March! March! March!

And the reasoning behind it is simply astounding:

• Standing across the street from the Chicago Cubs’ bright red marquee, community activists said Tuesday they’re planning to bring the city’s North Side to a standstill next week to “redistribute the pain in Chicago.”
  
  And that’s why they’re planning to shut down a stretch of North Lake Shore Drive during evening rush hour to make way for an anti-violence march that will wind its way to the fringes of Wrigley Field as the Cubs prepare for a night game there, organizers say. The late-afternoon march Aug. 2 could effectively shut down portions of the city as traffic already will be heavy with Lollapalooza getting underway in Grant Park.
  
  “We are going down commercial strips and if people are upset about us disturbing their entertainment and their cafe life, human life is more important than recreation,” said the Rev. Gregory Livingston, one of the organizers. “We all need to recognize that.”

Really? Because last time we checked, the entertainment aspects of the city were tax revenue generators while the "communities" these pretend "revrunds" purport to represent were tax leeches. Years of observation have shown us that people don't like when you fuck with their down time, and that includes enforcing laws on the books about public drinking, smoking weed, pitching pennies and playing dice.

Their words would have more impact if (A) the community treated human life as more important than the dope trade, (B) as more important beating/robbing people in quiet neighborhoods, and (C) more important than carjacking pregnant women. That would involve cooperating with removing the violent segments of their own neighborhood. What was it a simple carpenter said once?

• First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:5)

Much of Chicago recognizes human life as valuable. That's why homicides are rare in those areas, and in direct contrast where certain other areas where the bodies are littering the streets seven at a time.

Get a load of some of these other quotes, both at the linked article above and this gem from the Tribune Editorial Board:

• “So on Aug. 2, everybody, we march against Rahm Emanuel,” Livingston said. “We march against Eddie Johnson. We march for consent decrees, and we march against empty lying promises.”
• “We are inconvenienced every day by the shooting and killing of our children. So join us in being inconvenienced,” he said. Livingston says he wants to take his marchers to the North Side before a Cubs game to share some pain: “We have to bring the suffering to where the powers that be actually listen to people’s complaints and cries”

If they truly wanted to "bring the suffering" to quiet neighborhoods, they'd start shooting yuppies. But that moment isn't nearly as far into the future as Rahm hopes it is.