Remember, you WILL buy from CUM! That is all, peasants!"
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Posted on 09/09/2021 8:24:29 AM PDT by simpson96
Arab and Asian American small business owners mainly running gas station pantries accuse the City of Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot of forcing them to close in the misguided belief that closing their stores will help reduce the violence that is sweeping throughout the city.
Dozens of gas stations and other small businesses owned by Arabs and minorities including Pakistanis, Indian and some African Americans operating in the city’s toughest neighborhoods are being forced to close on flimsy code violation citations.
Lightfoot has ordered the Chicago Police to create a Special Task Force consisting of Police Officers and City Inspectors from all aspects of city licenses and permits to target stores in heavy crime areas to force them to close down. Lightfoot’s team brushed off concerns expressed to the city during a meeting held in August to address the issue.
Nearly a dozen store owners were interviewed for this story, but their names and identities have been excluded to prevent the city from punishing them more. Many of the store owners said they fear retribution from the city but are planning a press conference Thursday to raise public awareness, to get support from members of the Chicago City Council, and to pursue legal action.
“What they are doing is trying to make it look like they are doing something to fight the street gang violence. But it will have no impact whatsoever except to harm the only local businesses that provide services in neighborhoods where the gangs operate,” a store owner contended.
In another instance, a gas station pantry owner said the Special Task Force inspectors openly debated the status of his gas station, with one complaining, “I can’t find any violations.” The Task Force leader then barked, “I don’t care. Find something and shut him down.”
(Excerpt) Read more at suburbanchicagoland.com ...
The people of Chicago will either re-elect beetlejuice, or an equally vile Dem.
I’m just watching it all burn.
Thought this was the Bee
This is very similar to tactics used by the mafia. Pay them protection money or the city inspectors on their payroll shut you down.
Wasn’t there an article here in Free Republic about a black celebrity who said that stealing fom white businesses was okay since they were oppressing POCs?
The term Thomas Sowell uses in his book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, is "middleman minorities."
Middleman minorities are folks with the intelligence and ambition to make something of themselves, incurring the wrath of the general population. The most famous middleman minority group are the Jews.
Remember, you WILL buy from CUM! That is all, peasants!"
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The criminals haven’t been successful in destroying small businesses there yet, so Lori has stepped it up a notch and is destroying businesses via state mandates.
But do keep voting her in, another couple of years and it will be a wasteland there after she and the criminals get done destroying the place
This article illustrates how liberals approach a problem, any problem. They ALWAYS take the easy way out. It doesn’t matter a bit how ineffective that way might be.
So let’s see. Gang violence can be reduced by rigorously applying existing laws. But that’s too tough! So instead let’s pass even more laws (easy to do) and harass innocent people (also easy to do).
Solving problems is not what dems do.
Being a po,itician pays off big time. You collect taxes from businesses, and you also get kickbacks from crimi al enterprises that pay you to look the other way, or even to protect them. I wo Der how much gang members pay people like her to protect them? Must be pretty lucrative because so many ,iberal leaders protect criminals and attack law abiding citizens
BRILLIANT!.....shut down Walmart and all the looters will be gone!!
This isn’t about “reducing violence”, it’s about the protection racket of the Chicago Democrat Crime Syndicate.
What? There’s a lot of things in this country and world I can’t wrap my head around anymore.
Isn’t this helping create a ghetto?
“with damages going into the tens of millions for the fake closure orders”
...maybe if the suits are filed in federal court. If they are filed in Illinois, not so much.
Well...a plentiful supply of food is something invented by White people anyway.
Lemme know for whom these people voted before I express an opinion.
Really pisses-off the 'Crabs in a Bucket' crowd.
If you shut down the places people buy stuff during the day they will be forced to loot it at night.
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