Kelly and Amanda with their children      Chicago Tribune Photo Chicago, IL —Last Saturday evening, at one of Chicago’s most visible landmarks at the Daley Center Plaza a young Caucasian couple were enjoying the Picasso sculpture with their two tender-aged daughters.  Suddenly an African-America, ex-convict snatched two year-old, Myla Davis-Green by the arm claiming the little blond girl was his daughter.   Imagine the horror that 31 year-old, Kelly Davis and the girl’s mother Amanda Green , both unarmed experienced fighting for possession of their little toddler and her precious life? After the struggle the kidnapper, James Gates , 55 took off running through streets, alleys and building lobbies.  Davis bravely pursued Gates and finally with police assistance Gates was apprehended blocks away. I can’t imagine the results of the attack would have been if the couple became so frozen with fear that they let the abduction happen.  The m...

Chicago, IL —Within hours 20 people were shot last night in the Windy City and it wasn’t even on the weekend.   The carnage is confined to Chicago’s African-American community that celebrates a culture of violence, drug abuse and general depravity.   Despite having the nation’s most onerous three-decade old total gun bans, shootings here are as prevalent as typical war zones.    50 ward bosses or Aldermen control Chicago.  The wards are relatively small geographic areas that elect their local strongman.  The problem is that in the high crime wards the elected Alderman are by default deeply entrenched in gangs, crime, drugs and general corruption.  That’s just the Chicago way. The 50-ward system worked a lot better before the massive and sudden migration of disenfranchised and poor Blacks from the South of the 1960s.  Horrible social engineering turned those migrants into a needy, ignorant and dependent population that were easi...

Chicago, IL —Chicago was preparing for an epic battle between demonstrators and police at the upcoming G-8 Summit . It would have been expensive, ugly and perhaps very bloody. Businesses expected to be firebombed or at a minimum suffered lots of broken glass and looting. The cops I know had little interest in doing anything but worrying about self-preservation. Protecting businesses on behalf of city officials loathed by the cops during this circus generated little interest and a lot of resentment. Why risk suffering injuries, bogus brutality allegations and criminal Indictment at the hands of that total douchebag State’s Attorney, Anita Alvarez ? My guess was the undermanned, outgunned and demoralized Chicago cops would have simply stood by and watched the city burn. It’s obvious that Rham Emanuel and Barack Obama knew this would become a public relations disaster and jointly moved it to the more easily protected rural area of Camp David. This planned fiasco would have cost Chi...

Chicago, IL —Chicago’s gun registration efforts began in 1968. Since then thousands of guns were registered by the most upstanding and law-abiding citizens. How many crimes were solved because of the registration program you ask? Nobody can cite a single instance of serious crime being solved. Police have looked to see if expired registrations were renewed and made life Hell for those who failed to notice the expirations. Of course the records were used and abused by nosy bureaucrats and cops checking on their own neighbors from time to time. The state has a much more effective Firearms Owner Identification system that citizens are required to obtain before they can possess firearm or ammunition. Those cards, the personal information and photos of the bearers provide law enforcement with plenty of information. The rub here is the people that bother to obtain the FOID cards behave themselves rather well. The FOID records don’t exist for criminals since the...

Berlin, Germany —Recently Barack Obama’s former Chief of Staff and now the mayor-elect of Chicago, Rham Emanuel said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” That savvy remark was made by a very accomplished politician and campaigner. Such was Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment, Dr. Paul Joseph Göbbels . Göbbels was a well-educated educated genius that knew how to shape, contain and exploit public opinion as efficiently as anyone in history. Göbbels played the new media of broadcast radio like a violin as he managed to operate this superb new tool to control very thought of the masses! Here at home Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political cronies did exactly the same thing to a lesser extent. The famous Fireside Chats kept America spellbound as he waged his own propaganda war. Today every Hollywood press agent of political campaign manager must understand how to create and exploit any kind of crisis to get exactly what they want. Yes, the old publicity stunt ...