Politically motivated violence thread

[T.Lex]

And..
I can't believe I've agreed with Rahm.

You are a stronger man than I. My fingers just. won't. type. those. words.

Reminds me of the time James Carville said something I agreed with. Something about the sun rising and setting.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

You are a stronger man than I. My fingers just. won't. type. those. words.

Reminds me of the time James Carville said something I agreed with. Something about the sun rising and setting.

You know something is really ****ed up and bad when even the ****ty people have to step back and admit it's ****ty.

 

[HoughMade]

If it makes you feel any better, there is significant tension between the city and county.

That Rahm got this one right may be more emblematic of where his loyalties lie than a dispassionate analysis of the situation....stopped clocks and all.

 

[HoughMade]

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[actaeon277]

I even found myself agreeing with Piers Morgan once or twice recently.
NOT ON GUNS.
Surprised me.


Though I wrote it off to him trying to come back to the US. It's safer here.

 

[T.Lex]

So... something is provoking Rahm to take the CPD FOP side, and not the state's attorney. Seems like she's basically a pawn in all this.

There could be some big shakeups in the Chicago political machine, and we're just seeing the fault lines.

 

[2A_Tom]

"Peers" doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means.

I know I am stupid, so aside from the general jury pool of registered voters, subjected to voir dire , buy opposing lawyers, what am I missing?

 

[KG1]

Smollett just got a reset in his favor.

It’s like all the resources that went into the investigation and his indictment never happened and he can continue spewing his bull****.

That’s just flat out ****ed up.

 

[rhino]

All charges against Jussie Smollett dropped.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/jussie-smollett-charges/index.html

WTF???

 

[DoggyDaddy]

There's one huge difference between these situations.

With Smollett, the people who investigated believed, and still believe, that criminal charges are warranted.

True enough. Hopefully the federal mail charges will pan out.

 

[HoughMade]

I know I am stupid, so aside from the general jury pool of registered voters, subjected to voir dire , buy opposing lawyers, what am I missing?

Registered voters, driver's licenses, ID cards, etc.....but why would you assume the general jury pool would find him not guilty?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

It's Chicago. Maybe it should be "piers".

 

[rhino]

So . . . I aven't worn my vintage tinfoil cap in a while.

Clearly things happened behind the scenes to get this creep off the hook. So, perhaps my initial conjecture that his stunt was connected to motivating legislators to vote a specific way was not so far fetched. If he was working for some people to stage the event to get hate crime legislation passed, it makes sense that the people colluding with him would not want to be exposed.

 

[2A_Tom]

This thread has spawned a myriad of asterisks

 

[2A_Tom]

Registered voters, driver's licenses, ID cards, etc.....but why would you assume the general jury pool would find him not guilty?

The same reason OJ was acquitted.

 

[HoughMade]

So . . . I aven't worn my vintage tinfoil cap in a while.

Clearly things happened behind the scenes to get this creep off the hook. So, perhaps my initial conjecture that his stunt was connected to motivating legislators to vote a specific way was not so far fetched. If he was working for some people to stage the event to get hate crime legislation passed, it makes sense that the people colluding with him would not want to be exposed.

In Illinois......

 

[ArcadiaGP]

This thread has spawned a myriad of asterisks

Sorry. I'm ****ing ... uhm, incensed, I think was the word.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

CNN's Chief Media Correspondent

 

[printcraft]

Sorry. I'm ****ing ... uhm, incensed, I think was the word.

In accordance with my post from the other day about my blood pressure...


[video=youtube;qAeVlwRuP6Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeVlwRuP6Q[/video]

 

[HoughMade]

The same reason OJ was acquitted.

That is a lot more complex than the jury composition....and we can't to assume we know how the jury in this case would be composed.