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Homes abandoned amid riot warnings in Chicago
WND ^ | April 21, 2012 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 04/21/2012 6:20:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In a sign of what may be coming, residents of a Chicago condo building located near the site of next month’s NATO summit have been asked to leave for the event or risk being caught in a storm of rioters.

WND first reported in August 2011 that radicals, some with ties to President Obama, were planning to riot during the NATO summit.

FOX Chicago News reported the people living in the 17-floor Library Tower building at 520 South State Street were warned in a letter from condo management that “we are STRONGLY recommending that all residents find places to stay during the conference from May 18 through May 21.”

The letter specifically warned of riots:

“In the event of a riot or the potential of one near the building, all access doors will be locked including the garage door,” the letter continues. “For everyone’s safety, we will be instructing anyone in the building to stay in his or her unit.”

While NATO summits often attract crowds of thousands of protesters, the national Occupy movement may add even more chaos to the expected mass protests.

Chicago will be the first American city other than Washington to host a NATO gathering.

Such meetings have previously drawn mass protests that turned violent.

The 1999 WTO event in Seattle devolved into widespread rioting in which more than 40,000 protesters, some using violent tactics, descended on the city, prompting police to use tear gas and rubber bullets. The clash became known as “The Battle of Seattle.”

Preparing for outbreaks, the Chicago Sun-Times In July 2011 quoted Superintendent of Police Garry McCarthy as saying he was prepping 13,000 officers under his command for mass arrests of protesters.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: billayers; blackbloc; codeping; communists; marxists; nato; natosummit; obama; occupy; occupychicago; ows; riots; seiu; socialists; wto
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Don’t worry. Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do a ballet dance for the protesters and that will calm them down.

Just the sight of Emanuel in a tutu will disarm them because they will laugh themselves so silly that they will piss in their pants.

Jesse Jackson will join the protesters because he can get some media facetime. Rep. Danny Davis will be there too, because that’s what good reds do.

I would expect Bill Ayers might blow up, er show up, at the protests.

Singing “Chicago, Chicago”, that shithole town, going down”.


61 posted on 04/21/2012 9:04:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The problem is that while Chicago's undermanned and demoralized police force is distracted and preoccupied with trying to protect citizens and property from the tantrums of the spoiled suburban brats that make up the protest movement, AL QUAEDA AND/OR Jihadist “lone wolves” may be planning a mass casualty attack. Chicago is a PC Sanctuary City in a larger Sanctuary County(Cook.) The city and neighboring suburbs have large and growing Muslim populations. Pandering political hack posing as police chief McCarthy has announced publicly that , unlike NYC, the Chicago PD does/will not monitor this community. NATO is in Afghanistan. Common sense says the threat of a terrorist attack —on the subway, a large public building?—is high. God help us. Our local political leadership has deliberately put Chicago in the terror bullseye while doing little or nothing to protect us.
62 posted on 04/21/2012 9:13:03 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This country is a nation of cowards. Threaten to riot and a building gets evacuated. Threaten a riot and a man gets charged with 2nd degree murder. Threaten to riot and the 2008 republican nominee for president accepts voter fraud.


63 posted on 04/21/2012 9:41:52 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." - Peter Griffin, FAMILY GUY)
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To: hoosiermama

You bet, thanks.


64 posted on 04/21/2012 9:53:01 PM PDT by Velveeta (ABO)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would not nearly be as worried about the NATO rioters as much as I would be about Obama’s sons and daughters rioting this summer.


65 posted on 04/21/2012 10:00:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only in Obama’s America. The Chicago police are admitting they cannot protect the public and it’s property. Maybe the idea is for the protesters to squat in that building.


66 posted on 04/21/2012 10:12:45 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only in Obama’s America. The Chicago police are admitting they cannot protect the public and it’s property. Maybe the idea is for the protesters to squat in that building.


67 posted on 04/21/2012 10:14:44 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s a high-rise. The perfect place to sit with a super-soaker FULL of the highest-power Pepper extract you can find.

You wouldn’t even have to be SEEN. . . just pump and aim. . .


68 posted on 04/21/2012 10:16:01 PM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

“And the good news is ... it’s Chicago, the Food Stamp President’s home town ... it’s just so appropriate. The residents of Chicago (known as sheeple) are used to minor inconveniences such as this, whether caused by mobs, the mob or the government mob.”

Now wait a second mr. mob man... Rahm was elected fair and square! The Park’s flowers bloomed red,white,and blue that day as the newly elected Mayor stroled thru the pack...


69 posted on 04/21/2012 11:14:59 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: hoosiermama; MinuteGal
"...Stay put, stay armed..."

It's Chicago, hoosiermama - no guns allowed .............................. FRegards

70 posted on 04/21/2012 11:32:08 PM PDT by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This wouldn't be a problem in 1968. Hizzoner knew how to deal with hooligans.
You can bet that a few Mossberg 590s might calm the crowd


71 posted on 04/22/2012 3:59:00 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Near term Obamacare 'Unit")
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To: I_Like_Spam
Or better yet, just fly these foreign dignitaries into a military base out in the Nevada desert or the Alaskan tundra where their security can be assured, and only the heartiest protesters will be out in the desert or permafrost with their signs.

I believe the Canadians did that a few years ago, held the conference in Banff National Park, then sent the protesters a letter warning about feeding the bears. Not many protesters bother to try to show up.

72 posted on 04/22/2012 4:06:30 AM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Zero hosts a NATO summit and his peeps riot in his home town. Birds of a feather. Somehow these rioters will end up being conservative malcontents


73 posted on 04/22/2012 4:27:40 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: hoosiermama
Leave and it will be easier to break/enter/steal.

I'm looking forward to reading that someone decided to bring in busloads of Holder's people and occupy all the vacant/abandoned condos as they are doing with vacant/abandoned homes.

74 posted on 04/22/2012 5:40:11 AM PDT by varon (The patriots stand watch!)
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To: cripplecreek

“They do the same in every prison in the country in the event of a riot.”

I see what you did there.


75 posted on 04/22/2012 10:18:13 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Joe Brower
Illinois does not have "Stand your ground", but it does have a form of Castle Doctrine. See (720 ILCS 5/7-2)
76 posted on 04/22/2012 10:36:38 AM PDT by Petruchio (I Think . . . Therefor I FReep.)
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To: Ditto
Sounds similar to the Rat convention in Boston in 2004. I still have my Boston Commuters for Bush tee shirt. I don't know how much money the working girls on Kneeland St. made rats are horrible tippers.
77 posted on 04/22/2012 10:37:50 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“WND first reported in August 2011 that radicals, some with ties to President Obama, were planning to riot during the NATO summit.”

Interesting comment from a Chicago radio station.

Obama has made much of his bringing the ‘international stage’ home to Chicago. They didn’t get the Olympics, but it seems they’re getting more riots. The Chicago riots of 1968 were really helpful to the Dems then; hope history repeats itself.


78 posted on 04/22/2012 10:48:29 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What if you don’t want to evacuate?


79 posted on 04/22/2012 1:47:25 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: hoosiermama
Leave and it will be easier to break/enter/steal.

By the Occupiers or by Big Brother?

80 posted on 04/22/2012 1:49:38 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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