{"id":7466,"date":"2013-06-04T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2013-06-04T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T05:33:07","slug":"senator-kirk-r-il-lets-round-up-18000-gang-members-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7466","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kirk (R-IL) &#8211; let&#8217;s round up 18,000 gang members in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fox 32 Reports: Senator Kirk on Fighting Drug Gangs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXPwjJCI0xY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few starting points &#8211; Senator Mark Kirk is the Republican US Senator from Illinois who replaced Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>He was active duty military during the US bombing of Kosovo and has been deployed briefly in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>His education consists of a BA In History from Cornell, a Masters from the London School of Economics.  He holds a law degree from Georgetown Law Center, and we all know what that means.<\/p>\n<p>News stories that mention &#8220;Rush&#8221; are a reference to Bobby Rush, US House member, not Rush Limbaugh.   Bobby Rush.   Bobby Rush was the cofounder of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panthers and witnessed the murder of Fred Hampton by the Chicago Police at the direction of his honor Richard J Daley in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Kirk wants to use all available force to round up the estimate 18,000 members of the Gangster Disciples gang in South Chicago, the district that Bobbie Rush represents.<\/p>\n<p>Rush has called Kirk&#8217;s plan &#8220;an upper middle class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about&#8221;.  They plan to meet on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few starting points &#8211; Senator Mark Kirk is the Republican US Senator from Illinois who replaced Barack Obama. He was active duty military during the US bombing of Kosovo and has been deployed briefly in Iraq and Afghanistan. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}