Soros’ Silent War on the US Criminal Justice System

The case of New York City bodega clerk Jose Alba has enraged Americans and propelled ultraliberal billionaire George Soros’ war on the U.S. criminal justice system to center stage.

Alba, 61, was working alone on the night of July 1. A child picked up a bag of chips and her mother handed him an EBT card, which was declined. Angry that Alba took the chips from her child, she indignantly left the bodega. Afterward, her boyfriend, 35-year-old career criminal Austin Simon, stormed into the store, jumped behind the counter, and attacked Alba. During the struggle, Alba grabbed a knife and fatally stabbed Simon.

Most of the altercation was captured by a surveillance camera which clearly shows Simon as the aggressor. Even NYC Mayor Eric Adams concluded that Alba had acted in self-defense.

Yet the city’s far-left, Soros-backed District Attorney Alvin Bragg viewed Simon as the “victim” in the case. Inexplicably, Bragg charged Alba with second-degree murder, set his bail at $250,000, and sent Alba to Riker’s Island, a prison reserved for the city’s most violent criminals.

Although the precise definition of second-degree murder varies by state, according to Cornell Law School, it is “murder with malicious intent but not premeditated. The mens rea of the defendant is intent to kill, intent to inflict serious bodily harm, or act with an abandoned heart.”

A judge lowered Alba’s bail to $50,000 and after spending five days behind bars, he was released.

Born in the Dominican Republic, Alba arrived in the U.S. 30 years ago and has been a U.S. citizen for 14 years.

Since taking office in January, Bragg’s leniency with the city’s real criminals, like Simon, and his eagerness to throw the book at law-abiding citizens like Alba, has alarmed New Yorkers. Calls for his removal from office began during his first month. Following his unfathomable decision to charge Alba with murder, the calls have become deafening.

For years, Soros has been quietly and methodically working to elect progressive candidates to powerful district attorney positions and other key roles in local governments throughout America. Once in office, these officials use their authority to do his bidding. The number of Soros-backed district attorneys in the country has grown with each election and their impact on the U.S. criminal justice system cannot be ignored.

There’s a distinct relationship between these liberal prosecutors and the rising crime rates in the cities and counties under their jurisdictions. Criminals no longer fear punishment.

In a 2016 interview with Politico, Director of the Reflective Democracy Campaign Brenda Carter said, “Many people can’t name their district attorney. It’s not an office people think about a lot. They are often a very invisible part of the criminal justice system and the political system.”

She is correct. Yet they wield tremendous power. Prosecutorial discretion impacts the criminal justice system directly and ultimately, the lives of American citizens. And no one is more keenly aware of the influence local politicians can have on a community, a county, or a state, than Soros.

He recently donated $1 million to the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, according to Politico. The pivotal roles played by the secretaries of state in the November 2020 election, particularly in battleground states, clearly wasn’t lost on Soros.

The list of travesties caused by Soros-supported government officials is endless. One of the most notable is the case of St. Louis residents Mark and Patricia McCloskey. When a mob of roughly 300 Black Lives Matter members trespassed on their property in June 2020, they stood on their front porch with firearms. They were charged with “unlawful use of a weapon,” a class E felony.

The woman behind this farce was far-left St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner. According to Fox News, Soros was a major donor to Gardner’s 2016 campaign.

Other Soros-backed prosecutors whose flagrant soft-on-crime policies have endangered Americans include District Attorneys George Gascon (Los Angeles County, CA), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia, PA), and Kim Foxx (Cook County, IL).

In a sign that even liberals are fed up with the crime and the homelessness that has taken over their once beautiful city, 60 percent of San Francisco voters recalled radical District Attorney Chesa Boudin, another recipient of Soros’ largesse, last month.

Moreover, an effort to oust Gascon is currently underway. The Los Angeles Times reported the recall campaign submitted over 715,000 signatures to the LA County Registrar last week.

Americans are starting the notice the devastation that Soros’ silent assault on our system of criminal justice has wrought. There’s no doubt the wokest among us will continue to call for emptying our prisons and going soft on criminals, but there is reason to believe that those in the middle, independents and moderate Democrats, are making the connection between the morally bankrupt billionaire’s manipulation of local races and the spiking crime rates in U.S. cities.

The phrase, “all politics is local,” coined decades ago by then-House Speaker Tip O’Neill, has never been more applicable.

 

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