Why Won’t The Mainstream Media Report On The Real Radical Mandela Barnes?

Kudos to Bice on Barnes’ abolish ICE place however there may be a lot extra.

What’s the Mandela Barnes Plan for Wisconsin?

Sweeping police funds cuts.  Abolishing ICE as a begin.  Dismantling capitalism to cease local weather change.  Constructing communities via destruction.  And will we simply be nicer to criminals already?

No, the Lieutenant Governor received’t be taking any questions at the moment.  Or possibly ever.

By Heather Smith

After the 2020 election, Mandela Barnes did an interview about what he thought his get together wanted to do to enhance their efficiency.  His Monday morning quarterbacking then boiled all the way down to this:  be bolder, go larger, don’t reasonable on powerful points like defunding the police, racial injustice, common well being care, and the Inexperienced New Deal.

In case you’re transferring within the path that your Republican opponent is already in, who’s going to take you critically?” Barnes stated. “If we get into these fights and we find yourself going to a spot the place much less daring is the trail, then I feel we kiss these votes goodbye.”

Simply 15 months later, because the chief within the Democrat major subject for U.S. Senate, Barnes has ditched his personal recommendation, jettisoning his “daring” unpopular stances whereas his handlers protect him from answering unvetted questions.

You’d assume he’d be getting wall-to-wall protection for his public abandonment of ‘daring’ positions (whereas retaining endorsements from for the extremist teams behind them), for hypocrisy, for hiding behind his marketing campaign handlers…a issues candidates, particularly main candidates, sometimes take warmth – and take questions – for.

Not Mandela Barnes.  Because the previous saying goes, ‘don’t mess with what works,’ and slippery or downright fringe positions together with dodging questions is the Barnes playbook and to this point has at all times earned him a cross from the mainstream media, and from others in his get together.

Defund the Police

Barnes has been the Wisconsin darling of all of the nationwide extremist teams advocating for defunding or abolishing the police.  He’s at all times insisted communities are “overpoliced.” As not too long ago as final summer time, Barnes was nonetheless on the Defund the Police bandwagon telling PBS in June that he thought cash for social staff and neighborhood providers ought to come from “bloated budgets in police departments.”

“However the minute you speak about decreasing a police division’s funds, then it’s like all hell breaks unfastened and all people acts such as you’re signaling Armageddon,” Mandela Barnes, June 10, 2020

Barnes additionally claimed the police have been needlessly whiny about somewhat defunding discuss, ‘the minute you speak about decreasing the police division’s funds, all people acts such as you’re signaling Armageddon’ and that sweeping funds cuts will not be an assault on the police.

Quick ahead just a few months and now Barnes says, with a wink and nod to the a number of defund-police organizations who bankroll him, that he doesn’t assist defunding police. And he needs us to know he has a pal, ahem, he has attended a legislation enforcement swearing-in ceremony, so defund the police is simply loopy discuss, obvs.

Does Barnes imply he received’t abolish police forces, or does he imply he opposes any cuts to police budgets or one thing else totally? Has he had a conversion after having fun with the luxurious of a particular Dignitary Safety Unit comprised of a number of state patrol officers defending and chauffeuring him at taxpayer expense?  No one is aware of, and Barnes ain’t speaking.

Abolish ICE

Barnes took to social media to ask for an Abolish ICE shirt and he received one.

Now, Barnes says the Abolish ICE slogan “doesn’t seize all of the work that must be carried out.”  He says he helps reforms, and “making certain nobody coming to this nation has to expertise traumas like household separation” however he “isn’t in anyone individual’s camp.”

This renders his place intentionally, totally, incomprehensible.  Does Abolish ICE not go far sufficient? What would seize all of the work that must be carried out?  What’s Barnes’ place on the present 20,000 ICE detainees, a rise of over 30% within the time since Biden took workplace?

Inciting Violence

In 2020 the nation watched as a girl who had beforehand known as 911 to report she was raped in her residence in entrance of her baby, needed to name the police once more, when her assailant confirmed up armed, to commit one other crime.

Mandela Barnes saw Kenosha riots as an opportunity to fan the flames of violence.  He stated an armed man, with an arrest warrant for rape, taking the automobile of the lady he was accused of assaulting, resisting police was “de-escalating a struggle” that his capturing was a police “vendetta,” and didn’t “want an investigation.”

“This was not an accident,” Barnes stated.  “This wasn’t dangerous police work.  This felt like some form of vendetta being taken out on a member of our neighborhood.  The officer’s lethal actions tried to take an individual’s life in broad daylight.”

Barnes, too, admitted that he didn’t know any of the related details of the Blake capturing, however he provocatively (and, it seems, fully ignorantly) characterised it as a “vendetta being taken out on a member of our neighborhood.”

Barnes didn’t name for calm or peace.  As a substitute, he stated devastation “builds” community.

One can’t assist however surprise how a lot violence and destruction Barnes thinks it takes to construct a very nice neighborhood. Or why Barnes will get a cross on these shameful assertions.

Conserving Criminals on the Streets

Wisconsin is experiencing the highest level of violent crime over 35 years.  In latest months households in Waukesha watched an offender out on low bail intentionally pace via their Christmas parade killing 6, and simply 2 weeks later the identical neighborhood was shaken by the rape of an 87-year-old grandmother by a 14-year-old.

Lengthy an advocate for lighter sentences and drastically decreasing jail populations, Barnes authored laws in 2016 to eliminate cash bail.  Barnes not too long ago traveled to California to lift cash with the San Francisco DA who ended money bail there.

Barnes’ major opponents are united towards the elimination of money bail. After backing off different positions, it raises questions as to why this issue is the one Barnes feels is the most important to differentiate himself from the field on, particularly considering the lives lost due to the lack of substantive bail.

Cease World Warming by ending Voter ID

Barnes chaired Evers’ Local weather Change Activity Power, which produced dozens of radical suggestions at a price within the trillions, elevating costs for requirements like warmth and gasoline for households slammed by inflation.  Barnes required ‘environmental justice’  be the first objective of the duty drive, which discussed destroying all prisons, ending Voter ID, dismantling capitalism, and ending racism as essential to fight. . . local weather change.

Probably the most beautiful proposals the duty drive thought-about was to upend the cornerstone of our judicial system and forcing the burden of proof for “environmental racism” from the accuser onto the accused. As a result of it’s “actually exhausting to show” in any other case.

Among the many recommendations:

• Mandating that Wisconsin’s fully-funded retirement fund – the one one within the nation – divest itself of all fossil gasoline investments, which have been a mainstay of Governor Evers’ personal portfolio.
• Require colleges to show local weather justice – the idea claiming the historic accountability for local weather change lies with rich, highly effective, typically white folks, whereas it has harmed minorities. DPI, though outraged at “micromanaging” parents advocating for civics courses, has been silent on this curriculum mandate.
• Obligatory local weather/racism coaching for state workers to show them to identify and cease racist laws. DPI provides resources for instructing about “white supremacist, heteronormative and misogynistic” science that little doubt may assist.
• Mandating any new developments within the state cross a “racial disparity” evaluation or face denial.
• Creating an Workplace of Environmental Justice to sue taxpayers based mostly on problems with race.
• Implementing a carbon tax that will improve the price of heating and cooling houses, filling up gasoline tanks, and the costs of just about all items and providers.

Any considered one of these astonishingly fringe suggestions warrants intense scrutiny and questions of Barnes as chief of the duty drive.  Barnes has taken these concepts overseas as properly – telling a U.N. gathering in Spain that to be able to cease local weather change, now we have to “stymie capitalism.”  Assuming the mainstream media would ask the frontrunner within the Democratic major for the U.S. Senate – at a minimal – about his perception within the hyperlink between Voter ID and local weather change is outwardly an excessive amount of to count on.

Training

Barnes has advocated that Wisconsin taxpayers subsidize UW System tuition for unlawful immigrants, however in terms of youngsters who’re trapped in a nasty faculty system, trapped in a district that’s failing to show them to do fundamental math and English, Barnes provides nothing.  He has been an outspoken critic of the varsity alternative program, claiming to be the product of public training.

Nevertheless it seems the reality is kind of a bit totally different.

Barnes’ mom was a public faculty trainer, and his grandmother labored for MPS, but when his household made selections about his training, their first alternative for Barnes was a personal spiritual faculty.  Barnes attended kindergarten at Holy Redeemer, a Christian faculty in Milwaukee, and an early participant in Wisconsin’s 33-year-old faculty alternative program.  Barnes’ household believed he would profit extra from some great benefits of a personal faculty training than attending failing MPS colleges, however Barnes is vigorously against different kids having fun with those self same benefits.

By the point he received to John Marshall Excessive Faculty, he had been given instruments for fulfillment that present college students in MPS will not be getting.  Below 4% of MPS college students can learn or do math at grade stage at the moment.  However whereas he touts his commencement from a public faculty, he’s ashamed to confess that he had a privileged training he would deny different kids.

When he gave their graduation deal with in 2019, Barnes stated he was proof {that a} John Marshall training may take graduates locations.  Marshall has solely a 76% commencement fee, and their ACT scores lag the state, and worse, fall in need of even the abysmal MPS scores.  However then, most Marshall college students didn’t have the privileged alternatives Barnes’ household made positive he had.

Barnes has by no means been pressed on his personal faculty training, and he’s by no means voluntarily spoken concerning the causes his household – MPS insiders – selected for him an training he would deny different Milwaukee youngsters.  Or how he can justify wanting to offer state subsidies for unlawful immigrants to attend school however begrudging dad and mom the chance to choose the varsity that’s finest for his or her baby like his did.

Avoiding the Press

Barnes has gone underground, dodging the press and his employees provides to offer written solutions slightly than in-person interviews with the candidate.  Statements are launched by his handlers, and he’s not made accessible.

It might be as a result of as the first frontrunner he doesn’t wish to threat a slip-up.  It might be his marketing campaign staff doesn’t belief him to remain on message.  It’s additionally doable that based mostly on earlier on-camera Q&A the place the candidate turned rattled and agitated, his handlers are protecting him off-camera and below wraps.

Whatever the motive, his technique of hiding from the media for six months till the first appears to be working, and the disappearing act warrants questions.  Questions that Barnes will not be getting.

Mandela Barnes is the front-runner in a hotly-contested major, and but he’s hiding from the press, seemingly unable to handle questions until he has them upfront.  He’s grown accustomed to getting a cross from the media and his personal get together, however how lengthy will the mainstream media let his flabbergasting positions on excessive positions on points go unremarked and unquestioned.