Ted Cruz Introducing Legislation To Hold City Officials Accountable For Damages And Injuries From Rioting

One of the most frustrating aspects of the rioting and looting we have witnessed in recent weeks is that Democrat governors and mayors have allowed it to happen.

These leaders put the interests of the mob ahead of law abiding citizens and business owners.

Ted Cruz has a plan to deal with this, going forward.

The Daily Caller reports:

Ted Cruz To Introduce Legislation Holding City Officials Accountable For Injuries From Rioting

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will “soon” introduce legislation that will hold city officials financially responsible for damaged property and injuries sustained from rioting.

“Sen. Cruz is working on a legislative proposal that will hold city officials financially responsible for the property damages and personal injuries that result from their decision to allow autonomous zones and/or order officers to stand down in the midst of rioting and looting,” A spokesperson for Cruz’s office told The Daily Caller.

Cruz has not set a firm date for when the legislation will be introduced, but his office tells the Caller that it will happen “soon.” The senator revealed his legislative plans on the “Hannity Show” last night while discussing the nationwide unrest in cities…

“Officials in these Democrat-run states are not exempt from that important duty, and they need to be held accountable for the destruction that has been allowed to occur.”

Here’s the clip from the Hannity show:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/ted-cruz-introducing-legislation-hold-city-officials-accountable-damages-injuries-rioting/

WATCH: Leftists Stomp, Dance on U.S. Flag Outside White House on July 4th

Far-left “anti-fascist” and Black Lives Matters (BLM) activists stomped and danced on the United States flag Saturday as part of a Fourth of July protest in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.

The activists were caught on camera by Breitbart News stomping and dancing the Cha-Cha Slide on the flag. A number of those in attendance appeared to be affiliated with Refuse Fascism, an Antifa group founded in 2017 to combat President Donald Trump’s administration. Others in the crowd were also seen wearing BLM t-shirts and identified themselves as supporters of the cause.

“This flag has hurt so many of us, so come step on this flag,” one of the activists is heard, encouraging protesters to join in denigrating the flag, according to video captured by Breitbart News. “Get [this flag] dirty, that what this flag is, it’s dirty, it represents filth, greed, crime.”

The protest was one of several held across the country by Refuse Fascism, BLM, and other far-left groups. Officially, the activists claim the demonstrations are meant to show opposition to the death of George Floyd and support for tearing down statues and monuments, which they claim are a symbol of America’s racist and fascist history.

This is not the first time either Antifa or BLM activists have engaged in such conduct in front of the White House in recent months. In May, protesters upset over Floyd’s death set several U.S. flags ablaze, while alternatively chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” and obscenities at law enforcement.

As a result of that incident and others like it across the country, Trump floated the idea of sending individuals caught burning the U.S. flag to “jail for a year” at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/07/04/lwatch-leftists-stomp-dance-on-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-on-july-4th/

Boris Johnson Set to Exclude Huawei Tech From UK’s 5G Network in 'Major' U-Turn, Reports Suggest

In late February, the British government announced that it would give Huawei a limited role in building the UK's 5G infrastructure, despite previous US warnings that the move could potentially compromise US-British intelligence sharing.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to start excluding the use of Huawei technology in the country’s 5G network this year "in a major about-turn", The Telegraph reports.

The newspaper referred to a report by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)’s National Cyber Security Centre which claims that US sanctions against Huawei has had a "severe" impact on the firm and will prompt the Chinese telecom giant to use "untrusted" technology.

The report, which is expected to be presented to Johnson later on Sunday, said that GCHQ officials are drawing up proposals to stop installing new Huawei equipment in the UK’s 5G infrastructure "in as little as six months", also speeding up "the removal of technology that is already in place", according to The Telegraph.

The developments come after the newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying in late May that Johnson was considering slashing Huawei’s role in the country’s 5G network rollout.

"He [Johnson] still wants a relationship with China but the Huawei deal is going to be significantly scaled back. Officials have been instructed to come up with a plan to reduce Huawei's involvement as quickly as possible", the source claimed.

Huawei UK chief Victor Zhang, for his part, slammed those who "choose to continue to attack us without presenting any evidence", and warned that disrupting Huawei’s "involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice".

"[Our] priority has been to help mobile and broadband companies keep Britain connected, which in this current health crisis has been more vital than ever. This is our proven track record", Zhang underscored, in an apparent reference to the ongloing COVID-19 pandemic.

London Okays Huawei's Role in UK’s 5G Network

London has been under significant pressure from Washington since announcing in February that the UK would, with conditions, allow Huawei to assist in building the 5G network in the country.

The British government made it clear at the time that the Chinese tech giant would be excluded from the UK 5G network’s "core" parts, such as safety-related and safety-critical areas, e.g. military bases.

US Crackdown on Huawei

Washington has repeatedly warned London that permitting Huawei to take part in developing the country’s 5G network would put the US-UK intelligence-sharing agreements at risk, and threatened to downgrade bilateral security cooepration.

In May 2019, the Trump administration blacklisted the firm over allegations that the company's hardware and software connections sent data to Chinese intelligence agencies, amid trade tensions between the two economic powerhouses that began in January 2018. Both Beijing and Huawei have repeatedly denied the accusations.

The US has also urged other countries to refrain from using Huawei equipment when adopting 5G network technology, as part of its pressure campaign on the Chinese tech behemoth.

Despite the clampdown, Huawei touted a "solid business performance" in its 2019 Annual Report, with the company’s sales topping $123 billion and net profits reaching $9 billion.

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007051079798670-boris-johnson-set-to-exclude-huawei-tech-from-uks-5g-network-in-major-u-turn-reports-suggest/

A Will to Overthrow the United States

The statement "Black Lives Matter" assumes from the start that, for the police, the judicial system and everyone else, black lives do not matter. What is so conspicuous and tragic is that black lives only seem to matter if they were taken by a white person…. Sadly, when it comes to black-on-black violence, no one seems to care.

Are the politicians who claim to want help distressed communities the very ones keeping the distressed communities distressed – and in a perpetual state of reaching out to those same politicians for dangled promises of help?

The mob's destruction or removal of statues appears an attempt to erase the history of the United States… What they are doing looks like just an old-fashioned power-grab. The first law of power-grabbers is that if no one stops them, they keep on going – often with catastrophic consequences.

The recent damage inflicted on thousands of people who lost their possessions and businesses as well as the many murders and assaults shows what happens to a society with fewer police or no police.

That the name Black Lives Matter is present everywhere, and that everyone seems to ignore or forget what the organization Black Lives Matter really is, shows that a violent, anti-democratic organization, which calls for the murder of police officers and accepts anti-Semitism and anti-White racism, can use threats, intimidation and destruction – and find public acceptance.

"Their disruptive and violent behavior is happening because governors, mayors, and police chiefs have over the last decade sent the message that they will not respond with mind-concentrating force in order to restore order and hold rioters accountable…." — Bruce Thornton, Professor of Classics and Humanities at California State University and research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, June 19, 2020.

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