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Police had cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment on the university’s Main Quadrangle last Tuesday. Friday afternoon, organizers had set up tents on the lawn in front of the Institute of Politics.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Take a lesson from Julius Caesar, besiege the besiegers. With a portion of his army surrounded by Helvetians, Caesar surrounded them with the bulk of his forces and defeated them. Surround these campus protesters with razor wire, with minimal manpower let nothing and no one inside their camp. Require identification to get out. If they can’t produce a university identification card arrest them, if they have an ID expel them. Sadly, Pritzker is more Nero than Caesar.
Curious optics. David Axelrod, Obama’s former chief strategist and advisor, was early involved in the creation of the Institute of Politics (IP) which has a reputation for Progressive advancement of student “civic engagement” etc. Some will remember that Obama spent time at UC and at the IP which features his image (see: https://politics.uchicago.edu/). Some of you will also remember Obama’s “strained” (to put it nicely) relationship with Israel and Benjamin Netanyhu. Coincidentally, the UC’s Hillel center for Jewish students is located just across the street from the IP. Completely speculating that this may have been occupation by invitation, in order… Read more »
Axelrod had a tweet up yesterday about the occupation. My reply was “Behold the leftist crowd you helped create.” https://x.com/GlennonMarkE/status/1791853505478533332
Second that. As an aside the properties are proximate on the same side of Woodlawn, not across.
Do they really not comprehend that this is the very reason the (so called) Gaza Palestinians they are protesting for are in the situation they are in? For taking over other peoples property and doing them harm? Who do these students think is going to defend them when Society is fed up and removes them? The “Palestinians” aren’t coming to help them.
Enough of this baby BS just lock them all up………see how they and the parents like it. let their little angels have a police record!!!!!!!1
Sounds like a simple case of trespassing. Bring in the canine unit.