Posted on 09/13/2009 10:31:18 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Once again we're reminded that political corruption has a cost and that the Chicago Way is not some game or performance art by jesters. On Saturday, we were reminded by Christopher Kelly, friend to politicians. He was pronounced dead after taking an overdose of medication, just days after he pleaded guilty to more federal corruption charges. It happens every so often, that we're reminded. * * * But it is in our nature to forget, because the dead aren't active and our politicians are awfully busy. Their mouthpieces will tell us, as they've told us in the past, that a little corruption really isn't that bad, that a little graft, like a little patronage abuse, is just the grease that makes things work. * * * Whether his death was a suicide or something else is not yet known. Either way, we should all take a few moments to pray for his eternal soul. It's also not known if politicians are breathing sighs of relief now that Kelly's gone. They're not going to make speeches to tell us. But I've got a feeling that some people who know their way around Daley's Department of Aviation and the state capitol and city and state contracts are sure breathing a lot easier. In the next few days, some mouthpiece, perhaps even a politician, will start spinning that if the feds hadn't pressured him to talk, Kelly would be alive. And when that happens, you should see it for what it is: a lie. It's the sound of corruption whispering in your ear, and you'll have to decide whether you should take some responsibility. * * * A man is dead. And the Chicago Way is not a game.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
—John Kass — one of the few bright spots in the Chicago cesspool—
Wonder how many thugs it took to force a whole bottle of aspirin down his throat?
I suspect Kass is right about this... I'm soooooo thankful I don't live in Chicago.
They probably threatened his family - and he took them voluntarily. That's within the "chicago way" - no one out side of the thugs will ever know the full truth: - ACONRish )
The culture of government corruption when it is pervasive as in many countries will eventually bring down democratic ones where corruption is given a free pass, namely our own country and especially now.
Other countries where corruption has become a way of life and a way to conduct business are Mexico, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Great Britain...just to name a few.
What is going on with Rezko? He hasn’t been sentenced..so I strongly suspect that they are using that not to get him to talk..but to prevent him from talking about the wrong thing..Obama.
The DemocRat party is a criminal enterprise..and we the people need to take them down.
My favorite sign from 912 was..”We came unarmed—this time.”
If this guy had half a brain, he wrote down a bunch of information for release in the event something happened to him. Of course, CNN will say it’s a forgery.
In a fit of despair he shot himself in the back of the head - three times.
exactly they spat out the names , addresses, places of work, photos . etc... of all his kids and relatives .Funny how the Daley Run Chi Tribune finds it normal to take an overdose in a isolated lumber yard off a freeway exit.
...”Unarmed, this time.” We have a saying here in Lex, KY at rallies, Obama, fear this!!!
Dems are a criminal organization.
The way we'll know for sure if the MSM starts running lots of stories about white or middle class crime. It's what dems do when we've got them dead to rights - they get the MSM to do a "everyone does it" series.
It should get interesting what with the Chicago and ACORN stuff - they've got lots to try to equalize.
That said, there's been lots of heroic people in the Chicago newspapers who have taken the thugs on... hats off to those people.
I can see scenarios where corrupt liberals, fearing exposure, criminal prosecution or even death from other liberals to keep their knowledge a deep dark secret, start keeping documented evidence of their own corrupt practices as well as enumerating the corruption of other liberals, naming names and documenting their illegal activities so that if anything happens to these individuals, namely their “untimely” deaths, there will be a record to prosecute the ones that are probably responsible for their various demises.
Good grief. I didn't know that little detail.
The way to do it would be to have papers automatically sent to a solid investigative reporter -one unable to be intimidate... in the event of death...
If you think that is odd, how about this one: The overdose was of aspirin, according to the hospital where he died.
Here’s the details from the CHICAGO TRIBUNE:
“Authorities said Kelly was in his 2007 Cadillac Escalade in the parking lot of a lumber yard at 173rd Street and Cicero Avenue in Country Club Hills — a few miles from his Markham office — Friday night when he began vomiting. Sources said a girlfriend of Kelly’s drove him to nearby Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County. The Escalade remained there Saturday afternoon, guarded by police.
A hospital spokesman said Kelly arrived at 11:15 p.m. and was treated and stabilized. But doctors determined he needed more care and transferred him to Stroger Hospital in Chicago, about 25 miles away.
Kelly arrived at Stroger by private ambulance at 5:15 a.m., hospital spokesman Marcel Bright said. Kelly was treated for several hours but pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m., Bright said.
Investigators were still at the empty Forest Lumber yard Saturday night as they looked for evidence. The remote spot, opposite insect-filled cornfields near Interstate Highways 57 and 80, was taped off as officers used flashlights to search on hands and knees.
Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch said detectives were looking for cigarette butts or anything else that might be traced to potential witnesses.
Welch said authorities are investigating whether Kelly overdosed, possibly on over-the-counter medicines. The mayor also said Kelly vomited in the lumber yard’s parking lot.”
Really? I heard that it was a kitchen accident - he fell on a carving knife (37 times).
Once again, I must remind everyone.
This guy had some HUGE gambling debts he owed to LV casinos.
They did to him what they do to anyone who doesn’t pay up.
And they knew he couldn’t pay up, and was going to jail.
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