Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Hundreds of Chicago Public School students are expected to converge on the James R. Thompson Center Tuesday morning, urging state legislators to enact stiffer gun laws after a student was killed in the parking lot of the Simeon Career Academy on Saturday.

More than 400 Simeon students will be bused by the district to attend the protest outside the Thompson Center, which houses Illinois state offices. Students from other schools such as Jones College Prepatory High School are also expected, officials said.
Ah, an appeal based totally on emotion by the most ignorant and inexperienced among us, designed to further restrict unalienable rights! And "Public Schools chief" Arne Duncan makes the agenda clear, just in case anyone needs something to throw in the face of those who call the "slippery slope" paranoia:
[W]e know the cure for this public health epidemic—getting rid of guns.
Of course he means for someone else go about that task.

And, of course, they somehow have the money for this at a time when "The state is looking at a $750 million deficit" and the state board of education is slashing funds for education while pouring them into pork projects. You'd at least think they'd pour some of it into the lambs they're exploiting in a shameless propaganda display worthy of Joseph Goebbels.

Remember the line from The Blues Brothers, "I hate Illinois Nazis"?

So many, from legislators to educators to an apparent majority of the stupid, dependent and herdlike Eloi electorate are worthy of that contempt.

7 comments:

Laughingdog said...

So they're using city tax dollars to use city buses to send students to protest guns instead of maybe actually teaching their students?

Anonymous said...

Don't students still need a consent form from their parents to go on a "field trip"?

What are these people thinking?

me said...

HOW DARE THEY! They've got a school named for a Biblical figure! SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!

Our mission is to provide a safe school climate that nurtures personal and academic growth. Inherent in our mission is the on-going training of teachers in the most effective instructional methods and strategies for engaging students in the learning process. Equally important, our mission includes parental and community involvement in operation of the school and in the education of the children.

What would you expect when you have the ignorant and dangerous leading the ignorant and more dangerous?

Anonymous said...

The comment of the day goes to this (posted under a related article about the Little Emperor's rant):

Mia hit the nail on the head. It's almost like the Trib is on the Daley payroll where firearm rights are concerned.

This taxpayer funded, Daley orchestrated dog and pony show, with the pretty, professionally developed signs and a day off school for the "activists" and it receives multi-article front page coverage.

However, 2500 Illinois firearm owners take the day off and travel to Springfield on their own dime and it's virtually ignored. Six full street blocks of people and it's not news to the Trib. I wonder how many of the student gun violence activists would go downtown to protest on their own dime if this were held on a weekend. I think we all know the answer to that one.

What a sham, and it's disgraceful that the Tribune so willing participates in it with such unbalanced "journalism." That's why our family reduced our Trib subscription to Sunday only (after 14 years of regular subscriptions), and we would drop Sunday if my wife didn't like the sales inserts.

Posted by: kreid | Apr 1, 2008 2:36:45 PM


I'm still wondering why there was nary a peep from "our side" about the lack of IGOLD coverage. Unless of course, all dissent was buried by the editorial board .... naw, they wouldn't do that.

Anonymous said...

missing link from above post

Anonymous said...

i bet this guy is glad that his rabbi school does not ban guns on campus

Jerusalem yeshiva student: I shot the terrorist twice in the head

A student at the Jerusalem yeshiva where eight people were killed in a terrorist attack Thursday evening shot the gunman who opened fire inside the religious school’s crowded library, neutralizing him before a soldier killed him with an automatic rifle.

Yitzhak Dadon said he climbed onto the roof of a nearby building, armed with a rifle, and waited for the gunman to emerge.

“He came out of the library spraying automatic fire … the terrorist came to the entrance and I shot him twice in the head,” he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961703.html

David Codrea said...

We covered that several weeks ago:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/03/other-yeshiva-solution.html