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« Thoughts on picking a non-judge for the Supreme Court | Main | Can we run this guy for President? »

Mayor Daley talks of suing in the World Court

Posted by David Hardy · 28 April 2010 09:04 AM

Story here. I suppose narcissism has difficulty seeing limits....

Hat tip to Sixgun Sarah....

7 Comments | Leave a comment

WPZ | April 28, 2010 11:29 AM | Reply

Daley (known around these parts as Shortshanks) is nothing if not effective.
And determined. He won't stop. He never will, not until his last breath.
He's spending money that's not his, coming from, as far as he's concerned, a bottomless well. It's thought that he might still be hoarding tens of millions of dollars left over from the Olympics failure, not to mention other sources such as the likes of the Skyway and parking meters sales.
It's worse because it's a two-headed demon.
One, he really does pathologically loathe guns and people being allowed to possess them, in a deep, disturbing way.
Two, the topic is an excellent and functional screen to cover up the truly awful condition of the Cook County justice system.
The police department is so undermanned even the cops are getting scared. Since the PD offers no political leverage or value to him, he lets it rot without a bit of concern.
The court system is broken and disintegrating. Once a suspect does finally get through, heaven knows what might happen to him. Too often, it's probation or parole and back out to harm again.
He's the one in charge of it all, and has been for decades, but he keeps permanently ahead of the blame.
The insularity of the whole situation is such that he has little concern anymore for anything but his image (vis-a-vis his freedom to operate) and the various machinations of money-handling that power the whole mess.
The Outfit, the hippie-lefties, the unions, the political class, the connected businesses, it's all one big melded organism.
He'll go to the World Court if there's even a slim chance of doing so:
Imposing a crushing financial load on firearms companies, and;
He keeps getting the good press from his dutiful sycophants in the "press".
Basically, he would have nothing to lose but something to gain.
What, he'd worry about opprobrium from the outside world after the Olympics debacle?

jdberger | April 28, 2010 11:32 AM | Reply

There's a "1st Ammendment (sic) right not to be shot."?

Talk about activist judges.....

robin | April 28, 2010 12:50 PM | Reply

This idiot Daley and all of the "Global Cities Forum" are trying to use an organization from outside the US to attack and subjugate those inside the US. He is a traitorous, seditious SOB. If he wants my guns so bad, I say "Molon Labe".

Ken | April 28, 2010 2:21 PM | Reply

While it's difficult to believe listening to the idiocy he espouses, he's actually intelligent enough that this idea is a complete non-starter. It does, however, serve two purposes. First, it gets his name in the headlines again as the supposed protector of civilization. Second, it provides a forum to repeat the patently false assertion that 85% of the guns used in crimes in Mexico come from US dealers.

JohnC | April 28, 2010 4:35 PM | Reply

The World Court is a UN creation. Even a wack-job like Daley and the rest of his wacked-out mayor buddies are smart enough to know that they do not qualify as a UN state in order to invoke ICJ jurisdiction over themselves and private corporations.

But hey, he got ink in one hometown paper. But you have to wonder how many many more times can dead Chicagoans and folks with multiple voting registrations elect this guy?

Letalis Maximus, Esq. | April 28, 2010 6:43 PM | Reply

The first poster has it right. Chicago is a Made Guy Town. And Daley is the top Made Guy. The Made Guys have it "made" in Chicago, and its not all Dems. The GOP guys get their small piece of the pie, too, and they don't work too hard to upset the apple cart. Its all rigged, its all fixed. The tax sheep pay for it all and get precious little in return. But, you know how it goes: "If God did not want them to be sheared, He would not have made them sheep."

JKB | April 28, 2010 9:08 PM | Reply

Of course, the fact that every gun that crosses the US border or is re-shipped requires a license from the Department of State, the fact that no license will be issued for Mexico without an import license from the Mexican government, the fact that the US Government was the straw buyer for many of these guns given to Mexico, the fact that many of the guns are "illegal" because the Mexican government did not properly secure their weapons, the fact that these countries or even one of these cities' law enforcement might want to purchase guns from the manufacturers in the future, all add up to make getting the gun manufacturers in court is going to be very problematic. And we'll ignore that gun sales are an element of foreign policy which is reserved for the President and not some mayor.

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