Should San Fransisco be boycotted?

Question

If the mayor of San Fransisco is not going to enforce the laws of our land is San Fransisco a safe place for citizens and visitors? The mayor of San Francisco says he will not enforce federal laws and will not allow his law enforcement people to enforce federal laws. Laws are made to protect society ; the Mayor of San Francisco is not ready to protect the citizens of his city or the people who visit there! It seems to me that San Francisco should be avoided - maybe boycotted! If the mayor is going to be allowed to make his own law, ignore federal laws, and not provide protection under the law then is San Francisco a safe place to be?

Answer 1

ok, you cannot boycott a CITY. i think you mean boycott their actions. lol =]

Answer 2

Well, first of all, you are covering a lot of different topics that are not really related to one another.  Your assumptions to ask your question need to be investigated by your own willingness to be open-minded.

So.  All elected officials are required to enforce the federal laws.  States get their certification and justification from being created by Congress, and Congress mandates under our US Constitution that each state is obligated to obey federal laws except where federal laws make no provisions over legality.

Therefore, in your excited emotional diatribe, WHAT LAWS are you referring to that apply to the mayor of San Francisco not enforcing federal laws?  The marajuana laws?  The illegal alien laws?  The laws of gravity?  I am still peeved that my city's city council has not yet outlawed tornados!

San Francicso as I knew it was a strange and beautiful city.  Yes, there is lethal crime there.  Every city has a murder data base.  If you go over to Oakland, there you will find real trouble at night.

So if you advocate boycotting San Francisco, what is your reason?  You never said why you consider boycotting San Francisco as being an act of justice.  What is the purpose?  What is the desired outcome?  Will boycotting San Francicso WORK ? ? ?

You did take English classes in school, did you not?  You know, sentence structure, subjects and predicates, rationality, personal expression, and the like?

Answer 3

It's not the job of local law enforcement to enforce federal law, it's the job of federal law enforcement to enforce federal law.  If states and local governments start doing it, than they'll get stuck with doing it all the time, and carry the costs.  If the Federal Government wants to pass laws, they'd better be ready to enforce them.

Answer 4

Which federal laws is he refusing to enforce? There are regular disagreements across the US over which government entity should have control over various issues.

Answer 5

The mayor is taking a stand - has the conviction to stand by beliefs. Whether it be a smoking ban that could have serious financial implications, or federal laws that fills the jails with illegal aliens - someone has to take a stand in order to make sense of it all.  Whether we think it wrong or right, this type of move brings national attention to something that the mayor obviously thinks will be detrimental to the city - and hopefully bring about change.  That is what demonstrating is for - taking a stand to bring about change. Have a healthy and happy leap year!