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In Chicago this summer, Black Lives Matter protesters have repeatedly called for committing crimes as vengeance for claimed racial injustice. A few days ago, marchers in Millennium Park unfurled huge banners, one of which proclaimed “loot it all back.” SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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from the pics the LOOTERS LIVES MATTER /BLM protesters are mostly hippster white kids
Also, no worries for looted businesses because jb/state is now using covid CARES ACT funding to bail out looted business to keep blm/ sjw/systemic racist charade going till november…for gigantic $trillion$ HEROS ACT bailout/payday for all are public sect heros…thats all its about
A few points obvious to even the less discerning reader… 1) No one is “left out of he social contract”… People choose to not assimilate. Entitlement is not a exclusively a “privilege” issue… I imagine one of the factors that enables criminals to engage in said acts is a belief that “cause I am this or that” I am entitled to commit an act that violates the law…. 2) Choices have consequences – one of the most humorous (ironic, sad, etc.) expressions that has come out of the silliness of riots and misguided protests is the phrase, “play stupid games,… Read more »
The following is a Tuesday August 18, 2020 video of Michelle Gallardo of WLS-TV (ABC 7 Chicago) reporting that most State Street business from Kinzie St. past Hubbard St. to Illinois St. (two blocks in River North) in Chicago are still boarded up as a result of the Monday Morning August 10th looting and rioting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENj-OKlYvBc Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx policies also failed to protect Chicago businesses during the May 29, 2020 – May 31, 2020 and beyond looting and rioting. When and where will the looters and rioters next perform their criminal… Read more »
If looting/reparations are truly the point, why not seek them where they can be gotten most efficiently?
Looting Pritzker Astor Street mansions would seem to promise a much bigger payday than looting retail shops.
No person in the nation epitomizes white privilege more than Governor of Illinois Pritzker: generational wealth preservation due to trust fund estate tax exemptions, consequence-free evasion of the law (widely reported alleged property tax fraud , unlawful use of non-union workers on
properties)… it is beyond comprehension that this guy is given safe harbor by social justice seekers.
Great article.
Joy Pullmann omitted a contributing factor to the BLM looting rioting reparations etc. madness.
The Democrats need to create lots of wedge issues because Joe Biden Can’t Talk.
I’ve said it before and believe that it is very sad but true: This rioting won’t end until rioters and looters are shot.
Blm is a domestic terrorist Marxist organization which should be investigated by the us attorney. Unfortunately, RINO Lausch is a Beverly democrat who is bff with Lightfoot. So the looting will continue in exchange for democratic votes to elect senile joe and his blm chosen vp.
These are the same people that think austerity is racism.
Brought to you by the Democrat party….
Reparations for what ? No one alive in the USA has been a slave, and no one alive has owned slaves…stop the hate and violence….a black child has an easier time to get into college than a white child…what happened to equal treatment ?