Posted on 03/20/2016 4:36:28 AM PDT by marktwain
A bizarre lawsuit, filed by the reliably leftist Rev. Michael Pfleger, was dismissed by Cook County judge Franklin Valderrama on February 25th. Other leftist activists had joined Rev. Pfleger in filing the lawsuit against three municipalities outside of Chicago. From chicagotribune.com:
The lawsuits tried to make the claim that black people could not be trusted with guns, as though the guns used by criminals were responsible for the criminal actions. From the lawsuit(pdf):A lawsuit filed by Rev. Michael Pfleger and a group of activists last year that said lax local gun laws in Lincolnwood were to blame when guns sold by the town’s only firearms dealer ended up at Chicago crime scenes has been dismissed by a Cook County judge.
Plaintiff Coalition for Safe Chicago Communities and the individual plaintiffs Reverend Robin Hood, Father Michael Pfleger, Louvenia Hood, Annette Nance-Holt and Pamela Montgomery-Bosley, who are members of the Coalition and residents of the Chicago neighborhoods most afflicted by illegal gun use bring this action under the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 (ICRA) against the defendant local governments for allowing gun shops in their respective jurisdictions to sell guns in a manner that disproportionately jeopardizes the lives of African Americans, causes mental anguish and distress and diminishes the value of their homes and other property.
All of the bad things that are mentioned, lives jeopardised, mental anguish and distress, and diminished property values, come about because of black people committing crimes against other black people in Chicago. There is virtually no white on black crime in Chicago’s black neighborhoods.
If the crime in areas surrounding Chicago were as great, there would be no disproportionate effect.
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How do you expect a boy from the ‘hood to get his guns if he can’t steal them from one of these lax communities?
Am that jesse to the right? he show gots fat
He will morph into the Graft Zeppelin..
Maybe these cities should turn around and sue Chicago for not preventing their criminals from carrying out crimes in neighboring cities.
“The lawsuits tried to make the claim that black people could not be trusted with guns, as though the guns used by criminals were responsible for the criminal actions.”
Funny, one of the past leaders of the NAASCP Kweisi Mfume also said black people weren’t responsible enough to own guns.
So too did the Democrats 200 years ago as they were passing what we now know of as “Jim Crow laws”.
He’s been eating all of Sharptons food.
CC
He B eatin’ good in the neighborhood.
Closer to Jabba the Hutt, imo.
I don’t know why the archbishop does not defrock this heretic. He is a disgrace to the Church and to civilized society.
1) Jim Crow laws began to be passed in the 1880s. Many of them were largely unenforced until around 1900.
2) even Obama in his 2008 campaign implied that specifically blacks could not be trusted with firearms.
Black Crime Matters
FALSANI: Do you have people in your life that you look to for guidance?
OBAMA: Well, my pastor [Jeremiah Wright] is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for.
I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely.
Just in case there is an misunderstanding: I find Obama’s viewpoint there as disgusting as I did Taney’s.
“It would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
...like ‘real’ people.
Now that was funny. I view it as living large, pun intended, on the Toyota shakedown that allows him to finally attain the three legged stool designations of Fat, Dumb and Happy.
I was thinking Pfleger had been booted by the Catholic church and like most good leftist preachers, he just started a new church for his self.
Kinda like the Church of What’s Happening Now
Or the Church of I D M. It Don’t Matter
A lawsuit by the cities near Chicago against Chicago would have more merit since Chicago not only allows, but encourages their garbage can to overflow.
To be fair to Rev Pfleger, I have read some of his arguments. If you start with his premises, that people are not responsible for their actions because of history and outside influences, he makes sense.
I have different premises about the nature of reality.
President Obama shares Pfleger’s premises. They do not hold up, and they are getting us in terrible trouble as a nation, but that is where he is coming from. He is not stupid, he is wrong about the nature of reality, IMHO.
——that people are not responsible for their actions because of history and outside influences-—
the counter argument, being alive as a result of live ancestors, are they better off than if their ancestors were starved or slaughtered rather than enslaved? Are they better off than if they were presently tribesman in the African Bush?
Did not the outside influences make life in Chicago better than life in the mud African huts?
mccain or rommney should have used that to bury him.
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