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(CHICAGO) — Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley met today with several police, school officials, reverends, social workers, and activists.
Explaining the need for this summit, Mayor Daley said, “It concerns all of us, antamarrahng … again havacupa ministers and other people … just sit around an sez, ‘I-I-Is there any other solutions that we cuh we’ve lost?’”(1)
Many community leaders say they are dissatisfied with the Daley Administrations previous efforts to stomp out violence, including instituting a curfew, then making the curfew earlier when it was determined that kids routinely ignore curfews, asking parents to be responsible parents, asking them again and this time saying “please,” banning all guns within the city, achieving 100% enforcement of city gun laws by every available honest and competent police officer,(2) and asking for more and stiffer anti-gun laws.
Police officials interviewed before the summit said they would push for more police, more and bigger equipment, and an increase in salaries and benefits. The officers praised new Police Superintendent Jody Weis for planning a massive SWAT invasion into “trouble areas,” positioning rooftop snipers on every block, covering the sky with police helicopters, and knocking on doors wearing full body armor and carrying really huge assault rifles.
School officials disagreed with the police representatives, saying that a three- or fourfold increase in education funds, some of it earmarked for a new anti-violence curriculum, is necessary to get rid of violence in the city. Social workers echoed the school officials’ opinion, only replace “education” with “social services” and “curriculum” with “program.”
As the only groups not directly tied to the government, the activists and the holy reverends agreed that the most important thing was to make speeches about how the government should forcibly take the possessions of rich people and distribute them to the economically disadvantaged. The groups disagreed on two issues: whether religious leaders should be exempt from asset limits and whether daily baths should be mandatory.
For his part, Daley is reportedly intent on reducing the availability of guns in a city in which guns are legally not available. Rumor has it that Daley intends a police takeover of neighboring suburbs and Northwestern Indiana.
(1) This is an early transcript of Mayor Daley’s speech and has not yet been edited for clarity by the mayor’s staff.(2) Equal to approximately 7% of entire Chicago Police Department. For more news on this topic, see “Daley plans meetings on Chicago violence” and “Chicago police aim to reduce number of shootings, homicides“
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I seem to have been caught between Scylla and Charybdis. A flurry of little-considered tracking-back brought one response, from fracas, which led to that entity’s advice (very rational and well-intentioned, but perhaps, perhaps, better suited to a beginner, a kid … or perhaps, perhaps, well, read on, if you are actually there …) as well as to a friendly argument, and/or violent discussion, within the confines of my head, of which a portion is reproduced farther below.
fracas
http://fracas.wordpress.com/ | ♦♦♦♦♦♦@♦♦♦♦♦♦.com | ♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦… I’m going to offer you a bit of advice and please don’t take it the wrong way, I only mean to help.
The way you title your posts makes them appear to be from a scraper site. Some people check out the trackbacks before they delete them, but not everyone does. Arriving here, I see that you have a genuine blog here, have written your own opinions and offered a link to where you found the story… all good things! I realized, from the way you display other headings in your sidebar and from other post titles, that this is your style. It is good to have a style, but the one you’ve chosen makes your links appear to be from nasty sites.
Seeing a trackback that looks like this one that appeared at my blog:
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a person might just automatically assume it is from a scraper site and delete it, labeling it as “spam” which would make askimet [sic] (the spam catcher WordPress uses) believe that you are spam. In addition, someone might submit a report (without checking your actual blog of course) to WordPress that your site is a scraper site based on what your trackbacks look like. Then… you’d have WordPress thinking you’re doing nasty things with your blog that are against their terms of service, and they’d be warning you. You’d have to prove you’re not doing anything wrong, and it would be a hassle and a waste of time for you and them.
So… because I came here and found that you have an honest blog with original content and that you’re not a scraper… I wanted to give you a heads up so that none of these things happen to you. …
Now, I understand fracas’s intent here, and I must admit even that I hadn’t thought much about this issue—the consequences of my “style” in terms of community regulations and their enforcement. Still, the comment irked me, and for the same reason many things irk me. It brought to my attention an unresolved inner conflict, an unsynthesized dichotomy that I was just as happy to pretend didn’t exist. The blog is the particular fabric; the pattern is old, the defining of a desire and the concommitant sabotage of all efforts to fulfill that desire.
I want to be anonymous here, to scream obscenities in the wilderness or babble and drool like a baby alone in the crib. If I shit my pants, I want to be empowered to say so, without fear that anyone really cares much. When I have the notion to, out of anger, frustration, playfulness, or perversion, I want to be able to spout the ugliest, nastiest, most offensive bile, blood, and semen-stained words, without a second thought for the feelings or sensibilities of the audience. If there is an audience. I don’t care if there is.
Hence, the “coded” titles and categories, hiding the blog, making it difficult for others to discover (or to want to discover) by the ordinary means. A sort of anti-marketing, if you will.
On the other hand, I want recognition, acknowledgement, conversation, even—the devil help me—community, a thing which grieves me as much as the Christian Church and liberal politics combined. I want to pass someone in the virtual hallway and say, “Hey, nice post! Gosh, your gramma sounds like an awesome lady.” Likewise, I want others to stop me as I walk along some virtual philosopher’s path in the woods and say to me, “Hey, nice post! I never before considered the positive aspects of cutting,” or “Wow, it really is beautiful the some species of butterfly live off the juices of shit and rotting bodies,” or “You really upset a bunch of people! Wasn’t it funny what they wrote in your comments? Boy, what a hoot!”
Hence, the tags, the blogroll, the tracking back. I am starved for attention, even though I don’t like the taste.
So you see my dilemma. Anti-social, social animal; hate people, need people; despise convention, desperate for what can be got only through the judicious use of convention. “My sister, my daughter.” “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
A totally fabricated conflict, it’s true, from the depths of the luke-warm waters of my psyche. It’s silly. But it’s interesting. Understand, I’m not asking for anyone’s sympathy. It’s just interesting.
So, now, the practical question of “Shall I continue the spamesque ‘coded’ text, and risk turning off other would-be visitors, and risk the whole blog being dissolved by the WordPress Powers That Be?” I shall think about it a little more.
