In the People’s Province of Los Angeles County in Wokeistanian California, District Attorney George Gascon is using the county’s Equity Inquisition Board to have county employee critics punished.

History is rife with instances of all manner of secret courts, from the Star Chamber of 15th century England to the FISA court of America today. Out of view of the public, conducting investigations with little or no participation from the targeted party. Few expected the Spanish Inquisition in Los Angeles county, but here we are.

Under-fire Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has “weaponized” a special panel to suspend and punish anyone who speaks out against his policies, two prosecutors alleged to The Post.

Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna said he has been falsely accused of racism and given a 10-day suspension after a complaint was recently made against him over his description of a 2021 altercation involving a group of men who viciously beat an individual. (snip)

Sanna noted a complaint was only filed with the LA County Equity Oversight Panel after he had spoken out against Gascón’s policies, including one which allowed a violent gangbanger out on the streets who later went on to kill two Police officers in June 2022.

Wait, what in the world is the County Equity Oversight Panel? Who are they “overseeing” and how do they define “equity”?

As they say, the devil is in the details. The splash-page graphic alone should give you pause … BigPerson is watching! And how is this for Orwellian language:

Every Los Angeles County employee and contractor is expected to use words and actions that ELEVATE our workplaces to environments free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Such a sweet (and facile) appeal to reasonableness. How could anyone ever object to keeping the workplace free of harassment?

Things that make you go Wait a minute there, bro.

As a preventive measure, the County will also not tolerate inappropriate conduct toward others based on a protected characteristic even if the conduct does not meet the Policy definition of discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, or harassment.

An isolated derogatory comment, joke, racial slur, sexual innuendo etc., may constitute conduct that violates this policy and is grounds for discipline.

What we have here is a panel that takes anonymous reports, conducts “investigations” in secret, based on a policy where any speech critical of a person with one of the sacrosanct protected characteristics , even if the county employee is speaking outside of the work place.

Inappropriate conduct toward others is any conduct (based on or because of any of the protected characteristics or activity delineated in this Policy) when such conduct reasonably would be considered inappropriate for the workplace.

This provision is intended to stop inappropriate conduct based on a protected characteristic before it rises to the level of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, or harassment under the Policy. As such, the conduct need not meet legally actionable state and/or federal standards to violate this Policy.

As we’ve see with DDA Sanna, another DDA and Gascon critic, John Lewin, was reported to Equity board over social media posts.

And, of course, this was not the first suspension Shea Sanna has experienced. Gascon’s first swipe was after Sanna dared to misgender a convicted child molester, *Hannah* Tubbs. Never mind that Tubbs bragged about his new identity as a woman that was going to get him easier time. HOW DARE Sanna use male pronouns for Tubbs in an email to Gascon that Tubbs would never see? In this instance I guess Gascon was the wounded third party witnessing such a brazen act of forbidden speech he couldn’t help but report him to the proper authorities.

See, this is where I disagree with the opening paragraph of the NYPost’s piece. They characterize Gascon as weaponizing the board.

But it appears that the board was specifically set up to, indeed, intimidate any employee from engaging in WrongThink.

It’s working as intended.

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