Bud Posted August 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM Posted August 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM I am of the age where I spend a great deal of time worrying about nose and ear hair. Every once in a while I see a guy my age that has thrown in the towel in and he looks like he has a mustache growing out of nose and dreadlocks out of his ears and I suddenly panic. I rush home and start clipping and shaving and then I end up with little bitty dabs of kleenex stuck to various body appenges stemming the tide of plavix thinned blood. But I digress. Being of this age also has caused me to spend a great deal of time in reflection about why things are and how things are changed but they also wondering why often remain the same. Nationally, politics are like a giant pendulem. Sometimes it swings way left and others, way back to the right. Obvioulsy, nationwide, we are was to the left right now and we may have just reached the extent of the swing. The Democrats own everything, the house, the senate (small letters are intentional, they don't deserve caps) the white house and about half the supreme court. We are well, and truly, you know.......................... I am neither a democrat nor a republican. I often identify with certain conserative republicans but I can also often get a warm and fuzzy about a blue dog democrat. The represenative from south Mississippi (Mississippi-4th) Gene Taylor was on C-Span at a Town Hall last night and he is my kind of democrat. If the bill is about spending money he's against it unless it involves national defense or spending money on the troops. he voted against cap and trade, TARP, CARS (cash for clunkers) and will vote against for form of national healthcare. He stood up to his audience, fought back and convinced them he was right. Don't see that too often. Illinois Carry and all of the Illinois organizations need to form some type of loose knit coalition and start looking at candidates for the federal election in 2010. We need to pick who we want from whatever party and help them get elected. Here in Illinois, I think things are a little different. The people in the Illinois house and the senate are like various street gangs. They are so interested in protecting turf, they have completely lost sight of who they represent or what they are supposed to be doing. I can guarantee you that all the violence in Chicago is going to help Daley to go after his hip pocket politicians and force them to seek new restrictive gun laws so that they can look like they are doing something. Remember 1968? When the Daley the 1st was Mayor? That's when all the gun laws in Illinois started happening. Those riots on the west and south sides scared the c*** out of the Machine politicians. That's when FOID was thought of and enacted and that's when the long slippery slope of gun control in Chicago and the suburbs started. Can you imagine the conversations in those smoke filled back rooms in 1968? "We stopped them but it was close, Omigod! What if they had GUNS!!!!!!" Make no mistake, the original gun laws in Chicago were racially motivated. I know, I was a cop in the suburbs then and I can remember. It is conservately estimated that there are over 270,000,000 guns in the US. That's bs. That's less than 1 per person. I own six, my son has several and everyone I know has at least one and if they have one, they probably have two more. Most of the really smart politicians (you can identify them because while in office they have magically grown rich) know that there is no way that the US government can go out and seize 270,000,000+ guns. I wouldn't stand for it, none of you would stand for it, and none of the rest of the red neck, hill billy gun owners just like us would stand for it. But it gives them a chance to maybe take our minds off some of the other things they are slipping through while we are fighting toi save the 2nd Amendment. We need to, as a group, reach out to other like minded groups in Illinois and start picking who we want to run for office in Illinois for the next several elections. The first question you should ask a prospective new politician while he or she is campaigning is ,"do you own a gun?" If not, scratch him off the list, he ain't one of us. We need to change the mindset in Chicago. Not of the politicians, that's a waste. We need to reach out to our fellow citizens and let them know it doesn't have to be this way. They should not have to cower in their homes or be afraid to walk the streets or even to go to school every day. We have to get them to understand that the Constitution is there to empower them and that anyone that tells them different is, well, the enemy. Sorry for the long bandwidth, needed to spew. It's nice to have a place to do it.
moparcardave Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:14 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:14 AM I agree with you, I stumbled on this a little bit ago. Inner city Chicago is not happy with President Obama nor with those close to him. Very interesting reading and no where in this letter I found on facebook say a thing about guns. It's about Obama, Daley, and on down not helping them. He is from Chicagos Roseland area known for its crime. Granted I don't believe all he is saying but sure says Obama has lost his luster. The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDIThe New Black Independent Media CoalitionMark S. Allen, Founder/DirectorAssociate Editor, The South Street Journal Newspaper449 East 35th Street, 1st FloorChicago, Illinois 60616Office 312-624-8351 direct voice mail/cell 773-392-0165sostreetjournal@aol.com or direct at marksallen2800@yahoo.com BREAKING NEWSMonday, June 1, 2009 PRESIDENT OBAMA RESPONDS QUICKLY AND "OUTRAGED" TO THE KILLING OF ONE DOCTOR YET REMAINS SILENT ON SIX MORE KILLINGS IN CHICAGO AND THE CONTINUED RISE IN VIOLENCE As crime intervention and prevention groups like CeaseFire and others prepare for major cuts in hands-on staff and programming in high crime areas, Mayor Daley, Police Chief Weis, Schools Chief Huberman, Governor Quinn, and Chicago's political, civic and religious leadership remain silent on how to secure immediate funding for adequate intervention and prevention while Chicago shootings and killings continue to rise. Each day, the poor get poorer and more desperate by the day leaving far too many of our urban residents looking to the gang, drug, and other illegal street economies as their source to provide for themselves and their families. Providing immediate resources to stop the flow of a deadly flu virus is still more important than providing the same type immediate resources to stop the environment that is causing the rise in violence, shootings and death.Despite the most urgent "state of emergency" public appeals to Chicago's own President Barack Obama by religious, business, civic and community organizers that have known and worked with him since the very beginning and throughout his community organizing and political career, Obama has not responded to any of them. Strange how he could openly take their counsel as he built his career addressing urban issues but has yet to respond to any of them as President. And this, from the President whose urban agenda is based on his Chicago experiences as a community organizer beginning in Chicago's Roseland community, a community whose urban ills are worse than they were when Obama was an organizer. Regular appeals to Obama from current community organizers in Chicago's Roseland community have also gone unanswered. Over 500 workers and supporters of the group CeaseFire and citizens rallied in downtown Chicago asking for public support for sources of funding to maintain and even expand the number of violence interrupters to help keep the violence, shootings, and murders down. The Mayor's office responded that while the violence is rising in Chicago, CeaseFire is a State funded responsibility. The Governor's budget office responded that CeaseFire was not a priority for the 2010 budget and would probably come up for funding from other state sources in future legislative sessions. White House Senior Policy Advisor Valerie Jarrett responded to a Wall Street Journal story that eventually President Obama's Economic programs would reach urban communities and stop the crime battle over illegal economies, and there was enough new money for law enforcement, which right now only results in more arrests and increasing the flow of urban youth and people in the criminal justice system. So from the Mayor to The President, the challenge to our leaders to provide collective financial and other resources to provide adequate hands-on crime intervention and prevention programming the way the threat of the Swine Flu was addressed is no ones responsibility. So while groups like CeaseFire and others who work at crime intervention, prevention, and grassroots empowerment for poor people continue to go through their grantwriting workshops, the immediate need to drastically provide the resources needed to address this urban state of emergency is of no emergency at all to most of Chicago's major media, political, business, civic, and religious leaders, and still not worthy of the direct attention of Chicago's own President Barack Obama. Shouldn't Chicago's poor expect a better urban agenda that lifts them up, being the home of The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and now The President Of The United States? Chicago is the collective home to the biggest and most influential local, national and international names in religion, media, civics, sports, banking, politics and business and with all this collective power we can stop our urban areas from their dependence on illegal and life threatening environments versus legal economies. Chicago has been host to The Nation of Islam's recent national convention with its pledge to help rebuild our urban areas, and now it will soon host the national conventions of The Urban League and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and will we be addressing this same state of emergency after the conventions and all of their star power has come and gone. How can Chicago be host and access to all of this local, national, and international power and still look right back and watch the exact same Chicago become labeled The Murder Capital of The World, and then profess to an Olympic Committee that this city is safe to host a 2016 Olympics? As President Obama's PSA's promote, Why aren't our major leaders listening to the grassroots leaders "on the ground." No one is listening, not even The President, and our urban areas will continue to see the increase in violence, shootings and death, until the usual experts begin to publicly agree with the assessment of the grassroots leadership on the ground. Where is the old Obama we used to know? Who is the enemy now? We at the grassroots level often said we were battling the Republic controlled Government who blocked access to capital to poor people and other resources at the grassroots level, but now that we have come to a Grassroots community organizing Democratic President, and majority Democratic City, State, and Federal Government, Whose the enemy of poor people now?
Chiburbian Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:25 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:25 AM <Round of applause for budman>
templar223 Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:32 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 12:32 AM It is conservately estimated that there are over 270,000,000 guns in the US. That's bs. That's less than 1 per person. I own six, my son has several and everyone I know has at least one and if they have one, they probably have two more. Bud, Remember, 9 of 10 legal Illinois residents have NO guns. ZERO. And if you've only got six, you need to get busy. I think I've got more than that in my car right now. Then again, I went to the fun store today. John
Don Gwinn Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:08 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:08 AM The other catch is that I don't want politicians to consider gun ownership a litmus test. I don't care if they own guns as long as they understand that I won't give mine up. And I know you aren't suggesting that we should trust any politician who comes out and says she has a rifle under the bed, like Gillibrand, but that's the message they get if we make their personal gun ownership the issue. The issue is their votes. I feel the same way about most issues. I don't share the religious beliefs most politicians (profess to) hold in this country, but that's OK as long as they understand that I believe what I believe and it's not going to change until someone shows me something better to believe in.
Bud Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:11 AM Author Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:11 AM Bud, Remember, 9 of 10 legal Illinois residents have NO guns. ZERO. You're right! I need to find money and buy more guns. On the other hand, 2,829,304(as of 2008) of our fellow Illinois citizens live behind the Daley Curtain and are forbidden the right to own a handgun.
Black Flag Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:27 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 01:27 AM I need to find money and buy more guns.Why not take $35 of that and join the NRA?Dig a little deeper and join the ISRA, too, if you're not already a member.
Lou Posted August 21, 2009 at 02:42 AM Posted August 21, 2009 at 02:42 AM Bud, Remember, 9 of 10 legal Illinois residents have NO guns. ZERO. You're right! I need to find money and buy more guns. On the other hand, 2,829,304(as of 2008) of our fellow Illinois citizens live behind the Daley Curtain and are forbidden the right to own a handgun. Me - I don't own ANY firearms. None - zilch - nada. Budman5 - Sometime I'll buy you a cold one to thank you for a good post.
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