Remember when Heroes used to get parades and statues? Monuments are supposed to be grand things. Large, sweeping, majestic pieces of architecture, statues, fountains, etc. designed to inspire and memorialize heroic deeds, sacrifices or individuals. They should move us. Washington DC is filled with shining examples of such: The Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the National Law Enforcement Memorial.
Chicago has its share of monuments and memorials all over downtown and in most of the larger parks. Sculptures, statues, fountains.
Now someone wants this?
Chicago has its share of monuments and memorials all over downtown and in most of the larger parks. Sculptures, statues, fountains.
Now someone wants this?
- Chicago attorneys and activists are planning a monument to memorialize the victims of police torture.
The group is asking artists to submit proposals for the monument.
Group members say their goal is "to honor the survivors of torture, their family members, and the African American communities affected by the torture."
The launch for the project is set for Tuesday at the Hull House in Chicago.
The launch will include attorneys who have represented police torture victims and a man who says Chicago police tortured him into confessing to murder.
Has anyone actually looked at who these "victims" are? Lifelong scammers and criminals, many of whom were released on technicalities, manufactured evidence and "foggy" memories that surfaced decades after the fact. Many were backed by a university professor who has been accused of offering better grades to students who could come up with "evidence" or witnesses to clear convicted offenders, using a young co-ed as eye-candy to at least one inmate, and who recently resigned his tenured position due to his questionable tactics.
More than a few of their "innocent torture victims" have already returned to a life of crime and are headed back to prison. One of their more famous releases was the subject of a parallel outside agency investigation that concluded he probably did set the fire that killed seven people, including children.
These are to be the subjects of a "memorial" to uplift and inspire us? All we're inspired to do is take a leak on this thing.
The inmates are truly running the asylum.
More than a few of their "innocent torture victims" have already returned to a life of crime and are headed back to prison. One of their more famous releases was the subject of a parallel outside agency investigation that concluded he probably did set the fire that killed seven people, including children.
These are to be the subjects of a "memorial" to uplift and inspire us? All we're inspired to do is take a leak on this thing.
The inmates are truly running the asylum.