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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot asks federal government for help fighting city's crime.
Fox News ^ | 12.21.2021 | Greg Norman

Posted on 12/21/2021 11:37:18 AM PST by Carriage Hill

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To: lurk

Will Eliot Ness and the other Untouchables pick up the courtesy line?


21 posted on 12/21/2021 12:03:11 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: DownInFlames

We could always air-drop pallets of more ammo into their hoods, so they can continue the carnage on themselves.


22 posted on 12/21/2021 12:04:07 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This was the endgame all along... a national police force.

Yes!

Several people, probably you, long ago said these types will riot, loot, shoplift, carjack and surround pedestrians followed by "defund the police" for being harsh in arresting the thugs, then no bail and "decarceration: (letting existing cons out of prison), then "it's out of control, we need socialism and national police control."

23 posted on 12/21/2021 12:05:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Nicojones

So if Eliot Ness came back to life and brought in the Untouchables she would say “Hold on, I didn’t mean shoot at the armed thugs with those bang bang gun things. Somebody could get hurt.”


24 posted on 12/21/2021 12:07:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: carriage_hill

Oh, NOW SHE’S ASKING FOR HELP! Couldn’t do it when Trump was in office huh? Oh the horror of asking a GOP president for assistance! DENY IT!


25 posted on 12/21/2021 12:08:29 PM PST by ducttape45
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To: carriage_hill
Didn't this stupid, ugly, crazy lesbian refuse federal help to deal with crime when President Trump offered it?
Now she is begging for it?
26 posted on 12/21/2021 12:09:35 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: carriage_hill

The only hope that Biden takes a personal interest in running this police force that is going to clean out Chicago’s criminal elements.


27 posted on 12/21/2021 12:09:46 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Nicojones

Well, we know that democrats are two faced. Hopefully the other one looks better than her mug we see in the news.


28 posted on 12/21/2021 12:12:46 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: carriage_hill; All
Mayor Lightfoot's situation for federal government help probably applies to the Constitution's Article I, Section 4 imo.
"Article IV, Section 4 (4.4): The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence [emphases added]."

The problem is that 4.4 requires locals to work through a state's legislature or executive if they want federal assistance to help suppress violence.

So is Lightfoot's request for feds, if she is not working request through state government, possibly for political optics, alleged election-stealing, crisis-manufacturing Democats possibly not knowing that 4.4 exists imo?

In fact, Justice Joseph Story had noted that delegates to the Constitutional Convention had made 4.4 so that the untrusted feds couldn't use domestic violence as an excuse to interfere in a state's affairs, the delegates not addressing when both federal and state governmens are corrupt.

”§ 1819. It may not be amiss further to observe, (in the language of another commentator,) that every pretext for intermeddling with the domestic concerns of any state, under colour of protecting it against domestic violence, is taken away by that part of the provision, which renders an application from the legislature, or executive authority of the state endangered necessary to be made to the general government, before its interference can be at all proper [emphasis added]. On the other hand, this article becomes an immense acquisition of strength, and additional force to the aid of any state government, in case of an internal rebellion, or insurrection against its authority. The southern states, being more peculiarly open to danger from this quarter, ought (he adds) to be particularly tenacious of a constitution, from which they may derive such assistance in the most critical periods.” —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4.

Corrections, insights welcome.

29 posted on 12/21/2021 12:16:52 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: SmokingJoe

She DID refuse Trump’s offer of help, but now want JBTs to control the hellhole she helped make happen.


30 posted on 12/21/2021 12:20:14 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Empty out 35th and Michigan of all the coat-holders, ball-washers, clout babies and parking lot wardens and you could double the number of officers actually patrolling the city.


31 posted on 12/21/2021 12:27:14 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: carriage_hill

So... Are they no longer “stormtroopers.” Amazing what a little “d” next to a name will change.


32 posted on 12/21/2021 12:28:29 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: carriage_hill

Coded message for more money


33 posted on 12/21/2021 12:28:44 PM PST by Lee25 ( )
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To: Nicojones
She turned him down with some snarky speech!

Because she knew Trump would actually fix the problem. Now, she just gets more money

34 posted on 12/21/2021 12:36:17 PM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Lee25

Throw another $10 billion at it, and that’ll fix it.


35 posted on 12/21/2021 12:42:18 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Didn’t there used to be a TV show about battling crime in Chicago? I think it was called Chicago PD, maybe she should start something like the show in her town.


36 posted on 12/21/2021 12:45:21 PM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: carriage_hill

What a laugh! She should ask Chesa Boudin and George Gascon to come go to work for Chicago.


37 posted on 12/21/2021 12:46:39 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: carriage_hill

She doesn’t want these troops to fight crime, she wants them to fight guns. And the only ones she can fight are the legal ones.


38 posted on 12/21/2021 12:48:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Cen-Tejas

She’s using their lawless, no bail model, already. That’s part of the reason for the violence of repeat criminal offenders.


39 posted on 12/21/2021 12:48:48 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Billthedrill

True dat!


40 posted on 12/21/2021 12:49:16 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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