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In Chicago, fears of a long, bloody summer
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In Chicago, fears of a long, bloody summer

Do No Evil – CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Nine people were killed in 36 shootings over the weekend in Chicago, reflecting what some community leaders say is a deadly breakdown in discipline among gang members after a crackdown over the past few years put many of their leaders behind bars.

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Maybe they should Ban murder like the LA city council did last month.

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Yes, it was a brilliant move by the LA city council. I don't know why they just didn't ban murder forever.

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Just for the summer? I missed that.

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La actually banned murder for 72 hours.

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We need to pull our troops out of Chicago!! Clearly, we have lost Chicago!

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No more war for Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza! End the occupation of Chicago!

Bring our soldiers home! It's a civil war there, we have no business being involved.

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What about the oil for pizzas program?

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Democrats steal the pizzas and proceeds.

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"Maybe they should Ban murder like the LA city council did last month."

Their just building on the success of ending all crime in South Central LA

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Considering the ad which is going to run in NC, these headlines couldn't have come at a worse time for Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabl0KSFUqo

It is by Floyd Brown, author of the famous (or infamous depending on your perspective) Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis

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"what some community leaders say is a deadly breakdown in discipline among gang members after a crackdown over the past few years put many of their leaders behind bars."

So they are blaming the police for arresting gang leaders for the potential 'bloody summer'. How can they have crime there, doesn't Chicago have strict 'gun control' laws. Are people now saying that criminal gang memebers won't obey the gun laws? Amazing... LOL

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Bill

"So they are blaming the police for arresting gang leaders for the potential 'bloody summer'."

Ya nailed it Bill.

Now all they gotta do is link it to Bush and Iraq.

I know Bush should have rounded up all the left over gangbangers and shipped em off to Iraq!

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Looks like I'm staying out in the burbs this summer....

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Think I'd move to Iraq ...

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It is safer in Iraq and they have lots of guns there.

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At least there you can shoot back!

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A couple of points: I live near Chicago. I wouldn't go there on a bet. Well, some areas, anyway - Chicago is a BIG place. Just this morning I heard a country Sheriff lamenting the difficulties of enforcement in some of these areas - because the DAs wouldn't prosecute to the max. (Prisons are overcrowded, budgets are restricted) YES - Illinois has strict gun laws, and in the city of Chicago, you are not even ALLOWED to own a handgun. (Unconstitutional, I know.. I know) So, to those who think MORE gun control law is the answer I say: You are an idiot. Sorry, but you are. The other point is a reference to a story we saw on here a couple of weeks ago about the astronomical drop out rates in the cities. Knucklehead kids have NO education, NO prospects, NO hope of a decent life - so what do they do? Join a gang, become criminals, get some (ILLEGAL) guns, and shoot up other gang members to protect their "turf."

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I used to play basketball on 67th and Stony Island and while as a white guy I got some weird looks, I also got the "that must be one crazy white boy" looks as well.

I lived with my dad for a few years at 113th and Avenue N., right near Georgre Washington High School where some racial things are happening, never got messed with. (may have been the "crazy white bot affect as well)

For the most part, their only a few places I be afraid to go in Chicago, my previous post was mostly humor. Banger's can tell their own (usually) so you mostly just have to worry about getting caught in the crossfire.

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"I also got the 'that must be one crazy white boy' looks as well."

Ohh yes, I've gotten that in Detroit before. A buddy and I took a wrong turn trying to get back on the freeway, and we wound up int the middle of third-world America. Some black guys walking nearby said: "They must be lost!"

Another time some buddies and I stopped for some beers at a 7-Eleven in a black-dominated town. The brothers in the store were saying: "You're in the wrong part of town."

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"I also got the 'that must be one crazy white boy' looks as well."

Just think. Once Barack Hussein Obama is elected president, all of this racism and misunderstanding will fade away. After all, he's offering us "Hope" and "Yes We Can".

Yes.... "Hope" and "Yes We Can". I'd bet MY ranch on those two slogans.

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Obama...Obama...Obama...

Just like the song man, hold hands, sing the song, and wish for "Hope" and we can "Change"...."Yes We Can"

Obama, my Lord, Obama

Yes We Can, my Lord, Obama

Obama,

Yes We Can

Someone's shooting white people, my Lord, Obama

Someone's killing whitey, my Lord, Obama

Save us from the violence, my Lord, Obama

Let's just say "Hope" and "Change" and "Yes We Can", my Lord, Obama

My Lord,

Yes We Can

(I got Wyclef beat on this boring, pointless, mindless drivel, happy go lucky, save the world, liberal song stuff)

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We keep on a-waitin' (waitin') waitin' on the world to change. blah blah john mayer sucks blah blah

Or maybe South Park said it best:

Come on people now, people now, hybrid people now

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At lest the folks in Chicago aren't bitter clinging to guns and such.

Won't it be great when the rest of the country becomes UN-Bitter like Chicago!

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If Cons had only been so hot when we heard all that talk about corners being turned and last throes. . .

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"I've gotten that in Detroit before"

DETROIT?!? You mean "Kwame Kilpatrick's Krack Den"? Haven't we seceded that useless, welfare-sucking, collapsing ruin of a city to Canada yet?

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What makes you think they WANT it?

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Canada wouldn't touch it! They'd bomb the Ambassador Bridge and close the tunnel first!

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I don't know. Cana-duh is pretty stupid....

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NUMPTY ; How would you know, since you can't even spell the country and you haven't got a clue what is what in your country why do you continually pollute by opening your anus.

...LMAO..what a NUMPTY

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Ya know how Canada got its name:

When J. MacDonald and Friends were trying to figure out the name of this great place, someone had a great idea.

Let's stick all the letters into a hat and draw 3 of them รข;;

That will be the new name of this place..

So they did so..

1st letter is pulled and the guy shouts - "C" eh!?

2nd letter is pulled and the guy shouts - "N" eh!?

3rd letter is pulled and the guy shouts - "D" eh!?

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Cute, but the last time I heard that one I feel off my dinosaur.

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Maybe they should get all the bangers to join hands and sing Kumbya ;)

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but wait I thought it was the city of hope, of change, a place of great vision for the future.

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I wonder how the gangs would be affected if we took away their biggest source of income...isn't that how they took down Al Capone?

http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

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That was tried a few years ago I think...going after dealers for tax evasion. I think it was shot down by the SC as violating a persons right against "self incrimination".

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I think the cops on the link I gave have a better idea.

Same problem...Same solution.

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"I wonder how the gangs would be affected if we took away their biggest source of income...isn't that how they took down Al Capone?"

Good point! Lets go one step further and actually address the addiction problem end it once and for all!

How bout a 50cc shot of PURE Heroin

End that addiction in a heart beat!

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Murder people?

Isn't that the problem the story is about?

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MOST of the Heroin is uncut now and cheap.

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Boy...you would think that after 70 years of "war" against it,it wouldn't be strong or cheap...it would be non-existent.Maybe it's time to take away the gangs lifeblood like the cops on the link I posted are suggesting.

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