Hey Archbishop Blase? (UPDATE)

You going to take care of this?

• The campaign to pressure movie director Spike Lee to drop the name “Chiraq” from his upcoming move on black-on-black violence is intensifying. A rookie aldermen is playing hardball.
  
  Newly elected Ald. David Moore (17th) is refusing to grant a city permit required to close the street for Saturday’s annual summer block party outside St. Sabina’s Catholic Church in Auburn-Gresham for one reason: the party is co-sponsored by Spike Lee and the cast of “Chiraq.”
  
  “He would not sign the permit if Spike Lee had anything to do with it. He said his residents have a problem with the name of the movie,” said Rev. Michael Pfleger, the outspoken pastor of St. Sabina’s who is cooperating with Lee on the Chicago-based movie.
  
  [...]
  
  Pfleger, who backed Glenda Franklin in the race for 17th Ward alderman, said he’s not about to let a rookie alderman overstepping his bounds spoil the party for Auburn-Gresham residents and their children.
  
  The block party between 78th and 79th Streets on Throop will go on — from 2 pm. to 8 p.m. on Saturday — with or without a permit, he said.

Really? Well we certainly hope that the District has the wagon lined up and ready to cart this asshole off to jail for the night. The aldercreature consulted with his speechwriters before issuing the following:

• Hours later, the aldermen issued a statement condemning Pfleger’s defiance as a poor example for inner-city teenagers.
  
  “We cannot ask our young people to respect authority if we’re not going to respect authority. Everyone believes they can do their own thing for their own reasons and when that occurs, it creates the kind of chaos that we experience in the black community all too often,” Moore was quoted as saying.
  
  “If St. Sabina can skirt the rules, then the door will open for every other person in every other ward to do the same thing.”

That's a first for us - an aldercreature actually pointing out the rules are there for everyone's benefit and this asshole breaking the rules because "hey, it's a party for the kids!" is exactly what is wrong in that entire community. We can't think of a single church that gets away with a fraction of what pfleger does - it's a personality cult down there and it's dangerous. Who's running that neighborhood anyway - the elected guy or the asshole the establishment is afraid of?

Archbishop Cupich is stuck with the can that the last two Cardinals kicked down the road. Someone needs to kick pfleger down the road regardless of any fallout to the Chicago Archdiocese. It has been along time doming.

UPDATE: Aldercreature caved and signed the permit. What a dumbass.