Disability Awareness program comes to Homer 33C

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Homer CCSD 33C
Goodings Grove Luther J. Schilling William E. Young William J. Butler
Hadley Middle Homer Jr. High

Contact: Charla Brautigam, Communications/Public Relations Manager
cbrautigam@homerschools.org | 708-226-7628

Hadley Middle School fifth-graders learn how to play seated volleyball during a P.E. “take over” Nov. 1 at the school.

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Nov. 1, 2016

Disability Awareness program comes to Homer 33C
Lincolnway Special Recreation Association “takes over” gym for two days

Hadley Middle School students will never look at people with disabilities the same way.

For two days, they experienced what it might be like for someone to play sports without the use of their legs or sight using sports chairs and other equipment in P.E. class.

“We want students to learn about the limitations and freedoms athletes with disabilities experience while competing,” said Linda McGinnis, Assistive Technology and Physically Health Impaired Specialist for the district.

Fifth-graders at Hadley Middle School learn how to play goal ball — a game for the visually impaired.

The event was organized by the Lincolnway Special Recreation Association, which routinely “takes over” school gymnasiums to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with disabilities.

The Lincolnway Special Recreation Association has been providing adaptive and special recreation services for individuals with disabilities since 1976.

In recent years, it has visited a number of school districts, raising awareness about disabilities by taking over P.E. classes and leading students in adapted sports, such as goal ball — a game for the visually impaired.

This is the second year the Lincolnway Special Recreation Association has visited Homer School District 33C.

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State representatives elect the speaker of the House every two years

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Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan isn’t a typical state representative. It’s his role as speaker of the House that gives him such outsized power.
But voters statewide don’t get to pick who holds that position. If they did, they certainly wouldn’t choose Madigan. Nearly two-thirds of registered voters in Illinois disapprove of the speaker, according to recent polling from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
So how has he stayed in power for so long? Illinoisans should ask their representatives.
Just as voters elect state representatives, state representatives elect the speaker of the House every two years. To become the speaker, Madigan just needs a majority vote.
“I don’t become the speaker because someone issues an edict,” Madigan said in a 2004 interview. “I become the speaker because there are at least 60 members of the House, generally Democrats, who vote for me to be the speaker.”
The Democratic Party has held a majority in the Illinois House for all but two years since 1983. They can select anyone to be the House speaker. But they choose Madigan every time.
In fact, there is not a single sitting House Democrat who has ever voted for someone other than Madigan for the speakership. (Note: In 1995, a House Republican majority made Lee Daniels the House speaker by acclamation, which means Democrats in attendance technically voted for Daniels.)
At the bottom of this email is a list of sitting representatives who voted for Madigan for speaker in 2015, at the beginning of the current General Assembly.
If a representative has only voted for Madigan once or twice, it doesn’t mean he or she is less supportive of the speaker than anyone else. It simply means that representative hasn’t been in office for very long.
State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, has voted for a Madigan speakership 16 times.
“One man has shown he has the capacity to chart a course toward fiscal sanity and sound public policy. That man is Michael Madigan,” Currie said before nominating Madigan for the speakership in 2015. “He is decent; he’s honest; he’s a person of great integrity.”
State Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, seconded the nomination of Madigan for speaker in 2015. “Speaker Madigan … recognizes our duties and our need for strength to protect democracy and as a check to other branches of government,” he said. Bradley went so far as to reference Benjamin Franklin and Pope Francis in his gushing remarks about the speaker.
While serving as a state representative, Illinois comptroller candidate Susana Mendoza voted for Madigan for speaker six times. Mendoza seconded Madigan’s nomination in 2011.
“I’ve had the privilege to serve under his leadership for 10 years now, only a quarter of the time that Illinois has benefitted from his almost 40 years of stewardship,” Mendoza said of the speaker. “Over the last decade, I have witnessed his skills as a leader and a man who time and time again has demonstrated his passion and love for this state and has consistently put Illinois first.”
It’s easy to see why Illinois Democrats vote for Madigan. The man has unprecedented authority.
If a Democratic House member doesn’t vote for Madigan, he can take away her campaign money, strip her of any leadership roles and even make sure none of her bills get a hearing.
What does this system mean for average Illinoisans? It means that even if they disapprove of Mike Madigan’s near omnipotence in the House, their representatives may not.
Should House Democrats hold their majority after the November elections, they’ll choose the speaker once again in January 2017.
Will they stand up to Madigan? Or continue to silence voters by ceding their voice to a single man?

Austin Berg
Writer
Illinois Policy Action

Press Release: Hard Numbers, Hard Facts for Karen Stukel

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Hard Numbers, Hard Facts for Karen Stukel

When we say that current Will County Recorder of Deeds Karen Stukel is squandering taxpayers’ money with two no-bid software contracts in six years, just how much money are we talking about?

In 2010 Stukel contracted for a new software system from Aptitude Solutions for $430,000. Although the system was never operational, the Recorder’s office paid $360,000. The Recorder’s office also paid for staff training and new equipment to support the Aptitude product which then was never used.

When Aptitude Solutions could not make the system work, Stukel broke her contract with them. Aptitude did return $295,000 of the $360,000, but the money and time spent to train the employees to use the new system, the money spent for equipment and lawyers’ fees is gone forever; the total loss incurred for this non-operational, non-usable system was $100,000.

Then in 2014 Stukel executed another no-bid contract for software, this time with Fidlar Technologies. The first 21 months of using Fidlar’s product has cost taxpayers $488,000. To put that in perspective, consider that the system custom-built for the Will County Recorder of Deeds office in 2008 cost only $237,000 the first year and just $40,000 a year for maintenance after that.

Stukel knew that the Fidlar product and service would be much more costly; that’s why she asked the Will County Board in the fall of 2014 to allow her to raise recording fees, which she did. Stukel does not care how much taxpayer money she throws away, and now she wants a third term as Recorder. Good government is not run this way. This is another reason we should fire Karen Stukel in November.

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Contact: Kristin Cross for Recorder of Deeds Campaign
crossforrecorder@gmail.com
815-409-1961

Letter to the editor: Why I’m voting for Change in Will County

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Why I’m voting for Change in Will County

Politician abusing their Office. The Current Lockport Township Supervisor, Ron Alberico contacted Officials in Will County to Complain about his Next Door Neighbor
having weeds in his backyard.

The Official most likely contacted was Larry Walsh, as Larry was a Will County board member with Herman Alberico, Ron’s father. Larry Walsh is also the boss of Curt Paddock, the director of the Land Use Division.

I’m not going to address all of the all of the possible violation that were written up, they were only limited by the imagination of the minions. My yard tractor wasn’t properly painted, fire wood improperly stacked, garbage strewn across my yard, etc. I even had a bully from engineering falsify a drainage chart

But their main issue was weeds in the back yard.
Our properties are 3.1 acres, and half of the property is a conservation area by title restriction, created my the Illinois Department of Conservation.
Interesting point is that Will County Land Use ignores Title restrictions, I guess they feel their ordinances are more important.
The Land Use Ordinance they so proudly site applies to properties up to 2 acres, any properties larger are specified as exempted..

But that did not matter to Curt Paddock or Larry Walsh, they drew me into the Circuit court, and they dragged out the court case for over a year, the Asst. States Attorneys dropping one change each month, why, to cost me more in legal fees. The problem is that I never got to plead my case before a Judge.

For the next five years I have had a parade of Land Use minions come by when summoned by the Lockport Township supervisor Ron Alberico.

I finally had enough, and wrote the Chief Building Official Ray Semplinski, about all of the building permit Alberico failed to obtain, I believe there were at least 10, the Roof, shed, windows, pool, decks, etc. He even built a two story garage larger than what he had a permit for. But the biggest item is the 600 square foot addition on his house for which he never got a permit, and hence never paid any real estate taxes on it for Twenty Years.

About this time Curt Paddock or Larry Walsh, decided I need to visit the new adjudication Court on the issue of weeds in my back yard. So back the lawyer and more fees.
I am impressed by the Contracted Judges in this court, he read Land Uses’ case against me, and refused to hear it I have been in law enforcement for along time and I have never heard of that happening.

Now lets go back to the 600 square foot addition to Alberico’s home.
The way the system is suppose to work, you apply for a permit at the County Office, and that permit application is sent to the township assessor’s office t0o be noted on your property tax record..

Rather than going down to the Recorder of Deeds office , and look to when Alberico re-financed, and inspected the appraiser’s report, for the square footage. Curt Paddock white washed the violation by sending Elizabeth Reed, supervisor of the code enforcement. People,, to the township Assessors’ office to look at Alberico’s property tax record. Nothing on there case closed. Case closed.

What happened to Ray Semplinski, Chief Building Official, who’s people found all of the Alberico violation, he is no longer employed by the Land Use Division. But Elizabeth Reed was promoted.

Grant Spooner
14200 High Road
Lockport, IL 60441

Feds once again threatening states over REAL ID; states need to stand their ground

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Posted on October 31, 2016 by Tenth Amendment Center

Feds once again threatening states over REAL ID; states need to stand their ground

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security once again ramped up its sabre-rattling routine, threatening that residents in states that have not complied with REAL ID will not be able to use their driver’s licenses to board aircraft beginning in 2018. States should ignore the DHS bluster, stand their ground and continue their refusal to implement this unconstitutional national ID program.
REAL ID essentially coopts the states into creating a national ID system. The federal government has no constitutional authority to mandate a national ID.
The federal government repeats this song and dance every couple of years and has done so since Pres. George W. Bush signed REAL ID into law in 2005. Instead of following through on threats the feds simply keep extending their deadlines.
Under the law, all 50 states were supposed comply with the federal law by 2009. But, states rebelled against REAL ID for several reasons, including privacy concerns and the fact that Congress didn’t provide any funding for the mandates it expects states to implement. Some states passed laws expressly prohibiting implementation of the act.
The federal government found coercing unwilling states wasn’t as easy as anticipated. Instead of forcing the issue, the feds issued waiver after waiver after waiver. To date, 27 states remain non-compliant, nullifying the national ID system in effect. Last week, the DHS confirmed it rejected requests from Oklahoma, Kentucky, Maine, Pennsylvania and South Carolina for an extension. It previously notified Minnesota, Missouri and Washington state they were not in compliance. Nineteen other states remain under review or have limited extensions.
According to the AP, DHS officials insist they won’t issue any more waivers or extensions.

“Starting Jan. 30, 2017, federal agencies and nuclear power plants may not accept for official purposes driver’s licenses and state IDs from a noncompliant state/territory without an extension,” DHS spokesman Aaron Rodriguez said in a statement.
Beginning in January 2018, driver’s licenses from non-compliant states will not be accepted to board a commercial aircraft within the U.S., Rodriguez said.

But if history serves as any indication, the feds will back down again. It seems highly unlikely they will risk the political fallout that they would surely endure if they started barring millions of Americans from commercial aircraft.
In fact, the DHS made these same threats late last year, having previously set a 2016 deadline. The DHS said the TSA would begin rejecting driver’s licenses in noncompliant states sometime this year.
“As we continue the phased in enforcement of the REAL ID Act, the consequences of continued noncompliance will grow with each milestone,” the DHS said in a letter to Missouri.
But just eight days into the year, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a press release backtracking, setting a new deadline of January 22, 2018.
As Jim Harper at the Cato Institute explained, this was just another chapter in the DHS’s long history of brinkmanship.

The date is significant for more than just proving the Department of Homeland Security’s bluff. January 22, 2018, is more than a year into the next into the next presidential administration. Secretary Johnson will be gone. The new president, whoever he or she is, will have a Homeland Security Secretary whose underlings will probably have driven the issue too hard for DHS and Congress to tolerate. And the 2018 REAL ID deadline will get pushed back again, by that group of federal bureaucrats.
It’s why I’ve said time and time again that REAL ID deadlines aren’t real.

In other words, states need to hold their ground and continue to refuse to implement REAL ID. The feds will not follow through on their threats if all of the noncompliant states simply refuse to cave in to the pressure.
But some states have crumpled. Idaho passed a bill barring implementation of REAL ID early on but took steps toward compliance during the last legislative session. The Kentucky legislature also attempted to bring the state within the national ID system, but was thwarted when Gov. Matt Bevin responded to public pressure, withdrew his support and vetoed the bill.
Activists will need to remain vigilant during the 2016 legislative session as other states will certainly try to move toward compliance. The don’t have to… and they shouldn’t.
— Mike Maharrey

What is at stake in the election

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Posted on October 31, 2016 by Paul Craig Roberts

What is at stake in the election

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton addresses the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on July 25, 2016 in Charlotte, N.C.Republican nominee Donald Trump will speak to the same group on Tuesday. (Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Here are the presstitutes who control American’s minds. (Read the list.)
I just heard an NPR presstitute declare that Texas, a traditional sure-thing for Republicans, was up for grabs in the presidential election. Little wonder if this report on Zero Hedge is correct. Apparently the voting machines are already at work stealing the election for Killary.
From my long experience in journalism, I know the American public is not very sharp. Nevertheless, it is difficult for me to believe that Americans, whose jobs, careers and the same for their children and grandchildren, have been sold out by the elites who Hillary represents would actually vote for her. It makes no sense. If this were the case, how did Trump get the Republican nomination despite the vicious presstitute campaign against him?
It seems obvious that the majority of Americans who have been suffering terribly at the hands of the 1 percent who own Hillary lock, stock and barrel, will not vote for the people who have ruined their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
Furthermore, if Trump’s election is as impossible as the presstitutes tell us — Hillary’s win is 93 percent certain according to the latest presstitute pronouncement — the vicious 24/7 attacks on Trump would be pointless. Wouldn’t they? Why the constant, frenetic, vicious attacks on a person who has no chance?
There are reports that a company associated with Hillary-backer George Soros is supplying the voting machines to 16 states, including states that determine election outcomes. I do not know that these reports are correct. However, I do know for a fact that the oligarchic interests that rule America are opposed to Trump being elected president for the simple reason that they are unsure that they would be able to control him.
It is hard to believe that dispossessed Americans will vote for Hillary, the representative of those who have dispossessed them, when Trump says he will re-empower the dispossessed. Hillary has denigrated ordinary Americans who, she says, she is so removed from by her wealth that she doesn’t even know who they are. Clearly Hillary, paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs for three 20-minute speeches, is not a representative of the people. She represents the 1 percent whose policies have flushed the prospects of ordinary Americans down the toilet.
What is really disturbing is the pretense by the presstitute scum that Trump’s lewd admiration for female charms is deemed more important than the prospect of nuclear war. At no time during the presidential primaries or during the current presidential campaign has it been mentioned that Russia is being assaulted daily by propaganda, threatened by military buildups and being convinced that the United States and its European vassals are planning an attack.
A threatened Russia, made insecure by inexplicable hostility and Western propaganda, is a danger manufactured by the neoconservative supporters of Hillary Clinton.
If the American people are really so unbelievably stupid that they think lewd remarks about women are more important than avoiding nuclear war, the American people are too stupid to exist. They will deserve the mushroom clouds that will wipe them and everyone else off the face of the earth.
Donald Trump is the only candidate in the primaries and the general election who has said that he sees no point in conflict with Russia when Putin has shown nothing but desire to work things out to mutual advantage.
In contrast, Hillary has declared the thrice-elected president of Russia to be “the new Hitler” and has threatened Russia with military action. Hillary talks openly about regime change in Russia.
Surely, in a free media at least one person in the print and television media would raise this most important of all points. But where have you seen it?
Only in my columns and a few others in the alternative media.
In other words, we are about to have an election in which the important issue has played no role. And yet allegedly we are the exceptional, indispensable people, a people’s democracy protected by a free press.
In truth, this mythical description of America is merely a cloak for the rule of the oligarchs. And the oligarchs are risking life on earth for their continual supremacy.
— Paul Craig Roberts

Why You Should Vote for Fricilone & Balich Will County Board District 7

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Name: Stephen J. Balich

Age: Not provided

Town: Orland Park (mailing address)

Occupation: N/A

Affiliation: Republican

Elected Political Experience: December 2012-present Will County Board Member, District 7; previously served as Homer Township Trustee

Why are you running for a seat in the 7th District?

My name is Steve Balich. I am running for re-election to the Will County Board, representing Homer Glen, City of Lockport, Unincorporated Homer Township and New Lenox, north of Interstate 80. Www.electbalich.com provides information about what I have done. Making a difference in people’s lives by being a person of action, not just words, is important. Being available to help people both in District 7 and in Will County is also important. (815) 557-7196. Less taxes, smaller government and less regulations are my guiding principles. I want to continue to be a public servant making life better for people in Will County.

What makes you the best candidate for this position?

I have been able to move issues with no support forward, eventually passing: stopping aerial photos from being used to initiate building code violations and people getting their money back for towing, storage and administrative fees if they are not guilty in court. Being against tax increases, I spoke and voted against raises for elected officials. I do not take the pension and spoke against any county board member taking it. Going to most all the meetings, which I do, is an important part of the position, because that’s where opportunities to make changes begin. Being not only available to citizens but being active in the community is necessary to understand the issues. I am not afraid to stand with a resident that is getting nowhere in a dispute with local government. I believe everyone deserves respect, and it is my job to help to the best of my ability.

What are the Top 3 issues you see facing the district, and what would you do to solve them?

County issues are overshadowed by how to fund them. Every board member needs to spend taxpayer money as if it was their own, and vote with the understanding of the consequence of that vote. Raising property taxes is something I can’t vote for, unless there is an extremely powerful argument. Even then, I would demand to ask the people with a referendum.

The court house, sheriff facility and health department are going to be built without raising taxes. Republicans took control of the board and said “no” to the Public Safety Tax proposed by the Democrats. These buildings are in distress should have been replaced long ago.

Jobs are so important. Building trade unions and non-union positions need government to follow the law, standing against illegal immigrants taking their work. Bringing unvetted refugees to Will County is a bad idea, overloading the system.

Public safety will continue to be a huge issue. We need to support our police, who must deal with media-driven disdain for police. Heroin is a problem we are addressing with education. However, creating a positive environment, where addicts can get a good job and even raise a family, should be a goal. Putting people in jail is very costly. The county is currently trying to find innovative ways to reduce the population. I serve on the judicial, legislative, land use, economic development, forest preserve operations and forest preserve finance committees, with the understanding government is there for the people, not the people as servants to the government.

Name: Mike Fricilone

Age: 62

Town: Homer Glen

Occupation: Director of Sales

Affiliation: Republican

Elected Political Experience: December 2012-present, Will County Board

Why are you running for re-election in 7th District?

I believe a lot has been accomplished in the past four years, and I want to continue the progress we have made. We have started several projects that I would like to see through. The public safety complex and the county courthouse are two projects that I want to make sure do not exceed their budget and do not increase our tax burden.

I also want to make sure that the road projects in District 7 receive top priority.

What makes you the best candidate for this position?

As a businessman, I bring a different approach to how government should be run. I am not a career politician. I am here to make sure we run an efficient operation that provides the best services to the community for the least tax dollars. In a business, you are always working to provide the best product at the lowest cost. Why can’t government do the same?

In the last two years, we have found a way to upgrade the Sheriff’s [Office] vehicles and start two new buildings all while lowering the tax rate. That’s efficient government.

What are the Top 3 issues you see facing the district, and what would you do to the solve them?

Roads are No. 1. With the increased traffic flow on I-355 our arterial roads can no longer handle the volume.

The expansion of 159th street, 143rd street and improvements on 135th street are key to providing for current and future needs. While all these projects are under construction or still in the planning stages I will continue to make these top priority at the County.

Taxes – As Chairman of the Finance Committee I have worked with all County Board members to reduce our tax rate each of the last two years. I will continue to make our County efficient offering great services while reducing your tax burden.

While the heroin epidemic has not been as noticeable in District 7, it is a problem in Will County and that affects us all. I will continue to look for grant monies to fund new programs and bolster the programs we are currently running, with the end goal of eliminating this problem.

A healthy community, better roads and lower cost to the taxpayer is my ultimate

#Will County #2016 Election #Homer Glen #Lockport #New lenox

Clinton Foundation corruption beyond comprehension

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These are unbelievable except in Chicago where Hilary is from.
Madigan controls Illinois with an iron fist. Clintons want to control the U.S in a similar manner.

Clinton’s house of cards continues to tumble

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Posted on October 31, 2016 by Sam Rolley

Clinton’s house of cards continues to tumble

Hillary Clinton greets supporters following her town hall meeting with families on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 in Haverford, Pa. (Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

With new email revelations and a renewed FBI investigation into her actions, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is unraveling in the final stretch.
Emails released by WikiLeaks Monday revealed that CNN contributor Donna Brazile leaked debate questions to Clinton, lending credence to criticisms about the Clinton machine’s relationship to the press and forcing the network to distance itself from its former employee.
The email revealed that Brazile contacted Clinton campaign leaders ahead of the debate in Flint, Mich., in early March with some pretty specific information.
“One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash,” Brazile wrote. “Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”
In another email to the Clinton team, Brazile said: “From time to time I get the questions in advance.”
After the information went public Brazile, who is now interim head of the Democratic National Committee, denied having helped the Clinton campaign.

“As a longtime political activist with deep ties to our party, I supported all of our candidates for president. I often shared my thoughts with each and every campaign, and any suggestions that indicate otherwise are simply untrue. As it pertains to the CNN Debates, I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did,” she said in a statement.
CNN, meanwhile, claims it is “completely uncomfortable” with the situation.
“On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a CNN contributor,” the network said in a statement.
“CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate,” the statement continued. “We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.”

With WikiLeaks continuing to leak heavily-damaging information about Clinton and her allies, some Americans are suggesting that the Democratic Party should ask her to step aside.
That’s a view shared by longtime Chicago columnist John Kass, who contends Clinton’s growing list of scandals will render her unable to lead the nation if elected.
He wrote in a Saturday column:

What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing her hands.
The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power. And the American news media — fairly or not firmly identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton’s political action committee — should begin demanding it.

And an increasing number of Americans appear to agree.

Polls out Monday reveal that nearly half of Americans believe Clinton’s email scandal is worse than the Watergate affair that crippled the Nixon administration.

Another reason to carry concealed: Violent flash mobs target innocents in Philly

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October 31, 2016

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Another reason to carry concealed: Violent flash mobs target innocents in Philly

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Protestors surround a CMPD vehicle on Old Concord Rd. on Tuesday night, Sept. 20, 2016 in Charlotte, N.C. The protest began on Old Concord Road at Bonnie Lane, where a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot a man in the parking lot of The Village at College Downs apartment complex Tuesday afternoon. The man who died was identified late Tuesday as Keith Scott, 43, and the officer who fired the fatal shot was CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson. (Jeff Siner/Charlotte Observer/TNS)

In recent years, Americans have witnessed an uptick in random acts of violence carried out by urban youths spurred by racial hatred and the prospect of internet infamy. The most recent occurrences illustrate that anyone could become the victim of wanton and potentially fatal attacks in public places.
According to a recent report out from NBC Philadelphia, innocent people were attacked by roving gangs of miscreants on north Philadelphia campus of Temple University Friday.

The mobs, ranging in size from 20 to 100 violent and unruly criminals, wreaked havoc on the campus for more than two hours, punching and kicking multiple students and even assaulting a uniformed police officer before dissipating.
The mob attacks were reportedly orchestrated via social media.
While the news out of Philadelphia may be shocking to those who believe America to be a largely civilized society, this sort of unprovoked violence is becoming commonplace on the streets of American cities.
Back in 2013, a new trend called the “knock out game” emerged wherein urban youths attacked unwitting pedestrians with sucker punches to the head and posted videos of the senseless assaults online.
As I reported at the time:

In New York, authorities report that there is a growing trend of young blacks attacking white, usually Jewish, victims at random in the streets. So, sadly, that random, racially motivated acts of violence are being carried out by youths on the streets of American cities is not fiction. And that the perpetrators of such acts consider the assault and potential murder of a random, unsuspecting victim to be part of a game, called the “Knockout Game,” is a reality carried out, so far, with little media fanfare.
The game is nothing new and is not isolated to New York, but was once relegated to black gang culture in the Nation’s harsher urban environments, according to law enforcement. Besides Jews, Asians and other non-blacks in general have been the targets of attack.
Authorities in St. Louis report that these attacks have been rampant in recent years. And similar attacks have occurred in Missouri, Wisconsin and a handful of other States. In Illinois, notably, the game is referred to interchangeably as the “Knockout Game” or “polar-bear hunting” by its enthusiasts.

Attempts by politicians to irritate the nation’s racial divide have only made the problem worse, with anti-police riots in urban areas throughout the country in recent months sometimes turning into whitey hunting excursions.
As was the case in Milwaukee this summer.

And then there’s this recent footage out of Charlotte, North Carolina where a white man was beaten by an angry black mob:

I could link to hundreds of other examples.
Racial problems and those of senseless acts of violence aren’t going to end anytime soon in the United States thanks to divisiveness peddled by Washington politicians, a worsening economy and an overall sense of despair in many parts of the country.
And as the nation’s growing class of victims becomes increasingly violent and unreasonable, your chances of an unfortunate encounter will continue to increase.
Stay vigilant, arm yourself and learn proper self-defense techniques.

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