Remember when:
1992-Â Chicago Plans Police Sweep Of Troubled Housing Area
“Unfortunately, it takes something like this to spark everyone’s concern,” Mr. Daley said. “We’re declaring a war against the gangs.” Mayor Criticized
2003-Chicago tries rapid response to curb gangs
Mayor Richard M. Daley initially supported a plan that would have shifted more officers to high-crime areas, but politics got in the way. Aldermen in low-crime areas resisted and the plan died. The city said undercover police and the rapid response teams will be more effective at deterring crime than an increase in beat cops. Burnett and others are unconvinced.
2006- Chicago chief advises Met on softly-softly policing
WHEN Britain seeks to learn lessons from American police it triggers headlines about “Robocop” or Judge Dredd. But now a gentler voice is coming from the other side of the Atlantic, talking about communities, trust and listening.
The police chief of Chicago will this week talk to Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, and Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, about implementing a softly-softly approach to the battle against crime in the capital.
2008- Organizer in Chief Barack Obama could become our first community-activist president.
Obama began his organizing life in the mid-1980s in a community group whose progress mirrored that of the rest of the industry: the Developing Communities Project, formed on Chicago‘s South Side as a “faith-based grassroots organization organizing and advocating for social change.” Though founded with resources from a coalition of churches, over time the DCP evolved, like many left-leaning religious organizations, into a government contractor essentially subsisting on tax money”with nearly 80 percent of its revenues deriving from public contracts and grants.
As a young college graduate immersed in the world of tax-bankrolled activism, Obama adopted the big-government ethos that prevailed among neighborhood organizers who viewed attempts to reform poverty programs as attacks on the poor. Speaking to an alternative weekly on the eve of his 1995 run for state senate, Obama said”in language that his wife, Michelle, would echo years later”that “these are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress.” He derided the “old individualistic bootstrap myth” of American achievement that conservatives were touting. Self-help strategies “have become thinly veiled excuses for cutting back on social programs, which are anathema to a conservative agenda,” he wrote in a chapter that he contributed to a 1990 book, After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois. (He also depicted leftist community organizing as a harder task than similar efforts by the Christian Right, telling a reporter in 1995 that “it’s always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness and false nostalgia.”)
To maintain that society was fundamentally unjust, Obama had to deny the significance of the black advancement that surrounded him in Chicago. Looking out over the world of local politics in a city that until recently had been governed by a black mayor and had a number of prominent blacks in power, Obama saw only efforts to undermine African-American progress. In 1990, he admitted “black achievement in prominent city positions” but added that it had only “put us in the awkward position of administering underfunded systems neither equipped nor eager to address the needs of the urban poor.” Still, Obama opted to head into politics himself, justifying the move as a third way between the limitations of local organizing and the narrow careerism that, he claimed, characterized local black pols. He, by contrast, would become the politician as community organizer.
Maybe, just maybe, it is time to declare a police state in the city of Chicago. It may not be popular, but it just might save a life or 20!
See also:
- Michelle Malkin>Explaining the “community organizer” joke to the outraged Left
- Political Party Poop
- Community organizers | pamibe
- SIREN ALERT: Don’t You Dare Pick On A “community organizer”..It’s Racist And Obama Is Just Like Jesus | Right Voices
- And who started this? « Firearms & Freedom
- What Does A “Community Organizer” Do? « I Took The Red Pill (and escaped the Matrix)
- Explaining the “community organizer” joke to the outraged Left « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
- Sarah Palin Knocks Out Obama: « Riggword Weblog
- Jules Crittenden » Fight With Me
- Mike’s Noise
- And who started this? « Firearms & Freedom
- What Does A “Community Organizer” Do? « I Took The Red Pill (and escaped the Matrix)
- Explaining the “community organizer” joke to the outraged Left « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
- Sarah Palin Knocks Out Obama: « Riggword Weblog
- Jules Crittenden » Fight With Me
- Mike’s Noise
- Will some enterprising MSM member ask Organizer in Chief Obama if he’ll call for a police surge to protect the lives of his own Illinois constitutents? | Right Voices
- Explaining the “community organizer” joke to the outraged Left « American Sentinel News and Opinion Watch
- Todd Palin As Modern Man, Sarah Palin As Modern Women « Blog Entry « Dr. Melissa Clouthier
- Obama Supporters in a Snit « The Iron Whirlygig
- Stuck On Stupid
- Confederate Yankee
- The Other McCain: ‘Community organizer’ is the new ‘uppity’
- Martini Revolution » Shorter Michelle Malkin
- The Vile Nature of Politics as Religion « Grand Rants
- Michelle Malkin » The Obamas and their “Public Allies”
- Swamp Hermit’s *QUICK* Bits « The Swamp Hermit’s Report
- I believe we’ve hit a nerve « Right Minded Online
- Obama Community Organizer Record Not Very Praiseworthy « Start Thinking Right
- Pillage Idiot
- Sept. 5th Link Roundup | THE HOT JOINTS
- The Obamas are all about military militant service for kids « Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN
- How Can You Trust Obama? | Democrat=Socialist
- The Bogus Community Organizer Credential | The TIW Blog
- Wizbang
- Obama, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: « Riggword Weblog
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Oh my, I cannot find the Trackback link you usually have! Great article. Too bad no one has the cajones to face down these racist race-baiters. *sigh*
Rosemary’s Thoughts says:
Who’s Afraid Of Sarah Palin? Oprah!.
The Drudge Report had posted the fact that Oprah is refusing to interview Sarah on her program, so Oprah sent out her typical backstepping (backstabbing) response. I hope Sarah refuses her invitation AFTER she is Vice President!
Thanks for the heads up Rosemary..I will see if Lisa can add the trackback button back..
Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-JacquesRousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract
How is that possible? Don’t those thugs KNOW it’s virtually illegal to own firearms inside the boundaries of the city of Chicago? Unlike Baghdad where every homeowner is allowed one select fire AK-47 and military handgun for self defense, Chicago is an almost weapons free zone.
Yeah, and that seems to have worked out well for the criminals. Keeping weapons out of the hands of the law abiding homeowner who wants to protect themselves is in their best interest, so they can rape, pillage and murder at will.
Gun control = tight group, center mass.
This just proves we need total gun banning now! People in America no longer need guns. Not for any legitimate reason whatsoever. Only when all guns have been confiscated can the Progressive agenda be completely implemented!
It is time to follow Democratic Party leaders, such as Dianne Feinstein, in implementing total gun bans everywhere! From our perspective, this will have two main results: First, it will enable us to start forcibly confiscating guns. And second, it will immediately define our opponents as criminals!
The United Nations is presently unable break up a skirmish between two warring Girl Scout factions, so how they’re supposed to aid the world is an even bigger conundrum.ArthurLottiArthur Lotti