The System Worked, So Why The Protests In Chicago?

Investors.com

"Discord: The usual suspects were protesting again Friday and performing for TV news crews in Chicago. They disrupted tourists and holiday shoppers on tony Michigan Avenue. But what exactly were they protesting?

The ostensible reason for the chanting street anger was the shooting of a knife-wielding black teen by a white Chicago policeman. The violent death of Laquan McDonald emerged last week on a disturbing police video released by court order.

"Police had responded to reports of car break-ins and spotted the 17-year-old, later found to have PCP in his system, walking in the street waving the knife. When he turned toward one officer, he shot the teen 16 times, 15 after the youth had fallen.

"The officer, Jason Van Dyke, has been charged with first-degree murder. He's in jail without bail. The methodical American legal system is grinding along. The victim's family called for calm and understanding. Nothing will bring the troubled youth back.

"The truth is the awful death is demeaned by another outbreak of the nation's protest industry, one that unfortunately doesn't move itself overseas. The telling tip-off is the presence of Jesse Jackson. Or Al Sharpton. And protest leaders' choice of target, in this case a nationally familiar tourist area that — Oh, look! — is handy to all the local TV newsrooms. And it piggybacks on a traditionally slow news day's fascination with holiday shoppers. A perfect public-relations storm for protesters." . . .

If police shooting video had been released sooner,
would Emanuel be mayor?  

"Would Mayor Rahm Emanuel have been re-elected if voters had seen the video of Laquan McDonald´s execution? No. Rahm would have lost the election. Why? Because he would have lost Chicago´s black vote. Without the black vote, Rahm Emanuel would not be the 9.5-fingered boss of Bartertown. Black political figures would have been uneasy standing with Rahm. They would have run away. They couldn´t stand with him. Not if that video came out  . . ."

From Lucianne

Obama Spares ISIS Oil Facilities to Save the Earth

"President Obama would destroy the American economy to fight the mythical threat of climate change but protected the oil wealth of the very real and very deadly threat of ISIS because destroying it might hurt the environment. Go to your climate conference, Mr. President. That’ll show them"

Daniel John Sobieski  "One may be thankful that President Harry S. Truman didn’t have to file an environmental impact statement before he dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, acts which shortened and won World War II and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

"If you wondered why our air campaign against ISIS was inept, consider the statement by Mike Morell, speaking on the “Charlie Rose” program Tuesday night that we didn’t take out the oil facilities that ISIS was using to become the best financed terrorist organization in history because of our concern the environment would be harmed. As the Washington Times reported:

A former CIA director said the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has been reluctant to attack oil wells controlled by the extremist group partly because of environmental concerns.
We didn’t go after oil wells -- actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls because we didn’t want to do environmental damage, and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure,” said former spy chief Michael Morell, using an acronym for the Islamic State.

 . . . "President Obama wants to use the environment to degrade and destroy the U.S. economy based on ideology and not science – much pain for no gain. As Investor’s Business Daily noted:" . . .

Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications

3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center

NY Times

Colorado Springs Shooter ID’d as Robert Lewis Dear, Registered as Unaffiliated Female Voter
"The deranged left is desperate to call this lunatic a pro-life Republican, but some facts are intervening with that narrative.

7:55 a.m. UPDATE

ABC News has reported that Robert Dear is being held without bond as he awaits his first court appearance scheduled for Monday.

Jail records didn’t list charges but showed him being held on two administrative holds, ABC reported.

 Robert Lewis Dear: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

1. Dear Surrendered to Police Who Entered the Planned Parenthood Building
2. He Is Originally From South Carolina & Was Living in Colorado
3. Dear Was Charged With Animal Cruelty & ‘Peeping Tom’ in South Carolina
4.  He Was Reported to Have a ‘Long Gun’ & Brought ‘Devices’ to the Scene
5.  The Officer Killed in the Shooting Was Responding to a Call for Help

Garrett Swasey, Officer Killed in Colorado, Is Recalled for Courage and Faith

" . . .a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith. 

"He was married, with two young children, and had been on the campus police force for six years. He also spent seven years as a co­pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs. “Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it,” said Scott Dontanville, a co­pastor who knew Officer Swasey for 15 years. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do.' ” . . . 

Black Lives Matter? Tyshawn Lee, nine, was murdered by three gang members on November 9

Daily Mail

. . . "Karla said she grew up with Corey Morgan, 27, who investigators claim along with two other men went out armed every day looking for potential targets after a shooting by a rival gang in October killed his brother and injured his mother. 

"Tyshawn's father is allegedly part of the rival gang. 

"Karla added: 'I just can't believe it. The same guy I grew up with, talked with, played with.'  

"The court heard how Morgan along with two others allegedly spotted Tyshawn in a playground.  " . . .

Some Thanksgiving history...sort of.

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