8/26/2012, 3:35 am
With Dear Leader's rising to eminence in 2008 from the bowels of Chitcago Chicago, the country, and ultimately the world, was finally exposed to what is now known as "The Chicago Way". Dear Leader amassed many experts of the Chicago Way to significant positions in his regime administration. However, there are those at home in Crook Cook County who serve not only the proles, but also as a reminder of those values we hold dear and close to our hearts that cry out "CHICAGO!"
To recap, earler this summer, the Tiny Dancer known as "Rahm Emanuelle", declared in the face of religious intolerance and X-tian bigotry that same sex marriage IS "Chicago Values". When he was challenged by a bigoted Catholic bishop about "defining" those values, Rahmbo merely quipped he was only "expressing" them. When Rahm decriminalized small amounts of marijuana to only being issued a ticket for possession, he was "expressing" Chicago Values™. When every weekend is a literal bloodbath of shootings and murders, Rahm comes forth on Monday morning "expressing" more Chicago Values™ that he won't tolerate such things anymore. That alone reflects the caring and concern; the good intentions and authority to back them up, that moves many a mighty mountain. When Rahm "expresses", shit things happen.
The expressing of Chicago Values™ isn't only limited to just the Tiny Dancer. It's expressed by other apparatchiks for the cause public servants. One such servant is the Crook Cook County Board President Toni Prickwinkle.
In a recent bruhaha here in the armpit of American politics comes this truly great example of Chicago Values expression:
During a conference led by former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar in downstate Champaign, Ill., Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle stated that Reagan deserves "a special place in hell" for his drug policy and the "war on drugs" that followed in its wake, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with that. We all hate Ray-gun. He's the cause of many a pang and the reason O'bama has a multi-trillion dollar debt today. It doesn't matter that Ronnie was a fellow Illinoizian like Prickwinkle. He still SUCKS. And so did his crappy "war on drugs" SUCK too.
Prickwinkle just doesn't leave it at that. Oh, NO! She qualifies with pure Chicago Values™.
Tuesday did not mark the first time that Preckwinkle has lashed out against U.S. drug policy. During a rally last year, she said the United States' war on drugs "has failed" in its aim to stymy drug use and has, instead, resulted in mass incarceration.
The war on drugs comes, Preckwinkle continued last June, "at a tremendous social and economic cost to all of us. The cost is too great to continue fighting this war on drugs with so little success."
Later that month, Cook County's chief executive urged Chicago police officers to stop making low-level drug possession arrests, a cause that Mayor Rahm Emanuel took up when he introduced a marijuana ticketing ordinance earlier this year.
The mayor's ordinance called for the city's police force to have the option to ticket those caught with as much as 15 grams of marijuana, rather than arresting them -- unless they are caught in public or on schools grounds or in a public park.
The ordinance was approved by the City Council in a 43-3 vote in June and went into effect earlier this month.
Preckwinkle previously called the ordinance "a step in the right direction" that would "help reduce the jail population, save money for taxpayers and eliminate criminal justice disparities."
Prickwinkle makes her brilliant point that a "failed" war on drugs really only stems on the fact that there are troublesome standards that define what "failure" is. The remedy and solution is to remove those roadblock "standards" and replace them with Chicago Values™. And all that taxpayer money wasted to incarcerate criminals victims of more police brutality and unjust drug related arrests could be better used to rehab them and coddle them back into society. That is what TRUE compassion looks like, comrades! Good intentions, no consequences for actions and a good use of taxpayer money to instill the proper Chicago Values™ as they were meant to be.
