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<\/p>\nRUSH: Remember in 1993 there was a gang summit? I think it was in Chicago. Well, yeah, the East-West coast gang wars and so forth. Clinton was there and I think Ben Chavis, who ran the NAALCP at the time. Remember Midnight Basketball? Midnight Basketball was a creation of Bill Clinton as a means of getting gangbangers off the streets at midnight and onto the basketball court so they weren\u2019t killing people. Remember that? <\/p>\n
So my point is, I thought we solved it. I thought Clinton and the Democrats solved this problem way back in 1993. Midnight Basketball, we had the gangbanger summit. And I\u2019m not sure, but I think it was Kansas City. They were calling for jobs. Jobs was the big problem. Do you realize with this mess going on in Chicago, this rampant murder rate, if there were a Republican president, it wouldn\u2019t be the mayor\u2019s problem at all. No, it would be the Republican president\u2019s problem. It would be the lack of jobs. It would be the horrible economy. But they can\u2019t blame Obama for this, and they can\u2019t blame Rahm Emanuel for it. I mean he\u2019s the Godfather, he\u2019s the mayor of Chicago. They can\u2019t blame him for this. <\/p>\n
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So they\u2019re lost. All they can do is beg the gangbangers to stop killing kids. Kill other people, but leave our kids alone. Now, I\u2019m not an expert on things, but I think in organized crime, kids have always been off-limits, haven\u2019t they? Well, apparently not in Chicago. Nobody\u2019s off-limits in Chicago organized crime, whatever kind of organized crime it is. But I\u2019m just sitting here thinking, it\u2019s another liberal program. Remember how it was all celebrated, Midnight Basketball. Remember that? Then we had the Million Man March that Calypso Louie organized, Minister Farrakhan, where he explained the Satanic content of the number 19. Remember that? Yeah, I thought all of that fixed this problem, just like the war on poverty was gonna wipe out poverty. <\/p>\n
Yeah, here it is. From the summit report, Kansas City, in 1993: “Participants made several concrete proposals. They called for creating half a million jobs for ‘at-risk youth.\u2019 They recommended citizen patrols to videotape the actions of police and prevent brutality. They asked that President Clinton appoint a commission of ‘people of color\u2019 to address police brutality.” Yeah, I\u2019d forgotten that part, too. The cops were a major part of the problem. The cops were too zealous. Yeah, if you recall this, the cops were too zealous in enforcing crime, and so the cops are brought in, told to back off. We had Midnight Basketball, ask for 500,000 jobs, Million Man March, which, by the way, Obama helped organize. People don\u2019t know this. Obama helped organize the Million Man March. I kid you not. He did. <\/p>\n
“The summit agenda also emphasized the need for changes among blacks and Hispanics. Traditional values, respect for women and ‘effective parenting\u2019 were listed as goals.” That\u2019s what it said. (interruption) What are you uncomfortable with it for? I am reading to you from the summit agenda. Racist? They “emphasized the need for changes among blacks and Hispanics. Traditional values, respect for women and ‘effective parenting\u2019 were listed as goals.” What\u2019s racist about that? I don\u2019t know how else to say it to you. Violence was denounced. The gangs were not. The gangs were not denounced. Violence was. A familiar refrain among participants was that street gangs are the equivalent of police, military fraternities. And so we can\u2019t get rid of them. It\u2019s a cultural thing, like hip-hop, it\u2019s cultural. We have to understand this. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m reading to you from news accounts of the summit that occurred in Kansas City in 1993. I\u2019m just reading to you. I\u2019m not making this up. It\u2019s exactly what it was all about. Plus, of course, Midnight Basketball. Look, folks, my only point is, 1993, nearly 20 years ago, the Democrats fixed this. They had a summit, they got together, they addressed the issues, they identified the issues, and they came up with their solutions. What I\u2019ve read to you is from the Baltimore Sun. I\u2019ll put the link at RushLimbaugh.com if you want. I just read to you from the Baltimore Sun. Snerdley asking me if I\u2019m insane?<\/p>\n
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Government comes up with a program to fix a problem, makes the problem worse. This is exactly what\u2019s gonna happen with health care. Health care is gonna become the biggest nightmare of people\u2019s lives after it\u2019s fully implemented. A new government program is going to be called for to fix what\u2019s wrong with it. And it\u2019s going to progressively deteriorate and become as ineffective as every liberal program that\u2019s ever come down the pike is, and we will never be allowed to examine the results of the program. We are supposed to examine the good intentions of the people who propose the program and attempt to implement it. (interruption) No, I am not gonna suggest they try Sharia law in Chicago, Snerdley. Sorry, you\u2019re not gonna… (laughing) Snerdley wants me to suggest to Rahm, “Hey, try Sharia law; leave the kids alone.” (laughing)<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Clayton, California, we\u2019re gonna start with Paul. I really appreciate your patience in holding on. Glad to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, good afternoon, Rush. I\u2019m watching you on the Dittocam from Clayton, California, a city far enough from Rio Linda to still be happy, yet close enough to Oakland to dodge the gangbangers\u2019 bullets.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (chuckling) Well, it\u2019s a dangerous location you\u2019re in. There\u2019s no other way around it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: In response to Chicago\u2019s Midnight Basketball program, you know, Oakland\u2019s Mayor Quan has her 100-block community initiative to reduce violence by attempting to corral all the gangbangers in a 100-block radius within the poorest parts of the city.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait! Whoa, whoa! Mayor Quan wants to “corral all of the gangbangers in a 100-block radius in the poorest parts of the city”? Now, she doesn\u2019t say it that way, does she?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, of course not.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. How is she going to “corral” them? What will be the boundary she erects to make sure that they stay there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, she actually has a map of the boundaries of the city. This is an area in…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but she can\u2019t say, “Okay, gangbangers. I want you to head to our worst poverty-stricken areas and stay there.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: A, why would they go; B, what\u2019s gonna keep \u2019em there once they do go?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, of course. Now she\u2019s finding that out, that they will operate outside the 100-block area.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mean she was serious?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, yeah! Absolutely! It\u2019s a program that\u2019s in effect right now. You know, she\u2019s absolutely serious about this. What she wants to do is concentrate all the officers that are on gang details into that one particular area. In the meantime, Rush, she\u2019s laying off over 200 cops in the city. You know, just two days ago, Rush, five people were shot. One was a 15-year-old boy outside a movie theater in Jack London Square. I know that\u2019s an area that you\u2019ve probably visited several times yourself.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve been to Jack London Square. I actually have. The All-Star Game was in Oakland when I lived in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. You know, Rush, people here in the Bay Area are scared to death to even drive on the freeways.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I know, but they\u2019re gonna be safe because…<\/p>\n
I just saw the clock. I gotta go. I\u2019m sorry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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