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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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More Americans are killed with knives than guns.
And guns will be freely available to everyone as long as our borders are wide open to the baddest drug gangs on the planet.
Open borders ensure a constant supply of drugs, weapons, sex slaves, hit men and absolutely ANY contraband you can desire.
Stunningly amazing. Gun crimes – – GUN CRIMES. Good God…what’s next…softer sentencing for murder? Anyone using a gun to commit a crime needs to go to jail and think about what they have done. Shortening the sentence because in their opinion it doesn’t deter crime is nuts. I don’t care whether it deters crime or not.
Just more get out of jail free laws that are meant to reduce the black crime signature on society. Too many POC get arrested, too many POC go to prison so the solution is to make crimes not crimes except if you are not a POC.
The goal, as I’ve said repeatedly, is for POC to have their own self-enforced criminal justice system unimpeded by the white man’s criminal justice system. They want to take care of their communities’ problems themselves. In their world, the punishment for every slight or injustice against a POC – real or perceived – is a gun shooting, and it doesn’t matter if innocents get caught up. And they want to continue on with this 4,000, or 5,000 shootings a year, without the white man’s criminal justice system getting in their own way, and stopping them from taking their own justice.… Read more »