MADNESS CONTINUES?

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MADNESS CONTINUES?

In the last posting here, we shared the most recent bizarre behavior of Chicago?s Mayor Daley in regard to ?Gun Control.? Now we discover that indicted and disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich feels Mayor Daley isn?t going far enough on gun control?see LINK HERE . How interesting that Blago doesn?t mention that when he himself was arrested by The Feds, they seized his FOID (Illinois Firearms Owner?s Identification) card. Good that he?s not a hypocrite or anything?

If I can quote Blagojevich himself, who was talking about something else at the time, that?s ?f?in? golden.?

Meanwhile, an octogenarian Korean War vet in Chicago in the last few days used a firearm to shoot and kill a long-time felon (who apparently benefited from ?catch and release? justice) who invaded the home the shooter shared with his wife of similar age. In rural America, that would earn a pat on the back from the county sheriff. In Daley?s Chicago, it has city authorities looking at whether they can criminally charge the old gentleman because his FOID card had expired, and because he used a handgun not currently registered under the ?grandfather clause? in ?handgun-free Chicago.? Public opinion is clearly with the vet: see LINK HERE.

This American veteran wielded deadly weapons in time of war as a soldier of his grateful country. He channeled that experience to protect his octogenarian wife and his 12-year-old grandson. It will be interesting to see if practical, street-smart Chicagoans hold the Chicago criminal justice system?s feet to the fire on this, to make sure that this exemplary senior citizen is not punished for being the very exemplar of Good Defeating Evil.

Last month, at the ILEETA national conference of police trainers held outside Chicago, more than one veteran Windy City cop told me that the current mayor?s dad, the original Mayor Daley, not only owned a fine gun collection but was known to go out in public carrying concealed a particularly nice Colt .38. Ya think his son might be rebelling against parental values or something?


I would have posted this in General, but it would have lasted about as long as BP's latest attempt to plug the hole in the Ocean Floor !
 

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Disgraced former Illinois governor thinks Mayor Daley not enough of a thug for 'gun c

Disgraced former Illinois governor thinks Mayor Daley not enough of a thug for 'gun c

Disgraced former Illinois governor thinks Mayor Daley not enough of a thug for 'gun control'

Recently, we discussed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's rather . . . colorful reply to reporter Mick Dumke's questioning of the effectiveness of Chicago's handgun ban.
"It's been very effective," Daley said, picking up a [bayonet-tipped] gun from the dozens displayed on a nearby table. "If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is. Let me put a round up your, you know."
Much has been said about that, and about Daley's aggressive pursuit of the forcible citizen disarmament agenda in general. One thing one hasn't seen much of (and wouldn't expect to) is the accusation that Daley hasn't been aggressively thuggish enough in his efforts to impose oppressive "gun control" on not just Chicago, but the entire state of Illinois (and, for that matter, the rest of the country).

That accusation, though, is exactly what disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich made on his weekly radio program (noon to 2:00 Sundays on WLS AM Chicago) on May 23rd. Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn posted a transcript. Here's an excerpt, illustrating my point:
And Mayor Daley is mostly trying to do it right. He?s different from most of these phony politicians. But when it comes to gun control and the stuff he does, it?s baloney.
Because if you really cared, Mayor, you?d muscle [Chicago Democratic Ill. Rep. John] D?Amico, who works in streets and sanitation, Rep. D?Amico, you?d muscle that guy. [Chicago Democratic Ill. Rep. Harry] Osterman, another double-dipper who works for you [Chicago Democratic Ill. Rep]. Susana Mendoza, another double-dipper who works for you. They work for you first before they work for their constituents in their districts. They?re part-time, $75,000 a year job as state reps is basically there there to take marching orders from you.
In other words, Blagojevich thinks Daley should threaten several state legislator's "main" jobs (for the city of Chicago), to "muscle" them into more aggressively pursuing the "gun control" agenda. About that "main" job--Blagojevich dismisses the "part-time, $75,000 a year job" as if he's unaware how many thousands of Illinois families would be thrilled to have that kind of annual income--but never mind that.

The bigger issue is that Blagojevich apparently thinks it's entirely acceptable for the mayor of one city to hold the entire state hostage to his agenda (and that's without even getting into the utter unconstitutionality of that agenda). And by holding the state "hostage," that's exactly what I mean:
You ought to send them down to Springfield and you oughta to say to them, ?You?re not voting for a budget until we get some of these downstaters to vote for some of these [sic] gun control legislation.? The legislation that you say is going to solve the gun violence problem in Chicago.
Even more ridiculously, two of the three representatives Blagojevich mentioned are already hardcore advocates of restrictive gun laws. Rep. Osterman (featured prominently in previous columns here and here) is something of the House leader when it comes to pushing new gun laws, and Rep. Mendoza is an enthusiastic follower. Rep. D'Amico has been less of an enemy of Illinois gun owners than the other two, although he can certainly not be considered an ally, given his vote to ban private handgun sales last year (pdf file).

What Blagoejevich is suggesting is even more fully spreading the cancer of Chicago-style politics--and Chicago-style "gun control--to the rest of the state. Then again, Washington D.C. is pretty full these days with politicians who got their start in Chicago politics, too.

Isn't that reassuring?
 

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Daley's armed bodyguard proves mayor's hypocrisy

Daley's armed bodyguard proves mayor's hypocrisy

Daley's armed bodyguard proves mayor's hypocrisy

You would be hard pressed to find a more anti-gun politician than Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Which makes the headline from a Second Amendment Foundation press release an interesting example of "Do as I say, not as I do" elitism:
DALEY?S BODYGUARD CATCHES KILLER; ?WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY,? SAYS SAF
SAF Chairman Alan Gottlieb nails it:
?Mayor Daley is protected by an armed guard,? said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, ?but what about the citizens of his city, who have no such luxury? The mayor is a world class hypocrite, who has bodyguards with guns to protect him from escaped killers like Charles Smith. Yet he is continuing to stubbornly fight against average citizens who are willing to protect themselves, but unable to because of Daley?s deranged double standard about firearms and personal protection.?
Chicago, of course, has outlawed handguns for citizens who did not have them registered since 1982, and re-registered them every year thereafter. And if you fail to do so? You lose your guns.

That is, unless you're a connected politician, like Alderman Richard Mell, who supported that law, but who neglected to re-register his guns:
At first, he tried blaming it on a staffer failing to do it for him. The other thing is, gun owners are personally responsible for doing this.

Then he tried getting the Chicago Police Department's Gun Registration Section to allow him "to re-register his guns belatedly." Not having any provision of law that would allow them to do that, they declined. So what's an anti-gun elite gun-owning Chicago politician to do?

"Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a 1-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament," The Sun Times report continued.
Make no mistake--it's a good thing that the mayor's bodyguard stopped a dangerous criminal (albeit, one who escaped due to government failing in its responsibilities in the first place). But as Gottlieb notes:
?While Daley can lounge in the protective shadow of armed bodyguards even when he is out of state, average citizens in Chicago and all over Illinois must contend with the mayor?s elitist attitude about gun ownership. Most people can?t afford armed bodyguards.

?So long as Daley fights to keep his fellow citizens unarmed he does not deserve the protection of men with guns...Take away his bodyguards and just tell him to dial 9-1-1 like the rest of us."
Sounds fair to me.


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