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VOL. 123 - NO. 16 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 19, 2019 $.35 A COPY Rachael Rollins Must Resign; Suffolk DA is a Dangerous Race-Baiter by Jeffrey T. Kuhner Suffolk District Attorney they had agreed to hit “the reset arrest (and assault cops) with Rachael Rollins needs to go. She button.” impunity. clearly poses a threat to public Rollins, however, refuses to It is common-sense: The less Easter safety and law and order. let the incident go. On Sunday, crimes are prosecuted, the more Recently, Rollins has engaged she held a rally in Dorchester they will proliferate. Rollins’ in a bitter public feud with Gov. in front of hundreds of com- soft-on-crime policies will turn Charlie Baker. She is angry for munity activists, many of them Boston into another Chicago or one reason: His administration Black Lives Matter supporters, Baltimore. dared to criticize her infamous and boasted of how she had Yet, she now wants to go one 65-page policy memo. Known neutered Baker and his admin- step further. In a recent inter- as the “Rollins memo,” it states istration. view on a podcast, Rollins says 15 categories of crimes will “This is an example of when the time has come for Boston no longer be prosecuted — someone slaps you in the face to have safe injection sites for including drug possession, drug and thinks you’re going to turn heroin/opioid addicts. Not only dealing, trespassing, breaking away and cry,” Rollins said. would this cause an explosion in and entering, destruction of “And you take your earrings off, drug use and overdose deaths. Pamela Donnaruma property, shoplifting and resist- roundhouse kick them dead in But it is a dangerous overreach Publisher and Editor ing arrest. Secretary of Public the face, and then punch them of her prosecutorial power. Safety Thomas Turco rightly to the ground.” Rollins has no business decid- and the Staff of the Post-Gazette argued in a letter sent to Rollins’ This is how a DA talks? Rol- ing whether Boston should have offi ce that her no-prosecute list lins is the district attorney for safe injection sites. This is a Wish a Happy Easter will lead to higher crime, worsen Boston, Chelsea, Revere and decision for the governor and to All Our Advertisers and Readers the opioid crisis, endanger the Winthrop. Yet, she sounds like state legislature to make — not lives of children and hurt law- a violent street thug — the very some social justice warrior DA abiding citizens. criminals her offi ce is supposed drunk on power. In fact, her Rollins’ response: Baker had to prosecute and put in jail. no-prosecute list is a gross vio- “disrespected” her. The leftist Moreover, it’s not just her lation of her oath and a fl agrant fi rebrand called an impromptu tone and gang-banger language. abuse of her office. District News Briefs press conference, denouncing Rollins is not being criticized by attorneys have prosecutorial by Sal Giarratani Baker as a misogynistic bigot. Turco because of her gender or discretion, but that applies Rollins claimed that none of her race (she is biracial but identi- only on an individual case basis male predecessors were ever fi es as black). This is a red her- (Is there enough evidence to What Does Assange Know? publicly criticized. After playing ring. She’s being excoriated due prosecute a crime? Will a jury The above was part of last Friday’s Boston Herald the gender card, she then went to her insane, irresponsible and convict?). They do not, how- fi rst page headline. To many on both the Left and after him portraying his admin- pro-criminal policies. ever, have the right to refuse Right, Julian Assange (and his WikiLeaks apparatus) istration as racist. Rollins said Rollins is Al Sharpton in pant- to prosecute an entire category is a hacking hero. The establishment Republicans and that, since there were no black suits — a vile race-baiter, who of crimes. DA’s are elected to Democrats as well as the Fake Liberal Democrat Media members in his cabinet, Baker not only hates whites and cops, enforce the law, not to make or see Assange as an enemy of the state. had no right — and lacked but whose no-prosecute list is rescind it. Rollins’ memo is not Assange was evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy the necessary perspective—to putting public safety at risk. By only immoral. It is illegal and and quickly arrested by the Brits. Now it appears he criticize policies designed to refusing to go after heroin and unconstitutional. will be handed over to America sooner rather than later help “the black and brown com- fentanyl drug dealers, she is Rollins needs to resign. for prosecution on all sorts of serious federal crimes. munities” that voted her into guaranteeing that more drugs Rather than upholding the law, As someone old enough to remember the Vietnam offi ce. And for good measure, will pour onto the streets, more she is openly aiding and abet- War, I also remember Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon she attacked Baker’s son, A.J., Americans will die of overdoses ting criminal behavior. I never Papers that he unlawfully copied and handed to media who it was alleged had groped and our opioid epidemic will thought I would see the day sources. Ellsburg thought he was doing the right thing a female passenger on a Jet only get worse. Small-business when thugs on the streets and exposing details of our U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam Blue fl ight bound for Boston. owners will face a rising tide violent gang members would from 1945 to 1967. If it wasn’t for Ellsburg, that war Since charges were never fi led, of crime and shoplifting. Resi- have an ally in the district attor- might have lasted even longer and been more deadly. Rollins accused Baker of ensur- dents will see their homes and ney’s offi ce. Sadly, they have In the end Ellsburg’s actions were seen as heroic. I ing preferential treatment for apartments burglarized and one now. believe also in the end, history will say the same thing A.J. — a luxury, she said, most invaded by thugs who now effrey T. Kuhner is host of about Assange no matter what his fate might end up minorities don’t enjoy. know nothing will happen to “The Kuhner Report” on WRKO being. He is far more a hero than a villain. The following day, Baker cow- them even if they’re arrested. AM-680 in Boston. His daily The Battle ardly (and shamefully) called Police offi cers’ safety will be put show airs 6-10 am EST. He can Rollins to apologize. According at much greater risk because be reached at: jeffreykuhner@ Doesn’t Always End Over There to the Republican governor, vicious criminals can resist iheartmedia.com I had the privilege of listening to Glenn Towery, speak of the Harlem Hell Fighters who served during World War I. I had never heard of them before but they were a fi erce group of warriors who were quite legendary during the First World War. Up to then, I only had knowledge of the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII. Once again, we never stop learning. Towery by the way is also the chairman and founder of the Veterans Suicide Prevention Channel. For more infor- mation go to: vspcchannel.com. His group has helped (Continued on Page 12) POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQ., EAST BOSTON Tues. 10:00 AM-3:00 PM; Thurs. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2019 Res Publica by David Trumbull Legislature Considers Extreme Abortion Bills LATIN LITERATI The Massachusetts State that the good and reasonable In many previous columns representative poet, Martial, Legislature will consider pass- people of the Commonwealth over the years, reference has famous for his Latin epigrams ing into law two deeply trou- are going to see ROE for what been made to scholarly per- and Lucan, the epic poet. This bling bills this legislative ses- it is: a deregulating measure sonalities like Vergil, Horace, period also produced Pliny the sion. They are identical in text so extreme that it would erase Lucan, and Cicero. I thought it Elder, the author who is called but differ slightly in their titles. not only reasonable regulations would be most appropriate at the most learned man of the The fi rst, (HB 3320) is “An Act that ought to accompany any this time to list most of these Silver age. Pliny the Younger removing obstacles and expand- medical procedure, but the celebrated literary giants of was also famous during this ing access to women’s repro- very parties to the procedure Roman antiquity in some kind period. He wrote of the eruption ductive health”. The second, itself. When the law can no of chronology and then offer of Vesuvius, and the persecu- (SB 1209) is “An Act to remove longer name the nascent and a few words of explanation tion of the Christians. Then obstacles and expand abortion vulnerable “unborn child” who about each one. We can start there were Seneca, the tutor access”. Combined they share is the object of an abortion — or by dividing all of Roman literati of Nero and Quintilian, whose the same acronym — ROE. even the “woman” who seeks into four general categories as work gives a complete course of Currently, our state law one out, referring only to her follows: instruction in rhetoric. allows for abortion after 24 “uterus” — we have empowered 1.