Chicago mayor Richie Daley has never distinguished his administration with common sense. In stark proof of this, he has cheerfully invited \u201ca million people\u201d to attend the forthcoming election night Obama rally at the city\u2019s Grant Park.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>Hmmm\u2026let\u2019s look at that. <\/span>I don\u2019t recall any Presidential candidate receiving as much homicidal hostility during a campaign as Barack Obama. <\/span>We are told that at least two assassination plots by white skinheads have been interdicted. <\/span>Someone now invites a million people to come to the \u201crange\u201d and face the \u201ctarget.\u201d<\/p>\n \n <\/span>Take Mayor Daley\u2019s \u201cinvitation list\u201d of 1,000,000 un-vetted people\u2026In a city rife with gang culture and presently the \u201cmurder capitol\u201d of the nation, despite Draconian gun laws that actually ban ownership of handguns (except by Chicago city council members, who are expressly allowed to carry loaded, concealed pistols). <\/span>Compare that with the rule of thumb we\u2019ve heard from so many mental health professionals that \u201cone out of every hundred people is a psychopath.\u201d <\/span>One out of every hundred \u2026 a million people there \u2026 carry the one \u2026<\/p>\n \n <\/span>Yup, the math is right. That\u2019s 10,000 psychopaths. <\/span>In an area far too huge for screening and metal detectors to be effective. <\/span>\u201cTen Thousand Maniacs\u201d was a cool name for an \u201880s rock band, but it\u2019s a most un-<\/em>cool scenario for a political rally of unprecedented size at the peak pressure curve of a volatile election.<\/p>\n \n <\/span>Chicagoland is not without white racists. I was there in the satellite community of Skokie three decades ago, when the American Nazis marched, mocking the substantial local community of Holocaust survivors. <\/span>The cops were out in force, the racists were few in number, and it still looked pretty dangerous for a while, though the forces of order kept everything contained.<\/p>\n \n <\/span>In addition to the white racists, there are those in the African-American community who have no love for Obama, and may even feel a vested interest in \u201ccreating an incident.\u201d Chicago is the home of Jesse Jackson, who infamously said during the campaign that he would like to castrate Obama. We are also at war with an entity called Al Qaeda,, which has already murdered Americans\u2026is familiar with American media\u2026and has to have heard Rush Limbaugh\u2019s prediction of <\/span>a surprise McCain victory and <\/em>writer-commentator Erica Jong\u2019s recent prediction to an Italian magazine that if Obama loses, the streets will run red with blood and a \u201csecond American Civil War\u201d will erupt. It would take only one suicidal terrorist pawn to throw a bomb or bullet at Obama in hopes of triggering just such chaos in the USA.<\/p>\n \n <\/span>Chicago, our nation\u2019s third most popular city, has the second largest police force. They\u2019re authorized some 13,000 armed, sworn police personnel, though I think the current rolls are somewhat down from that. (LAPD, serving the second largest US city, has just under 10,000 officers, and NYPD is the largest with some 36,000 authorized.) <\/span>That ain\u2019t enough to control a million people if things flare up. <\/span>I hear from usually reliable sources that Chicago PD has done something unprecedented: they\u2019ve put out a call to surrounding departments and the State Police for assistance, supposedly requesting two-man patrol cars.<\/p>\n \n <\/span>A part of America sees Barack Obama as the Martin Luther King of our time. We remember the fierce rioting (we call it \u201ccivil unrest\u201d now) that broke out after King\u2019s assassination forty years ago. <\/span>What is going to happen if a shot rings out in Grant Park\u2026?<\/p>\n \n <\/span>If I was a Secret Service agent assigned to the Obama protection detail, I\u2019d be waking up screaming in the middle of the night. <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/span>Paul Huebl, a retired Chicago cop who now writes a conservative blog, has noted that Grant Park is largely surrounded by bodies of water, and that on a cold night water cannons make very effective riot control devices. <\/span>Many of the bridges in Chicago are drawbridges that, if lifted, would greatly limit auto\/pedestrian access from Grant Park to other parts of the city. <\/span>But that would only mitigate the aftermath, not prevent it.<\/p>\n \n <\/span>This rally may not go down in history as the smartest move Mayor Daley has ever made or approved. However, those who\u2019ve followed his administration will probably ask, \u201cAnd this is different\u2026how?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicago mayor Richie Daley has never distinguished his administration with common sense. In stark proof of this, he has cheerfully invited \u201ca million people\u201d to attend the forthcoming election night Obama rally at the city\u2019s Grant Park. Hmmm\u2026let\u2019s look at that. I don\u2019t recall any Presidential candidate receiving as much homicidal hostility during a campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}