Comments on: Obfuscation

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:50:34 +0000

Shirt, the Chicago Police were corrupt in 1886 when they attacked labor protestors in Haymarket Square, in 1968 when they attacked people attending the Democratic National Convention, and all time before, between, and since. It is operated as part of a political spoils system, and is definitely ‘inbred’.

The DA doesn’t have access until the police notify her, and the mayor would not have been notified by his Superintendent of Police for ‘plausible deniability’. Given the timing the Chicago PD wanted the whole thing to go away, which would have happened if people didn’t push for the release of the dashcam video. They managed to stall everything until after Emanuel’s reelection, which was a win for the Chicago machine.

If the Turks were going to cut a deal of any kind with ISIS, they wouldn’t have allowed Kurdish forces to cross Turkish territory to stop ISIS. The Turks have been battling Kurdish separatists in eastern Turkey, and even entered Iraq to attack their camps. Despite that, the Turks allowed Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga militia to attack ISIS positions and push them back into Syria. They are also allowing the US to use Incirlik AB to attack ISIS and blow up the ISIS oil trucks. Yeah, the case for Turkish-ISIS agreements is pretty weak.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:18:03 +0000

Doing some more reading, Erdogan and his clan are corrupt enough and Islamist enough that yes, his relatives could have had dealings with ISIS to get some of that sweet, sweet crude. Problem is that Erdogan isn’t in charge of the armed forces. He’s President now, a ceremonial office in a parliamentary democracy like Turkey. Putin is definitely stretching to claim that the shootdown was to protect Erdogan’s relatives. But then, Putin is primping for his domestic audience, so reality doesn’t matter anyhow.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:04:27 +0000

As for the notion of Turkey protecting ISIS, yes Erdogan is an Islamist, but he isn’t utterly insane. The situation in Syria has Turkey groaning under the weight of 1.8 million Syrian refugees. Doing anything that prolongs that situation isn’t something he wants, because his party would be driven from power in a heartbeat if it became clear that he had some hand in causing this situation. It’s that messy “democracy” thing again…

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:01:39 +0000

Shirt, the Chicago machine has been in charge of the place for more years than I’ve been alive, and for all those years, the Chicago PD has been their corrupt tool for maintaining power. Presidents have come, Presidents have gone, but the Machine keeps on keeping on. Yeah, it needs to be cleaned up. But good luck with that.

By: shirt

shirt — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 06:21:19 +0000

When someone aids and abets a criminal doesn’t that make them a participant of the crime?

Why isn’t Rahmbo on jail. The DA must have known, Makes her a participant as well.

The 86 minute BK tape erasure makes Nixon’s secretary look like an angel.

It really stinks and it needs to be cleaned up. Has to be!