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CPS officials said students have a “fundamental constitutional right to free expression, and Chicago Public Schools encourages students to take an active role in civic life.”
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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Shut up and Go get a job.
It would have been better if these children had marched in protest of Gazan terrorists murdering, raping and taking hostages!
Professor Mearsheimer (university of Chicago) expresses my thoughts in my previous post after I did, I wonder if he reads Wirepoints. If the first amendment is killed in America, it will be at the hand of American Jews. When that happens we all suffer, we all must shut up under penalty of law. The government may not like these protests, but they have no right to shut them down unless there is violence. The Jewish lobby is powerful, when they hear speech they don’t like, they very well can stop free speech. Prof. John Mearsheimer : Genocide, Free Speech, and… Read more »
This is conspiratorial nonsense. The government is shutting down the protests because of violence, and because the right to protest ends when they take over campus quads. Nobody is stopping the right to life marches, or the anti-gun grabber protests at state capitols and so on.
Im not sure these minors have a “fundamental constitutional right to free expression”. I remember a judge tell me I had no rights till I was 18. This was 50 years ago for a curfew violation. I told him I was pursuing my happiness. He fined me 35 dollars.
Covid is so over. Masks are anarchists’ uniform. Go watch video of “activist” organizational meeting several Saturdays ago at Chicago Teamsters headquarters – mask everywhere, folks chanting “death to America” in Farsi. Welcome to Johnson’s Chicago.
I wonder when the shooting will start at these demonstrations.
Why do some of the posters have images of watermelons on them?
Exercising free speech, regardless of who is offended, is the lifeblood that keeps free speech alive. When I see all of this recent protesting, I feel good that our first amendment will indeed live on. Ironically the universities were the ones who were teaching for the censorship and elimination of free speech, cancel culture, but now we see they need the first amendment too. Maybe they will learn that the mechanism of free speech is to protect the speech that offends you, not the speech you like, and not cancel a Trump rally, wishful thinking probably. If the Jews in… Read more »
Who is the idiot with the balaclava on?
I got this feeling he is a union rep
Send your children to a CPS school, PERFECT!
The guy with the bullhorn gave me pause. Why is he wearing the balaclava? Why are protesters masked?
No courage of their convictions, eh? Or are they still ducking COVID?
The moment their free speech rights violate other citizens’ rights, like blocking traffic or limiting access, it’s time to shut ‘em down … by whatever means necessary to restore the majority’s rights.
Texas and Florida have the political will to nip it in the bud – why don’t NY, CA, IL and the other locales tolerating this nonsense?
Stupid chickens.
Chickens are coming home to roost.
Wonder how many of those students can read, do math at their grade level or find Israel on a map. Or even Illinois on a map.
Correct Been saying that all along!!
Zippy could not do that!
I really like the LARPing angle to this, the cosplaying angle. These protesters are protesting something half a world away that involves them in no tangible way. At least in 1968 the protested the way because they didn’t want to get drafted. Nobody wanted to be drafted to fight Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s war. I totally sympathize with that especially in retrospect several generations later. But these guys protesting Gaza? LARPing, all of them.
Heh… I wonder if these students will get an “extra credit” in “Current Events” for partaking in this unusually gormless* “exercise”…
*ADJECTIVE:
“If you say that someone is gormless, you think that they are stupid because they do not understand things very well.
[British, informal, disapproval]…”
Nice to see CPS getting down to educational basics to help become good apparatchik party members. SMH