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Bobby Rush calls Mark Kirk's idea to arrest Gangster Disciple members 'elitist white boy solution'
http://abclocal.go.com/ ^ | 05/31/2013 | Sarah Schulte

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 113th; chicago; democrats; gangs; rush; shitcago; sourcetitlenoturl; thatsracist
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To: massmike

another reason to not visit shitcago.


21 posted on 05/31/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: skeeter
Rush would rather his brothers continue to kill each other than consider white boy solutions.

Which, when you think about it, is not such a bad idea.
22 posted on 05/31/2013 12:57:37 PM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: skeeter

I live in rural NC surrounded by dairy farms and corn fields. So, I couldn’t give a rat’s tail if a bunch of gangsters and uncivilized urban cretins kill each other 700 miles away.


23 posted on 05/31/2013 1:02:34 PM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: massmike

Well, there’s always “Fat Man and Little Boy”. That would eliminate both the gangstas AND the cost of incarceration.

Oh my...That’s Sexist AND “Sizist”, isn’t it?


24 posted on 05/31/2013 1:02:52 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: massmike

Sounds racist to me.


25 posted on 05/31/2013 1:47:49 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: massmike

Blacks really need to shut their mouths with the “white boy” nonsense.


26 posted on 05/31/2013 1:49:12 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: massmike

I’ve often wondered why the RICO act isn’t used on the gangs. Not enough courts, prosecutors and prisons?


27 posted on 05/31/2013 2:34:49 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: massmike

He’s right! It is a useless idea. Shoot every known gang member on sight. Kill a gang member, save an innocent life.

Gang members are domestic terrorists, owed no rights, better off dead.


28 posted on 05/31/2013 2:49:03 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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