Evanston, Illinois takes on ICE … and you have to laugh
Evanston, Illinois is a very liberal community just north of Chicago. I moved into Evanston in 1973 after leaving Washington, D.C. For more than a decade I raised a young family there. I participated in the civic affairs of the community – forming a bi-racial Evanston Coalition with my good friend Hecky Powell – the Black owner of the finest ribs joint in town. I ran for city council – but was spared the necessity of serving by the voters. I was a tad too conservative for the political culture.
As with many very left-wing communities, Evanstonians thrive on arrogance and an air of superiority. They viewed themselves to be the most civic of the civic minded. I recall when the Evanston city council passed a measure declaring the community a “Nuclear Free Zone.” Imagine that, a small suburb with a foreign policy. “Nuclear Free” yard signs popped up like crocus on a warm spring day. I wonder if the generals in Moscow took Evanston off of any contingency nuclear attack plans. (I have to admit, however, that Evanston never suffered a nuclear attack.)
Of course, the City Council passed unconstitutional anti-gun laws – declaring Evanston a “Gun Free Zone. (I wonder why they never made Evanston a “Drug Free Zone.” I guess we can surmise the answer to that one.)
Well … it seems like the anal retentive, overly zealous citizens of Evanston now have found a new cause to sate their civic addiction. They are taking on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It seems that ICE is pursuing illegal aliens and other criminals in the sanctuary city of Evanston. (Oh yeah! That too.) Like all radical left-wingers, Evanstonians love to create common bonds with the criminal class – especially when they suit their political agenda.
The city council declared Evanston and “ICE Free Zone”. Federal law enforcement agents are no longer welcome in the Independent Republic of Evanston (IRE). That move by the council has no more enforcement authority than the council’s previous “Nuclear free zone”. But it does give the residents a false sense of accomplishment and a reason to beat their civic chests.
To implement their edict, the citizens have organized citizen groups armed with whistles and cell phones. Whenever one of the overzealous Chicken Little residents sees ICE agents, they blow their whistles to alert the community – and use the cell phones to communicate and photograph. Citizens run around in a tither — taping instructional sheets to lamp posts, trees and fences ostensibly explaining the rights of those facing arrest and deportation. (I see the making of a very funny movie here – theater of the absurd).
Of course, to get this level of civic juices flowing, there has to be some great emergency and urgency. In the absence of a real emergency, they simply engage in concocted fearmongering. They speak of “living in terror.” They rush kids inside – or refuse to let them go outside – over fantastical dangers. After all, if you are going to do all this craziness, you have to justify it somehow.
What the good citizens of Evanston are doing is aiding and abetting the criminals – and interfering with law enforcement – sometimes physically. What they are doing is illegal – although they call it peaceful protest. In fact, they are aiding and abetting criminals. They have no way of knowing if the arrestee is a wife beater, a rapist or a murderer – and they do not care.
Let us look at one example. A woman in a red car was chasing an ICE vehicle and rammed it. When agents attempted to arrest her, she resisted. She was pushed to the ground and cuffed. But not before other folks attempted to interfere with the arrest. She had attacked law enforcement officers, but the good folks of Evanston do not care. In fact, they condone attacks on law enforcement – they celebrate them.
Of the hundreds of almost daily attacks on ICE, Border Patrol and local police, this was not a big incident. But the reaction of those interviewed by the press was characteristic. According to witnesses, the ICE vehicle caused the accident by stopping too fast. And the young lady was “brutally dragged” from her car – after disobeying police orders to exit the vehicle. As for all the rest of the people in the melee, they were just concerned citizens — “peaceful protestors.” Among the organizing groups is the Evanston-based Pink Poster Club (pictured atop this commentary).
It is not just a matter of a few left-wing radicals. The city’s political leadership is all in. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss has called federal agents an “invasion from our own federal government,” and has encouraged residents to unite and take to the streets to create “ICE-free zones” and resist intimidation by federal agents. He has ordered federal agents out of town – as if the city is not part of America. Biss is just short of calling Evanston an independent anonymous zone — as did the crazies in Portland, Oregon during the earlier “occupation” craze.
There are a lot of good people in Evanston. We had wonderful neighbors and friends. But the overarching culture is defined by the far left tweedy set – fueled more by political bias and pompous arrogance than objective civility.
In the big picture, the action in Evanston will have little impact. It is what I call civic masturbation. It makes them feel good without producing any tangible results. But it is great entertainment.
So, there ‘tis.
What do we expect? The town is a commie shithole.
“What do we expect? The town is a commie shithole.” Was that before or after Larry got there?
Why do you call liberals communists? What specific actions would lead you to such an obviously stupid assessment. Except for slamming socialism as something it is not, why such ignorant name calling? Some might say that only white trailer-trash uneducated deplorables would stoop that low just to give themselves a woody.
Larry too gets harsher and harsher as he ages; this article stereotypes all liberals very harshly.
About half the country is liberals, half is conservative, on average, we lean towards center, both parties. Or al least we used to. Somehow 50% of the country beating on the other 50% does not seem productive, efficient, and most certainly, effective,
But keep railing on Larry and Seth; it seems to suit you well.
The liberal lawless nature keeps them blinded to wanting to do what is right. They are a brainwashed people that need to be detoxed from the democrat’s anti-American indoctrination. There is no pride in them. They are like sheep following a blind Shepard. And I believe their biggest threat to their anti-Americanism is fueled only by their acceptance of blind wokeism.
All liberals should be deported to communist countries.
Still waiting for Sethie Boy to tell us “what specific actions would lead you to such an obviously stupid assessment” of all Democrats being communists? Can you even define what you mean in words and actions spoken and proposed by Democrats? It appears you are all hat, no cow, but mostly bull.
Meanwhile, once again Larry feels compelled to call out race as his priority in judging people. I think it’s a generational thing for him like my generation seems overly interested in heritage, like what country did you originally hail from. My kid’s generation seems to care little about that. The guy Larry knew created and owned a great landmark rib shack AND he is BLACK. What does color have to do with it and why does it seem so damned important to call out? Horost is uber-anti-woke, not a woke hint in that body. What’s next, “AND he has a pimple….” Being a King of Ribs in Chicago is indeed, a great accomplishment although I fail to see any importance in noting the guy is Black. Now my Greek Pizza Shop owner who won the hand toss speed record in Allentown PA, there’s a reason to call out ethnicity. I mean a slice with a gyro, that’s somewhat unusual at least.
Horist boldly concludes: “as with many very left-wing communities, Evanstonians thrive on arrogance and an air of superiority.” Who is obsessed now? MANY VERY LEFT-WING COMMUNITIES? Thrive on arrogance? But wait, he forgot to tell us, “some of my best friends are liberals.” Were they arrogant or is the author just plain ole brain dead stupid?
And remember, “They viewed themselves to be the most civic of the civic minded” because statistically and scientifically ruled Horist sees all, knows all, has surveyed much. One would think this partisan hack would spent his life in service to the conservative cause would be overjoyed when people listen to him and get involved. Alas, win-lose, and they appear to the author to be involved in the great evil of pushing back against Federal jack-booted thugs with no warrants, no id, full face masks, long guns, and helicopters invading our streets in search of the brown people. I guess he’s OK with that as long as they don’t search out the black people Larry likes to highlight so much, so often, as his badge of honor I guess. Brown people though, what human rights do they have. Heck, if off shore, we just blow the fuck out of them and scream “narco terrorists, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.”
After he generalized hate against his enemy in this rant against all liberal communities across the globe, the author gets down to brass tacks: he has a problem knotting his knickers about the feckless nature of nuclear-free, gun-free, and ICE-free zones. He prefers actions like blowing the fuck out of boats on the open seas, holding back food and medicine from starving, sick kids, or disappearing innocents to third-world death camp prisons that he funds. He even hints that a lack of a drug-free zone means they are doing drugs. Is he hinting that liberals do drugs and conservatives don’t? Oye, this man is prejudiced. Blind too. And stupid if that was his point in that piece of humorless conjecture.
And then back to the lies: “Like all radical left-wingers, Evanstonians love to create common bonds with the criminal class – especially when they suit their political agenda.” He has called me a radical left-winger, another LIE, but can he prove my common bond with the criminal class? Even though he knows I sold some pot in the 70’s, he can’t know that. These are truly hypocritical comments coming from a dude who voted for a Felon, a Digital Rapist Defamer of Women, to be his King, Lord of his Land and Master of his life. Why listen to this little serf of a man.
Of course he is wrong, but perhaps not by that much. The Evanston law, if the author had bothered to look, includes several activities and actions to curtail ICE actions in Evanston. First, the law, unlike the author’s warped perception of nothingness, only applies to Evanston public properties and buildings. Apparently Horist missed that. The actions include erecting barriers, locking facilities, and notification warning systems. The public is encouraged to help. Residents and businesses to use tax-payer funded and city-provided signage to voice their support. Like most sanctuary cities, they will not use their local resources to support Federal actions, especially those by quasi-military jack-booted thugs. Not that ICE is that, but ICE is not nice, ICE brings back “tuning them up” in law enforcement….
When did conservatives move to the dark side to disavow State’s rights in this manner by allowing, nay, begging the Federal Government to stick their grubby little hands so, so, deep into their pockets? Larry may like a little pocket pool, but whatever happened to individual responsibility that conservatives used to champion, but now only give lip service too as he turns over law enforcement to the Federal Government who is growing this military force by a hundreds billion of dollar, a 60% increase, running up a deficit that we have not seen for two years? The Fed is taking over our streets, arresting folks without warrants and due process, taxing us without representation from Congress, how much do you conservatives want to give up to the Fed?
And what are we getting in return beyond the deficit that our Felon King excels at? Higher inflation, higher unemployment, no dramatic drop in crime statistics, and a lot of dead people, a lot of people tossed into death camp prisons, and probable, about a decade from now, some coming-of-age kid hell bent on our destruction for our actions against him and his family, if he can even find them. I don’t know about you, but Julio (not real name) was a nice guy, did no harm except the misdemeanor of jumping the border, loved to tend my gardens, and now he is vanished. No goodbye, just gone. Who does not know the disappeared by now?
Gee, remember the time when Southerners protested against Federal Taxation on booze and the moonshine runners took on those damned “Yankee Revenuers.” Was Larry supporting the expansion of the Federal Government in those actions too? I may be woke, I may have taken mine down, but I like the Stars and Bars and respect the bravery and soldiering of those plucky rebels, moonshiners, as rebellion is our way of life, within reason.
He then calls Evanston citizens “Chicken Littles,” probably because he is still pissed about losing yet another election there in his deep, dark, past. Or he wants to blame them for the fight he is picking. Did Spanky get him again? I mean, if you believed him, I think he has told us so far he got beaten by Spanky the Clown, and now he’s telling us that “Chicken Little” whupped his ass too. No wonder he moved to Florida, heh, heh.
Fact is no one is against deporting criminals. Just look at the polls. A majority of all Americans also oppose all undocumented, like low 50%’s. However, literally the same percentage, a majority of over 50%, feels that ICE HAS GONE TOO FAR meaning the majority of America thinks Larry is full of Horist shit. As in: this is the right thing but we are doing it wrong, and Horist advocates doing it the wrong way. Horist advocates NOT following the rule of law, cruel and unusual punishment, and, frankly, sins against God. It’s a lose-lose.
And he appears to hate Evanston simply because they did not want him in office. Who does?
Frank Danger … LMAO. Still hooked to your obsession. It is making you more ignorant as time goes by. You are writing some really stupid crap. Example: You criticize the that that my friend and I set up coalition to cross racial boundaries — indicating that my friend was Black. That was the entire point of the coalition. We were the biracial example we hoped others would follow. We could hardly do that by not indicating our backgrounds. But you are a deranged gutter snipe only interested in attacking even if makes you look stupid, And am not going to waste more time responding to the rest of your misrepresentations, lies and false assumption in in you latest loooooooong attack rant against the imaginary Larry Horist that occupies your brain .You wear your jealousy and bitterness on your sleeve, old man..
Larry Horist: You are as predictable as stink on shit. Your response smells of it too.
I can understand your feelings that the more someone responds to you, the more ignorant they get over time. You get so defensive to criticism and totally emotional in your response replete with names and ad hominem attack. Weak tea old man.
Once again you respond with some off-the-mark comment about my calling out your Black-vertisement once again. Recently you are really into race as a determinate factor in your activities. Black daughter, Black friends, whatever. And then you dismiss the rest of my tome as misrepresentations you have no time to address. Frankly, it’s obvious you can’t. It’s all spot on, accurate, and correct.
I said nothing about whatever coalition which you claim was about who cares. You called it the “biracial Evanston Coalition.” Obviously, biracial is an adjective to the proper name Evanston Coalition. I am sure it has a long history of nonaccomplishment unsearchable in the modern time. Biracial was not capitalized so an adjective and not part of the formal name of your lame short-term organization that helped not get you elected. Since I was not sure you meant Evanston was biracial, or the Coalition was biracial, or you were just confused, I just avoided adding to your apparent confusion. But one thing is sure; you don’t need a Black rib shack guy to have a biracial anything so you calling out color once again seems to be self-aggrandizing as you are often want to do.
“We were the biracial example we hoped others would follow.” What the hell does that even mean? Do you need editors to say anything that makes sense? So, your coalition was focused on getting a Black guy and a White guy to be best friends? I was living in Maryland about then and my, we had so many Black people all over the place that we did not even call them out, like you like to do. Want my list of Black friends from then?
But the $20,000 question: how many male biracial couples did you bring together with your example and coalition? Sorry, just spewed a little coke in the keyboard on that one, heh, heh.
It’s great that you dismissed all my facts and ideas. Not because they are correct, and they are. But because the more you speak, the funnier you sound. You claim: “misrepresentations, lies and false assumptions.” But once again, you got nothing, nada, zip.
Gutter snipe, jealous, bitter, deranged, that’s just rich coming from the prince of pugnacity. You really have a hate on. As usual, I am hear for the issues. Knotting your knickers to see you go full scanners is even funnier than your dismissal for cause. The cause being you can’t respond. Intelligently that is.
My name is Frank, and I am a Danger to those who cannot support what they say. And now, sing with the Mouseketeers, LAR……RAY……HORIST.
Dunger is a racist??? Wow!!!! He won’t celebrate coonteenth next year.
Hammon: Thanks. I have yet to celebrate any race’s holiday although I hear you like to burn crosses to celebrate your version of a white Christmas.
Do you even know what a racist is, and if you do which seems doubtful, WHY would you call me one? For using the word Black? Weird. Sigh. Useless.
Frank Danger…. in other postings, you accused me of “pimping” my Black daughter to sell books. It does not get more racist than that — especially since it is not true. You also mock my Black friend and me for setting up a biracial coalition to address racism, More racism from you. Why would any one call you a racist? Because you have put it out there in plain view.
Larry-Joe Horist-Girlburpson: you respond readily to personal shit but can’t get er up to respond to my BUSTING, based on facts, of your most recent journey into publishing boredom. Sigh.
So sorry you get so upset and emotional, really was not my intent and the grand preponderance of my name-calling is in direct response to the bull crud names you toss my way. In the “who’s on first” name game, you win son. You’re so sensitive and defensive: I did not mock your friend except in your mind. Once again the pugnacious prince of a prick attempts to pick a fight and blame the other guy. You picked on the wrong NJ cowboy, you sorry sack of sanctimonious shit.
Sure, pugnacious prick. That’s the one negative in your life full of positive reviews about your combative, argumentative nature always testy and always testing others. Tis your mirror and many of the commentaries say it or allude to it. Apparently, you can’t see it, and dare I say on a guess, you never address it.
You can’t toe the line, you are more Tricky Dick prone to the dirty, sneak attack than Ronald Regan with the straight-up cowboy way and the press confirms it.
Speaking of what I actually said, in writing, just located above, it proves you as the liar you always claim others are.
What I really said that you went all hurly-girly, postal, off-the-rails on:
“The guy Larry knew created and owned a great landmark rib shack AND he is BLACK.” OMG that is fucking brutal. I used the words “great landmark rib shack” to describe the man, what a cur I am.
Then I really poured it on with: “Being a King of Ribs in Chicago is indeed, a great accomplishment although I fail to see any importance in noting the guy is Black.” Oh the mockery. You are a sad sack. How dare I plainly describe and define the man so you can totally misunderstand, as is your way.
I later explained your faux pas in using the wrong case and not defining WTF you even meant when you said “biracial Evanston Coalition.” Why are you such a brain-dead, stupid fuck about it. Did your mom drop you on your head as a child? And you did not answer the $20K question: “how many male biracial couples did you bring together with your example and coalition?
As far as “pimping your daughter,” YOU KNOW what I said. I merely noted that you are selling books on Amazon. In YOUR BIO you printed on Amazon, you go out of your way to mention you have a black daughter. The bio on Amazon under the book you are selling on Amazon notes the skin color of your daughter. And you have the balls to say I am the one calling it out? I am not selling anything old man. You are using your daughter to sell books. You tell me what it’s called when men sell things using a woman to do it? And it wouldn’t have escalated to that IF you had not been such a dick about it.
Twist it all you want. Spin it as you will. But you said what you said and I merely called you out on it. And apparently you feel that my repeating YOUR WORDS makes me a racist. Who’s on first indeed.
Grow up, grow a pair, and as always, let’s talk issues and leave the personal stuff inside your addled brain. If I am a racist, you are a NAZI. Not Hitler, just a low-level stormtrooper for the man.
Actually I think you ONLY respond to the personal stuff due to your inadequacy to address the issues, with facts, statistics, and logic, so you lower yourself to the gutter while calling me the snipe. Good luck.
Frank Danger … LMAO You are so easy. Hooked again. And just another loooooong, irrational and mendacious rant. I love ’em because they reveal who you are. Have you ever noticed that virtually every negative characterization of others, you are the prime example. It is called projection. In terns of “pugnacious prick”, you are by far the best example. No one on here seems mores argumentative, touchy and defensive than you. No one is more obsessive as seen in your constant long rants that run between childish attracts and self-serving defenses. If you consider me to be so argumentative, explain why i rarely respond to you — and then in very few words. You respond obsessively to me and everyone else in what can only be described as verbal diarrhea. Carry on, old man.
Larry-Joe Horist Gilbertgirlie: great not talking issues again since you have nothing to say except your grand conclusion of your personal attack which basically is: “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.” Yeah, he’s down to that as his personal attack.
All I can add to your great personal insight and wisdom: neener, neener.
But I did chuckle over: “LMAO You are so easy. Hooked again. And just another loooooong, irrational and mendacious rant. I love ’em because they reveal who you are.” Wow, and you say you just brush me off. And then you say “I love ’em.” Sure looks like you be the one totally obsessed and unable to come at me on the facts so you spend your time doing this crap. And then you congratulate yourself as never doing it, but gee, sure looks like you are doing all over the place round here.
Larry-Joe Horistilbertson: A shortie reacting to your stupid statement of opinion: “Have you ever noticed that virtually every negative characterization of others, you are the prime example. It is called projection.”
This rubber-glue accusation is an old Republican trick used by those who are unable to debate on the merits of their case so stoop to schoolyard taunts.
I earned his accusation of being a racist for using the word BLACK in when repeating the AUTHOR’S OWN WORDS. Now if that’s not projection or rubber-glue, I don’t know what is. The difference is that I PROVE IT, the author just pulls it out of his ass.
And yes, he is still attempting to sell books on Amazon but it appears that his bio that trumpeted his daughter’s race is gone. Good for Larry. Not sure why he had to be such an ass about it. Guess he can’t handle being at the short-end of the stick in his win-lose world. It’s funny that he gets so twisted over all this when all he needs to do is toe-the-line and support what he says against the criticism he proudly allows. He says he is a FREE SPEECH EXTREMIST (or is that Joe?), but if you criticize with factual support, the cat gets his tongue.
One more time, let’s make amends. You write stories, I will write comments, let’s stick to the issues, and let’s avoid ad hominem attacks. I will go first. If you fail, if you call the thunder, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet, and WHEN you stoop to the level of your beloved “gutter snipe,” it’s obvious you’re doing it to sell PBP just like you….. oh, never mind, I said I was staring with the amends. (FYI — this applies across the board).
And yes, Larry, I left, I came back, but you have to admit ——– my commentary numbers are way down.
And how about some good stories on: the Epstein update. CDC progress. Measles. and most important — the DEFICIT. How can a good Republican forget the DEFICIT.
Dunger you should ease up on the January 6 patriots and consider the assholes interfering with ICE. So go eat a Dunger sandwich and stfu. And keep your mother off the streets.
Dunger. Kiss my black ass. Bitch. Did you ever throw rocks at black kids in Harper’s Ferry WV? Don’t lie.
Larry the true story of dunger’s condition is that his mother got drunk while the special Olympics was in town