Mayor Daley and Chicago Violence
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Robert Klein Engler
Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School. His book, ''A Winter of Words,'' about turmoil at Daley College, is available from http://amazon.com.By Robert Klein Engler
Published on 04/29/2008
If the present administration in Chicago is unable to solve the violence its urban policies have caused, then what? Reports are that the police in the city will soon be armed with assault rifles, so that they can match the firepower of the drug gangs. Yet, no one at city hall calls for closing the border with Mexico, where most of the illegal drugs in Chicago originate.
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The Muslim Abbadides ruled in Seville, Spain, for sixty-eight years. The Democrats and the Clan of Bridgeport have ruled Chicago for more than fifty years. They have ruled longer than the Soviet Union lasted. Some governments serve the people, others serve themselves and their party.
Over the past month, Chicago has seen an increase of violence. According to the Sun-Times newspaper, "The toll from...violence around the city has been troubling for the mayor. In the past week, 40 people have been shot and 12 of them have died. The mayor blames the availability of guns for contributing to the violence."
At first glance, placing blame on the availability of guns seems odd, because guns are banned in Chicago. How can a city that bans guns have an increase in gun violence? Does this mean the police department is unable to enforce laws prohibiting guns in Chicago? If they can't do that, how can they enforce more antigun laws?
But that's not the point. More antigun laws is the way the mayor points the finger of blame away from his administration and at others. In an attempt to blame the others, so often the case of minds suffering from delusions, the mayor has now called for an emergency summit in his office.
An earlier curfew for young people is on the mayor's agenda. Perhaps plans for the city to hold the 2012 Olympics may have to be revised. Visitors from around the world could be asked to wear bulletproof vests while attending Olympic events.
Maybe those on their way to the mayor's office ought to check their back, too, especially if they plan to tell the mayor the truth. Such truth telling, however, seems highly unlikely.
Throughout history men have followed corrupt rulers because it was in their self-interest to do so. Others have followed because they mistook darkness for light. Why should it be any different at a mayor's summit in contemporary Chicago.
Meetings may be held in the mayor's office, yet no real solution for the rise of violence in Chicago will be found. Only whispers of the truth will escape. "We are the cause of what we abhor," say the critics at home and out of sight.
Chicago is a violent city because it is a segregated city. Chicago remains a segregated city because it is in the interest of those in power to keep it that way. Some of that segregation leads to neighborhoods with dysfunctional subcultures.
In short, few of those in power today would remain in power if they could not count on the block voting segregation in Chicago insures. To ask the present mayor and the Clan of Bridgeport to solve the problems they perpetuate is asking too much of most Chicago Democrats.
The solution to violence in Chicago will require a political change, a change far beyond what even Senator Obama and his followers can imagine. Those in office will have to leave. Yet, they stay in power and argue that Chicagoans need them now to solve the problems their policies caused.
The tragic history of public housing in Chicago is just a rehearsal for the era of violence to come. The truth about violence in Chicago is that guns are not to blame. What is to blame is the more than 50 years of rule by Democrats and the Clan of Bridgeport. It is their urban policies that have lead to this culture of violence.
To have a summit on violence in Chicago called by Mayor Daley is like a drunkard calling a meeting for sobriety in a saloon, or fat men discussing diets at an all day banquet. After the summit is over there will be more speeches, more denouncing, more neighbors marching and more violence.
If the present administration in Chicago is unable to solve the violence its urban policies have caused, then what? Reports are that the police in the city will soon be armed with assault rifles, so that they can match the firepower of the drug gangs. Yet, no one at city hall calls for closing the border with Mexico, where most of the illegal drugs in Chicago originate.
Expect things to go from bad to worse in Chicago after the violence summit. At the same time the city's media and the regime's lackeys will attempt to paint a picture of a gleaming skyline and a sparkling lake shore. The city that no longer works will at least work its propaganda, just like the old Soviet Union.
Over the past month, Chicago has seen an increase of violence. According to the Sun-Times newspaper, "The toll from...violence around the city has been troubling for the mayor. In the past week, 40 people have been shot and 12 of them have died. The mayor blames the availability of guns for contributing to the violence."
At first glance, placing blame on the availability of guns seems odd, because guns are banned in Chicago. How can a city that bans guns have an increase in gun violence? Does this mean the police department is unable to enforce laws prohibiting guns in Chicago? If they can't do that, how can they enforce more antigun laws?
But that's not the point. More antigun laws is the way the mayor points the finger of blame away from his administration and at others. In an attempt to blame the others, so often the case of minds suffering from delusions, the mayor has now called for an emergency summit in his office.
An earlier curfew for young people is on the mayor's agenda. Perhaps plans for the city to hold the 2012 Olympics may have to be revised. Visitors from around the world could be asked to wear bulletproof vests while attending Olympic events.
Maybe those on their way to the mayor's office ought to check their back, too, especially if they plan to tell the mayor the truth. Such truth telling, however, seems highly unlikely.
Throughout history men have followed corrupt rulers because it was in their self-interest to do so. Others have followed because they mistook darkness for light. Why should it be any different at a mayor's summit in contemporary Chicago.
Meetings may be held in the mayor's office, yet no real solution for the rise of violence in Chicago will be found. Only whispers of the truth will escape. "We are the cause of what we abhor," say the critics at home and out of sight.
Chicago is a violent city because it is a segregated city. Chicago remains a segregated city because it is in the interest of those in power to keep it that way. Some of that segregation leads to neighborhoods with dysfunctional subcultures.
In short, few of those in power today would remain in power if they could not count on the block voting segregation in Chicago insures. To ask the present mayor and the Clan of Bridgeport to solve the problems they perpetuate is asking too much of most Chicago Democrats.
The solution to violence in Chicago will require a political change, a change far beyond what even Senator Obama and his followers can imagine. Those in office will have to leave. Yet, they stay in power and argue that Chicagoans need them now to solve the problems their policies caused.
The tragic history of public housing in Chicago is just a rehearsal for the era of violence to come. The truth about violence in Chicago is that guns are not to blame. What is to blame is the more than 50 years of rule by Democrats and the Clan of Bridgeport. It is their urban policies that have lead to this culture of violence.
To have a summit on violence in Chicago called by Mayor Daley is like a drunkard calling a meeting for sobriety in a saloon, or fat men discussing diets at an all day banquet. After the summit is over there will be more speeches, more denouncing, more neighbors marching and more violence.
If the present administration in Chicago is unable to solve the violence its urban policies have caused, then what? Reports are that the police in the city will soon be armed with assault rifles, so that they can match the firepower of the drug gangs. Yet, no one at city hall calls for closing the border with Mexico, where most of the illegal drugs in Chicago originate.
Expect things to go from bad to worse in Chicago after the violence summit. At the same time the city's media and the regime's lackeys will attempt to paint a picture of a gleaming skyline and a sparkling lake shore. The city that no longer works will at least work its propaganda, just like the old Soviet Union.