Tag: Chicago
CHICAGO IS A GUN FREE ZONE
YOUR OTHER RIGHT HAND
I’m sure this dude is going to do wonders stopping black gun violence in Chicago.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel swears in new Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson who, for some reason, raises his left hand to take the oath.
Via Goodbye America (in a photo)
IMPACT OF “STRONG” GUN LAWS
Brownshirts & Republican Wimps
Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
And the reaction of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich?
All three Republican rivals blamed — Donald Trump.
With his “dangerous style of leadership,” Trump stokes this anger, mewed Rubio, “This is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of bitterness and anger and frustration.”
Rubio implies that if Trump doesn’t tone down his remarks to pacify the rabble, he will be responsible for the violence visited upon him.
Kasich echoed Rubio: “Donald Trump has created a toxic environment (that) has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence.”
But were the thousands of Trump supporters who came out to cheer him that night really looking for a fight? Or were they exercising their right of peaceful assembly?
Cruz charged Trump with “creating an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord,” thus offering absolution to the mob.
Friday night cried out for moral clarity. What we got from Trump’s rivals was moral mush that called to mind JFK’s favorite quote from Dante: The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
No Safe Space for the Wicked
Hat tip Francis Marion
Guest Post by Jim Goad
One of the most inane verbal constructions in the modern leftist lexicon—right up there with “rape culture,” “white privilege,” and “transphobia”—is the idea that the piteous lambs who constantly squirm under Evil White Maledom’s pale, oppressive thumb require “safe spaces” wherein they can segregate themselves without fear of reprisal.
In a deeply personal way, I can relate. Ever since my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me, I suppose I’ve been a trifle touchy about having my personal space invaded.
A year or so ago right here in the typically safe confines of the Taki’s Mag comments, someone brilliantly summarized all of politics as a struggle between people who want to be left alone and people who won’t leave you the hell alone. I just want to be left alone, but that’s difficult in a world where collectivist zealots not only won’t leave you the hell alone, their blind belief that they are fighting the “good fight” makes them feel entitled not only to openly harass you, but to invade every aspect of your personal life until you’re jobless and homeless.
As with everything that hangs leftward these days, the progressives’ idea of a “safe space” is based on a rancid double standard. Just as nonwhites are deemed incapable of racism…and women cannot possibly be sexist…and gay people can’t possibly hate heterosexuals…there are to be absolutely no safe spaces for straight white males. Instead, every inch of their terrestrial and neurological territory is to be invaded, conquered, and occupied.
To my memory, the last time I can recall a large-scale white mob attacking leftists was during the Hard Hat Riots in Manhattan—and that was over 45 years ago.
The Red in the Streets of Chicago
Via Stop Shouting Blog
The raging 40 yard dumpster fire that is Chicago and the almost Trump speech has cleared the decks of all other news items. Many Americans who might see the events and maybe even read about them here (less likely every year that the Dept of Education works at it) may not have the reference points of the Cold War and actual experience with Commies.
Let me lay a few things out for you here regarding Commies… they are relentless. They employ a range of tactics that Americans, inculcated with “football”, “basketball” and “golf” have no concept of. Consider if you will that the national sports of Russia include Chess and Fencing, while ours appears to be a combination of taking “selfies” and the childs’ game of “checkers”.
For a bracing look at Communist tactics, go read THIS. I follow with this summary:
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“The TRUTH about the anti-Trump Chicago riot”
Hat tip Francis Marion
Paul Joseph Watson analyzes the footage, and shows who was at the anti-Trump riot in Chicago last night — including a “non-violent activist” and 1960s domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Most of the mob, Watson says, were Bernie Sanders supporters.
The rest of the media will probably edit out the video showing communist hammer and sickle flags, and “forget” to report on the rape threats made against female Trump voters.
These self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” are shutting down free speech and the democratic process, and don’t even seem aware of the irony.
Watson says it was the liberal media and political establishment that encouraged last night’s riot, because they are the same people who praised the #BlackLivesMatter movement as “legitimate.”
Gun Stocks Soar Ahead Of Obama’s Gun-Control Executive-Action Tomorrow
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 12:05 -0500
Despite a bloodbath in US equities, gun stocks are soaring this morning (Smith & Wesson up 7% and Sturm, Ruger up 3%) as ABC News reports, as we detailed yesterday:
- *OBAMA MAY TAKE GUN CONTROL EXECUTIVE ACTION TOMORROW
With the Oregon standoff continuing, it appears “the world’s greatest gun sales-man” has done it again.
As we previously noted, without a Democratic majority in Congress, and faced with a GOP that is firmly against any form of gun control measures, Obama has repeatedly warned that he would act on his own.
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one?” Obama added. “What if Congress did something—anything—to protect our kids from gun violence?”
“The president has made clear he’s not satisfied with where we are and expects that work to be completed soon,” the White House spokesman added. In other words, it’s time for the president to micromanage yet another aspect of daily US lives, because Obamacare turned out so well.
One executive action that will almost certainly be unveiled is the “tightening” of rules for firearms sellers by requiring more of them to be licensed and, as a result, to conduct background checks on buyers.
Anything Obama does unveil will be met with stiff resistance.
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Shoots and Leaders
Guest Post by Stilton Jarlsberg
Let’s get a few things out of the way first: the mass shooting at the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic is an awful tragedy which should never have happened. Whatever the gunman’s twisted motives (which remain unclear, although he mentioned “no more baby parts” in a rambling, disjointed conversation with police) he is nothing more, and nothing less, than a psycho killer who deserves capital punishment as quickly as the system will allow.
Clearly, the world would have been better off if this lunatic didn’t have a gun. But Hope n’ Change is struck by the hypocrisy of the president declaring “enough is enough” over this shooting of 12 people (3 killed, 9 wounded) while showing less interest in the holiday weekend’s body count in Chicago (15 killed, 67 wounded) than he shows in sports scores.
And the reason is simple: Mr. Obama’s goal remains to take guns out of the hands of the law abiding while doing nothing to curb the endemic inner city gun violence which takes so many black lives (which apparently don’t #Matter to him much.) So his selective outrage is clearly political rather than moral.
Chicago Mayor Emanuel Urges “Remain Peaceful” After Video Shows Cop Killing Black Teen
A black teenager is killed by a white cop in Chicago = turmoil, riots, looting, outrage, CNN special coverage.
20 black teenagers are killed every weekend in Chicago by other black teenagers = silence, apathy, no CNN coverage.
Black lives only matter when a white guy is involved.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015 19:32 -0500
With the release of this video, we suggest anyone living in and around Chicago ‘brace’ for potential social unrest. The Chicago Police Department has released video footage of the officer-involved shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was struck 16 times during a confrontation with officers.
The dashcam video, described by Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez says that this video is “graphic, violent, and chilling,” is expected to provoke a very strong emotional reaction from Chicago’s very large African-American community.
As John Kass, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, said, the video “could tear Chicago apart,” which is why Mayor Emanuel has already urged Chicagoans, “it is fine to be passionate, but it is essential to remain peaceful.”
Laquan McDonald was walking down a Chicago street the night of October 20, 2014, carrying a four-inch knife and behaving erratically, authorities say.
A police officer told him to drop the knife. He didn’t listen, and the officer fired on him out of fear for his life, according to a police union spokesman.
McDonald, 17, died. He was shot 16 times.
Now, more than a year later, the public will be able to see what happened.
Warning: this video is graphic (the confrontation begins around 5:00)
SOME TRUFF
GRIEVING CHICAGO MOTHER
Mother of slain Chicago 9-year-old defends purchase of new car on social media
CHICAGO — The mother of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was fatally shot in Chicago, is defending her purchase of a new car on social media.
Karla Lee posted several videos to Instagram Saturday morning after a flurry of social media posts accused her of using money from her son’s GoFundMe account to buy the car. Lee says she used her own money.
“I got this s*** for my protection…I’m pretty sure that’s something my son would have wanted me to do,” she said in one of the videos. In another video, she says she was afraid of being targeted if she took public transportation.
The GoFundMe account was reportedly created by one of Lee’s friends “to help her lay her son to rest.” As of Saturday afternoon, the account had raised nearly $17,500.
Police say someone targeted and lured Tyshawn into an alley in the 8000-block of South Damen Monday afternoon and shot him multiple times. They believe it was connected to an on-going gang dispute involving the boy’s father.
CHICAGO FIELD TRIPS
CHICAGO: WHERE BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER TO BLACKS SO MUCH
I’m sure Obama will be moving his family to the South Side of Chicago to be with his brothers after he exits the White House (racist). Imagine the hope and change he would bring by living amongst his diehard voting constituency. How come black thugs aren’t obeying the toughest gun laws in the nation? Don’t they know it’s a crime to illegally use a gun in Chicago? There should be a law. Why do black lives only matter in the rare incidence when a black man is killed by a white man? Why don’t they matter so much in the 93% of the incidences when a black man kills a black man?
