Posted on 05/18/2020 4:19:33 AM PDT by chicagolady
What a travesty on so many levels.
As reported by CBS Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a parking ban from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood of Philadelphia Romanian Church in response to its intention to hold services.
On Sunday morning the tow trucks descended – not just on churchgoers, but on residents and everybody else, and on a private lot used by parishioners. Read this from Second City Cop:
City tow trucks arrived and yanked the vehicles of every single resident, including numerous elderly people and a more than a few nurses coming in from the night shifts and impounded them for violation of the signs that got posted Saturday with under twenty-four hours’ notice. The city also closed the private lot that the church used for parishioners in some half-assed attempt to force church-goers to park on the streets, streets listed as temporary tow zones to snatch their cars, too.
So all the residents WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH are on the hook for tickets and towing and damages to their cars – because we all know exactly how gently City tow drivers are with someone else’s property.
Perhaps Lightfoot doesn’t share the view that civil liberties come not from her hand or the hand of Governor JB Pritzker. The church’s pastor said this: “The mayor is inciting hate against the church which is very sad. A lot of our members risked their lives to escape Communism, only to find it germinating in 2020 under Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago.”
Philadelphia Romanian Church in Chicago He continued: “We prayed for the mayor and the governor almost every evening since March 19. We will continue to pray for them. Yet, we are also aware of our constitutional rights. Their effort to intimidate us will make us stronger.”
And let’s hope Lightfoot will explain her sense of justice in punishing everybody in the neighborhood by having their cars banged up and towed to the city’s infamous pound.
Find the rebels’ neighborhood and bulldoze it, that’s sort of the thinking. Nobody should be surprised because Prtizker is doing the same. He threatened to withhold federal money from any municipality that defies his emergency order. Tough luck even for residents in those communities who support Pritzker’s order. Some justice.
And some Chicagoans — no doubt including some who had their cars towed — indeed are on Pritzker’s side. They even had their own protest, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, against churchgoers at Philadelphia Romanian and some other churches. This “is really indicative of a clear, right-wing cult mentality that they have,” one of the protesters said. “They would rather keep themselves in business, keep themselves earning money, instead of caring about the residents of this neighborhood, which many of them, including the pastor, are not a part of.”
A fascinating aspect of the shutdown is who have been among those most frequently standing up for civil liberties: cops!
Around the state, many police chiefs and other enforcement officials have said they won’t enforce Pritzker’s emergency order. The Illinois Sheriffs” Association, in response to Pritzker’s threats to those who won’t enforce his order, said, “It is outrageous that the Governor is threatening retaliation against these leaders and the men and women of their offices. He is insulting heroic police officers, corrections officers and local voters.”
So, whatever you call what’s become of Illinois, don’t call it a “police state” because so many of our police want no part of any such thing.
And Second City Cop is a run blog by current and former Chicago police officers. They wrote the segment above, plus harsher language too salty to quote here. About Lightfoot’s towing they concluded:
It should also be a clarion call to the churches across the city as to how far the left will go to crush the faithful of all denominations. You are only useful to them as far as you obey orders and do what you’re told. If you don’t speak up now, expect the same to happen to you in short order.
Bravo.
Time to take the fight to the city. Burn all tow trucks owned by the City.
Just like new gun laws. They want to turn law abiding citizens into criminals.
AG Barr has / is / will do nothing but suck on his bagpipe and make speeches.
Many of these Romanians remember Nicolae Ceausescu. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a petty Ceausescu wannabe, but she doesn’t have the power to go full communist tyrant . . . yet. So long as decent people stand up to the totalitarian left, these thugs will never have the absolute control that they dream of.
Someone’s going to have to be appointed as a referee to determine when the Second Civil War begins, or began.
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Anyone here who has had their car towed in Chicago? Tell us what it’s like getting your car back.
China did more than send this virus out. They’ve indoctrinated those petty tyrants to close down churches. 1776 has to be revived again against these Dem’s.
I could not find this reported anywhere else, but went to the church’s website and I think it did happen.
https://www.facebook.com/PhiladelphiaChurchChicago
The tone of the service reflects it did happen.
Thank you for the link.
Find it nowhere in the media, judging from your like and the tone of their service on the Church website. It must be true.
Oh it’s true alright.
Maybe if a few tow drivers get the crapped kicked out of them....
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Chicago has been a hotbed of communism for over 100 years.
The Africanization of Chicago is now complete, total.
Chicago is Harare on lake Michigan
Elect a mentally ill, confused leftist with despotic tendencies and this is what you get. Enjoy the suck!
Elect a mentally ill, confused leftist with despotic tendencies and this is what you get. Enjoy the suck!
Tow truck companies need revenue to!
This church is of course on the North Side, in the Sheridan Park neighborhood, near Wrigley field.
She would of course never pull such a stunt on the South Side.
Where are the bros in the hood? When will they rise up? They are supposedly church going people.
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