Activist: Jackson Compromised by Ties to Club Owners

foxnews ^ | February 19, 2003

[Indy Pendance]

CHICAGO

[JeeperFreeper]

Has he started blaming Bush or Repubs yet? He will, you know. It's just a matter of time.

[First_Salute]

Hey Rush!

Remember your question to Jesse Jackson? Where's the money coming from?

Sounds like a division of Jesse Jackson & Son, Inc., has finally managed to get into the news.

[Restorer]

Classic.

Cops are told to take it easy on enforcing the law because JJ will scream racism if it is enforced.

The JJ screams racism when a tragedy occurs because the law is not being enforced.

[Indy Pendance]

Rush talked about it on his show yesterday, Jackson was linking terrorism and the Bush admin to this. Incredible. Someone mentioned Jackson's brother (or close relative) owned a budweiser distributorship in Chicago. Looks like another pretty good connection.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Some "Reverend"

[randita]

Has he started blaming Bush or Repubs yet? He will, you know. It's just a matter of time.

Yeah. A couple of days ago. He said if the Bush Administration hadn't frightened people so much about terrorism threats, the people in the club wouldn't have stampeded when the mace was released and someone yelled "Bin Ladin". Rush talked about that yesterday.

[Hugin]

Jackson instead has said that the city government should have been more pro-active in enforcing the court order, telling the Chicago Tribune: "The place has been open. They've been advertising on the radio and the Internet. [The city] had to have knowledge it was being used. The un-enforced law is a factor here."

Of course if they had closed the club down Jackson would be leading a protest against the racist harrasment of the club owners.

[CyberAnt]

And ... Jackson has his hand out to take a cut of what the lawyers will sue the city of Chicago for.

Upon the bodies of 21 young people he could care less about.

[uvular]

One of Jackson's son has the beer distribution from Bud. I believe he got it a few years ago, after Jesse went after Bud, claiming not enough blacks were getting distribution licenses....

[Indy Pendance]

They got Al Capone for tax evasion, in Chicago. Can we hope?

[uvular]

Would be nice for him to be nailed for something and have it actually stick.

In today's Sneed column in the Chicago Sun-Times, Sneed states Jesse's 'nemesis'(!), Rev. Anthony Williams, said Jesse's daughter, Jacqueline, is 'intimate' with Calvin Hollins, E2 co-owner. "Quothe Jesse: 'It's not true." Hmmm...

[TomB]

I heard one of the lawyers mention that there were screams of "terrorism" and "osama bin laden" after the spray was used, however I have yet to see that reported in the news. It seems they see this a very hand way out.

I find it amazing that people are continuing to support Jackson here when he is essentially saying to the city, "Of course you told them to shut down, but black people are so lazy and stupid that you needed to come down here and do it yourself." At what point are blacks who support him finally going to actually hear what he is saying?

[LaineyDee]

Jackson did not respond to Fox News' requests for an interview but so far stands out as one of the few deflecting accusations against the owners, whom Chicago officials described as law-breakers

Imagine that......I am shocked.

[Indy Pendance]

Are you in Chicago? If you are, what's the local talk re JJ?

[Amelia]

Believe it or not, NPR's coverage of this was even more scathing. They had someone on there saying that JJ was a friend of the club owner, so he wasn't condemning the fact that all those young people died, and the other black leaders were in Daley's pockets, and they weren't saying anything either.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[uvular]

Nope; Indiana, however, I listen to WLS radio all day; end up knowing more about Chicago than my own town!

On Roe and Garry's afternoon show, there has been much talk about the fact that so many children (over 30, one being 3 weeks old) that now have no mothers, which leads into conversations, from both black and white callers, about why the heck these young mothers are out partying at a club that apparantly has a reputation for having fights, until 2-3 in the morning.

They have not discussed too much about JJ, except on the first day, when they were trying to find out who called JJ to tell him to get in front of the camera pronto. JJ had just returned from England, I think, Sunday evening. Don and Roma's morning show may have more info; you can listen to WLS on-line at wlsam.com. Don is no fan of JJ.

[Indy Pendance]

JJ was in England, giving speaches for the anti-amerikan protest this past weekend