--- On Sun, 11/23/08, Greg Boozell <gboozell at juno.com> wrote:
> From: Greg Boozell <gboozell at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Corruption only happens in Venezuela and its Russian allies...
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 3:39 PM
> Let's not forget about the assassination of Fred Hampton
> and Mark Clark - December 4, 1969 by the CPD...or the 1937
> Memorial Day Massacre...or the Haymarket Tragedy in 1886...
>
> Greg
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> > Not any more, true. Not so long ago, yes.
> > Btw you may have heard that the US attorney just
> indicted torture cop Cmder Jon Burge, whose "aggressive
> interrogation techniques" sends over a hundred people
> to jail and several to death row, and holds the rare
> distinction of being, along with his #2, the only ranking
> cop ever fired for abuse of suspects. He was indicted for
> perjury because he lied about his misconduct ins deposition
> in a civil suit; he thought he was safe because the Statute
> of Limitations had run on the underlying crimes. Normally
> the feds don't bother to go after you for perjury in a
> civil suit, but Burge is special. Look him up.
> >
> > Then there was Bill Hanrahan, Chief of Detectives,
> multiply decorated, respected, powerful -- he went down
> because he was running a jewel theft operation, hitting the
> cars and display cases of salesmen for expensive watches and
> the like.
> >
> > I sent aside the normal cops who steal drugs and drug
> money from dealers. Shall we say say if they bust a dealer
> with 30 keys and $250K, about 27 keys and $200K, maybe, are
> going to show up in the evidence room, which is itself
> pretty leaky. This is the CPD, the feds are honest and so,
> far as I know, are the State Police.
> >
> > In addition, of course. if you want a contract or
> permit to, for example, expand your hospital, you gotta pay
> to play. That's why the US Attorney has been keeping so
> busy sending our governors to the slammer (former one's
> in jail for using the state as a racketeering enterprise,
> current one is going to be going down) and also their
> cronies. Da Mare's cronies too, but even Pat Fitzgerald
> (the US Atty) isn't going to nail Da Mare. He's too
> smart and careful. And not greedy. All he cares about is
> power.
> >
> > Illinois and Louisiana compete for the title of the
> crookedest state in the Union. Some years ago, when KKK-Nazi
> lunatic David Duke captured the Louisiana GOP gubernatorial
> nomination, there were bumper stickers for his opponent,
> Edwin (?) Edwards, saying: Vote For The Crook, Here of
> course you don't have the choice not to vote for a crook
> unless you vote Green, which is sort of pointless. Last
> election I voted for Obama, whom I actually think is not a
> crook, and the Democrat for State's Attorney, cause in
> my work who's the SA actually matters, and otherwise
> straight Green.
> >
> >
> >
>
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