There's all kinds of stuff going on in Windy City: the cops spent a million dollars on some all-new, all-cool equipment for the NATO event, including a couple of those $20,000 sonic cannons to blast the eardrums of any wayward "protesters". Not that that's apt to do all that much to folks like the 75-year-old granny from Portland; she's probably mostly deaf anyway. In any case, she appears to be one of the rare older folks who can't think of anything productive to do, so she spends a lot of time "protesting" like a good little sheep.
she said her youngest child called her “hero” but there were others in her family who had differing points of view.
Which pretty much sums up the "Keep Portland Weird" crowd....
Anyway, while she's out there in her Depends™ with her walker and her sign, her buddies charged into a restaurant armed with hammers and steel batons for a little of the old ultraviolence:
Police call the melee at the restaurant a targeted assault by a mob that Winston said wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.
Tinley Park police had five suspected assailants in custody, and Winston said 18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into the restaurant.
Surely, that'll get the attention of the greedy NATO folks. But they were probably doing it "for Trayvon". Yeah, that's the ticket.
Meanwhile, in order to demonstrate the fact that there's no such thing as too much security, Chicago cops raided an apartment, arresting three on charges of attempted terrorism, and confiscated all of the beer home-brewing equipment they found in there. Now, there's great beer, good beer, and Schludwiller - but even the latter doesn't qualify as a terror threat to most reasonable people. Heck, 20-something hipsters gotta have something they can afford after a hard day of brewing up double-tall-skinny lattes.
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