A Holiday Weekend in Chicago Leaves 109 People Shot, 20 Dead...And the Democrat Convention Is Coming to Town!
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Holiday weekends in Chicago come with a peculiar side event, body counts usually found in nations at war. Syria is in a Civil War, and they had 42 civilians killed in the month of May, the last month statics are available. Chicago, on the other hand, had 84 killed in a month, from June 9, to July 7, including the 4th of July long holiday.
That makes Chicago as dangerous as a war zone. And the Democrats chose Chicago as the site of their upcoming convention. The thing is, that those Democrats who are also anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas have already stated that they intend on disrupting the convention. They want all Jews killed and Israel wiped off the map. And they think Biden and his ilk are hampering their desires.
Fear not, intrepid reader, because the Democrats have already planned out how to usurp the demonstrators. As stated in a Politico.com article: "So with campus protests over the war in Gaza raging and Biden being disrupted nearly everywhere he goes, Chicago’s organizers are plotting on how to preempt opportunities for heckling and quickly tamp down demonstrators who do get into the arena."
Their big plan is to hide speakers from the masses using virtual speeches, much like was utilized in 2020 during the Covid panic. It is almost a necessity to virtually pick a candidate prior to the convention because Ohio will not put that candidate on their ballot because the convention is after their cut off date for placement on the ballot. But the Dems thought they had it worked out.
Until
Until people saw Joe Biden in his debate on CNN against Donald Trump. Disaster is the word spoken most often in reference to his performance. Now everything is in flux once again. If there is an open convention, if Biden drops out, there will be no hiding the rift between factions within the Democrat party. And Biden dropping out seems more likely by the day, no matter how he insists he is staying.
Far left wing radical actor, George Clooney did an oped in the New York Times calling for Biden to step aside. This was supposed to have been done after a phone call to Barack Obama, who did not object. Even Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, is working to undermine Biden to help with his removal. And as of this writing 14 Democrat Congressmen have called for Biden to step down. Don't get the wrong idea that removing Biden is a good thing, it would be helpful for Trump, and our nation, if he continues as the candidate.
However, the likelihood of him stepping down, making room for another continues to escalate. Having an open convention becoming more probable every day. That open convention will be a brouhaha which will not serve the interests of the Democrat party. The last brouhaha convention was in 1968, and the results were a rout for Republicans.
But what does anything dealing with the convention have to do with the body count over the holiday weekend?
The answer is that the new Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, is a far left radical extremist. He sides with protesters. The former Cook County Board member, was endorsed by a number of labor organizations and progressive advocacy groups. Some of those were the far left Chicago Teachers Union, Grassroots Illinois Action, and Our Revolution. You can see his kinship with those who are threatening to turn the Democrat convention into another 1968 debacle.
Groups like: Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws, U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC, Israeli American Council, Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved Africa, March for People’s Agenda, and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. These are the groups that have applied for parade permits with Chicago. They are the same types of groups that supported Mayor Johnson's candidacy. He owes them a lot.
Of course, the groups we need to worry about are the ones that have not applied for permits. All told, the protesters estimate 40,000 protesters in Chicago that week of the Democrat convention. Considering the source(s) it is likely an inflated estimate. However, if only half that number shows up, that is still 20,000 and that's enough to provide a problem to the overworked and understaffed Chicago Police Department.
A department that is held in low esteem by Mayor Johnson. And while the majority of the CPD will be tied up controlling protesters at the United Center, the convention venue, the rest of the city will be at the mercy of the very same criminal element that gave us 108 shot and 20 killed over the 4th of July weekend.
The difference being, during the 4th of July weekend police were as close to fully staffed as the city gets with its numbers down so much due to defund police politicians and prosecutors who would rather prosecute police than criminals. During the Democrat convention police will be tied up with those 20,000 to 40,000 out of state protesters causing havoc on the Democrats.
The rest of the city will be on its own for the most part. Which gives an opening to those criminals who terrorized parts of Chicago over the holiday weekend. We should make book on how many are shot during the Convention week. How high will the shot and killed numbers climb with CPD tied up protecting Democrats who hate them?
It doesn't have to be this way
The toll of dead and wounded on the streets of Chicago over the holiday weekend and in the coming weeks are a true shame for this nation. An avoidable shame. There are real solutions to the problems Chicago is having with its ridiculous murder rates. You know, like locking up killers and prosecuting them. Something not done in Cook County.
Out of control crime is what happens when one party, with the ethics of progressives, rules with an iron fist. There is no longer a Chicago (city) Republican Organization. In fact the last Republican elected mayor was William "Big Bill" Thompson, who lost a reelection bid in 1931 to Democrat Anton Cermak. That's 93 years with only Democrat Mayor's in Chicago.
The last Republican Alderman (city council member) was elected in 1979. Since then Chicago has been a one party city. And the results are Mayor Brandon, defund the police, Kim Foxx as a prosecutor, and murder rates on par with nations at war.
There is a cure to what ails Chicago, but the voters of that city would rather see it shrivel into a Gary, Indiana or Detroit, Michigan rather than do the right thing and vote the bums out of office.
What a shame.