LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – Just one day’s samples… Unnecessary Olympics I’ve lived in this city since I was born here in 1933. I’ve witnessed the many trials and tribulations it has endured and the great successes it has achieved. These diverse elements and the diversity of the city itself are what make Chicago great. …
As reported in Lake Effect News: Even if Chicago 2016 had resurrected Frank Sinatra from the grave to sing “2016, Chicago is” at the end of “My Kind of Town” that was playing on the sound system before the start of Monday’s community meeting for 39th and 40th Ward residents, it still wouldn’t have convinced …
We get a fair amount of inquiries on WHO we are at No Games Chicago. You have to understand that our volunteers are sometimes reluctant to publicly identify themselves for fear of retribution. When three of us went to Switzerland on June 15 we were asked a number of times “Who is paying you?” It …
The 2016 “traveling road show” is well under way. How’s it going so far? Just watch this report from Fox News Chicago.
As reported in the June 29-July 6 issue of Crain’s Chicago Business, the 21016 Games will cost YOU a bundle… As aldermen prepare to debate whether to put Chicago on the hook for any operating losses from the 2016 Olympics, the construction of a $1-billion athletes village poses a far greater potential risk to city …
From the Sun-Times, those darts just keep on coming. Here are some of the reader’s comments from their recent editorial, “Throwing Darts the only way to pin down full data on Olympics.”
obviously, King Daley II is insane.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!
To Wit:
–bulldozes municipal airport in the middle of the night
–rapes taxpayers of $500 million annually thru his TIF programs, then raises taxes nine times in twenty years
–sells off city assets at a loss while rewarding family members & friends
–uses the race card to defend his wife’s friend’s Children’s Museum in Grant Park
–gives $100 million minority contracts to his pink friends
–guarantees $BILLION$ of OUR money for HIS Olympics
Politicians are like diapers:
they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason!
Time to vote the bums out, and get some new bums.
The Independent Voters of Illinois-Indenpdent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO) has joined No Games Chicago in opposing Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. From their email newsletter: The recent revelation that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) host city contract will require the City of Chicago to be liable for all cost overruns puts city residents in a …
As reported in the Sun-Times: An impassioned Mayor Daley today portrayed the 2016 Summer Olympic Games as the economic salvation for Chicago, but warned that the city just might lose the Olympic sweepstakes “if people keep throwing darts.” The Mayor confessed he has “nothing else up my sleeve” in the way of economic development plans …
The 2016 Committee is using our public parks for staged so-called “community events.” These are managed, policed, controlled and designed to repress real questions and criticism. Read the Chicago Tribune business reporter’s review, “At Olympics forums, truth is a high hurdle”
Here’s an update from a No Games Chicago volunteer who attended the first one:
Report back from 2016 forum July 8, 2009–from OUTSIDE the so-called debate
It was great to revisit McKinley Park. As a boy growing up in Pilsen, it was an adventure to visit the park by bicycle, always doubled up on the handlebars of a friend’s bike. I never owned a two-wheeler of my own until I reached the age of 20, that’s when I bought a spanking brand new mid-sized motorcycle (even before learning to drive a car). Had to have mom sign for me at the Secretary of State’s Driver’s License facility before they’d issue a Class M license.
Anyway, here’s what went down outside the field house junk-forum.
I arrived at the entrance to the McKinley Park field house early with my 22 x 28 hand-made bright yellow NO BLANK CHECK poster. It’s amazing the effect those few words and two colors did to the 2016 Bid organizers; they considered it a big threat to their message. The alpha-color combo got me BANNED from the public meeting. So much for freedom of speech, right? Even Obama went on record the other day saying Chinese dissidents shouldn’t be killed for voicing their opinions. But not here in the good ole U.S. of A., because it’s the Chicago Way. When local government, a.k.a. 2016 Bid group, controls law enforcement, that’s too much consolidated power.
So, after standing a while in front of the field house with my poster, I had to use the facilities. I walked into the building with the poster in my left hand folded in two, not displaying it. Heads turned as I walked to and from through the building. I returned to the front of the building telling passersby “No Blank Check.” Some well dressed 2016 Bid organizers nodded in agreement with me as they strolled past. Others ignored me. Almost no one challenged me, except a petite woman. She’s the one who loaded some of the presentation visuals into her car parked nearby after the meeting was over. For such a sweet looking gal she can sure furrow her brow and glare. I was extremely careful not to physically bump into her while she went to and from her car lest she let out a blood curdling scream to the half-dozen men in blue that she was being harassed or worse.
Then it happened.
A lone police officer approached me when no one was around and almost whispering to me said “Your not allowed to enter the building with your sign.”
Click here to download a copy of the blank Host City Contract that all four finalist cities MUST sign before october 2, 2009. This document is what all four finalist cities for the 2012 games had to sign in Singapore in 2005. Chicago will have to sign a non-negotiable contract almost exactly like this one. …