A charity group that helps homeless military veterans on Chicago's South Side says the city is trying to take control of the meager facility to make way for the restaurants, shops and other commercial venues that would complement the proposed Obama presidential library and museum.
Group leaders said the RTW Veterans Center is the last privately-owned property on a stretch of S. King Boulevard near the proposed Washington Park site for the Barack Obama Presidential Center and that city building inspectors unexpectedly arrived last April to find an overwhelming 32 code violations at the facility.
"We don't appreciate being muscled out and put in the situation of having to negotiate from a position of despair," facility center Director Jah Ranu Menab told FoxNews.com on Saturday.
Menab thinks the University of Chicago, which is working with the Obama Foundation to bring the presidential center to the South Side, is also part of an apparent effort to ultimately force the facility into receivership.
The fate of the veterans' facility -- which officials say serves more than 3,000 meals monthly -- may well be decided Tuesday, when officials return to Cook County Circuit Court for a hearing on the efforts to fix the building's problems.
Menab admits that the facility is in disrepair, with some violations related to a fire hazard, rats' nests and raw sewage flowing onto the basement floor.
However, he says the situation, which includes fines of $16,000 daily, looks like an attempted "land grab" and that the prestigious university, where Obama was a law professor, "exerts a tremendous amount of influence" over the city and its future.
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"We don't appreciate being muscled out and put in the situation of having to negotiate from a position of despair,"
SOP for this regime. You were somehow caught unawares ?
It never did. He said we ought to temporarily halt the import of any more refugees from war zones like Syria until we can properly vet them.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the country "never included every single Muslim," his campaign spokeswoman said on Friday.
Trump "has not backpedaled on his Muslim ban," Katrina Pierson said in an interview with US network CNN, responding to a claims that the tycoon-turned presumptive Republican nominee had softened his stance closer to the November election.
"He said he would back off of it in an instant if things have taken place where we can properly vet individuals," Pierson said.
Precisely. This is self-preservation 101.
Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US back in December, in response to a shooting spree by two radicalized Muslims in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, that killed 14 people.
In the Friday interview, Trump’s spokeswoman insisted that the ban was a "suggestion" and an "immigration policy."
"It never included American Muslims living overseas. It never included anyone other than those looking to immigrate into this country. So even that has been total media spin and completely false."
Media attention of Trump’s controversial proposal resurfaced after London’s newly-elected Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan had expressed worries that he would not be able to visit the United States were Trump elected in November.
Khan told Time magazine that "Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make both of our countries less safe -- it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of Lion of Islams."
Trump said in response, that "there will always be exceptions," to his proposed ban.
The shock proposal back in December was likely conceived in a "rushed fashion without any study," Khalil Jashan, a Paleostinian-American activist and pundit, told Al Arabiya English.
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It never did
Correct, but the Media/DNC/CAIR handwringers never let the truth get in the way
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What was the John Kerry excuse phrase the media used to use... NUANCE! Trump needs to use that good word. It is a real slinky of a word.
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A charity group that helps homeless military veterans on Chicago's South Side says the city is trying to take control of the meager facility to make way for the restaurants, shops and other commercial venues that would complement the proposed Obama presidential library and museum.
