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(247 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 11:14 AM Monday

Southern California mayor {Republican} says he wants to 'purge' homeless ...

Southern California mayor says he wants to ‘purge’ homeless population by giving them ‘all the fentanyl they want’
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/socal-mayor-r-rex-parris-says-he-wants-to-purge-homeless-population-by-giving-them-all-the-fentanyl-they-want/

A Southern California mayor is under fire for wanting to eliminate his city’s homeless population by giving them “all the fentanyl they want” — a shocking remark he reinforced by calling for a federal “purge.”

Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris shared his controversial views during a Feb. 25 city council meeting when a resident took issue with the city’s attempt to address the homeless crisis by “enclosing” the unhoused at an abandoned golf course near a residential neighborhood.

“What I want to do is give them free fentanyl,” Parris said as he interrupted the woman’s comments, according to footage of the meeting.

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Here's his Wikipedia article. A real piece of work this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Rex_Parris

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Southern California mayor {Republican} says he wants to 'purge' homeless ... (Original Post) 4th Monday OP
He also backed up the la sheriffs when the feds were investigating them for civil rights violations SSJVegeta Monday #1
So, the government is supplying Fentanyl? AStern Monday #2
Political Violence Kid Berwyn Monday #3
City in the desert. I havent been there for a long time Demovictory9 Monday #4

SSJVegeta

(403 posts)
1. He also backed up the la sheriffs when the feds were investigating them for civil rights violations
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 11:22 AM
Monday

He also prefers an outside police force policing his community over their own local police department.

He is trash.

Kid Berwyn

(20,087 posts)
3. Political Violence
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 11:27 AM
Monday

Normalize it, per NAZI-GOP playbook.



Erich Mühsam

Identification picture of Erich Mühsam taken in the Oranienburg concentration camp. Mühsam, an anarchist and a pacifist, worked as an editor and writer; he was imprisoned during World War I for opposing the war. Arrested during the massive roundup of Nazi political opponents following the Reichstag fire (February 27, 1933), Mühsam was tortured to death in Oranienburg on July 11, 1934. Oranienburg, Germany, February 3, 1934.

Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-political-violence-in-1933

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