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Imagine this nightmare scenario. An American citizen walking on American streets is arrested, detained, and questioned by a police officer who serves a hostile foreign government such as China, Russia, or Iran. The foreign cop might be a spy charged with keeping track of U.S.-based persons of interest on behalf of his government. This spy, who doubles as an American cop, has the power to act under American law, investigate U.S. residents, and even use lethal force, should he see fit.
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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It’s America and Americans – Last – always. Please vote these people out.
Bad as Jonathan Pollard with his dual citizenship with an obnoxious foreign power!
It’s another way for the Globalist Democrats to diminish Americans Citizenship and Sovereignty, and Illinois’s are clueless to it.
I was just going to say, a Globalists’ dream
Note that the real issue here is permanent resident Green Card holders, of which there are millions in the US. They ARE authorized to hold guns, and therefore are not barred from becoming cops for that reason. They are considered to be here legally, though they are citizens of foreign nations.
Plus, this would give non-citizens access to police databases with information that could be used for nefarious reasons
At this point, either JB simply isn’t that bright, or he is aware and complicit. Is there a third option?