Month: July 2021

I recently came across a Law Review article from September, 2020 titled:

“Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S. Cities: The ‘Minneapolis Effect’ and the Decline in Proactive Policing”

The article was written by Paul G. Cassell of the University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law. 

The following is from the Abstract of this article:

“The thesis of this article is that the recent spikes in homicides have been caused by a “Minneapolis Effect,” similar to the earlier “Ferguson Effect.” Specifically, law enforcement agencies have been forced to divert resources from normal policing to patrolling demonstrations. And even as the anti-police protests have abated, police officers have scaled back on proactive or officer-initiated law enforcement, such as street stops and other forms of policing designed to prevent firearms crimes. If this thesis is correct, it is reasonable to estimate that, as a result of de-policing during June and July 2020, approximately 710 additional victims were murdered and more than 2,800 victims were shot.”

Okay, this is what happened back last summer subsequent to the George Floyd incident, and to me it’s not something surprising, but here’s the hooker … Who are those who are hurt the most from the “Minneapolis Effect?” Take a guess.

The following is from the Daily Caller from a 7/8/21 article entitled:

“The ‘Minneapolis Effect’ Caused Last Year’s Spike in Violent Crime”

“Understanding the cause of last year’s surge in violence is particularly important for saving lives in the future, especially in disadvantaged communities as the overwhelming loss of lives from last year’s shootings occurred in black and brown communities.

For instance, in Chicago, 94% of the homicide victims were black or Latino; in Philadelphia, 81% were black men or boys; and in New York City, 90% were black or brown. Protecting black and brown lives, therefore, will require major cities to rethink how they use officers during troubling times.”

So let me get this straight. Some Democratic mayors and Democratic City Councils want to “defund the police” or at least promote de-policing (including stopping proactive or officer-initiated law enforcement), and the likely outcome of such is that more black and brown people will end up getting shot and killed. Can anybody explain to me how this makes sense ?

This again leads me to my quintessential question, “why do Democrat politicians insist on doing things which are going to harm those among us who are the most vulnerable?”

7/11/21

Speaking to reporters at the White House 7/8/21, Press Secretary Jen Psaki argued criticisms of the Biden administration’s door-to-door Wuhan coronavirus vaccination campaign are a “disservice to the country.”

Wow! “A disservice to the country” … Really! Not getting the vaccine is analogous to being a traitor.

Before the briefing, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra argued it is “absolutely” the government’s business to know if an individual has been vaccinated. 

Wow! … “absolutely!” I maintain that it is absolutely none of the government’s business to know if I am vaccinated. Similarly, it is none of the government business to know if I received the latest flu shot, just as it is none of the government’s business to know my blood type.

Dr. Anthony Fauci vented his frustration with unvaccinated Americans on 7/7/21 during a segment with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in which he called on those who have not been vaccinated to “get over this political statement.”

Wow! “not getting the vaccine is now a political statement.”

Meanwhile President Biden wants to start going door-to-door, inquiring about vaccination status. I can’t wait for them to come to my door. My answer is “it’s none of your business.” (FYI: I am old and so I am vaccinated.)

A person in lunch group wanted to know if it was okay to invite an unvaccinated person to our next luncheon. My answer was an unequivocal, “yes.”

My position on this issue is pretty clear … each individual should be able to do what he/she wants. My choice was to get the vaccine. However I respect those who choose not to be vaccinated, and it doesn’t matter what their reasoning is.

A Twitter user chimed in with a practical solution:

“How about this….those who are worried about the virus and want to get to the vaccine, get the vaccine. Those who aren’t worried, and will accept the risk, don’t get the vaccine. There. Issue solved.”

7/10/21

I’m sure that a lot of you remember the Paul Simon song,  “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.”

The chorus goes like this:

You just slip out the back, Jack

Make a new plan, Stan

You don’t need to be coy, Roy

Just get yourself free

Hop on the bus, Gus

You don’t need to discuss much

Just drop off the key, Lee

And get yourself free

When I heard this song the other day, I thought … I wonder if there are fifty ways that Democrats can ruin their cities. So I thought about that for a bit as I hummed along with Paul Simon:

“it’s really not my habit to intrude

Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued

But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude

There must be fifty ways to  … ruin your Democrat controlled city

Like I wrote about the other day, a Democratic mayor can just refuse to admit there is a problem. Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago, recently said that crime and violence were not out of control in her city … tell that to the scores of people shot there over the Independence Day weekend.

But there are other ways to ruin a city … perhaps fifty ways!

For instance a Democrat run city council can vote to defund the police. Perhaps we should ask Seattle how that is working out.

Or in Minneapolis … letting BLM rioters run free, destroying multiple businesses of those minorities who had been struggling to make it. Just another way to destroy a city.

What about in New York and St. Louis where apparently district attorneys think it’s a good idea to let a significant number of those arrested to just let go free, so that they can commit more crime.

As I continued to sing along with Paul Simon, I decided that in the “how to ruin your city” sweepstakes, the title should go to San Francisco:

“The answer is easy if you take it logically

I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free

There must be fifty ways to …ruin your city.

For in San Francisco everyone is allowed to be free … free to do whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want. 

The reason for San Francisco’s claim to this egregious title is twofold. First off, it is in California, where a theft of up to $950 in merchandise is considered a misdemeanor because of Proposition 47. (Proposition 47, a referendum passed years ago that critics say effectively gives shoplifters and addicts the green light to commit crimes as long as the merchandise they steal or the drugs they take are less than $950 in value.) 

From the National Review:

This May, Walgreens announced that it had closed, to date, 17 stores over the last five years, citing the substantial losses it has suffered from shoplifting in the city. CVS, a competitor, has labeled San Francisco “one of the epicenters of organized retail crime” in the country and closed a number of stores as well.

The consequences of closures and shortened hours are many; both obvious and more downstream. Not only do they result in job losses and make it more difficult for residents, and especially lower-income residents, to purchase needed goods, but they also send an ominous message to other businesses that specific neighborhoods — and even the city writ large — are risky areas to invest or plant roots in.

FYI for those that live outside of California – Proposition 47 was passed by the California voters in 2014, and it just solidifies what I have said many times in the past … Namely, that California voters are just plain ‘dumb’ and this is just another example.

The second reason that “off the scale leftist Democrat San Francisco” wins the nefarious first place title of how to best ruin a city can be summed up in the following letter from one friend to another:

Alex,

We’ve moved and the SF government is to blame.  They have a policy that only gives out traffic tickets to people who steal under a certain number.  Example, steal $800 worth the goods and no repercussions.  Isn’t this insane?  Why haven’t they fixed this law?  I feel sorry for the folks that I know who live in the City or those that visit. 

We used to love to spend a night by Union Square, walk around then go for a nice dinner later that night.  The last time Mary and I did this, we had to step over people shooting up drugs, urinating & defecating on the sidewalk just to walk to the restaurant.  We decided we’d never go back and didn’t.

George

After speaking to someone who lives in the Bay Area, I think that two other Paul Simon songs might better describe the future of San Francisco, namely:

Slip Slidin’ Away

and

The Sound of Silence

And for those who moved to the “Golden City” many years ago, their Paul Simon apropos song may well be“Homeward Bound.”

7/9/21

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Years ago it was suggested that I read “What if” by Randall Munroe. Basically the premise involved “what if” X happened instead of Y, what would have been the consequences. An interesting premise. For example, “what if” Germany had been victorious in WWII? “What if” the South had won the Civil War? You get the idea.

I just read an long article by Claes Ryn, who is a  is professor of politics and founding director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at The Catholic University of America. He claims to be non-partisan, and for a large number of different reasons, his research confirms that there is little doubt that there was a lot of fraud in this 2020 Presidential election. Enough to swing the election to Biden? He admits that he doesn’t know.

[Of interest, recently I copied and pasted a recent blog, “Hmmm, I Didn’t Read That,” on Facebook. (For those that have not read it, it basically cast doubt on the validity of the November election.) I was hoping that I would have been censored by Facebook and consequently had my post taken down, like one of my heroes, but no such luck.]

As I thought about that book, “What If,” my mind wandered …

What if in the next year or two it is confirmed that indeed there was a lot of fraud in these battleground states.What if some of these lawsuits gradually go painstakingly up the judicial ladder, and ultimately get to the Supreme Court. And finally what if these suits that allege fraud, are deemed to be valid by the SCOTUS?

Think about that for a second! This would, in essence, mean that President Biden is a fraudulent President, (heretofore refereed to as the F-President), and Vice President Harris is a fraudulent Vice President, (heretofore referred to as the F-Vice President). What would happen then?

What are the options?

1. A do-over … probably not constitutiona
2. If neither Biden or Harris are valid, would the baton then pass to the Speaker of the House (As of now this would be Pelosi  … or perhaps to the next Speaker of the House after the 2022 elections.)
3. Ignore it (which is basically what most courts have done thus far, and is basically what  SCOTUS did back in January.)
4. Donald Trump would again be President, having been duly elected to a second term.

7/8/21

Who of us isn’t familiar with Sinatra’s rendition of “Chicago?”

A portion of the lyrics ring true with me, as I was born and raised in Chicago … “Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, that’s my home town”

But the Chicago that I grew up in is no longer the same “toddling town”  that it was back in my day …

“Chicago, Chicago that toddling town

Chicago, Chicago I will show you around”

And no, I will not show you around! – Too dangerous. 

A friend who was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago and now lives in the Chicago suburbs has similar feelings. He played football at St. Phillip’s high school on the West Side, but will now “under no circumstances” go anywhere near “State Street, that great street.” – Too dangerous.

One wonders if “The town that Billy Sunday couldn’t shut down” needs to be shut down. Why do I say that? 

Here is the headline from the Chicago Sun Times:

Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2021: 104 shot, 19 of them killed. 13 kids among the wounded

The following is from the body of this Sun Times story:

“In the deadliest and most violent weekend this year in Chicago, over 100 people have been shot over the long Fourth of July weekend, 19 of them killed.

Among the wounded were at least 13 children and two Chicago police supervisors. Five of the kids were shot within nine hours Sunday evening through early Monday.

Both the number of fatal shootings and the number of shootings overall are highs for 2021, according to a Chicago Sun-Times database of shootings. By 5 p.m. Monday, Chicago had recorded 2,000 shootings this year, the Sun-Times’ database shows.”

Further down in this same article I was struck by the following:

“One person was killed and three others wounded in a shooting Sunday night in Austin on the West Side. About 10:45 p.m., two men and a woman were standing in an alley in the first block of North Menard Avenue when a 33-year-old man began shooting at them, police said.”

OMG … I grew up in Austin, and one of my best friends lived in the first block of North Menard Avenue, which is two blocks from where I lived for many years.

An FYI for those of you who are not from Chicago … it is a Democrat run city, and has been so for eons. My parents were Daley Democrats, as was just about everybody back then. (From Wikipedia: Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death in 1976.) While I was growing up Chicago was “a city that worked.” It no longer works. 

The mayor in Chicago these days is another Democrat, Lori Lightfoot, who last month asserted that crime “is not out of control” in the city. The mayor’s response came after a Newsmax reporter asked about “off-the-charts” violent crime. “Not out of control!” Perhaps she should talk with the parents of the children who were shot this past weekend! Putting it politely, she doesn’t seem qualified to be included in the same sentence as Richard J. Daley, as Chicago seems to be the antithesis of being “a city that works.”

I have often asked myself, “On the National scene where are the Democrats?” Almost all of the major cities in the country are run by Democrats, and in just about all of them … chaos! Now granted that Chicago is probably the worst in terms of violence and murders, but the other Democratically run other big cities are not far behind. So I will ask again, “Where are the Democrats? I do not hear them addressing the major issue of inner city violence and mayhem. They are busy spouting off about Transgenders, etc. but do not address the real issues in the Democrat run cities. President Biden can spew hatred towards Republicans under the guise of “unity,” but I have heard zero, zip, nada from him about the mayhem in Chicago. For your information, Joe, those that are getting shot and killed in Chicago are predominantly black and almost assuredly will continue to vote for Democrats, except of course for the children who were shot and killed this past weekend … they will never vote.

To close: “Are there any Democratic politicians out there who have the courage and fortitude to address this issue?”

I’m waiting, but I will not be holding my breath!

7/7/21

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First of we need to understand and comprehend the meaning of the word, “equity.”

From Dictionary.com:

Equity – the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality

In other words everything or everybody is treated the same. For instance, in sports, the offsides call in soccer is the same for either team. The sideline ref is colorblind – he is impartial. The offsides calls are equitable. It doesn’t matter if the jersey color is blue or red … offsides is offsides.

Being more lenient with the offsides rules because team B is slower would not be equitable … “but team B is shorter and thus slower.” Sorry Charlie, that would be inequity, or reverse equity.

Similarly, in baseball, the strike zone is the same for both sides. Making the strike zone selectively bigger or smaller because team A is losing is not equitable … in other words it is not fair and impartial.

Back in the Spring the Biden administration was poised to hand out billions of dollars to what it labelled “socially disadvantaged” farmers, restaurateurs and other business owners hurt by the pandemic. The money would have started flowing to them in early June … provided they didn’t have white skin. Whites were to be out of luck.

Biden’s American Rescue Plan defined “socially disadvantaged” based on skin color and ancestry, not the hardships faced by an individual. Blacks, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asians, Hispanics and Pacific Islanders were included. One group was excluded: whites

One of the Midwestern farmers sued. Adam Faust, was born with spina bifida and has two prosthetic legs. He manages to milk 70 cows a day and grows 200 acres worth of feed crops. He’s in debt, but he didn’t qualify for debt forgiveness under the American Rescue Plan because of his white skin. Equity or reverse equity?

Similarly the Restaurant Revitalization Fund set up under the American Rescue Plan offered restaurateurs up to $5 million to cover losses per location. The law said that for the first 21 days that the funds were to be disbursed, most white men have to go to the back of the line, behind women, veterans and “socially and economically disadvantaged” applicants. 

Philip Greer’s cafe lost $100,000 during the shutdown. Greer was white and sued. On May 18, federal Judge Reed O’Connor ordered the Small Business Administration to halt its discriminatory practices of ‘reverse equity.’ In addition Judge O’Connor determined that Greer is likely to succeed at trial.

Citing Supreme Court precedent, O’Connor cautioned against giving “government license to create a patchwork of racial preferences based on statistical generalizations.” 

Moreover,on 7/1, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted class certification and a preliminary injunction against the United States Department of Agriculture “from providing loan forgiveness to farmers and ranchers on the basis of race or ethnicity,” per an order from Judge Reed O’Connor, who is rapidly becoming one of my heroes. Reverse equity is a ‘no-no!’ Imagine that!

It appears that Judge O’Connor has gone to law school, and also has read the Constitution, as contrasted with the some of the Biden lawyers, who apparently don’t read that well.

7/6/21

The answer to that question depends on which nincompoops you are referring to. If politicians decide to institute a policy that is obviously unconstitutional, should then these same politicians pay for the legal fees when their “enlightened” new policy ends up losing in court. For example when our esteemed California Governor, Gavin Newsom, unlawfully kept churches closed during Covid, while allowing big chain stores to remain open, he was obviously in the wrong. The courts ultimately found for the plaintiffs, and the state of California’s taxpayers have to pay over $2 million in the plaintiff’s legal fees. Come on, man, Gavin Newsom is loaded. Why doesn’t he pay the $2+ million?

On 6/29/21 “city leaders” in the city of San Jose did something equally obtuse. In an unprecedented move that is sure to be challenged in court by gun-rights advocates, city leaders in San Jose voted Tuesday to require gun owners in the city to pay taxpayers for the public costs incurred by criminal gun violence.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

“In a unanimous vote Tuesday night (6/29/21), the progressive San Jose City Council passed ordinances to “require every gun owner to buy liability insurance coverage for their firearms” and “pay a fee to compensate taxpayers for the emergency medical and police responses to gun-related injuries and deaths.”

Democratic Mayor Sam Liccardo praised the measures and reportedly argued that gun owners who refuse to comply with the new rules would have their weapons seized.

At least one gun-rights group, the Firearms Policy Coalition, is already planning legal action. The gun-rights group went on to refute each piece of the 10-point plan, explaining why each specific measure of the ordinances is unconstitutional.

Let me get this straight:

The nincompoops in San Jose, including the City Council and the Mayor, passed an obviously unconstitutional ordinance. This ordinance will go to court, and the plaintiffs (the Firearms Policy Coalition) will win. In all likelihood San Jose will be required to pay court costs. In a situation as obvious as this, should the nincompoops pay? But who are the real nincompoops here? Is “nincompoopedness” limited to just these elected officials? What about those in San Jose who voted to elect both the City Council and the Mayor? Are they also nincompoops?  I say, ‘yes!’ However, in the future, those in San Jose who vote to re-elect these same uber liberal nincompoop politicians, who think that it is okay to waste the taxpayers money – these future voters will be the real NINCOMPOOPS!

7/5/21

Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who won the 100 meter dash in the Olympic trials last month, violated the anti-drug policy set by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympic Committee-affiliated body that monitors the drug use by global competitors.

She is twenty-one years old. Did she pout and complain? … No.

She is a female. Did she hint that the decision was based on misogyny by the testing agency? … No.

She is African-American. Did she claim “racism” by the International Olympic Committee (the IOC)? … No.

Rather on 7/2/21 she explained her reasoning for marijuana use.

She said that she resorted to marijuana use to cope with the trauma that ensued following the death of her mother.

“We all have our different struggles, we all have our different things we deal with, but to put on a face and have to go out in front of the world and put on a face and hide my pain,” Richardson said on NBC’s “Today” show. “Who are you? Who am I to tell you how to cope when you’re dealing with a pain or you’re dealing with a struggle that you’ve never experienced before or that you never thought you’d have to deal with. Who am I to tell you how to cope? Who am I to tell you you’re wrong for hurting?”

“This is just one Games. I’m 21, I’m very young. … I have plenty of Games left in me to compete in and I have plenty of talent that backs me up, because everything I do comes from me naturally. No steroid, no anything,” she said. “This incident was about marijuana, so after my sanction is up I’ll be back and able to compete, and every single time I step on the track I’ll be ready for whatever anti-doping agency to come and get what it is that they need.”

“Don’t judge me, because I am human… I just happen to run a little faster.”

Contrast the response of Ms. Richardson with the following on Twitter, also on 7/2/21 :

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the suspension of U.S. track runner Sha’Carri Richardson from the Olympics a form of “racist” policy. Ocasio-Cortez called the criminalization of marijuana a “racist” and “colonial” policy and said the IOC should overturn Richardson’s suspension.

Does anyone think that AOC knows anything about the IOC? To me she is merely a typical bloviating and blathering politician who apparently does not engage her brain before she speaks. On the other hand Sha’Carri Richardson’s response was that of a truly upstanding individual. Her fortitude in this difficult situation demonstrates her character. If I were a businessman, I would hire Ms. Richardson in a nanosecond, whereas you couldn’t force me to hire Ms. Ocasio-Cortez even as a bartender.

7/4/21

I awoke with a start this morning with a nightmare of sorts. I dreamt that the headline in my local paper read, “City Shut Down; Tortillas Found on City Bus.”  OMG – “this is scary,” I thought to myself. 

Too far out, you might say, but you do not live in San Diego where there has been a huge hubbub about a recent alleged racial incident. This alleged racial incident involved the throwing of tortillas at a predominantly Hispanic high school basketball team after a contentious close basketball game. How many tortillas were thrown to warrant two consecutive front page headlines in my local newspaper? Hundreds? Fifty? Err, no, but “at least two!” OMG! Two tortillas! 

How many were injured? First of all being injured by a tortilla is, for all practical purposes, a palindrome in and off itself. Furthermore, if anyone received as much as a scratch from a thrown tortilla, that would have been the headline. To me it is uncertain whether anybody was actually hit by one of these flour projectiles … again there is no mention of anybody actually being hit much less injured by one these dangerous tortillas.

Those of you who do not live in California may well be shaking your heads at this point Throwing tortillas? WTF! Barbaric? Childish? In fact at some schools, University of California, Santa Barbara, in particular, throwing tortillas after a sporting event is a tradition …  as Tevye  in Fiddler on the Roof, sang, “Tradition, tradition, tradition!”in fact it has been a tradition at UCSB for many, many years! A racist tradition? No! at least not according to past students at UCSB who actually tossed celebratory tortillas after sporting events. In fact in this instance, the tortillas were brought to game by a prior UCSB graduate for, in his own words, as a means of celebration. In even more of an irony, the gentleman who supplied the tortillas was part Hispanic.

After the alleged racial incident the typical feeding frenzy amongst local politicians predictably occurred. Three local Hispanic politicians then inflamed the situation by calling for the winning team to be stripped of their title. BTW, it is extremely unlikely that any of these politicians were within ten miles of the incident, but of course, in this day and age, that doesn’t really matter. (“Let’s just inflame the situation.”)

Gente Unida, a human rights border coalition then chimed in. What was their horse in this race? The incident had nothing to do with the border and nothing to do with illegal immigrants. (“Who cares, let’s just inflame the situation.”)

North County Equity and Justice Coalition also chimed in: revocation of Coronado’s championship is “exactly what needed to happen.” Of course that makes perfect sense … Not! Was anybody from this organization at the game? Of course not, but that doesn’t really matter, does it? 

This organization is now merely another arm of “cancel culture,” … inflame, inflame, inflame!

But the cancel culture disciples are everywhere. The Coronado Unified School Board, in a closed meeting, immediately fired the basketball coach. Why a closed meeting? Why come to judgement on the coach within three days? (Shhh! We are cancel culture and we can do what we want!) Perhaps the fired coach will seek legal counsel, and find out what actually occurred in the closed school board meeting.

Then within another day the statewide California Interscolastic  Federation (CIF), not to be outdone on the cancel culture scale, revoked Coronado’s Regional Basketball Championship, and placed the school’s athletic program on probation until 2024! (Punish future Coronado athletes for years into the future. Sounds about right for the cancel culture enthusiasts.)

I sent a letter-to-editor to my local paper concerning their front page stories on this incident. I basically asked if they were purposely trying to inflame the situation by making it front page news. No response, and, of course, my letter was not printed.

FYI: There was a follow up to that nightmare headline that awakened me this morning:

The second headline read: “Three more bus drivers fired after tortillas found on their buses.”

7/3/21

This is America, “land of the free, home of the brave,” or so I had thought. The First Amendment, which includes freedom of speech, is a right that we all have … correct? The USA is not an autocratic country … right?  Err, correct … except apparently in Mount Prospect, Illinois. (FYI: Mount Prospect is a suburban town of about 50,000, northwest of Chicago. It is in Cook County, and close to O’Hare Field.) It seems that in this small town you have to be very, very careful of what you say, and to whom you say it to. If you happen to say something that a certain group in Mount Prospect doesn’t like … be careful, be very careful as cancel culture zealots live there, and you could loose your job, etc. 

So what’s new? Cancel culture zealots are everywhere. Why single out Mount Prospect?  Well, it appears that in Mount Prospect, these cancel culture zealots are possibly liars … Imagine that! A new subgroup of cancel culture (CC) that from now on perhaps we could just refer to as Mount Prospect cancel culture (MPCC). Before we further malign Mount Prospect, Illinois, let’s review what happened to Lisa Schaps, a police officer in Mount Prospect.

Officer Lisa Schaps — who has served the department for almost 15 years and was the school resource officer(SRO) at Prospect High School — addressed the village board June 15 regarding concerns about local officers’ Thin Blue Line shoulder patch, according to Journal & Topics, an outlet that covers Chicago’s northwest suburbs.

Schaps said the Thin Blue Line — which many on the left say carries racist meanings — “was never about hate. It was never about oppression,” the outlet said.

“We are good people. We are here to serve and protect, and I think that if you judge us on the actions of a few bad officers or groups that have taken our flag and used that, it is no different than judging somebody on the color of their skin on their religion or on their sexual preferences,” she added, according to Journal & Topics.

Then Schaps appeared on “Fox & Friends” last week to make her case to a national audience about the Thin Blue Line shoulder patch.

“It’s about honor. It’s about pride. It’s about kinship,” she said during that segment. “You know, I even said ‘love.’ I’ve got children. I’ve got family … it’s all of those things, and it’s just really important to us.”

Well, of course, the MPCC was not going to stand for that! Imagine someone was voicing an opinion in the “Land of the free.” How dare that woman say something that MPCC didn’t like! Enough is enough!

Well, things apparently came to a head for the school — and Schaps literally was called to the principal’s office for a meeting, according to Mount Prospect Police Chief John Koziol, who told Fox News Thursday that he attended the meeting with Schaps.

The principal explained he and the district had received complaints. Complaints from whom ? No answer !!!!

As Koziol told the cable news network that the principal said, “We’re past all that; we want a new SRO. We want Lisa gone.”

So some of you may ask, “What’s  the big deal? Just another example of CC in all of its splendor!” 

Dave Berry, interim communications supervisor of Township High School District 214, told the cable news network that “we did recommend the consideration of having a different officer assigned to this school in order for our focus to remain on our students.”

Berry added to Fox News that “the school does not have the authority to fire or dismiss a school resource officer, so any assertion that the school terminated the school resource officer is not correct or accurate.”

So who had Officer Schaps removed from her SRO position?

The Chief of Police, John Kozial went on Fox News to state that he was blindsided. The difference here in Mount Prosoect is that no one has the balls to admit that he/she/they caved to CC. Was it the village board, the school board, the school principal, or someone else???? As a result we now have ‘MPCC’ – a group of cancel culture chickens, who apparently lack the gene for “honesty,” and in addition will not admit that they also lack the gene for “fortitude.”

For those who live in Mount Prospect there may be a silver lining to this … At least you do not have to worry about there being any testosterone in your water.

7/2/21