain in all of last year. Property crimes, like burglaries and auto thefts, are also up. Incidents of arson have increased 55 percent over the total at this point in 2019.”
Bowing to popular pressure, Minneapolis bowed to popular pressure and increased police funding at the end of 2021. It was abundantly clear by that time to all but the most blinkered and deluded far-Left ideologue that defunding the police wouldn’t lead to a new era of peace, love, and understanding, but the reduction of our nation’s cities to hellholes of skyrocketing crime, homelessness, drug addiction, and all the other charming features of cities run by Leftist ideologues.
Omar, however, showed no sign whatsoever that she was aware of the catastrophic consequences of leaving large numbers of people bereft of police protection. She responded to Hasan by saying: “When you see the rise in mental health crises, when you’re seeing domestic violence increase because of COVID and other measures, when you see so many people with addiction problems, and you see the level of homelessness we have in our communities, and you still say more resources shouldn’t be allocated to that, to keep our communities safe and healthy, I really don’t know what your point is in saying that you represent the most vulnerable in our communities. Because if you care about those who are vulnerable, then you have to do everything that you can to keep them safe.”
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Jim says
The voters should defund Ilhan Omar. And refuse to take any 911 calls from her. Vote her out of Congress. She does not belong there, and is only annoying, nothing but a monkey wrench in the legislative process. Not a serious representative of voters.
Terry Gain says
She does not belong in America. She hates America. She wants to defund the police because she can see the damage crime is doing to America.
mortimer says
Defund Ilhan Omar!
This liar who married her brother and filed a tax return with him should be in prison.
She belongs in prison and for lying she should be expelled from the country and her passport revoked.
gravenimage says
+1
raja says
+1
Wellington says
Ilhan Omar is the enemy within. She hates America. She also is ignorant that the West is the greatest civilization of all time and with a capacity to correct and apologize for past wrongdoings that her evil Islamic world has no capacity or willingness for.
Omar is like Karl Marx, i.e., she gets virtually everything wrong. Conclude exactly the opposite of what this truly despicable human being asserts and you will have about a 99% chance of being correct, being in alignment where the truth actually resides.
Omar is an abomination. The fact that she is a member of a legislative body the Islamic world could have never created only adds insult to injury. I despise the woman. She is loathsome in the extreme.
mortimer says
Anyone who cannot see the towering greatness of the West over the rest of the world should be given a one-way ticket away from it, but they must promise never to return.
The only way the Islamic world has voted for 1000 years is by poison, knives and bullets.
The only thing she has in common with other Democrats is their deep hatred of ordinary Americans.
gravenimage says
All true, Wellington and Mortimer.
James Lincoln says
True enough, Wellington.
And Omar took her oath on the Koran, which would explain most of her behavior.
https://christiannews.net/2017/01/16/nations-first-female-somali-american-muslim-lawmaker-takes-oath-on-koran/
abu taleb says
Ilhan Omar is not only the enemy of the USA, but she is also the enemy of all non muslim communities. As a muslim, her goal is to destroy the non muslim world and to establish world caliphate.
And so do the goal of all pious muslims in the world.
somehistory says
This is logical….because criminals hate LE. i. elmi is a criminal.. She committed fraud in the elections; she committed fraud in getting her brother into the country, when he should not have been allowed in; she illegally married her brother; she lied to Congress. She was arrested once for trespassing and not following the orders of the LE to leave the building.
Her father lied to get himself and i.elmi into the country and she has never owned up to any of her crimes.
She is not an “omar.” She is an elmi…a criminal from a criminal family. so, she hates LE.
she should be asked: since she gets paid for *making laws,* just why should she continue to get paid and allowed to make laws, because the LE are the enforcers of the Laws. If there are to be no police, then no one needs her to be making laws.
Get on back to your stinkhole, i. elmi. There isn’t much law and order there, so you’ll feel more at home. And don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
somehistory says
She is also an idiot. A fool. A nincompoop. a foolish or stupid person.
i. elmi….see her ugly face on the dictionary pages for these further words that describe her.
halfwit · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · tomfool · noddy · clodpole · loggerhead · spoony · mooncalf
Maybe not “halfwit.” That implies that she has some….but she is completely empty except for the evil of islam. No wit. Not even half.
mortimer says
She may be a ‘hate-wit’.
Is she lived in any other country, she would be in some crowd chanting ‘Death to America’.
gravenimage says
Even As Crime Skyrockets, Ilhan Omar STILL Wants to Defund the Police
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Of course she does. And unlike some cluuless liberals who believe that holding hands will reduce crime, I imagine she knows all too well the corrosive effect of out of control crime, and–as the cartoon above notes–prefers it that way.
Walter Sieruk says
That stealth jihadist, Ilan Omar, must want to encourage and incite crime , chaos and mayhem in the States.
How sinister !
The only “rational” reason that she would want to do this to America would be an Islamic hope for the downfall of this US Constitutional based nation so that this country can be reestablished under the rule of Islam’s Sharia
What else could be the reason for her scheme to defund the police force ?
James Lincoln says
Walter Sieruk says,
“What else could be the reason for her scheme to defund the police force?”
No other reason that I can think of.
Walter Sieruk says
The hideous scheme to defund the police is probably the most terrible goal of evil and madness possible that ,if done, would only lead to the destruction of people , property and even civilization.
That is in this case the Western civilization of the United States.
Maybe that’s Omar’s actural agenda . For is should be remembered that in the video documentary entitled TRUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza has in it an interview and an American imam and to his credit ,he was honest enough to come right out and warn just how subversive and dangerous Ilan Omar is that he described her as “ISIS with lipstick.”
bill says
She has mastered the well known art of politics in not answering the question by talking about an unrelated issue. Yes of course every same person agrees that more resources should be diverted at the issues to which she neatly refers, However taking money from the police is not the way to do it. Just because a career criminal died accidently while being arrested.
These people It is ironic that one issue she talks of is domestic violence which is surely at the sharp end of police involvement. Police have been killed responding to that very 911 call!
She and her followers are extremely naive if she thinks there was some mythical past time when everybody was nice, considerate and polite to each other, she is wrong. That is why police forces, or law enforcement were present in the very earliest civilisations.
Roland says
Omar is, of course, running for her 3rd congressional term this year. Will the voters approve of her anti-police stance and radical agenda in general after all the rioting and looting in the past year?
OLD GUY says
Omar is just a small part of the Islamic migration plan to take over America. Defunding the police cause civil disorder and creates mistrust of our local governments. Omar does not represent American values and laws, she represents a foreign power who desires the overthrow of America. As more muslim/islamic followers come to America and become voters many more districts will be represented by islamic leaders.
JHL says
Ilhan Omar wants to supplant the Constitution with Sharia Law. Simple as that.
Proud Islamophobe says
Common Sense 101: De-funding the police disables the arrest of moslems for committing every atrocity under the sun.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable scheming Ilan Omar with her terrible goal to defund the police force, it she would be able to do this, that would and will lead to the terrorizing of good decent people and be an encouragement to vicious, savage heinous criminals in the lawless evil actions.
For if the police are defunded then there in American cities and even towns there a drastic raise in crime especially heinous vile violent murderous crimes, as rapes and murderers along with rapes and the murder of the rape’s victims.
There would be more kidnappings and then along with that, many times, the torture and murder of the innocent people who had been kidnapped. Also more robberies and vicious violent assaults on peaceful people by hooligans and well as more vile sex assaults.
There would be a sharp and awful increase of wife and child abuse. In addition, there would be a terrible large inflation of riots along with the arson, looting and vandalism that is always part of it.
There would even in non-riots be an increase in home and business break- ins with looting vandalism and physical harm committed against the peaceful people by thugs.
There can be no doubt that many people who now want the police to be defunded would be first to complain if they would become a victim of hooligans.
In conclusion the police definitely be well funded and supported and never defunded.
Patriot1776 says
I couldn’t say it any better than myself.
Patriot1776 says
Ilhan Omar need to be removed from office and deported back where she came from. She’s a dangerous person to American Liberty.