{"id":313018,"date":"2019-06-20T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=313018"},"modified":"2019-06-21T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:46:39","slug":"defining-deviancy-down-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/20\/defining-deviancy-down-in-fresno\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Deviancy Down in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know the old saw, &#8220;defining deviancy down&#8221;? When we decide as a society that certain aberrant, perverted behavior can no longer be punished, controlled, whatever, we just declare failure and say that it\u2019s now normal. It\u2019s defining deviancy down. <a href=\"http:\/\/sjvsun.com\/news\/fresno\/fresnos-new-idea-to-stop-gang-shootings-pay-the-shooter\/\">A perfect example of it here from Fresno, California<\/a>: &#8220;A new proposal being floated as part of the City of Fresno\u2019s budget discussions would set into motion a program that would pay stipends to gang members to&#8221; not fire their weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-MASTER-World-A-C-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-MASTER-World-A-C-005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-MASTER-World-A-C-005-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After two days of budget hearings on Fresno Mayor Lee Brand\u2019s proposals for fiscal year 2020, now the Fresno City Council has its turn to pitch funding proposals. The proposal, floated by Councilmember Miguel Arias, would fund $75,000 for &#8216;the administrative element\u2019 of a local version of the Advance Peace initiative. In Arias\u2019 budget motion, he notes that an additional $225,000 would be committed in next year\u2019s budget funded by &#8216;cannabis activity.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019re gonna tax marijuana growth and sales in order to pay gang members not to fire their weapons. Since they can\u2019t find a way to catch them, prosecute them, put them in jail, they\u2019re gonna pay them to essentially obey the law. It used to be we just dangled some sort of goodies or payments to kids to get their homework done. But now we\u2019re paying criminals not to be criminals, to make a city safer and doing it with the sale and taxation of cannabis products, Fresno, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: They&#039;re gonna tax marijuana growth and sales in order to pay gang members not to fire their weapons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":288831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defining Deviancy Down in Fresno - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/20\/defining-deviancy-down-in-fresno\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Defining Deviancy Down in Fresno - 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