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Activist groups hoping to “make life miserable” for the Democratic National Convention’s organizers and attendees filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging Chicago violated their First Amendment rights by blocking their protest plans.
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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Tear gas, water cannons, pepper spray and rubber bullets should be the answer that these anarchists are seeking. And if they persist then real bullets, attack dogs and long jail time. But not likely during JB’s Presidential Dream Coronation.
So.. you publicly state your intention to be disruptive and not peacefully protest, yet wonder why your petition, which everyone else has to file as well, is denied. More proof that SJW’s are more loud than intelligent.