these damn things should be held in the middle of a damn dessert with long open fields of fire...
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.
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Chicago = Chi-Congo.
In Detroit the locals will shoot back.
Win Win all around.
Illinois....Home of Linked-con.
I thought they moved the conference to camp david
I thought they moved the conference to camp david
Sorry, don’t know what linked-con means.
What do you call a Chicago building full of Obama Supporters?
Cook County Jail
I guess Chicago doesn’t have a “stand your ground law” and are forcing these folks to retreat in advance of any self-defence needs.
Play on Lincoln.
They are free to stay, but they may not be able to leave. If it was my place, I'd stay for the weekend.
Turn Soldier Field in to a giant holding cell.
I heard that ironically, bernadette dorn lives in that building.
I wonder if there’s supposed to be a subtext to this: “Make sure to vote for 0bama in November - be a real shame if there was another riot, knowhatimean?”
Maybe Chicago needs a color coded riot threat level warning system, you know, like code yellow, carry a weapon, code orange, don’t go outside, code red, run for the hills because NATO is coming, NATO is coming!
It works so well for air pollution and all, I’d think the progressive leadership of the city would jump right on it. Think of the fines and fees, the power to jerk people around, it would be a municipal bureaucrat’s dream.
these damn things should be held in the middle of a damn dessert with long open fields of fire...
Oh, okay.
Hopefully the middle class in the city will realize that Mao was not really all that cool.
Even if there are no riots, like the G8 event in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago, holding this kind of event in a working city with the kind of security that these vips demand is the height of inconsideration.
It basically shut down Downtown Pittsburgh for 3 days, grinding commerce to a halt, and making life very difficult just for those who had business anywhere near town or had to use public transport.
Why can’t they hold this kind of craziness in Washington DC or New York where the security infrastructure is already in place? 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.
That was my first thought too...how convenient for local burglars to know when everyone will vacant their condos for three or four days.
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