Posted on 07/16/2008 5:21:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gov: Chicago may get troopers, National Guard
By DON BABWIN | Associated Press Writer 5:14 PM CDT, July 16, 2008
CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday raised the possibility of bringing in state troopers or even the Illinois National Guard to help Chicago combat a recent increase in violent crime -- an offer that Mayor Richard Daley didn't know was coming.
Appearing at signing ceremony for a bill that toughens the penalty for adults who provide guns to minors, Blagojevich said "violent crime in the city of Chicago is out of control."
"I'm offering resources of the state to the city to work in a constructive way with Mayor Daley to do everything we can possibly do to help ... stop this violence," said the governor.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Another workers’ paradise sliding into the sewer.
There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
- William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
wait til it hits 95 degrees this weekend.
I sure hope Obama doesn’t break a fingernail or nick himself shaving in the next few days. Troops will definitely be needed!
Oh wait a minute... all the CRIMINALS have the guns right?
Way to keep those guns off the streets, Daley. Chicago is already one of the most heavily policed cities in the country, and now they need even more?
Something ain’t working. Wonder what it could be?
But what inquiring minds really want to know is...has the use of unnecessary force been approved?
Wait, who’s that guy in the cape?
Why it’s YoBombo!
He’s on his way.
He’ll take care of everything.
No need for troops.
Coming to America under Barak Obama..
What is the exit strategy?
And this is what Obama wants to bring to every corner of our country.
This is the Rats solution to the Terror problem..
The people of chicago must not be listening to Oprah.
We’re on a mission from God.
That was good! :-)
The Chicago PD special operations guys rappelling down the side of the Daley Center.
Thank you, I will be here all week...
Somehow, I don’t think the gangsters are going to take on the National Guard. They will just make themselves scarce for a while.
What is really needed here is some skilled detectives, not squads of heavily-armed troops.
Blago, Chicago, Obama = Illinois Crooks!
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