From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism
Subject: Re: Illinois governer rebuffs federal intervention to prevent Chicago murders - does nothing instead
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:39:06 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 10:53:14 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>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?
It's certainly something I wouldn't object to. Now please explain why
you have no problem with Chicago's massive murder problem, the
governor doing nothing about it and actively rebelling against an
offer of help.