3. to hate or not to hate

Whir of blades is a sign of hope for Fairfield 

by

Catherine Moy

Vacaville Reporter

September 2, 2006

updated August 30, 2018

I love the sound of a police helicopter over the skies of Fairfield. It means our law enforcement officers are rounding up bad guys and cleaning the streets of scum. It also means that our city leaders recognize crime problems and are doing what they can to make the city safe.

What a difference a couple of councilmembers make. I remember the days when liberals on the Fairfield City Council yammered on about “perceived” crime. In other words, streets colored with murder victims” blood were just a perception. Crime problem? We had no crime problem.

Then two law-and-order men, John Mraz and Frank Kardos, took office and, voila, the bad guys are scattering like cockroaches under light. We have cops knocking on doors and locking up the filth that gives any city a bad name. Conservatism is shining. No more liberal coddling of the criminal class.  

In June, Fairfield and other law enforcement agencies opened an industrial-sized can of whoop-butt on the town and hauled in hundreds of criminals. Every night I heard the helicopter and it sounded like an angel singing. (I”m sure the devils on the streets heard Mephistopheles calling them home.)

The June crackdown was the largest ever in the city. My husband, daughter and I waved at the helicopter and give our hometown heroes a thumbs up. Before that June crime sweep, the sound of a helicopter usually meant bad news. A criminal was on the run or somebody had crashed her car.

The helicopter went silent after the first run. But last weekend, I saw her flying again. Fairfield is now in the middle of a two-week crackdown aimed at sending the message that rapists, drug dealers, murderers and all of the dregs of society are not welcome here.  

Contrast this attitude to San Francisco, which faces a climbing murder rate. We all know that the big city by the bay is a bastion of liberals, freaks and conservatives who can stomach the left-wing nonsense that is poisoning San Francisco.

S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom is famous for allowing gays to marry in his city. The gay agenda has distracted Newsom from saving the city from its deviance and crime. Last year, 96 people were murdered in Newsom”s city, and that might be eclipsed by this year”s tally.  

Liberalism is literally killing the city”s residents. A year ago, San Francisco voters made gun ownership illegal – though their unconstitutional law is being challenged. And the murder rate climbs. But do you think they can put 2 and 2 together? Only if they”re gay.

Newsom is stunningly popular with residents because of his unhealthy focus on promoting the city”s gay lifestyle, even as gunfights rage in the streets. The mayor plans to hold a second gun violence summit.

He should instead look to Fairfield and New York City under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for pointers. Helicopters, snarling dogs, tough cops and diligence works. What doesn”t work? Men dressed up like Tinkerbell, dikes on bikes and outlawing citizens” guns.

The author, a lifelong Fairfield resident, can be reached at Poohdo@aol.com.

Originally Published: September 2, 2006 at 12:00 AM PDT 

 United against Hate is an orgnization that since 2017  have come together with state and local leaders, community members, activists, and so many others to stand United Against Hate. Catherine Moy used their platform to align herself with communities whom she previously openely condemned and spoke against during her years as Vacaville Reporter columnist. BTW....how many Pride month proclamations and/or flag raisings has she attended since her rise to the Fairfield City Council? 

Shame.

From rhetoric to Auschwitz

from the Vacaville Reporter 

September 6, 2006

Updated August 30, 2018 

If I may borrow a pejorative label from Catherine Moy”s latest offering (“Whir of blades is a sign of hope for Fairfield,” The Reporter, Sept. 2), I cannot imagine anyone but the odd “freak” finding her columns clever or enlightening.

The recent anti-crime effort of the Fairfield Police Department, the subject of Ms. Moy”s column, is to be welcomed. The problem is the tone in which she couches her opinion. She is free to express her convictions. However, both she and The Reporter – which continues to give her a regular forum and apparently pays her for it – might call to mind the period between the two world wars when strong leaders first began to map out the next logical step.

Believing that ultra-conservatism was shining brightly, they put their rhetoric into action. They attempted to cleanse whole nations of filth. Jews were the primary target, but other categories of “freaks” and “scum,” including Catholics and Protestants, were not overlooked. At Auschwitz, huge piles of religious items, as well as child-sized artificial limbs, give eloquent testimony to just some of these perceived scum.

In an earlier column, Ms. Moy wittily advocated sending the whole Middle East to oblivion atop a mushroom cloud. Wonderful. Fanatics of all possible extremes are blithely saying fundamentally the same thing. Ms. Moy”s personal jihad against “liberals,” among other deviants, doesn”t sound all that different from the rhetoric of any other kind of extremist. The difference is one of degree, not of kind, and all of them scare me.

Whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. When our words are ugly, what does that say about us? Who decides who is unworthy and who is an upright citizen? Ms. Moy, after all, comes close to equating “liberals” with “scum.” And is it really such a big step from the ugly words to the appalling deeds?

If our faith does not answer that question for us, then history, not to mention current world events, answers it unequivocally.  

- Sylvia Giem, Vacaville

Put off by ”hate-filled tirade” 

from the Vacaville Reporter

Septemeber 7, 2025

Updated August 30, 2018

I am wondering whether columnist Catherine Moy was a guard at Abu Ghraib prison, with her snarling dogs and tough cops (“Whir of blades is a sign of hope for Fairfield,” The Reporter, Sept. 2). Maybe we should shoot the cockroaches in the street, with no judge, jury or trial.

Helicopters and gay bashing won”t clean the streets. She trashes liberals and brags about being a conservative. Why doesn”t she hold our neocon leaders accountable for starting a war in Iraq based on a pack of lies; high gas prices; high health care (or no health care for some 20 percent); the cost of living rising, but not wages; huge tax breaks for the very people who don”t need them — the rich; the horrible response to Hurricane Katrina, and the biggest gap since the Great Depression between the rich and everyone else.

Her hate-filled tirade was offensive to read. Nobody wants crime, but when hope is taken away, crime will rise. We need programs that help pull people out of poverty, instead of people crossing their arms saying, “I have mine, too bad for the rest of you.” She could go ahead and brag about being a neocon – after she looks at all of their accomplishments.

-  Michael Rhoades, Fairfield