SubscribeNo Questions To Obama About Chicago Crime?
From those champions of law and order at the Associated Press:
Chicago Police receive a briefing after a roll call at 68th and Marshfeld Streets on the south side of Chicago Friday, April 25, 2008.
Chicago plans show of force to deter its killing season
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Police planned to increase patrols and put SWAT officers and specialized units on the streets over the weekend, a show of force aimed at deterring violence like the three dozen shootings that left nine people dead last weekend.
“Weather permitting, we will have our helicopter up,” said police spokeswoman Monique Bond, who said Thursday night was relatively quiet, with only four shootings, none fatal.
Meanwhile, religious leaders said they had persuaded some churches to open their doors in the afternoons and evenings to protect people from gunfire.
“We just picked up about four more churches in Austin [a neighborhood on the city's West Side] that are going to open their doors as a safe haven,” said Ira Acree, an activist and pastor of the Greater St. John Bible Church.
The recent violence followed a six-month period during which more than 20 Chicago public school students were shot to death.
On Friday, Mayor Richard Daley took the unusual step of calling together more than two dozen officials from the police department, schools, social service agencies and religious groups for a City Hall summit on the violence. Afterward, he said it was just the start of a continuing dialogue about how to combat violent crime.
A fired-up Daley blasted the gun industry and called on parents and adults to do their part by intervening to help troubled youth and by working to keep others on the right path…
It is key for children to be occupied in after-school or other programs so they stay out of trouble, especially when they’re not in a classroom, Daley said…
And Tio Hardiman, executive director of CeaseFire, an anti-violence group, said young people need help finding alternatives to the streets.
“We need to go right to the corners and find out what some of these young people want to do, identify some employers that are willing to hire maybe 30 from this neighborhood, 30 from another neighborhood and try to get them hired somewhere so then we can get them off the corners.” …
Hardiman said he expected that violence would not be as bad this weekend because of the police presence and other steps by community groups, including his group’s efforts to talk to gang members and mediate disputes. Last weekend, there were 36 shootings — at least 14 of which police believed were gang related.
But he said he’s concerned about possible repercussions from a shooting at a McDonald’s on Monday night that left one man dead and four others injured.
The area where the shooting took place is believed to be a stronghold of the Gangster Disciples street gang and Hardiman said he’s concerned that someone may try to retaliate.
Isn’t this Barack Obama’s home turf? (Inasmuch as he has a home.)
Isn’t Chicago the site of all of his amazing work as a community organizer? The work on which he has based his bid for the Presidency?
Indeed, it was through his work with the local Chicago churches that Mr. Obama came into the orbit of the Reverend Doctor Wright.
And yet the media have not been asking Mr. Obama about what he would do to staunch this crime wave? What this says about his storied accomplishments there?
Why is that?
As is said of the architect Christopher Wren, “if you seek his monument, look around.”
(Of course the truth is that the only achievement Mr. Obama can claim from his “organizing days” is the removal of some asbestos from a small housing project. And the people directly involved say he didn’t even have much to do with that.)
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April 26th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
“It is key for children to be occupied in after-school or other programs so they stay out of trouble, especially when they’re not in a classroom, Daley said…”
What is the illegitimacy rate in those high crime areas? How about having responsible 2-parent households where Dad works and Mom manages the household (or vice versa)? The “key” for irresponsible, self-proclaimed, “victims” of America, is to look in the mirror, stop having babies when they can’t afford them, and PLAN their lives like people in areas that don’t kill each other. If you can’t find a job maybe it’s because you didn’t go to school or didn’t think you should have to learn or aren’t willing to move to an area that needs workers? Or maybe it’s just because your too lazy? Maybe it’s because people like “Rev” Wright and Obama have convinced you it’s not your fault if you’d rather sleep, do drugs, and procreate because it’s the US of KKK A that’s responsible for your plight?
Many African Americans see through the plantation mentality of the Marxist Democrats. Those that don’t realize it’s the democrats that have imprisoned them and propagated their miserable state in life, are just living a fool’s paradise. No responsibility….waiting on someone else to do it for them. (Think Katrina). Misguided by lies that whitey had it handed to them or that they can’t do it because whitey held them down. Lies that further their misfortunes while, simultaneously, guaranteeing democrats a (growing) voting constituency that, one day, will collapse the entire country.
Chicago is a microcosm of that reality. So is Detroit, Philadelphia, Oakland, LA, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc…. How many more trillions of tax-payer dollars will it take for this country to wake-up to the fact that giving a man fish instead of MAKING a man fish, will never work. Reparations have already been, and continue to be paid, the trouble is, the recipients thought it was forever and for any and all children they desire to produce. But one thing is for certain, it’s been good to the democrat party and the elitists that run it.
One of the reasons I believe the democrats are so hell-bent on moving us to one world government, is simply because they realize we’ll need the world’s help to keep the ponzi scheme going.
Pathetic.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
4USA Bravo sir!! Noyzmakr is standing, applauding and screaming “Damn Right”!!
Especially when you said…“Reparations have already been, and continue to be paid, the trouble is, the recipients thought it was forever…”
That is the most succinct argument I have ever heard on the subject.
-still applauding-
April 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Thank you Noyzmakr. I’m glad I’m not alone. It’s not racism to expect those that can have children to be able to support them. We should get the exact dollar amount that has been spent on welfare, etc… and match that number with the illegitimate births to defend what has already been done, in the name of reparations. I’m sick of people hating me for what I didn’t have anything to do with.
I’ve had black men and women as bosses, so it’s not because I was unfairly given ANY advantages. They were great bosses, very competent and well-deserved their positions, but how in the hell does that make me advantaged? BTW, they hated the victim society as well, but they were labeled as Uncle Toms because they worked hard and earned it. You see, you’re an Uncle Tom if the government didn’t GIVE it to you.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
IMO the increased police presence is the only thing that makes since here. The rest is the same old liberal dog and pony show. Great, they opened their activist filled churches so folks can take cover from the hail of gunfire. My favorite is their plan to “talk to gang members and mediate disputes”. How about arresting them and sending them away for a very long time.
The ugly truth is these city governments and social activist groups go after police for doing their jobs while showing more and more sympathy for criminals. Thanks to groups like the ACLU prisons are a walk in park for gang members and when guards try to maintain control they’re met with one lawsuit after another.
The last thing they want is a peaceful city. Their churches, schools and even so-called prison chaplains teach them hate and social unrest. This whole show is just to keep us fooled. My guess is Barack Obama will bring this pro-crime recipe to the whole nation with a federal mandate.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
“20 Chicago public school students were shot to death.”
Looks like Chicago needs an anti-war type movement.
Didn’t Obama vote pro gang in the Illinois Senate?
April 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
“20 Chicago public school students were shot to death.”
Obama skirted that issue by denying the kids were shot, but that instead they suffered from a “rare form of massive lead overdose” brought on by a “lax Bush administration education policy”. He subsequently promised “change”.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:07 am
The answer seems to always be to “mediate disputes” between the gangs. I have no problem with the idiots killing each other, less of them around is a good thing. My problem is they tend to take out alot of innocent bystanders and civilians rather than each other. They seem to not believe in marksmanship but rather the “spray and pray” method of shooting. Of course it’s the republican’s fault and the gun maker’s fault. You have to know that Smith and Wesson is passing out pistols on the street corners to every gang banger walking by, at least that seems to be the left’s idea. The idiots are getting the guns illegally or stealing them so blaming gun makers is not going to help, they can’t control who steals the guns. I’m just waiting to hear the professional race baiters come in and proclaim that the republicans are doing this and spout off a bunch of BS and conspiracy theories. And of course Obama will go along with this and just proclaim “change” without actually saying what he will do specifically.
On a side note while flipping throught the channels on the TV I heard on a CNN sound byte that the Chicago PD were considering arming the patrol cops with M-16’s/assault rifles because of the huge amount in violence. Maybe if everyone in that area was armed the gangbangers would be afraid of passing gas to loudly for fear of being shot.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
“Get us OUT of CHICAGO!!!!” “We’ve lost enough lives!!”
April 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I thought Chicago was one of those gun-free cities? Seems odd to have all these shootings going on in a gun-free city. Just saying.