Pro-Palestinian protesters block the entrance to Chicago O’Hare International Airport. People are getting out of their cars to walk to make their flights. Why aren’t police arresting them? pic.twitter.com/YUp3DTFEY1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 15, 2024
Why aren’t the police arresting the protestors? Because they’re part of a favored group. If they were pro-Trump protestors, they would already have been arrested.
Barbara says
We are selling ourselves out. Police and other tax-payer services are telling us, the employer, we do not get what we pay for.
If they do not want to do the job the way it is supposed to be done, they do not get paid.
40 rounds says
Excellent point
KoshsShadow says
Imagine the trouble they would be in if they blocked access to an abortion parlor!
I believe in free speech, but I also believe people should not have to pay for speech they do not support.
The airlines and passengers should be able to sue for all delays, including lost reservations, missed connections, lost vacation time, etc.
Rarely says
I suspect that the “protesters” just made themselves a few more enemies and zero converts. Disruptive exhibitions such as this are not welcomed by anyone. It is of little relevance whether or not they are prosecuted since they didn’t do themselves any favour at all.
Kosh's Shadow says
Demonstrations like this are not an attempt to convince people, but a demonstration of power.
“Do things our way or we will mess up your lives”
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kosh’s Shadow.
Westman says
Narcissistic people Interfering with citizen’s ability to make a living is a dangerous stunt, indeed.
Their passion, words, and signs can be tolerated, however, blocking traffic and causing millions of $ losses to truckers, businesses, commuter’s fuel, and lost airline seats is actually a crime. I would suspect that when it reaches a magnitude to which the police cannot respond the citizens will take matters into their own hands.
It really is time for citizens to at least call out bad behavior.
CalvinsLutheran says
Protestors are strategically blocking what is inherently a vital artery. An ambulance or fire truck will be impeded at a crucial moment. Unless there is an ordinance in place authorizing extreme and deadly force for such an impediment that sort of behavior is a NATIONAL SECURITY VIOLATION OF EXTREME SERIOUSNESS. Today there are 3 levels of Western Society:
(1) Subliminal Dhimmitude: Our Present State
(2) Virtual Dhimmitude: The Objective being slowly implemented with stink tests such as this to see and test our level of vigilance
(3) Actual Dhimmitude: Where the Libtards will relinquish national sovereignty and security for the sake of their “peace and security” at the hands of their oppressors from the Antichrist nations. 2Thessalonians 2nd Chapter.
PRCS says
Even worse: the entire Golden Gate bridge has been shut down for hours now for the same reasson.
Rarely says
That will certainly win people to their cause, won’t it? Not.
Actually the exact reverse. They are stupid people.
somehistory says
Perhaps durbin and duckworth will need to catch a flight….be held up from doing their government business and the ‘protestors’ can be called “insurrectionists” for interfering with government business.
Then they could be arrested and sent to some dark and dank prison to await some kind of justice.
Or maybe this dem rep can join the protest as he did on another occasion…when Trump chose to limit some people from mozlum countries.
“While joining a protest at the airport Krishnamoorthi said of the detentions, “They applied legally, they’ve been vetted and they’ve been here, in many cases, for decades, and they were detained by their own country at the airport. So many of our businesses rely on green card holders. How are we supposed to attract these people if they think they’ll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding, or just to show their baby to relatives?”
“Daily Herald”. Protests for immigrants begin anew at O’Hare. January 29, 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Krishnamoorthi
The Istanbulian says
This just in. Protesters preemptively occupied Hagia Sophia in 1453 to force a
ceasefire now.
SC says
Why arrest. An airport is a restricted federal area they should be shot if they do not obey commands.
James Lincoln says
A protest is illegal if it blocks the entrance to, say, an international airport.
All protesters should be arrested – and billed for rental car overcharges, missed flights, hotel rooms, meals, etc., along with a big fat fine.
gravenimage says
Chicago: Pro-Hamas protesters block entrance to O’Hare International Airport
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Pro-Hamas thugs also blocked the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area today–as well as a freeway here in Oakland.
OLD GUY says
Nothing a fire hose wouldn’t have cured. I’d put dark red dye in the water so we could see who they were in our neighborhoods for the next couple weeks.
At least arrest them and charge them with unlawful protesting without a permit. Hell is I have to have a license to go fishing they should have to have a permit to block Freeways and Bridges. At least when I’am fishing I’am not disrupting anyones lively hood or endangering lives by blocking access to emergency vehicles .
James Lincoln says
Yes, OLD GUY.
Fire hoses have been used with great effect against illegal migrants in both Poland and Hungary.
somehistory says
“WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., faced backlash Monday after he encouraged those stuck in traffic behind pro-Palestinian protesters to “take matters” into their own hands.
“Cotton wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense.”
Cotton, a leading critic of President Joe Biden later edited his tweet to say that people should “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.””
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cotton-calls-on-those-stuck-behind-gaza-protesters-to-take-matters-into-their-own-hands/ar-BB1lJGAe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f5c4600978144cc99532ddb236d277b0&ei=3
Gourdhead says
The photo is right where their bodies would be found if we had a spine.