Posted on 05/18/2020 4:19:33 AM PDT by chicagolady
What a travesty on so many levels.
As reported by CBS Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a parking ban from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood of Philadelphia Romanian Church in response to its intention to hold services.
On Sunday morning the tow trucks descended – not just on churchgoers, but on residents and everybody else, and on a private lot used by parishioners. Read this from Second City Cop:
City tow trucks arrived and yanked the vehicles of every single resident, including numerous elderly people and a more than a few nurses coming in from the night shifts and impounded them for violation of the signs that got posted Saturday with under twenty-four hours’ notice. The city also closed the private lot that the church used for parishioners in some half-assed attempt to force church-goers to park on the streets, streets listed as temporary tow zones to snatch their cars, too.
So all the residents WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH are on the hook for tickets and towing and damages to their cars – because we all know exactly how gently City tow drivers are with someone else’s property.
Perhaps Lightfoot doesn’t share the view that civil liberties come not from her hand or the hand of Governor JB Pritzker. The church’s pastor said this: “The mayor is inciting hate against the church which is very sad. A lot of our members risked their lives to escape Communism, only to find it germinating in 2020 under Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago.”
Philadelphia Romanian Church in Chicago He continued: “We prayed for the mayor and the governor almost every evening since March 19. We will continue to pray for them. Yet, we are also aware of our constitutional rights. Their effort to intimidate us will make us stronger.”
And let’s hope Lightfoot will explain her sense of justice in punishing everybody in the neighborhood by having their cars banged up and towed to the city’s infamous pound.
Find the rebels’ neighborhood and bulldoze it, that’s sort of the thinking. Nobody should be surprised because Prtizker is doing the same. He threatened to withhold federal money from any municipality that defies his emergency order. Tough luck even for residents in those communities who support Pritzker’s order. Some justice.
And some Chicagoans — no doubt including some who had their cars towed — indeed are on Pritzker’s side. They even had their own protest, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, against churchgoers at Philadelphia Romanian and some other churches. This “is really indicative of a clear, right-wing cult mentality that they have,” one of the protesters said. “They would rather keep themselves in business, keep themselves earning money, instead of caring about the residents of this neighborhood, which many of them, including the pastor, are not a part of.”
A fascinating aspect of the shutdown is who have been among those most frequently standing up for civil liberties: cops!
Around the state, many police chiefs and other enforcement officials have said they won’t enforce Pritzker’s emergency order. The Illinois Sheriffs” Association, in response to Pritzker’s threats to those who won’t enforce his order, said, “It is outrageous that the Governor is threatening retaliation against these leaders and the men and women of their offices. He is insulting heroic police officers, corrections officers and local voters.”
So, whatever you call what’s become of Illinois, don’t call it a “police state” because so many of our police want no part of any such thing.
And Second City Cop is a run blog by current and former Chicago police officers. They wrote the segment above, plus harsher language too salty to quote here. About Lightfoot’s towing they concluded:
It should also be a clarion call to the churches across the city as to how far the left will go to crush the faithful of all denominations. You are only useful to them as far as you obey orders and do what you’re told. If you don’t speak up now, expect the same to happen to you in short order.
Bravo.
That’s outrageous!
A couple of hundred churches in California have agreed to open their doors on Pentacost Sunday. I hope we won’t see Gestapo tactics like that here.
Folks want their lives back and Obama calls them “selfish”. The judge in Texas held Shelly Luther in contempt and jailed her for not apologizing for being p, in his words, selfish.
It’s time for Christians to become Old Testament warriors and stop turning the other cheek.
EMBRACE THE SUCK you stupid Democrat VOTERS!
The men, and I use that term loosely, who run the tow trucks must lead a real pathetic existence. Does anyone do the right thing anymore?
Clubfoot takes her hygiene seriously, why do we still smell rotting fish?
The new gov’t vaccine will do all that, and much more.
Another Communist Democrat
I take it that the daily shootings and killings of black residents in Chicago were not interrupted by this police action?
“Im continually amazed violence has bot broken out.”
That’s what the left wants. Not good.
The alternative is real engagement, by 10’s of millions of patriots and believers, in: election monitoring, liberty lawsuits, funding patriot groups, R party membership and heavy local and state involvement, getting media outlets on our side, swaying lefty corporate leaders, etc.
NOW
Don’t kid yourself - there were more than enough Chicago Cops willing to arrest the church goers and have their cars towed. They are just following orders...and trying to get promoted.
Where in hell is the ACLU?
Sounds as if the ham-fisted Governor and now the dictator wannabe Mayor are girding for a battle with those of the faith and the faithful citizens all in an attempt to show all just who is boss and who’s giving the orders. Don’t know what other conclusion anyone could draw here. Hello AG Barr, where is the DoJ and your people who defend citizens 1st Amendment rights against an overbearing state government?
We are under attack. All Christians of every denomination! They want to close our churhes & kill us all.
Wake up please!! Pray for these & all churches.
We need to put our differences aside &
fight as one.
Good for this church!
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Only one thing wrong with that post. The drivers personal vehicles need to be targeted as well as the tow trucks.
The tow companies going along with this is a giant disappointment.
If I recall correctly King George of Brittany used to do the unlawfull property seizure thing with arbitrary declarations of new “laws”. Got his ass handed to him when the Americans in new Brittany finally had enough.
It seems that these leftists are starting a war.
Those Demo-dictators really know how to double down. A lesson for some easily frightened Republicans with lib kids wagging their fingers at them.
Older friend of mine decided to get a part time job as repo man. Went on first job and found the lavender caddy. As he was beginning to put the hook on it a junior citizen yelled at him: you put hands an that car that was where they were going to stay, as he exhibited a straight razor. My buddy drove off and quit eating it was not worth it!
I cannot believe the shooting has not started yet. Really. Can you think of what would have happened to the red coats in 1775?
When to shoot, who to shoot, and how to organize it - all real questions facing us today. What could 50 brave patriots do to Chicago City Hall? To the mayor’s residence? If not now, when?
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