Posted on 05/08/2014 6:37:19 AM PDT by heartwood
Thanks for keeping it up, little pigeon. Intransigence and fecklessness have been further defined and displayed on your part. Encore!
How about doing what I did and contact the people who wrote, interpret, and enforce Illinois Vehicle Code. Then when they tell you you’re wrong, you can call *them* liars, and it will all be good. While you’re at it, little pigeon, since your office as an FR crank is on an equal footing with all other authorities, you can arrest the Mayor of Chicago and his body guards for breaking the law. Make sure you let them know you refuse to live under a feudal system, and it is wrong for the people of Chicago to do so as well.
...can apply to your own self much better. Not only encores, but in addition to not admitting error (even in part -- but a significant part) you just won't leave it alone, and have to try and tear me down to "get even" since I've uncovered your lack of foundational understanding, the weakness associated with that lack, and where that sort of dull thinking comes from.
What are you going to do? Call me more names? Accuse me of yet more of whatever it is that will please yourself, and make you feel justified in your own eyes?
Whatever blows your skirts up.
I laugh at your nakedness, but am repulsed by it all the same.
In addition to your initial argument having failed, like I tried to tell you --- you can't argue both sides of a thing at once.
They bent the law enough to break it, and they damn well know they did too, or else Rahm's mayoral office wouldn't or shouldn't be apologizing.
There needs to be a starting point, truth established. Then one could go on from there.
You went and searched out the law, but failed to take due notice of the stipulations and limitations of the law itself.
Meanwhile, you've been bringing up all sorts off-the-wall crap as to my alleged motivations, but those things are just ginned-up phantoms in your own small mind.
There have been all along here some primary considerations which needed clearing up, before going on to my own "secret thoughts" or motivations (which you have been swinging at but missing by miles).
The rent is too damn high, for such a cramped little room... as the space in your head.
It smells bad in here too. ;^')
I take it you do not care to investigate the matter for yourself with people who make, interpret, and enforce Illinois Vehicle Code like I did, but instead stew in self-righteousness and jealousy.
I hope the rest of the citizenry is preserved from false outrage based on ignorance, and that, when they are confronted with it they change their mind. Feel free to enjoy your false outrage, little pigeon. As for me, when a motorcade speeds past or runs a red light, I will be satisfied that an official got where he needed to go without holding me up in traffic. So far that hasn’t happened, but I did get to stir up a real crank about it in you! LOL.
Oh. And while you’re referencing biblical texts, how about including that little tidbit about rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s? Or “Honor your father and your mother?” That would be too inconvenient, wouldn’t it, since all people are equal in every way in your “right mind”, and thus children equal to their fathers and mothers in authority, and you an equal authority to the Mayor of Chicago.
The legislature makes the laws. According to what you told me, you did not contact them.
The courts interpret the laws. From what you tell me, you did not contact them either, but contacted what you initially called "the Illinois Vehicle Code people", who you claimed then presented some unidentified form of query to "the Illinois State Police liaison".
Law enforcement agencies enforce the laws --- but you told me earlier you did not contact them, then you did, then you say you didn't, now you again say you did.
My problem with all of this is not "self righteousness and jealousy".
I'm not jealous of liars and the corrupt.
The problem I am having with you is your own inconsistency, coupled with an illogical (and smug) stubborn obstinacy.
First you tried to argue "privilege". I told you to check the law.
The law is not complicated. What is lacking in the mayor of Chicago's instance(s) is valid "emergency" reason for speeding and running red lights.
You say;
which is concession that this bending of the law (to point of breaking) is not about responding to some emergency situation as is stipulated under the law, but is about a big city mayor or some other unnamed "official" getting to "where he needed to go".
All you had to do in finding some small point of agreement with myself, is to have agreed with what Rahm's office already has agreed with --- which is to not further abuse "traffic" or transit privileges afforded to them for response to actual emergencies, if I can go so far as to reasonably enough read that much, in-between-the-lines.
One line from the article: Monday night, Mayor Emanuel is responding to our report, instructing his bodyguards to stop speeding and running red lights.
This Rahm whom you'd be so submissively making way for, is so corrupt, right down to the tip of his triathlon-running ballerina toes, that even Rolling Stone has gone after him.
Why Rahm Emanuel Hates Democracy
You're surprised? Don't be. For that is how Rahm Emanuel rolls: underhandedly and opaquely, without consultation, obsessed with finding ways to expand his executive power.Yeah, that's how Rahm rolls. Everything is pay to play (but it's for the children!) with the kickbacks being spread around, and the big bucks finding their way into DNC campaigns. Rahm is famous for it.Consider the seemingly mundane matter of speed cameras. Rahm wants to make Chicago the world's capital for systems that automatically send motorists tickets that start a $100 for going five miles over the speed limit within an eighth of a mile of schools and parks. That covers 47 percent of the city's streets. Chicagoans balked, suspecting a revenue grab to help close Chicago's budget deficit of three-quarters of a billion dollars. The mayor said, no, it was all about safety: He claimed that traffic deaths had fallen by 60 percent near the city's already existing cameras that cite people for running red lights. The Chicago Tribune tried to verify the numbers – but City Hall claimed they were "confidential." They used publicly available source data instead, and found a 26 percent reduction in traffic deaths "that mirrored a broader accident trend in the city and around the nation." When confronted, a city bureaucrat "acknowledged the claimed reduction in fatalities was based only on an informal analysis of traffic statistics." "Study’ is a bit of a term of art," he dodged. "We had many meetings to discuss the best and most fair way to gauge the effectiveness," he told the Tribune, including a "judgment call" to count fatalities as far away as a quarter mile from red-light cameras. "He declined to say who was involved in the meetings," noted the paper. "Asked who he meant by 'we,' he said he meant 'the royal we.'"
Lovely. The kicker? The manager of Emanuel’s 2002 congressional campaign consults for the company that will supply the cameras, Redlex Traffic Systems of Australia. His name is Greg Goldner, and he currently runs For a Better Chicago, an Emanuel-aligned political action committee that raised nearly a million dollars in secret cash to funnel to Rahm-friendly candidates for alderman.He also runs something called the "Traffic Safety Commission," which is funded by … Redflex Traffic Systems. Emanuel refused to answer questions about the relationship. Instead, a spokesman replied, "As the mayor has said, this is about doing the right thing for our children and keeping them safe."
The contract with Redlex was canceled, once corruption of the sort as touched upon in the above came to light.
Meanwhile, check out all the stuff just at the Huffington Post alone regarding chicago-red-light-cameras
bearing in mind that red light camera contract "operators" frequently receive a cut of the proceeds (the fines imposed) which sets up slushy availability of big-time big-money campaign contributions.
More headlines (just from HuffPo, still)
Study By Local Professor Shows INCREASE In Traffic Accidents At Red Light Camera Intersections
Rahm Doubles, Triples Many Additional City Fines, Fees
Red Light Camera Vendor Admits 'Likely' Bribery In City Program
This is is all just tip-of-the-iceberg in regards to red-light traffic light cameras ALONE.
Then there is Emanuel’s $55 million subsidy for a new hotel near Chicago’s convention center. An investment company that owns a major stake in the construction firm gave Emanuel’s campaign $31,500.
Another article mentioning the various public funds, that are going to developers (not mentioning the campaign contribution kick-backs -- not restricted to just Rahm either, but breathed over by that little prick, one can be sure). Will the "progressives" finally figure out that the corruption of the Democrats (particularly under Rahm's hands) are the very stuff and worse, of what the electorate has been told is the "way" of Republicans? They research it and write about it, it's all right under their nose -- but they insist of voting it back into office to steal from everyone all over again, and guys like Rahm can stay in power...
And you want to wave at the little bastard when he drives by?
GET Yor' mind RIGHT, Fester. Or get the hell out of Free Republic, maybe all the way out of my country while you are at it.
I hear Malta (more than 90% "Catholic") will sell a person a passport (and citizenship) for about half-million Euros (or a bit more in $$$ investments there) and a year in-country.
I wouldn't mind visiting the place, myself. But if you see me there, do not say hello. I can stand [Roman] Catholics (if I have to?) but I can't stand dumbasses who think we should all be groveling to the likes of Rahm Emanuel.
Well, since you’re so intent on proving yourself, feel free to contact the proper legal authorities and inquire about it. Since “all people are equal” in terms of authority and privilege, make yourself legislator, judge, and jury. Until you do so, little pigeons, your crapping on chess boards.
Thank you for pointing out Rahm Emanuel’s other abuses, which really matter.
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