Leftist Mob Shuts Down Chicago Traffic – 24 Arrested

Leftists have been organizing these class warfare rallies in Chicago since Obama was a community organizer. (MSNBC)

Police arrested 24 radical leftists today at a Chicago rally for blocking traffic during rush hour.
MSNBC reported:

Two dozen people were peacefully arrested Tuesday after sitting in the middle of a downtown street during rush hour as part of a rally to protest the bank bailouts and tax breaks they say have robbed schools of public funding, hurt the creation of new jobs and diminished the hope of struggling homeowners.

Under an umbrella organization called “Stand Up! Chicago,” 18 different community groups and labor unions held three different rallies that converged into one outside the Hyatt Regency Chicago, where a conference of corporate Chief Executive Officers was being held.

“Instead of investing in our community, instead of investing and creating jobs, they chose to pay their CFOs and CEOs over a billion dollars, and the folks that were out here today just don’t think that’s fair,” said E.J. Serrano, the organization director for Stand Up! Chicago.

Serrano was among those arrested and ticketed with civil disobedience after blocking traffic on Stetson Avenue.

With a $720 million deficit at the Chicago Public Schools, the demonstrators said the “corporate welfare” needs to stop.

“What we’re doing right now is basically asking them to give it back,” said Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.

Hat Tip Founding Bloggers

Here’s another shot from their flash mob today in Chicago.

#1 June 14, 2011 at 8:45 pm
avery commented:

G.E. come to Mind.
#2 June 14, 2011 at 8:52 pm
FurryGuyJeans commented:

What do you call 24 radical Leftists arrested at a protest?

A Good Start.
#3 June 14, 2011 at 9:10 pm
xqqme commented:

‘they chose to pay their CFOs and CEOs over a billion dollars, and the folks that were out here today just don’t think that’s fair,” said E.J. Serrano, the organization director for Stand Up! Chicago.’

they must have missed this part
5/27/11

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110527/ts_dailybeast/14359_fanniefreddieexecspaid34millionafterbillionsinlosses

The Obama administration’s approval of $34.4 million for six top officials, with little or no market guidance, is raising new questions about the inner workings of the failing mortgage giants.
#4 June 14, 2011 at 9:11 pm
No Man commented:

About 310,000,000 Americans weren’t pi$$ing off their fellow citizens $crewing up their commutes home.

No man would have driven his SUV through the looters.
#5 June 14, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

“Banks got bailed out. We got sold out”. The left is turning on Dear Leader?

Maybe they were expecting this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLlxxWaJZM&feature=related
#6 June 14, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

Or I should have said, *maybe they were expecting more of this* and they’re mad it’s not coming fast enough.
#7 June 14, 2011 at 9:33 pm
gus commented:

I’ve said it for 2 plus years now. All that LIBTARDS HAVE LEFT………..is the FULL COMMIE.
Real live CLASS WARFARE. The DEADBEATS and TEAT SUCKERS crying because they GRAVY TRAIN isn’t dropping off MORE of OTHER PEOPLES MONEY at their door.
#8 June 14, 2011 at 9:37 pm
bobdog commented:

Excessive salaries, benefits and unfunded union pension liabilities are a large part of the reason the Chicago Public Schools has a $720 million deficit in the first place.

“You can’t possibly try this child for murdering his parents, yer honner. He’s an orphan, for goodness’ sake.”
#9 June 14, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

How much $ will these 24 arrests — from apprehension and initial incarceration to arraignment and sentencing and state-funded therapy to state-funded pharmaceutical regimens — eventually cost the producing taxpayers of Illinois? I’m guessing at a couple million, at the very least.

These anarchists are just fulfilling their programmed-by-their-Socialist-Masters role: make the government spend all the peoples’ money — any way you can.

Cloward-Piven, MFers. Cloward-Piven. Satanic destructiveness and theft to the core.
#10 June 14, 2011 at 9:46 pm
mac in NM commented:

Ain’t a one of ‘em looks malnourished.
#11 June 14, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Lie. Steal. Destroy. Kill.

Satan’s M.O.

Not coincidentally, Democrats’ and Muslims’ M.O., as well.

Again, not coincidentally. It’s what they do, because it’s what their Father does.
#12 June 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Note the opposites:

Tell the truth. Produce and Give and Provide. Build and Make Whole. Heal.

The opposite of what today’s Progressives stand for and do. Just like their Father in hell.
#13 June 14, 2011 at 9:51 pm
gus commented:

These mother f**ckers blame the very Capitalism, that has fed them.
#14 June 14, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Wbm commented:

The second Stimulus went to the Banks overseas – who voted for it – hold it —-DEMOCRATS and OBAMA – try to wrap that infomation around your little pointy heads libs…….
#15 June 14, 2011 at 10:22 pm
SM-AZ commented:

Those are Barry & Moochelle’s Chicago comrades. This is why our country is in deep doo doo having them running our country.
#16 June 14, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Larkin commented:

These morons will pi$$ and moan, and then vote for “the won” again.

Because, it’s really destruction that they’re after.
#17 June 14, 2011 at 11:02 pm
ditto commented:

Do they ever take a good look at themselves and see how truly ugly they are? Inside and out. Ugly to the bone.

Maybe thats why they are so angry.
#18 June 14, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Sally commented:

Memo to protestors:

It was your guys who bailed out the banks and sold you out

Your guys also have tanked the jobs and, as #14 stated, above, sent the stimulus $ overseas.

“Corporate welfare”- like no taxes for GE?
#19 June 14, 2011 at 11:18 pm
gus commented:

CORPORATIONS PAY NO TAXES. Their customers do. This is the ALYNSKI tactic, that LIBTARDS as a garden variety simply follow yet do not understand. PICK A TARGET. FOCUS, POLARIZE, DEMONIZE.
It’s the FULL COMMIE. When the MONEY SPIGOT dries up. HATE THOSE WITH MONEY.
#20 June 14, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Freddy commented:

Seems to me if these same 24 guys decided to open a business, like a coffee shop, bakery, tatoo parlor and berber shop in the very neighborhood they are complaining about, they could become part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Looks to me like this crowd has exactly the people in it that the SBA loan package passed last year was supposed to help. With money out of the way, the real problem of city zoning regulations, kickbacks, and even Obamacare become visable as the real problems!

But the real issue is that these people do not want to work, they just want a handout!
#21 June 15, 2011 at 12:00 am
wanumba commented:

THey haven’t a clue as to what they are talking about. Last month it was Koch Koch Koch, wailing and tearing of robes and they’d never heard of those guys until “attack Kock” went out over the fax machine, now it’s corporate corporate corporate without a single coherent sentence as to what they mean by that. It’s just TALK, without anything behind it except to make trouble.

There are professional agitators who will say ANYTHING as cover for their lawlessness and ignoramouses who parrot them, having no knowledge to draw on to suspect there’s something screwy with the arguments.
#22 June 15, 2011 at 12:46 am
wanumba commented:

What they SHOULD be looking at is what the unions did with the meg-millions money they took from members.
At least corporations actually have to sell products or services to get their evil profits.
#23 June 15, 2011 at 6:42 am
squeaky commented:

[The 3.2 million-member organization has affiliate organizations in every state, and Wilson said it is prepared to spend at least $60 million to reelect Obama.] while squawking about not having the money of the koch’s [talkin' point]. when they’re not planning on commiting
60 million [atleast] to re-elect obama they’re pleading for more stimulus to keep teachers from being layed off.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0611/early_enrollment_f1682da5-a7df-4f7a-9a57-b88685bb6191.html
#24 June 15, 2011 at 6:52 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

people should have plowed right thru their sorry a$$es,,,get a life you freaks…oh that’s right you’re waiting for your free handouts from odumbass you moochers on society
#25 June 15, 2011 at 7:11 am
illiniguy commented:

Classic “Stand up for Chicago” has a sit down strike!!!
#26 June 15, 2011 at 9:00 am
CR commented:

Whoa. There’s a lot of hatred going on in this comments section. Let’s remember to treat folks with dignity, even if we disagree.
#27 June 15, 2011 at 9:40 am
LibertyAtStake commented:

“…asking them to give it back…”

Guess what, the JAUL parade would not be able to say this if the GOP establishment, starting with Bush, didn’t go along with the foolish bailouts in the first place. Now we’re stuck with it.

J.A.U.L. (pronounced “jowl”): Just Another Unhinged Leftie.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
#28 June 15, 2011 at 10:37 am
Peggy R commented:

Is that “the Big Ragu” dancing in that last photo?
#29 June 15, 2011 at 10:43 am
Gary commented:

Mac #10

Right on. It’s funny how the sector of Americans deemed to need assistance so that they can eat every day have the highest incidence of obesity.

I heard a liberal trying to explain this away once as “starvation anxiety” that makes them eat more.

“Starvation anxiety” used to make people get off their fat a$$es and get a J-O-B.
#30 June 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Valerie commented:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/tips-for-not-appearing-crazy-on-the-internet/?singlepage=true
#31 June 15, 2011 at 12:38 pm
dunce commented:

“Give it back” shows how little they understand, if they gave back their raises and bonus it would go to the company shareholders not to the government for redistribution to union thugs.