Bishop Thomas Paprocki said that Joe Biden makes a βmockery of our Catholic faithβ by using sacred symbols while promoting abortion.
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As police finally clear the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University appeases its protesting occupiers, the Democratic National Convention set for August in the Windy City ticks ever closer.Β
Unsatiated protesters may have been cleared from some of their camps at college campuses, but the more lucrative target of national Democratsβ gathering to renominate President Joe Biden has many worried that the protests may only be getting started.
Although the two Chicago universities caved weakly to the strange demands of the anti-Israel protesters, Biden has not been well-received by the pro-Hamas youth.
The agitatorsβ slapping Biden with the nickname βGenocide Joeβ and their joining pro-Israel protesters at UCLA and University of Alabama in chants of βFβ Joe Bidenβ led many to suspect that stormy weather is in store for a left-wing political convention that is little more than three months away.
Bidenβs unpopularity with radical groups on the political and cultural Left has been largely attributed to his attempt to βsplit the babyβ by backing Israel in its war against Hamas while criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuβs methods, placing conditions on aid to Americaβs biggest Middle Eastern ally, and sympathizing with anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protesters.
Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, slaughtering 1,200, torturing or raping many first, and taking over 200 hostages. Ever since, the Israeli military has targeted the adjacent Gaza Stripβwhere Hamas is the elected government and uses civilians as shieldsβwith the goal of βeradicatingβ the terrorist group.
The Biden administration has warned Israel not to invade Rafah, the southern region of the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, where the last four regiments of Hamas are believed to hold dozens of hostages, including five American citizens.
Anti-Israel protesters have set up encampments on public and private university campuses around the nation, often trespassing and vandalizing on campus as well asΒ intimidating, obstructing, and entrapping Jewish students.Β
Although the published rationale for these protests varies from encampment to encampment, most center on the rage of left-wing students that their university is doing business with businesses that do business with (or appear to do business with) Israel.
Protesters at the University of Chicago and Northwestern demanded full-ride scholarships for Palestinian students, HIV tests, medical supplies for treating combat wounds, dental dams, Plan B, and other contraceptives.
Northwestern reportedly βpaid offβ some protesters by agreeing to give scholarships to five Palestinian students and special pay to Palestinian staff for two years. School administrators also agreed to reestablish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility that would allow students and staff to shame the university officially for accepting βIsraeli or Israel-adjacent endowments,β and to allow protesters to continue their encampment until at least June 1.
Now Northwestern is facing a lawsuit and two civil rights complaints over concessions to the leaders of theΒ anti-Israel encampments. The plaintiffs claim that Northwestern failed to βfulfill a modest core promiseβ to students that all βstudent peers and faculty will be governed by rulesβ by looking the other way when certain groups participated in antisemitic harassment.
Although the encampment at the University of Chicago was cleared by police Tuesday morning, students and faculty members have proclaimed their willingness to be arrested while βprotesting for Palestine.β
Given the inflammatory support for these anti-Israel protests from far-left House Democrats such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Andre Carson of Indiana, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington, itβs unlikely that organizers of the Democratic National Convention would be able to discourage these anti-Israel protesters from setting up camp outside United Center for the duration of the convention Aug. 19 to 22.
One need not look back too far to recall the upheaval at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when Vietnam War protesters tangled with police was upheaved by protesters against the Vietnam War.Β
At the time, 56 years ago, Illinois Gov. Samuel Shapiro, a Democrat, honored a request from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, also a Democrat, to deploy the Illinois National Guard to help provide convention security. It is unlikely that todayβs mayor, Democrat Brandon Johnson, would ask for the Guard to be deployed.
In a press conference Friday, Johnson told reporters that βindividuals who wish to demonstrate β¦ work within parameters.β But the mayor declined to outline what βparametersβ meant, or whether he would request police or Guard assistance.
If such a protest turned out to be as violent as the βSummer of Loveβ in 2020, in which entire city blocks were burned by Black Lives Matter-inspired rioters, then this Democratic National Convention could turn very nasty very quickly.
Last month, representatives of 75 organizations gathered in Chicago to plan disruptions at Augustβs convention.
Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, told a screaming crowd: βThis is Chicago, [expletive] it, weβve got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome!β
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A 32-year-old police officer in Gurnee, Illinois, is accused of stealing items from a local Walmart on Sunday afternoon.
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The law firm representing Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard (D) has requested to withdraw from several lawsuits involving Henyard and the Village of Dolton after allegedly not being paid.
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The Chicago Police Department has made more than 1,000 arrests of Venezuelan migrants in the first three months of 2024, crime dataΒ reveals.
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The family of a slain Chicago police officer demanded that Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker stay away from his funeral.
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Illinois politicians voiced their skepticism of the NFL Chicago Bears' proposed stadium that would need $2.3 billion in public funds, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) saying there are higher "priorities" for taxpayers.
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Sanctuary states are planning to dish out billions in American taxpayer dollars to migrants in 2024, offering housing, food, and health care.
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A man in Chicago is accused of an attempted carjacking that happened less than a month after he was placed on pretrial release.
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A public library in Illinois will be hosting a "pronoun" seminar for children considering cross-dressing and sex-change surgeries.
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FBI authorities served subpoenas at Illinois' Dolton Village Hall onΒ Friday afternoon as Mayor Tiffany Henyard (D) fields corruption accusations, per Fox 32.
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A Chicago woman was sentenced to 50 years behind bars for strangling a pregnant 19-year-old and cutting the baby from her womb.
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Tiffany Henyard is accused of covering up an alleged sexual assault that one of her colleagues committed against an employee.
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