Crisis and Cash Bail in California
Drug traffickers with enough fentanyl to murder a 100,000 people were arrested in my hometown and then released without bail.
On June 24 police in Tulare, CA, arrested Jose Zendejas and Benito Madrigal, both of Washington state, with 150,000 Fentanyl pills—more than enough to kill the entire population of the city via overdose several times over.
Tulare is my hometown. It is where I grew up and graduated from high school. It is also a waypoint along Highway 99—a major drug trafficking route from Southern California (and thus Mexico) up to Sacramento and the Pacific Northwest. Madrigal and Zendejas’ haul was valued at $750,000. This was no local drug run.
But, on June 25, just a day after their arrest, the two men were released without bail—or even any supervisory restrictions—as they awaited their court date.
This release shocked even California residents who have become desensitized to criminal misbehavior. These two men were armed with a chemical weapon powerful enough to murder tens of thousands—and they were released with no questions asked, on the mere promise they show up to their court date this last Tuesday.
In a turn of events that should shock no one, they didn’t attend the hearing.
The Judge who released them, Michelle Verissimo, rated them both as unlikely to try and flee justice according to a risk assessment algorithm. Therefore, the two men didn’t need to put up cash bail in order to serve as a garauntee they’d show back up for the trial.
Below are the release orders and risk assessments as filled out by Verissimo who released the two men. These were sent to me by the Tulare County Superior Court on request.
The insanity of the ordeal is a microcosm of our national decline. Criminals run wild with few consequences because we need to fight “systemic racism” in the criminal justice system. The operating assumption is that people who are clearly broken, insane, weak, or vicious deserve special consideration and privileges.
America is in love with death. The Covid hysteria, criminal justice reform, military degeneracy—all of it is tied together.
The solution is not so simple as voting for the “right” local official. Most individuals caught up in this vicious pro-death movement have no idea how to even begin to get out—assuming they even know there is a problem.
The only real solution that could bring a lasting reversal will be found among the youth. America needs young men, full of ambition and spirit, who are willing to fight this tide of death and decay. As long as the American right is dominated by the Boomers and their spiritual descendants that possibility cannot come to fruition
Older conservatives have spent decades haplessly watching the country come apart, they aren’t going to suddenly discover a way out of this mess. Those who have no future cannot be expected to save those of us who do.
Change, if it is to come at all, will be born from the youth.