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The point being there is nothing wrong with acknowledging both the positive and the negative aspects of a country’s history. When you ignore one or the other you insult history and you paint a false picture.
That is all.
By John Ruberry
The evidence of Chicago’s decline and fall keeps piling up.
On Friday evening, at least 30 thugs looted Union Pacific rail cars in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
The city’s leftist mayor, Brandon Johnson, who lives in Austin, was in London in advance of Sunday’s Chicago Bears game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Although he later backed away, slightly, from his statement, in 2020 “Branjo” called defunding the police “a political goal.”
As you’ll see, the looters are so casual in these videos as they unload the U.P. freight cars, it’s as if they calmly enjoying a visit to a suburban pick-your-own pumpkin patch. They’re not hiding their faces; they’re not covering up their licence plates. One enterprising criminal even brought a cargo truck to speed their 100-percent discounts along.
The mass thievery was so vast that commuter rail traffic on those rail lines was suspended for hours.
Society is rotting in Chicago–as well as suburban Cook County, because we have had a pro-criminal George Soros-funded so-called prosecutor, Democrat Kim Foxx, lackadaisically enforcing the law for that last eight years. Thankfully, she’ll be out of office in two months.
Criminals don’t fear getting caught in Chicago–and if they are–only those accused of the most heinous crimes are locked up to await trial. Since last year, courtesy of JB Pritzker’s SAFE-T Act, cash bail is banned in Illinois.
The Chicago establishment media, TV stations are an exception, are shameful. They minimize rampant criminality, calling it “a perception problem.”
On Facebook, an hour after the brazen looting, a Chicagoan on Facebook, a self-described “entrepreneur,” was advertising a back yard full of widescreen televisions for sale. As of this writing, 5:00pm EDT, those TVs are still for sale on the social network. Facebook doesn’t seem concerned. It’s a good thing this “entrepreneur” isn’t claiming that masks don’t work against COVID.
Then again, maybe it’s a coincidence that the “entrepreneur” is selling those televisions. But there are a lot of “coincidences” in America’s third-largest city.
So far only six people have been arrested for allegedly participating in the Great Chicago Train Robbery. Where were the Chicago Police on Friday? It took the cops over an hour to arrive to the West Side rail yard. ABC 7 News’ traffic chopper showed up much more quickly. Where was Union Pacific’s security detail? Just a thought, but U.P. may want to investigate their West Side employees. I suspect that this heist may have been aided by a tip from someone working in that freight yard.
There have been other thefts of U.P. trains in Chicago recently.
Finally, where are the decent Chicagoans?
There are some, right?
John Ruberry regularly blogs just north of Chicago at Marathon Pundit.
In fairness my title not withstanding I don’t think we can call Ana Kasparian a “conservative” at least not yet.
But the key line from this tweet speaks volumes:
Kasparian says she was picking up her dog’s poop when a homeless man came up from behind her and grabbed her hips. He allegedly had an er*ction and started thrusting. When she shared her story, liberals accused her of “painting a wrongful picture of the homeless community” with some people calling her racist even though she didn’t say what race the man was.
You see when your politics becomes your religion you can’t allow actual reality. The assault on Ms. Kasparian, to interfere with your narrative, particularly if said narrative might be considered of use to your political opponents. And if a person even a liberal person is not able to sustain this narrative because they decide being sexually assaulted is outside their comfort zone, well that person is a heretic who must be expelled.
Cue Tom Baker:
There is nothing like being pushed out of your bubble by reality and then shunned by those still within it when you try to interact.
What is the reality of the fear of a single woman next to the cause?
Yesterday I pointed out that those who are complaining about the Grim Beeper attack; that is targeted attack on Hezbollah members who have been hitting Israel with rockets for 11 months aren’t in favor of peace, they’re just pro terrorists.
Now yesterday Bill Maher accidently demonstrated that his friends on the left are in favor of Murdering Donald Trump to wit:
To Maher’s credit he scolds his audience but they still keep laughing at the prospect of Trump being murdered (To be fair the joke at the end was good, I’m of the belief that there is practically no subject that one can’t joke about).
I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again, if I was still a democrat I’d think twice about normalizing political assassination in a country that is both:
And if I’m the media I’m doubly not pushing this because the only people hated by the right more than democrat pols are the media, who are much easier targets.
Call me old fashioned but as a Catholic I not only state that murder is wrong but I submit and suggest the whole concept of life being sacred and Thou Shalt not Murder is rather useful for a society to have it it wants to function and I’d like my sons to live in a society that has this belief.
Hey if the left wants a post Christian society and so if they want to reject those principles that’s on them but while one can reject principles, one can’t reject reality and as scripture teaches he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.
That’s not a belief, that’s just fact.
Closing thought: I’m old enough to remember when the idea that you would complement someone for not approving of political murder would have not been necessary.
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