Chicagoist: Mayor Daley Gets Sassy Over Torture Case

Spook

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:46:26 -0600

Tidla do you ever shut up! Do you really think she meant efficient in that way? Jezz. I heard that clip this morning! Jezz! Did yall hear all those reporters in the backround laughing! I bet they are all O'bama supporters, nothing but closet racist just like the rest of the goooo gooo liberals

matilda

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:01:48 -0600

Say what you want about dictatorships. They are EFFICIENT. Not really. Study the budgets, bloated bureacracy and arm productions and other projects overseen by the Nazis--look past the autobahns and things like that. Look at nearly anything Stalin did--agriculture "reform" or crash industrliazation (which, I guess, was efficient if you overlook the human waste and cost overuns--that is, the USSR did stumble into industrialization). Mussolini hardly made the trains run on time--that's a myth that's been destroyed by historians and people who lived through the era in Italy. Napoleon wasted most of France's treasure on war, though, I admit, he did reform the legal system pretty well. Study any modern African dictatorship, too. And Chicago's budget is in shambles, and the morale of the people who work for the city (cops, for instance) and live here is going downhill. Dictatorships, in general, are hardly efficient. That's a fallacy.

Albanyparkour

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:05:25 -0600

@Navin: Only the kid was a state's attorney and the cookie was knowingly prosecuting cases where torture was used to extract confessions. But yeah...Richie...get your hand out of that jar!

jennyblur

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:23:59 -0600

I love Mayor Daley. I think this is pure theater. It is hilarious. It is like Putin releasing a Judo How-To Video or you know slaying a tiger. When there is no worry about losing power, it is a free for all. Daley can literally do or say whatever he wants. It is awesome. Say what you want about dictatorships. They are EFFICIENT.

Spook

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:16:44 -0600

Oh and Anita Alverez was around then as well. What did she know and when did she know it?

Spook

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:16:02 -0600

Oh, but lets talk about how bad Blago is. I mean this is what really pisses me off. How the Hell do we stand for this guy to be mayor! He allowed this and then covered it up! And why isn't Dick Devine dragged by his ears into this? Where is Jesse, where is Meeks. Yea give me Blago any time

Stealth

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:52:52 -0600

YOu know I meant "esperantospeak" (with an "n"), right?

matilda

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:20:13 -0600

esepratospeak--good one.

Stealth

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:18:19 -0600

God, I love Daley's esperatospeak... "You can't hold me responsible. It would be like holding anyone responsible." What the fuck does that even remotely mean? He makes Dubya sound like Sir John Gielgud

DaleyGrind

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:06:42 -0600

What a jerk.

matilda

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:40 -0600

Daley: He speaks like a crybaby tyrant. God, he is such a disgusting leader.

Navin

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:53:32 -0600

"You can't hold me responsible. It would be like holding anyone responsible." I saw that press conference, he didn't do a very good job of disguising the "I'm totally bullshitting you" face. Srsly, it was like watching a kid like about stealing a cookie or something.