Show respect for the flag
I called last week about a company in Fox Lake. They have an American flag just hanging in tatters. Maybe people today don’t respect our flag, but I do. I know a number of veterans who are also upset about it. I wish someone could take a look at this. It’s a disgrace to his business and a disgrace to our veterans.
Irked about illegal immigrants
They are floating a new term now for illegal immigrants. They are people living in the country without legal permission. I’m going to kill you without legal permission. I’m going to rob you without legal permission. Does that make it sound better? It’s still illegal and it’s still a crime. Anyone harboring illegal immigrants should also be arrested.
Thanks for police escort
I’m calling to thank the Sheriff’s Office. When the VFW had their huge party, the police came forward and escorted our buses to the party. They were responsible for getting us up there safely. Everyone at the post thanks them.
Losing hope
I read an article about Michelle Obama saying that with President Obama in office, at least we had hope. Now she says we have no hope. During his term in office, we had no hope. He used Air Force One like a local taxicab. He did nothing for the black people who voted for him. He increased racial tension in this country. His whole life is a secret. We knew nothing about him.
Lights out
To the caller who said they need to enforce leaving headlights on — that will never happen. The police in Waukegan and Gurnee don’t put their lights on. It will never happen.
Prison problems
I see Gov. Rauner is trying to reduce the state’s prison population by 25 percent by the year 2025. There is a simple way to accomplish this. Once you’ve been in prison, that’s strike one. If you get in trouble again, your second strike is going to land you in the next in a line of bad prisons. You start with middle security and end up in a super max where the worst of the worst are. Eventually you will only need a county jail and a couple of super max prisons in this country. The prisoners will take care of incoming prisoners. If they have a loud mouth or they are a punk, they will be dead by sunrise. We can’t keep going with the way courts are going. Plea bargaining everything down to a slap on the wrist. Keeping guys locked up in county jail for more than their prison terms. Giving them day for day in county. Any 10-year sentence is only two and a half years by the time they get done. We don’t need more laws. The judges need to enforce the laws we already have. The governor wants to reduce the prison population, but to straighten the population out, I think we need to put more in there.
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