I got up this morning to a bold orange-colored sky, announcing a glorious Sunday in Michigan City, Indiana.
Mass is at 10 AM at St. Stanislaus, six blocks to the south of my home and up a paved street that was once a sand dune.
I read the news, beginning with Second City Cop, the only reliable source of news in Chicago and run by a mysteriously literate, witty and clear-thinking police officer.
The officer/writer included a Chicago media report of the slaughter of the baby and the wounding of his mother, while they returned home from a laundromat near 60th & Halsted in the Englewood neighborhood. A car pulled up next to their car and seven to eight shots were fired, hitting the infant in the chest and grazing the mother.
Second City Cop knows all too well that no shooter will be brought to trial for this horror, but points directly at who is responsible: Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, her creature States Attorney Kim Foxx, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Chief of Cook County Courts Tim Evans.
These pandering politicians are intellectual lightweights and shameless hucksters, concerned only with playing race-opportunity cards at every deal.
Tom Dart's press people paint him as a really WOKE and thoughtful agent of change, but he should act like a sheriff. Hollywood actor John Cusack already grabbed the role that Dart insists upon playing to the advantage of no one but himself and his connected siblings. Dart has allowed the worst of the worst back on to Chicago's streets and preened before the likes of the oafish Mike Flannery and other propaganda spinners in Chicago's supine media.
Mayor Lightfoot proved herself to be a total incompetent this past May when she gave the green light to looters and Marxist agitators.
Toni Preckwinkle is a proven bigot and a vindictive power wielding oligarch.
Tim Evans is a career Democratic Party hack who parlayed his seat as a do-nothing alderman into a race-baiting grievance-policy autocrat who sends career criminals back to do havoc on Chicago.
The common shield used by each of these vote-sucking hacks is the strawman "Gun Violence."
The car used to drive up to the infant and his mother was driven by a thug. The 7-8 bullets sprayed into the mother and child were helped along by the fingers of thugs.
Guns are inanimate objects.
Politicians and thugs know exactly what they are doing and they could care less about consequences.
I buried a score or more of bright and talented young men when I worked at Leo High School -1995-2016. From Eric Ersery to Jason Riley to Antonio Collins, same old, same old - no one was caught, charged, tried, convicted, or imprisoned. Hey, it's gun violence. No harm, no foul.
I woke up in Michigan City, Indiana. There are shots fired in this Indiana town, but they do not become part of a compelling narrative used to keep grifters elected to office.
I will go to 10 AM Mass at St. Stanislaus and say a prayer for the baby's mother. The child is home with Christ.
Chicago, Cook County and Illinois will do absolutely nothing for the grieving and wounded mother.
Tom Dart will preen for Mike Flannery. Lori Lightfoot will blame Trump. Toni Preckwinkle will raise taxes on everything and anything but her perpetual scowl and contempt for anyone not Toni Preckwinkle, Kim Foxx will whine about police officers leading happy lives and she can't have that, and Tim Evans will open the iron bars and let more thugs out to exact more gun violence.
These politicians are not the only problem, however.
The other problem is that nice people will continue to allow Dart, Lightfoot, Preckwinkle and Foxx to hold public office, Can't do a damn thing about Judge Tim Evans. He ain't going nowhere.
Neither is a former one-year old from Englewood.
