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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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50th Ward Ald. Debra Silverstein Wants City To Track Hateful Incidents — How About Starting With Fake News Fraud Shit-Rag Chicago Magazine’s Screed About The Conservative Wards In Chicago — INCLUDING A VILE ANTI-SEMITIC DOG-WHISTLE RANT AGAINST THE 50TH WARD’S JEWISH ALDERMAN, AND HER ORTHODOX JEWISH SUPPORTERS
There’s no such thing as hate speech. There is no such thing as a hate crime. This is a very dangerous, slippery slope where the thought police can give unequal weight to equal crimes.
Chicago can’t answer 911 calls. Exactly who will be handling the 311 calls?
Legal accusations of ‘Hate Speech’ can be monetized. “Hate Speech’ hasn’t yet been legally defined, in that certain races or sexual preferences are excluded from defenses from this emerging litigious bonanza (such as equitable estoppal), and excluded from claiming damages for the reputational and economic destruction inherent in even being accused of “Hate Speech”. ‘Hate Speech’ legal designation should, if the law is indeed equally applied, include labelling anyone a “Racist” or “White Supremacist” or “Hate Speech (user)” without citable proof specific to the accused. ‘Hate Speech’ legal designation should include, for one example, Muslims’ speech against Jews/Gentiles/Non-Muslims/Women/Homosexuals. “Hate Speech”… Read more »
No, hate speech in protected by the First Amendment.
If so, how is SPLC able to make millions in civil litigation against “Hate Groups’, while publishing their own damaging and incendiary Hate Map?
It’s only a hate crime if a white heterosexual commits it.
I’ll even go out on a limb and bet you that Lil Kim has never prosecuted a POC for a hate crime in her life.
Someone prove me wrong.
Have the Democrats gone so far into insanity that a Jewish woman does not see any danger in encouraging people to snitch on their neighbors for speech crimes?
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