About Time

"Mob rule" ought to be be disavowed, and should have been long ago:

• A Chicago alderman is pushing to reinstall statues and monuments that were taken down during Lori Lightfoot's tenure as mayor. "It wasn't just the monument was gone, it was a freedom of speech, it was the respect to our community was gone," Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans said. Onesti said it was disappointing when statues of Christopher Columbus and others were removed.

  The monuments were taken down in 2020, after protests over the murder of George Floyd and police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The statues have been in storage ever since.

  "None of this was ever about actually what Columbus meant or the messaging about Columbus, it was how it was done," Onesti said. "The fact that the community was not engaged or involved with the decision-making."

  "It was selective censorship, and that's what we're doing," 41st Ward Alderman Anthony Napolitano said. "We are selecting who we're going to censor and who we are not going to censor and that is the epitome of unjust government right there."

Yeah, because a Columbus statue in Chicago had everything to do with a dope dealer's death in Minnesota and a tragic set of circumstances in Kentucky. It cost a CPD Officer an eye and countless others injured with zero convictions by Crimesha.

How about make sure the statues are appropriately secured, properly insured and the law is enforced across the board regarding criminal damage charges along with restitution against perpetrators? There used to be an entire unit of the Law Division tasked with recovering civil judgements against criminal actions. In fact, we're pretty sure federal (state?) prosecutors bankrupted the klan by holding individuals responsible for all sorts of financial judgements connected to criminal acts.