From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism
Subject: Re: Illinois governer rebuffs federal intervention to prevent Chicago
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 10:53:14 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-09-01 10:05, NoBody wrote:
> Shouldn't the governor take a hint and enforce laws in Chicago?
>
> At least 53 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago over
> Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims
> wounded, according to police.
>
> The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed
> threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago
> over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor
> Brandon Johnson.
>
> Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social
> media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying
> Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"
>
> Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an
> earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did
> D.C.," by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and
> unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is
> un-American."
>
> https://abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps-threat/story?id=125134744
>
> Yeah cause crime and murder is better....
>
So why isn't Trump sending troops any of the 91 other cities in the US
that have higher rates of violent crime?
Or the 21 cities that have higher rates of murder and non-negligent
manslaughter?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate>
If this is really about making people safer, shouldn't you be sending
people to where they will do the most good?