Posted on 11/03/2008 3:02:38 PM PST by reaganaut1
"I hope to God I'm wrong, but there are 7,000 known gang members in Chicago and they aren't going to miss an opportunity like this," says Paul Huebl, a former police officer in the city and now a respected author and crime blogger.
"Police officers will be gravely outnumbered and outgunned and placed in danger.
"There is no way to protect businesses. Parents and kids are going to think they're going to a party and they're going to end up getting hurt."
More than a million people are said to be planning to celebrate the expected election of the first black President of the United States.
Just 65,000 will be allowed inside a security cordon to see Obama on stage inside the city's scenic Grant Park, which borders the shores of Lake Michigan.
But hundreds of thousands more are expected in the vicinity, and there are fears that whether Obama wins or loses, looting and gun violence will flare.
The Chicago Police Department has cancelled all days off for officers on Election Day.
"Everyone will be working 12-hour shifts," said police spokeswoman Monique Bond.
However, Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, says: "We expect a good, supportive crowd, and we expect it to be a happy occasion. Whatever the result, we don't expect trouble."
That might be wishful thinking, given Chicago's propensity for violence.
Last summer, Grant Park hosted the 'Taste of Chicago' food festival. Four were shot, one fatally.
In 1992, hundreds of police officers were hurt when riots flared during sporting celebrations for the Chicago Bulls.
A year later, when the Bulls triumphed again, there were more riots - this time four people were killed.
There was another riot in Grant Park when pop band Sly and the Family Stone cancelled a concert.
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“However, Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, says: “We expect a good, supportive crowd, and we expect it to be a happy occasion. Whatever the result, we don’t expect trouble.”
Talk about spin.
Wow!
Just the beginning for the “leadership” of “the 0ne”.
If I was business owner in Chicago, I’d be closed today for boarding up of the business, locking down, and sitting inside with AR-15/Shotgun, coffee pot, and hunker down for a week or so.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap ... enjoy, Chicago.
The gang bangers are Obama’s civilian security force he’s been talking about, you know the civilian security force that will be well funded like our military, of coarse there invited!
Obama’s civilian security force = ss Nazi storm troopers
He isn’t black, his father was black. He is at best 1/2 black. That makes him just as much WHITE as BLACK.
PS I have a black slave ancestor, and he doesn’t
And that was just a Taste!
The hell he isn't..........he's far more dangerous.
Outgunned? In Chicago? How is that possible?
No, he had a transfusion of pure black blood from his pastor. Now he simply is caramel colored with full blood. Makes him a blood bro of Wright's.
You better add a fire extinguisher, kevlar and an escape route that survival inventory.
Thankful I do not live in Chicago~
“To his credit, Obama is not a race baiter on the order of Al Sharpton.”
No, he’s a much more subtle race-baiter (did I mention he’s black?).
“Those aren’t the Insane Gangster Satan Disciples that I knew.”
IMO, he’s not a race baiter for one reason, and one reason only. He wanted to get elected.
I’ll bet there are tapes and transcripts out there that would curl your hair if you heard them.
When Obama loses tomorrow, you’ll get a real dose of what the man’s followers were like. And if he wins, you probably will anyway.
And then his administration will remove all doubt what this guy is all about.
It isn’t going to be pretty. And it’s going to be emanating from ‘our house’.
It’ll be like the Rolling Stones contracting the Hell’s Angels for security at Altamont, except that there will be no “real cops” able to control it. Be ready, America, because, win or lose for Obama, tomorrow and perhaps the next week or so are going to be very ugly.
Have no doubt there will be riots in Chicago, no matter which way the election goes. Innocent people will end up getting hurt. Businesses will be damaged. I wouldn’t go there for anything.
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