OPINION:
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hired a man who served seven years in prison for armed robbery to now work on his transition team — specifically, to advise him on criminal justice system reform.
This is such a Marxist move.
If one major aim of the Marxist mentality is to usher in a society that’s supposedly free of any distinction between classes — so as to create chaos and therefore the systems for government to impose total controls — then hiring criminals to help devise crime policy is the radical right step to take. Another would be to hire rapists to formulate women’s rights programs. Or pedophiles to develop child welfare plans. After all, aren’t all equally deserving of offering input and opinion?
As Mamdani said: “[I wanna] build a city for each and every person.”
Convicted felons, unite!
Mysonne Linen is a rapper and the leader of the social justice group, Until Freedom, who also served seven years for armed robberies of two taxi drivers in 1997 and 1998. He denies committing these crimes, and Mamdani in late November announced his appointment to his mayoral transition team as an adviser for criminal justice reform.
Since, Mamdani has faced backlash for his selection of Linen. But he’s gone into defensive mode, digging in and telling critics that Linen is one of several committee picks whose “fluency of the policies and politics of the city” and ability to point out “the places [city officials have] succeeded [and] the places that they’ve failed” will help “build a city for each and every person.”
It’s one thing to solicit the opinions of those who can offer contrasting viewpoints — who aren’t sycophants. It’s another thing entirely to put wolves in charge of the hen house — to actively solicit the participation of wolves to so-called guard the hens.
But this is classic textbook Marxist and communist maneuvering, of which New Yorkers might expect more in the years to come. Mamdani will work feverishly to undo all that’s law, all that’s order, all that’s constitutional, until near total chaos has crippled his city and he can then turn to the federal government for bailouts. Think California, on steroids. The more chaos Mamdani can generate, the more power he can grab.
Putting a convict in a position of shaping criminal justice policy is just the beginning.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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