CHANGE….. CHICAGO STYLE
Body count. In the last six months:
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Chicago - 292 killed (murdered)
Iraq - 221
Chicago is a combat zone.
And who is in charge? The leadership in Illinois, of course.
And they are:
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Senator Barack Obama (Democrat)
Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat)
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. (Democrat)
Governor Rod Blogojevich (Democrat)
House leader Mike Madigan (Democrat)
Attorney General Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike), (Democrat)
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley) (Democrat)
And who is to blame? Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Why? They can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!
Also,
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State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, the worst in the country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in the country. (Look it up if you want).
The Chicago school system one of the worst in the country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
And he says he is going to fix Washington politics?
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Not to worry though, President Obama will reconstitute the Supreme Court so as to overturn its recent decision on 2nd Amendment gun rights leaving only the gangs on the southside holding them.
Expect many more pushpins.
Comment by Charles Martel — October 27, 2008 @ 11:50 am
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, the worst in the country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in the country. (Look it up if you want).
The Chicago school system one of the worst in the country.
11.25% sales tax on dining — approaching European VAT levels.
I’d be happy if they fixed half the potholes. I had to replace two tires last winter at a cost of $400.
Comment by Charles Martel — October 27, 2008 @ 11:58 am
For a moment I thought the blue and red pin colors represented each murder victim’s political party affiliation.
Comment by Shy Guy — October 27, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
There are no Republicans in Chicago.
Comment by Charles Martel — October 27, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Not even dead ones?
Comment by Shy Guy — October 27, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
If there are, they go anonymous.
Yesterday, my wife and I took a drive through the conservative and wealthy suburbs north of Chicago. We counted about 50 Obama signs on front lawns, 1 McCain sign. I’m sure the loner bought it on a close-out.
Comment by Charles Martel — October 27, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
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Pingback by Change – Chicago Style « abseits vom mainstream - heplev — October 27, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Get our boys out of Chicago.
Comment by RandyTexas — October 27, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
CHICAGO: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial
by Douglas O. Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Account.html
What did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial merely, as one commentator suggested, “a monumental non-event”? Was it, as others argue, an important battle for the hearts and minds of the American people? Or is it best seen as a symbol of the conflicts of values that characterized the late sixties? These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
On February 20, 1970, Judge Hoffman sentenced the five members of the Chicago Seven found guilty by the jury. Each defendant made a statement before sentence was imposed. David Dellinger told Hoffman that he was “a man who had too much power over too many people for too many years,” but that he admired his “spunk.” Rennie Davis announced that when he got out of prison he intended to “move next door to [prosecutor] Tom Foran, and bring his sons and daughter into the revolution.” Tom Hayden offered the opinion that “we would hardly have been notorious characters if they left us alone on the streets of Chicago,” but instead “we became the architects, the masterminds, and the geniuses of a conspiracy to overthrow the government– we were invented.” Abbie Hoffman recommended that the judge try LSD: “I know a good dealer in Florida [where the judge was soon to head for a vacation]; I could fix you up.” Jerry Rubin offered the judge a copy of his new book Do It! with an inscription inside: “Julius, you radicalized more young people than we ever could. You’re the country’s top Yippie.” After listening to each defendant give his statement, Judge Hoffman sentenced each defendant to five years’ imprisonment plus a $5,000 fine.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed all convictions on November 21, 1972. The appellate court based its decision on the refusal to allow inquiry into the cultural biases of potential jurors during voir dire as well as Judge Hoffman’s “deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude toward the defense.” The court also noted that it was determined after appellate argument that the F. B. I, with the knowledge and complicity of Judge Hoffman and prosecutors, had bugged the offices of the Chicago defense attorneys. The Court of Appeals panel said that it had “little doubt but that the wrongdoing of F. B. I. agents would have required reversal of the convictions on the substantive charges.”
All seven Chicago police officers charged with violating the civil rights of demonstrators were acquitted. Charges against an eighth officer were dismissed. Richard Shultz explained the verdicts by observing, “The people who sit on juries in this city are just not ready to convict a Chicago policeman.”
Culturally and politically, 1968 was one of the most turbulent years America has ever seen. As the Vietnam war became the longest war in U. S. history, American casualties passed the 30,000 mark. When the Viet Cong mounted their Tet offensive, anti-war protests grew larger and louder on college campuses. At Columbia, students seized the office of the President and held three persons hostage to protest the school’s ties to the defense Department. Two Jesuit priests, Phil and Daniel Berrigan, burned hundreds of draft records at a Selective Service center in Maryland. Following the April assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, riots erupted in 125 cities leaving 46 dead. After Senator Eugene McCarthy challenged incumbent President Lyndon Johnson over his support of the war, Johnson withdrew from the race. Senator Robert Kennedy entered the race after Johnson’s withdrawl, only to be shot and killed on the night in June that he won the California primary. “Hair,” a controversial new musical about draftees and flower children, introduced frontal nudity to large audiences. Feminists picketed the Miss America pageant, black students demanded Black Studies programs, and Eldridge Cleaver published “Soul on Ice.”
The Protests
Also in 1968, two groups met to discuss using the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago to highlight their opposition to the Vietnam War and establishment values. Although there was some loose coordination between the two groups, they had different leadership, different agendas, and favored different forms of protest and demonstrations. The more politically focused of the two groups was the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE). The group more focused on promoting an uninhibited lifestyle was the Youth International Party (YIPPIES). In addition to these two groups, organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference also planned to have representatives in Chicago to press their complaints concerning racism in American policies and politics.
Comment by yamit82 — October 28, 2008 @ 3:26 am
CHICAGO: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial
by Douglas O. Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Account.html
What did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial merely, as one commentator suggested, “a monumental non-event”? Was it, as others argue, an important battle for the hearts and minds of the American people? Or is it best seen as a symbol of the conflicts of values that characterized the late sixties? These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Culturally and politically, 1968 was one of the most turbulent years America has ever seen. As the Vietnam war became the longest war in U. S. history, American casualties passed the 30,000 mark. When the Viet Cong mounted their Tet offensive, anti-war protests grew larger and louder on college campuses. At Columbia, students seized the office of the President and held three persons hostage to protest the school’s ties to the defense Department. Two Jesuit priests, Phil and Daniel Berrigan, burned hundreds of draft records at a Selective Service center in Maryland. Following the April assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, riots erupted in 125 cities leaving 46 dead. After Senator Eugene McCarthy challenged incumbent President Lyndon Johnson over his support of the war, Johnson withdrew from the race. Senator Robert Kennedy entered the race after Johnson’s withdrawl, only to be shot and killed on the night in June that he won the California primary. “Hair,” a controversial new musical about draftees and flower children, introduced frontal nudity to large audiences. Feminists picketed the Miss America pageant, black students demanded Black Studies programs, and Eldridge Cleaver published “Soul on Ice.”
There is no simple “yes” or “no” answer to the question of whether the Chicago defendants intended to incite a riot in Chicago in 1968. Abbie Hoffman said, “I don’t know whether I’m innocent or I’m guilty.” The reason for the confusion–as Norman Mailer pointed out–was that the alleged conspirators “understood that you didn’t have to attack the fortress anymore.” All they had to do was “surround it, make faces at the people inside and let them have nervous breakdowns and destroy themselves.”
Comment by yamit82 — October 28, 2008 @ 3:28 am
Chicago 7 and Chicago 10 clips sort of DejaVu?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJ6Jw63_hA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5u2wRA1i8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA79VdfySkI&feature=related
Comment by yamit82 — October 28, 2008 @ 4:05 am