Posted on 05/31/2013 12:04:25 PM PDT by massmike
Congressman Bobby Rush and Senator Mark Kirk are at odds over how to crackdown on gang violence in Chicago.
Politicians talk about all the time about solving Chicago's devastating street violence problem and the latest talk has pitted one Illinois lawmaker against another.
After meeting with the nominee for U.S. attorney Wednesday, Kirk spoke about the use of federal laws to go after one of the largest gangs in Chicago, the Gangster Disciples,with mass arrests.
"I think it is completely within the capability of the United States government to crush a major urban gang," Kirk said.
Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush blasted Kirk's comments. He told the Chicago Sun-Times that the senator's proposal is "an elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about."
Congressman Danny Davis admits that he would not have used the language that Rush used.
"I guess he meant as exactly what he said but I interpret as him saying this is not an approach that would be helpful to the problems of violence," Davis said.
However, Davis says he is shocked at Kirk's approach. Locking people up in already overcrowded prisons is not the answer, he said.
Congressman Rush was not available for an interview Thursday.
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Bobby Rush calls Mark Kirk's idea to arrest Gangster Disciple members in mass 'an elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about'
I don’t think overcrowding the already overcrowded prisons will be a problem...just send in the MBTA Swat Team...problem solved.
Run-of-the-mill black boy solution = war zone
History has shown that “white boy solutions” often solve the particular problem at hand.
One solution from this white boy is to "build more prisons." The libs I joust with don't like this idea.
Build more PRIVATELY RUN prisons...
that would really make their heads explode.
I guess we can streamline the capital punishment process for gang activity...
My dog has a higher IQ than Rush. The man is an embarrassment to Illinois and Congress.
The translation of that Chicago statement is “you can’t do that I get a lot of money and support from the Gangster Disciples.”
Don’t go getting Uppity now...
Hunt them down like rats, and leave their corpses in the gutter for feral dogs to eat.
Can you imagine the uproar if someone called something said by a black politician as an elitist black boy solution to a problem?????
Why is it okay for minorities to talk trash, or “diss” in ghetto parlance, those of other backgrounds?????? If Senator Kirk had said Rush’s ideas were black boy ideas, liberals from MSNBC to Capitol Hill would be demanding his resignation. Yet no liberal will demand anything from Bobby Rush for his inane comments.
Will Bobby now offer his low-rent black boy commie ex-con alternative?
Because "those of other backgrounds" don't aggressively call them on it.
Brilliant.
No, no, no. The equivalent would be run of the mill black boy solution.
Apparently Bobby Rush’s father never had the talk with him, just say’n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bfe6CgYbH8
The shootings offer opportunity to make the government larger so the democarts embrace them.
Why waste money putting them in prison and letting them have a taxpayer funded education in crime and physical fitness. I say to at them hard and only put the few that are left alive in prison.
Let the responsible Americans, that wish to clean up their town, be so unfettered, unconditionally, especially tyhose that know the meaning of “enemies, both foeriegn and domestic”.
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