Obama's Chicago

By Semperpapa

Chicago, Illinois. Obama's city, the place where Obama honed his political "skills" and where he made a name for himself as a community activist, which "prepared" him for holding the highest position in the country and the world.

But the failures that Obama is experiencing as a President are not a great surprise for many of us who were paying attention in 2008 and completely mirror his failures in the Windy City.

Today Chicago is under a violent siege, with a wooping 113 homicides since January 1st, 2010, the same number of soldiers the United States has lost in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, for the same time period.
What these statistics tell us is that Chicago is as dangerous a place as two war zones our Military is involved in, combined.

Two politicians have requested Gov. Pat Quinn to deploy the Illinois National Guard in the city to attempt to quell the violence, which in just one day last week saw the killing of seven people.

But how could this be? How can it be that Obama's city, the city of total gun control, the city of queen Oprah and Mayor Randell, is so devastated by such a level of crime that politicians are requesting the intevention of the National Guard? What happen to the utopic panacea of peace and prosperity Liberals are promising to the people in Chicago in return for their votes?

The truth is that the policies of liberal progressives are the same policies that fuel such criminal activities. The defeat of personal responsibility liberals champion has created a whole community of thugs and criminals who, even if caught, are afforded more rights than their victims.

Personally, I hope the the attempt to mobilize the National Guard for crime control in Chicago is rejected, for the same reason why Police Superintendent Jody Weis is reluctant to sign on, and that is that the NG has a different approach to law enforcement that city cops have and re-training would be too long and too expensive.
while civilian cops are trained to treat criminals with all kind of politically correct measures, soldiers, especially those who are Veterans of deployment to real combat zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, are trained for combat.
So unless the NG are allowed to treat criminals like enemy combatant, they should not be running the risk of some Obama style community activist coming up with some accusation of unreasonable use of force that would have unfair criminal and civil consequences for the soldiers.

My thoughts go to the families of the innocent people of Chicago caught in the crossfire, as it goes to those who have no choice but live there. On the other hand, they are the ones that have elected an maintained liberal loosers in power.
In the immortal words of Rev. Wright, although in a much more subdue way, "the chickens have come to roost"

Just my thoughts!