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A Secret "Black Site" Revealed In Chicago: "When You Go In, You Just Disappear"
Located in a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side is where, according to the Guardian, one can find the domestic equivalent of a CIA "black site" - an illegal, off-the-books interrogation compound used by Chicago special police units, one which renders "Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside"; a place whose former occupants say is where you end up when you are "disappeared"; a place which confirms that when it comes to the eternal "who is better - us or them" debate, there really is no difference: "It brings to mind the interrogation facilities they use in the Middle East. The CIA calls them black sites. It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you.” It's a Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib rolled into one. In short: it is a place where the US constitution and basic human rights have absolutely no access.
And it may be located in a building just down your street.
According to an exclusive piece by the Guardian that is sure to send not only shivers down the spine of those who are still paying attention, but ripples across the "land of the free", not least because if there is one dark site on US soil, there are countless more - places where every single constitutional right of US citizens is trampled on - the secretive warehouse known as Homan Square is the latest example of Chicago police practices that echo the much-criticized detention abuses of the US war on terrorism. However, there is one huge difference: while those abuses impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles, interrogation cells and even a cage – trains its focus on Americans, most often poor, black and brown.
Every former communist block country had them: hidden, dark places where the secret police could have their way with you, and even kill you if it so desired, and nobody would have any clue or recourse of action; something for which the "evil empire" was mocked by the "free western world." As it turns out, the "evil empire" can now be found in at least one of the most populated American cities:
Unlike a precinct, no one taken to Homan Square is said to be booked. Witnesses, suspects or other Chicagoans who end up inside do not appear to have a public, searchable record entered into a database indicating where they are, as happens when someone is booked at a precinct. Lawyers and relatives insist there is no way of finding their whereabouts. Those lawyers who have attempted to gain access to Homan Square are most often turned away, even as their clients remain in custody inside.
What exactly takes place at Homan square? Well, if it prohibited by the constitution, changes are you can find it in this red-bricked warehouse in west Chicago. Among the alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:
- Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
- Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
- Shackling for prolonged periods.
- Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
- Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.
- At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.
The place had been largely shrouded in secrecy until the Guardian managed to find some people who were willing to talk:
It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.
Chicago civil-rights attorney Flint Taylor said Homan Square represented a routinization of a notorious practice in local police work that violates the fifth and sixth amendments of the constitution. “This Homan Square revelation seems to me to be an institutionalization of the practice that dates back more than 40 years,” Taylor said, “of violating a suspect or witness’ rights to a lawyer and not to be physically or otherwise coerced into giving a statement.”
Actually, based on the revelations about how the open and democratic US state deals with opposing voices, the practice continues to this date and at a level that would make George Orwell blush. it is, however, hidden for the most part, and usually takes place in the shadows, although increasingly those among the population who are not too stoned, too transfixed by their iApps and sitcoms, or too depressed to care, are starting to notice. That is not to say that the superstate won't deny it is, at times, the moral and ethical equivalent of the basest of middle-eastern "barbarians" it is waging an ideological war against (if only on behalf of the military-industrial complex).
Much remains hidden about Homan Square. The Chicago police department did not respond to the Guardian’s questions about the facility. But after the Guardian published this story, the department provided a statement insisting, without specifics, that there is nothing untoward taking place at what it called the “sensitive” location, home to undercover units.
“CPD [Chicago police department] abides by all laws, rules and guidelines pertaining to any interviews of suspects or witnesses, at Homan Square or any other CPD facility. If lawyers have a client detained at Homan Square, just like any other facility, they are allowed to speak to and visit them. It also houses CPD’s Evidence Recovered Property Section, where the public is able to claim inventoried property,” the statement said, something numerous attorneys and one Homan Square arrestee have denied.
And yet, when a Guardian reporter arrived at the warehouse on Friday, a man at the gatehouse outside refused any entrance and would not answer questions. “This is a secure facility. You’re not even supposed to be standing here,” said the man, who refused to give his name. A former Chicago police superintendent and a more recently retired detective, both of whom have been inside Homan Square in the last few years in a post-police capacity, said the police department did not operate out of the warehouse until the late 1990s.
So it's a "new thing" - but don't worry, it's all about being "patriotic." Like the NSA, or the Department of Homeland Security. Because one never knows just which US mall the next "terrorist" will blow up.
Which is probably why in detailing episodes involving their clients over the past several years, lawyers described mad scrambles that led to the closed doors of Homan Square, a place most had never heard of previously. The facility was even unknown to Rob Warden, the founder of Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, until the Guardian informed him of the allegations of clients who vanish into inherently coercive police custody.
“They just disappear,” said Anthony Hill, a criminal defense attorney, “until they show up at a district for charging or are just released back out on the street.”
And while the ubiquitous "terrorism" excuse for any and every extra-constitutional action could apply here as well, the reality is that Homan Square is hardly concerned exclusively with terrorism. Several special units operate outside of it, including the anti-gang and anti-drug forces. If police “want money, guns, drugs”, or information on the flow of any of them onto Chicago’s streets, “they bring them there and use it as a place of interrogation off the books,” Hill said.
Guantanamo In West Chicago
While America was distracted, focusing its attention on the water cooler scandal of the day, America raised at least one and likely countless more "Guantanamo centers", places where the detained have absolutely no human rights. Only it wasn't in Cuba: it was among America's own suburbia.
On a smaller scale, Homan Square is “analogous to the CIA’s black sites,” said Andrea Lyon, a former Chicago public defender and current dean of Valparaiso University Law School. When she practiced law in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, she said, “police used the term ‘shadow site’” to refer to the quasi-disappearances now in place at Homan Square.
“Back when I first started working on torture cases and started representing criminal defendants in the early 1970s, my clients often told me they’d been taken from one police station to another before ending up at Area 2 where they were tortured,” said Taylor, the civil-rights lawyer most associated with pursuing the notoriously abusive Area 2 police commander Jon Burge. “And in that way the police prevent their family and lawyers from seeing them until they could coerce, through torture or other means, confessions from them.”
Stalin, or any other banana republic dictator would be proud.
Police often have off-site facilities to have private conversations with their informants. But a retired Washington DC homicide detective, James Trainum, could not think of another circumstance nationwide where police held people incommunicado for extended periods. “I’ve never known any kind of organized, secret place where they go and just hold somebody before booking for hours and hours and hours. That scares the hell out of me that that even exists or might exist,” said Trainum, who now studies national policing issues, to include interrogations, for the Innocence Project and the Constitution Project.
Regardless of departmental regulations, police frequently deny or elide access to lawyers even at regular police precincts, said Solowiej of First Defense Legal Aid. But she said the outright denial was exacerbated at Chicago’s secretive interrogation and holding facility: “It’s very, very rare for anyone to experience their constitutional rights in Chicago police custody, and even more so at Homan Square,” Solowiej said.
Church said that one of his more striking memories of Homan Square was the “big, big vehicles” police had inside the complex that “look like very large MRAPs that they use in the Middle East.”
And as if by seamless transition, all of the above ties in to another very critical topic in recent years - the SWATiziation of America's police forces:
Cook County, home of Chicago, has received some 1,700 pieces of military equipment from a much-criticized Pentagon program transferring military gear to local police. It includes a Humvee, according to a local ABC News report.
Tracy Siska, a criminologist and civil-rights activist with the Chicago Justice Project, said that Homan Square, as well as the unrelated case of ex-Guantánamo interrogator and retired Chicago detective Richard Zuley, showed the lines blurring between domestic law enforcement and overseas military operations.
“The real danger in allowing practices like Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib is the fact that they always creep into other aspects,” Siska said. “They creep into domestic law enforcement, either with weaponry like with the militarization of police, or interrogation practices. That’s how we ended up with a black site in Chicago.”
Too late: they already have. And they are everywhere...
... just waiting for the right moment to spring on the "land of the free" and show everyone just how quickly the myth of freedom can be crushed under the reinforced wheels of 432 (and now many more) Police-controlled MRAPs now spread evenly across the bastion of democracy and human rights and personal liberties.
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Glad to see this posted here. This is expected and stunning all at the same time.
It's real.
It's real sad.
We are in so much trouble.
We need to stop "liberating" other countries and focus on ourselves.
Rahm will have this cleaned up in no time flat. Maybe he'll get Holder & Zero to pitch in.
Are you Sarah Conner?
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about. STRIP SEARCH TIME!
Chicago. Funny it would start there.
Who's in Chicago? Who came from there?
Mrs. "O" Leary
Welcome to Fascism.
You fools. That's not a black site. That's public school PS 123.
Thanks for visiting Rahmtánamo!
I'd be worried, but we all know what a swell guy Rahm is. He's met Oprah, you know.
/s
Located in a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side is where, according to the Guardian, one can find [a place] which renders "Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside"
which kinda reminds me of the bunny ranch.
in a way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlite_BunnyRanch
Lord, if you're gonna commit me, send me to the Bunny Ranch.
Obozo's hometown...
Who is surprised?
see what kinda trouble we're in??? yeah...Nazi Germany kinda trouble. Sheep who can't see it coming and just go along w/ the tyranny and authoritarianism.
History doesn't always repeat...but it tends to rhyme.
This is the kinda shit that spells the end. When a corrupt empire is on the verge of collapse.
Or you could just keep on listening to the gub-ment and it's puppet "media" who keep saying everything is "awesome" and great and "recovering".
And don't forget to keep up with the Kardashitards while all this is going on around you, bitchez.
All the while, this tyrannical, treasonous so-called "government is arming and brainwashing retards to fight patriots as enemies of the state.
There's a reckonin' comin'...get prepared for it now. Mentally, physically, and spiritually however you feel is best for you. But just do it now and get ready for it hard core. That's the best way to make sure we win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse
There's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down
When the Man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the Man comes around
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling, voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns
When the Man comes around
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the Man comes around
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penney pound
When the Man comes around.
Close (Spoken part)
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him.
~ Johnny Cash
A "Black Site"?
Thas ray cyst.
hmmmmm
My first act as President will be to close Chicago.
It is time for a revolution to restore the Bill of Rights at any cost.
This story is ridiculous, "everyone knows torture doesn't work".
Why maintain a site for something that doesn't work?
And no worries, Eric Holder will get to the "bottom" of this.
Maybe that's where he keeps his credibility.
That was really good. Made me laugh. Thanks for that GZG.
"see what kinda trouble we're in??? yeah...Nazi Germany kinda trouble."
Well then, I guess it oughta be kind of clever what kind of 'holocaust' numbers the 'PASSIONATE HISTORIAN SCRIBES' spin out of this one in a few decades.
When do we get our tattoos?
Not Sure
:)
http://youtu.be/wM1P7GMnd38
I was really upset about this facility - but then I realized, I'm not Black.
WHAT! No lawyer, no phone call? They should just do this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XierBpLGgwQ
so you probably wouldn't end up there? haha
Yea! why can't it be the white-site. Though, that probably wouldn't sound as "darK" and evil.
Great song!
Mombasa? I thought the piece said this was Shitcago...
Or deport me to Mexico.
Send you to the bunny ranch without a penny to your name.
Burn it down.
What a f*ckin' boondoggle, this "war on terror" is.
This is why it should matter what they do to "the other". It always comes back around and we find that "the other" is us.
WTF is the difference between the U.S. now and the Soviet Union back in the day? Seriously.
Soviets revolted ?
They survived with dignity. For the US, I am in doubt of both.
So the guardian broke the story on snowden, now this? Nah too suspicious for me. It takes a foriegn body to bring this to light? It seems more like the guardian is the tptb mouthpiece that tells the sheep to stay in line or else.
Just my imho of course.
or maybe they're one of the last true investigative journalists. Snowden chose them because he trusted them.
Yes i hope so. I admit i havent done my own dd on the guardian. I am fucking paranoid. I hate to question everything but honestly as soon as the g broke the snowden story i was skepticle. They have been bugging our communication since the early 90's(internet). I would laugh at my older bro for being paranoid. Well, he was right. Sorry, i am truely conflicted. Prepare for the worst bit hope for the best
90's?
See Project Echelon.
It is not paranoia when they are truly out to get you.
Whatever. This story broke in Russian media days ago. Search for it on CNN and Fox and you will find nothing (as of this morning).
Seems kinda stupid of you to throw the Guardian under the bus for giving us information about what TPTB are doing to us.... dontcha think?
The citizens and leadership of the Soviet Union eventually knew their experiment had failed.
The United States will cheer for its own imagined magnificence all the way into the abyss.
We r exceptionl!
....except in reverse
We disappeared some folks
(Obama, homeboy Chicago 2015)
We ran some Terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Turkey.
And we took some Civil Rights, Harassed some Real US Citizens that were Innocent, Entrapped some Slow Folks into Terrorist Traps to justify our Terrorist War, and turned our Police against our Veterans, our country folks and our gun owners.
What's really disturbing about this story is that they were PROTESTERS! We have the right to protest!
As defined by whom? Would that be the men and women in uniforms with guns? You have the right to do that which you are willing to fight and die for. Nothing else counts.
At least we now know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
the US has way more military bases in foreign countries than the soviets ever did.
WTF is the difference between the U.S. now and the Soviet Union back in the day? Seriously.
Scale. Prisoners were held incommunicado for far longer in the USSR, more of them were disappeared, far more of them died in prison.
But give us time, we're working on it.
How do you know this? We know a lot about what happened behind the iron curtain because it came down and we got to look at the records they kept. Our iron curtain is still up and we don't know jack about what is going on.
I'll bet you think Chicago is the only place this is happening.
Burn it down.
What a f*ckin' boondoggle, this "war on terror" is.
Yes, this is the "justice" system at work. These actions by the "authorities" raise the stakes of any interaction a mundane might have with the "police". I want to point out clearly that these are actions being taken by "authorities", and not by mundanes.
As we travel down this path of tyranny the odds increase that any interaction with "police" will result in your death or disappearance. Once the "authorities" have made it plain that "submission" does not guarantee survival, the game changes significantly. As these things become generally known, mundanes will learn that any interaction with "police" is the same thing as an interaction with a pack of wolves while alone in the woods, with a likely similar outcome, and they will learn to respond accordingly, immediately and without hesitation. Do not try to convince me they do not know this.
This culture is being deliberately destroyed.
It was the cow's fault!
Who said it started there, if they are black sites, the best stay dark
These extra-legal authorities and facilities which accelerated after 9/11 are the home version of the Phoenix program developed by the CIA in Vietnam.
As the Phoenix program was a beta test for the genocide of Pol Pot one can see the parallels of Pol Pot with ISIS today.
The Illuminati Reigns of Terror will always relentlessly march towards those last heart beats of liberty that provide no awareness or opposition to the psycopathy that targets them.
The only cure for cancer is the complete destruction of the rampantly malignant death cells.
In terms of cancer, you cannot kill what is already dead. Do a quick search for Dr. Christina Sanchez of Madrid, Spain. Brilliant scientist and researcher.
On topic. Good fucking lord, what have we become?! And to what ends are we willing to reach for the farthest depths of the abyss?
We've gone lower than ever before, I think we're going to need to call James Cameron, he'll know what to do.
It is not 'we' anymore. In fact it never was.
Webster Tarpley clams the US created the Islamic State and uses jihadists as its secret army to destabilize the Middle East. It certainly would keep US boots off the ground while satisfying US geo-political objectives in the region, least not being the continuous pressure put on Assad.
There is no evidence is started there. Rather its the first one reported on. There may be dozens around the country yet to make it to public light.
Can't up vote you but I would.
There's nothing to worry about. We have a black/brown president now so you don't see any more overseas bombing of brown people. And wherever brown people are being discriminated against, the black/brown president moves swiftly to help them. If you're black/brown - especially in Chicago - things have never looked better!
Do you really believe that this is limited to Chicago?
Highly doubt it. I'm sure many of the bigger cities have something like this.
I heard that line from one of my more intelligent co-workers today.
This is exactly why I fear for my country. Many people have high intellectual capacity, but their gifts are not focused on solving (or even seeing) the real issues. It is just like an unfiltered computer program. Garbage-in -> Garbage-out.
But I have to remind myself to be patient as I too was deep asleep not all that long ago.
Good for you. Compassion seems to be in short supply these days.
No, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Do they have meat hooks and piano wire in the basement yet?
every agency lies. http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/02/john-kerry-moscow-lying-to-my-face-o...
"We are in so much trouble"
Indeed. And 98% of the 99% don't even see it happening.
This is one of the scariest revelations yet. We are truly in a dark place.
The Phoenix has landed.
The Phoenix *has* landed, perhaps in Australia -- CIA plane busted in Australia carrying 35kg of heroin. The CIA has its fingers in nefarious activities around the world, largely operating as a global criminal syndicate. Running drug cartels in Mexico? Certainly. Gary Webb blew the cover off CIA drug/arms running in Central America, which cost him his life, but did not have any noticable impact on CIA activities.
Another one, Project Artichoke -- mind control. I wonder what kind of interrogation techniques are being used at Homan Square. Lots learned at Guantanamo Bay, project Artichoke, MkULtra.
The lines are blurring between what is occuring in "war zones" and what is happening in the homeland. Paramilitary police at home are indistinguishable from soldiers in Iraq. Black sites are being repatriated to the homeland. People disappearing when apprehended by government agents. This is a friggin' dystopian nightmare. We are sooo screwed.
Thanks for the links.
It is called a "Dirty War" in South America.
- Disappearing people
- Kidnapping People
- Killing Witnesses
- Even killing women and kids
- Features of a COUP
- We have a Military Republic just ask Smedley Butler's Book, but at some point the MIC/CIA took over the US Congress & Presidency, I say 1981
- 1971, War on Drugs
- 1971, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Memo on Foundations
- 1972, BCCI Bank created
- 1972, Watergate Scandal, with ties to CIA
- 1973, Family Jewels Reports commissioned about CIA
- 1974, CIA Slapped with Investigations of Practices, they decide to Outsource & Subcontract (Church Committee, Nedzi Committee, Pike Committee
- 1975, Rockefeller Commission to investigate CIA Activities within the USA
- 1978, Soviet-Afghanistan War Starts
- 1979, the Top of US Manufacturing
- 1979, when US Median Wages got Stuck or leveled out
- 1980, Presidential Campaign, Debt, Economy, Inflation, Iran
- 1980, George H.W. Bush former Director CIA chosen as Vice President
- 1981, the Top of US Money (MZM) Velocity
- 1982, Ronald Reagan Maxes out DoD Budget
- 1982, CIA Begins using BCCI Bank
"... at some point the MIC/CIA took over the US Congress & Presidency, I say 1981"
I say November 22, 1963. See Fifty Years of the Deep State.
And being stuck between the elite and the 99% - makes one go bananas.
.
Its a very fuckin fine line on which group frustrates me more...
there is a constant -1 running on the comment up tick and down tick. This does not represent the 99% that watch the awards for best... This is the truth denyers. These are the ones that operate to the pleasures of the director. I cannot understand how brainwashed some people let themselves become. Definately a freek of nature.
Well, the Lubyanka did not exist in isolation. I would expect that every Fusion Center is linked to a site similar to this.
Just saw the Winter Soldier movie on cable. It is 'truthy' and replete with examples of predictive programming. Surprisingly, a figure of 20 million people was mentioned as being targets for execution by the deep state (aka Hydra in the movie). In 2008, the Main Core database was said to include only 8 million people. But, many have woken up since then.
In Cambodia I believe that wearing glasses -- one who reads and possibly applies critical thinking skills -- was all it took to get on the list.
There is as special boxcar on the redline for PHD's.
"I would expect that every Fusion Center is linked to a site similar to this."
I don't doubt it.
The implication is staggering. Surveillance/intelligence gathering networks tied together from the local/regional level to the federal. Black sites to disappear "suspects". Interrogate them. Brainwash them. Cleanse their minds.
Daddy, what did you do at work today?
those robots who work at these facilities are permanently damaged. If they ask any questions or hesitate it may affect their career. There is only one career and that is being human.
You could publish this story on every newspaper in the country and it would not result in the population doing anything beyond a few marching up and down in front of the building for a month.
The sick thing is that it had to be a British paper that did this and not an American. You know damn good and well that American reporters and institutions knew about this but they kept quiet. Yep, we are a police state and I think they are gearing up for when those checks don't come at the end of the month for everybody. When they decided to gut those govt. checks, pensions are cut, and what the govt. says goes.
"You know damn good and well that American reporters and institutions knew about this but they kept quiet."
A lot of so called 'good cops' knew.
A lot of so called 'lawyers' knew.
-& they weren't the only ones.
Some number of bureaucrats and contractors had to know.
Some people talk to their spouses, kin, friends, bartender, pastor, barber, etc...
No one spoke up.
No 'good cops', no 'lawyers', no bureaucrats or contractors, no spouses or kin or friends or bartenders or pastors or barbers or...
Now you know who the enemy is. Now you know who cannot be trusted.
Now you know what will be done to you and yours if you don't figure out how to do it to them and theirs first.
Now you know way way too much...
Now what are you gonna do about it?
"You know damn good and well that American reporters and institutions knew about this but they kept quiet."
Does 'JourOList' come to mind?
Here's the real problem. Our government was set up so that all power structures were kept in check by opposing power structures. In this case, who can stop the police from flagrantly breaking the law inside a fortified compound? What opposing force is there?
Opposing force you ask? That is traditionally what you and I were supposed to be, but we won't because we are comfortable and warm and well fed and wealthy, and the bad shit only happens to other people who deserve it; so on and so forth in endless rationalizations that allow us to trust that someone else, soon, and hopefully a public official, will do the right thing.....
That's part of it. Another part is that what should have been opposing power structures have merged over time and become cooperative pieces of one big mega power structure. For example, a free and independent press should safeguard against these kind of abuses. So should an independent judiciary. So should powerful regulatory agencies. But all these power structures and many others have been captured by the growth of the one huge Fascist Oligarchy.
All that's left are the people. Unfortunately they are baffled and confused by endless waves of propaganda and rendered dull and distracted by the modern day bread and circuses of iPhones and fast food. So there's no hope of checking the relentless growth of state power. We'll just have to see where it leads.
Liberate Chicago?
For whom would this Crusade be fought? Mexico, the gangster disciples or the Fed? No one wants freedom in that town. They want material objects. They hold nothing of value. They just prey on those who do.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-usa-politics-chicago-idUSKB...
(Reuters) - In a surprise result that showed the limits of a big-money campaign, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to get more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, and must face a run-off against second-place finisher Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in April.
The setback for Emanuel, 55, came despite a visit to Chicago last week from PresidentBarack Obama, whom Emanuel served as chief of staff.
With $6 million in his war chest at year end even after spending $4.7 million in the fourth quarter, Emanuel hugely outspent four opponents in his race for a second term as head of the nation's third-largest city.
The powerful Democrat got millions of dollars from campaign donors, including Hollywood directors and hedge fund executives, plus Obama's support.
But it wasn't enough to fend off the mild-mannered Garcia, a Cook County commissioner and progressive Democrat with a paltry campaign fund. Garcia held a low public profile before he jumped into the race last October after the teacher's union president, Karen Lewis, backed away after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
The run-off election against Garcia will be held on April 7.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Emanuel had 45.4 percent of the vote, while Garcia had 33.9 percent. Polls before the election had shown Emanuel close to 50 percent, and Garcia at about 20 percent.
I recently ran the math on other jurisdictions, and the effect of their tax laws on earning power. Here is a summary of their multiplier assuming about 150k/yr compared against New York and CA:
Dubai: 1.39x
Hong Kong: 1.20x
Singapore: 1.26x
Swissland: 1.22x
However, the salaries are proportionately lower for all but the highest executive levels, so you won't gain much by leaving the US. Nevertheless, you must abandon it.
The cops choke to death some guy for selling cigarettes.
This shouldn't surprise you.
I've known a lot of cops and bad guys in my life, there is a fine line between the two and it gets crossed more often than what you would expect. I've been on the recieving end of some of the bad ones when I was young. Rights? It was a joke then and now.
It is sad to see the illusion of what many were taught would be impossible in America today. The terrorist are here all right, they wear uniforms or a suit and tie in DC.
Makes a person want to puke, doesn't it?
You've got that right. As I read this and came across the line about possibly making George Orwell blush, I thought right away that it sure wouldn't make George Bush blush. Fuck no, that sack of shit would grin like a fucking chimpanzee. And so would Obama. So true what you say about the terrorists wearing suits and ties. And their base is DC. Thats all been obvious for 15 years already. It does make you want to puke.
End qualified immunity NOW.
Perp Walks NOW!
Looks like the Deep South is ready to kick some butt! I just hope it ain't mine.
Well Rocky...
As far as your own butt is concerned, they're closer to you than you think...
Many 'LONG TIME' ZH posters [like CH1 & SMG] are simply 'posers' [who drop the occasional 'FUCK THE FED' line cliche on ZH, drip by drip, to win some cache]...
It's really unbelievable to me how long these & other clowns have managed to hang around. MOST LIKELY, because it was THEY who championed the use of the 'OFFENSIVE COMMENTS' clause which came about in 2012.
I'm NOT saying they should be kicked off... ON THE CONTRARY [I prefer debate to censorship]... But while we're on the subject of 'deep down ~ wow, I thought I trusted that guy' dilemmas, it's an angle that's worth looking into unless you count yourself as someone utterly disinterested...
Note: My 'handle' represents me as being NEW to Zero Hedge... But I have been a follower of this site for many years... During that time, I've compiled an extensive array of PRINT SCREEN SHOTS, [from various comments]... THIS BEING THE MOST RECENT, and former posters, whom have been 'DISAPPEARED' from ZH over the years [much as the 'blacks' in this thread seem to have disappeared into a vague Chicago edifice, which, naturally, draws the perfunctory amount of gnashing & gasping]...
I have an unpublished blogsite dedicated to this compilation... It SHOULD NOT have been necessary to go to that extreme, but the degree of censorship, at a certain point, got so out of hand that I was compelled to do it.
It would be an embarrasment [to some] to come up with a blog of INFIDELS [who were kicked off a site which represented itself to be a TRUTH site, because the so called TRUTH SITE happened to be a bitch to the 'agenda' interests]...
Now wouldn't that rock[y] your world?
That's all I'll say 4 now...
Remember when the watchword was "publish or perish"? It seems we are now at "publish and perish". Gots to be careful these days.
Orwell certainly got it right. Hell, 1984 may be the primer.
Good thing we have reporters in the United States who are protecting our freedoms with their courageous behavior. If American reporters did not cover this story, it would look like American reporters are degenerate supporters of torturers. Along with the FBI, the USDOJ and everyone in the Chicago Police Department. Welcome to Gulag America. Time to start revoking the pensions of criminal Chicago detectives.
Never let a secret torture prison go to waste......
Never let a secret torture prison go to waste......
Never let a secret torture prison go to waste......
my neighbor's mother makes $86 /hr on the computer . She has been laid off for 10 months but last month her pay was $21128 just working on the computer for a few hours. go to the website... www.globe-report.com
Is that computer you speak of located in a black site in Chicago, or are you just off topic?
Fucking dirtbags. I hope they all roast in hell for eternity. Who the fuck do they think they are to drag people in here and defy the Constitution? Pieces of human shit is what they are. Burn in hell
America needs to be invaded, conquered, raped and pillaged for its own good.
We are being invaded. Rape and pillage coming from .gov and the Fed every damn day!
It's interesting how Zero Hedge repeatedly refers to "communism" and Joseph Stalin, yet America has no history of committing to Leftist politics. Rather, America's past is closer to that of the Third Reich and of Nazism, as slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow era cogently illustrate.
Many in the Middle-East would argue, quite convincingly, that not all that much has changed about the American mentality since then, either. Especially not in terms of foreign policy.
Fitting it would be in that fucking Marxist Kenyan's home town.
The fact that it was an "open secret" among defense attorneys, and none of them ever went tothe media and raised a fuss, shows you just how screwed anyone is if they get caught up in the system. It is every bit as much the meatgrinder that the soviet gulag was.
Why is it that the Southern States seem to have most of this equipment?
Is this where some ZHers might eventually end up?
Naw, man... We get the gold-plated Luger to the back of head and a kick into a sand pit in rural South Dakota by Academi
Like Stalin's secret police would drive up to homes and those people disappeared. Tortured to death and then disposed of.
Rahmanistan !
It should be mentioned that the NVD, NKVD, KGB preferred the 3:00 to 4:00 AM knock and kick as people are most disoriented at that time of day.
my wife's sleep schedule is all crazy and she's usually awake at that time. haha motherfuckers, if we each take one it'll end pretty quick. Cowards that are drawn to power are, well, cowards.
This has reduced me to hoping the disciples kick the cops asses. How very sad. Any "good" cop or lawyer that knew of this and didn't report it is hell bound. Guillotines will be too kind.
The answer is to layer your perimeter defense with IR-activated lights and concealed noisemakers.
Then they become disoriented and you have a chance to grab your rifle and haul ass.
Don't get depressed- Get Creative!
are we having fascism yet?
Getting like Hitler syle very soon.
Pleny of natural gas for those ovens.
Just makes me hate the Bears that much more!
Always made me laugh that two Chicago sports teams are the "BEARS & BULLS" ~ lol
But you have to admit Jay Cutler's testimonial commercials for Tampax were really quite effective...
Great at pluging bullet holes.
Don't forget the Cubs and the Black Cocks.
White Sox [who became the BLACK SOX after another notable... er... um...honorable, Nobel Prize worthy, 'LUCIFERIAN' by the name of Arnold Rothstein wiggled his way into their wallets in 1919].
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Arrest Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon. Stop the madness now.
John Prine "Jesus The Missing Years"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inr-jskxm1I
Black site.
Raaaaaaaaaacist.
This must be the 'freedom' that Chris Kyle was fighting for...
www.TopTheNews.com
the difference between a
psychopath and a sniper,
what is that,
a degree of oppression and
fear?
.
.....
Is that the place where Rahm Emanuel and Obama knew about?
Are you saying Homan Square is really a Bath House? That would explain a lot. Very dark site indeed. Once you go in, you don't come out.
Sorry, this is serious as all get out, yet I must poke insults at these fuckers. It's all I got just this minute.
That would explain plenty.
If true, it would suggest that, as bad as everyone on ZH knows things to be, the ugliness, perhaps doesn't even end there.
I don't imagine J Edgar Hoover ever had anything close to the dirt that exists today in the halls of debauchery.
A Black Site?
That's Rayciss.
No, that was "mans country" where both are life time members.
Looks like I'll have to get that implantable RFID chip in me after all--- for my family to locate me in case I get dragged into one of these black sites.
God forbid if the Tribune reported on this.
See Laueren Lyster is on CBS about "paying for hacks." How about the one where the police have this device that can follow you around ...and they let this drug dealer kid in Florida go free rather than have it admitted into court as evidence!
Hmmmmm.
Well, when in doubt invade Russia I guess.
ROFL
I guess in the end all we can do is laugh.
Project Genesis: "where once there was life now there will be new life."
KHAAAAAAAAAN!
Carl Icaaaaahn!
That "device" specifically was a stingray. They keep citing the non-disclosure agreement with the FBI over this stuff.
The reality is -- and they know it -- that it's an unconstitutional search. They're throwing cases rather than allowing the evidence to come out, because once it does a shitload of cases are going to come to light that were all parallel constructed from stingray searches, and once stingray evidence is tainted, it's over.
Here's the story you're referring to, btw.
The other really, really big deal is the cops were not only hiding this from defense attorneys, but also judges, in some cases the judges that were signing the search warrants when they bothered to get them. That is not going to go over well at all for them, especially when a judge finds out he authorized the interception of cell phone calls for hundreds to thousands of completely innocent people without knowing he did it.
I respect your opinions seek but don't think judges will do jack shit. They're even more owned than the rest of us.
OTOH, one MRAP for WV. Haha. Enough hillbillies can hit the drivers viewing slit. Couple of 308s bouncing around inside should do the trick.
Every single "law enforcement" worm that had anything to do with using these things should be tarred, featherd, and put in a cage with as many crips, bloods, and ms-13 homies as can be found.
No American reporters thought the story was newsworthy........
For real. Nothing to see here, move along, try not to be disappeared.
Barry moved Guantanamo to his home turf, how quaint.