There is some concern in Chicago about the possibility of another contagion being transmitted, this time by text message—the Blue Flu. Dana Kozlov reports at CBS Chicago:
CHICAGO (CBS) — Along with a spike in violence in Chicago this past weekend comes with a new push by members of the police union to get officers on the street to stand down – and even stay home.
As CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reported Monday night, it all started with a text message.
The text told officers not to volunteer to work on days off, to limit arrests, and to call in sick to make a statement to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council about how much officers are needed.
The bottom line – it is calling for what is known as “blue flu.â€
The head of the Fraternal Order of Police is not denouncing the move. But the mayor calls it stupid.
The background of this is that the officers in the Chicago Police Department have been working without a contract for three years, Mayor Lightfoot was elected, at least in part, in the hope she would reform the police department (without raising taxes), we’re in the middle of what may be an historic spate of murders on the South and West Sides of the city, and the mayor has been highly critical of police officers lately.
Their old contract prevents the police officer’s union from organizing such actions itself but that doesn’t pertain to individual police officers. So far not much has come of these text messages but under the circumstances they are concerning.
I can’t condone abdication of duty, even in the face of grotesque opportunism and lack of political leadership in major cities. (And BTW – where’s Joe?)
However, for those of us who see the world as it is, not as we wish it was, what did people expect when this all got started? Human nature, coddling of sociopaths and absence of law and order are incongruent with communal poetry readings and equal and voluntary sharing of all worldly goods……in the Austin neighborhood, or CHAZ, or………….
So its human nature to get mad if you cant beat people anymore and you might go to jail if you torture someone to death, but it is not human nature to get angry about being beaten or tortured to death. Got it.
Steve
‘So its human nature to get mad if you cant beat people anymore and you might go to jail if you torture someone to death, but it is not human nature to get angry about being beaten or tortured to death. Got it.’
So every policeman everywhere is a sadist who enjoys beating the s**t out of people and torturing them to death. And no criminal ever beat the s**t out of people or ever tortured them to death. Got it.