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Well, folks, as we do here on Wednesdays, we bring our constitutional expert on you can find him at chosengenerationradio.com under CG contributors. David Shostakos is with us. David, welcome. Good to have you. Thanks so much, Greg. It's great to be with you on Wednesday, as always, the high point of the midweek. Oh, thank you, brother.
Appreciate that. Well, listen, I've got to ask, are you wearing your bulletproof vest and your combat helmet? Because I know you do a lot of work in and around Chicago and I understand that if somebody gets upset with you there and considers you to be a mutual combatant, they might start shooting in your general direction. Or you don't even have to be the target, right? Because it could be two people that just get into it and you just happen to be sitting at the cafe.
I don't know. It's crazy. Yeah, that is crazy. There's been a couple of instances in the last couple of weeks where one involved a couple of guys that were in a physical altercation in a driveway, one of whom had a knife, one of whom didn't. And the guy with the knife killed the other guy, literally killed the other guy. And the state's attorney, Kim Fox, declined to prosecute the murderer because she called it mutual combat. And then the following week, there was a shootout, literally a shootout that involved like two cars and five guys leaving three people shot and one person dead. No charges filed. Mutual combat was fought.
And of course, that's just an incredible over. Mutual combat is in fact a kind of a long-ago concept in terms of things that both parties consented to be part of an altercation. One with the other kind of like a tool or showdown as they're marching down the street in the Old West. But none of that gives permission to other people. And mutual combat is more a defense against a civil lawsuit that has nothing to do with the criminal law over time. It's kind of like the guys at the hockey game, the hockey players that are in the midst of the game and one guy gives a heart check to the other guy and then they start fighting on the ice. That's kind of the concept historically of that kind of idea in the law, but it was never a situation that would allow someone to kill somebody. Can you imagine that that would have been implemented during the old wars between Al Capone and his rival gangs shooting up the streets of Chicago?
Wait, no, you can't arrest any of us. It's mutual combat. It's a turf war, so it's just mutual combat. That's just crazy. Crazy. It's utter insanity.
It's become a crazy place. Here's an interesting statistic. In and around the Chicago expressways that go around the Chicago area, there have been in fact 185 expressway shootings this year. People driving down the highway and catching a bullet. That statistic is as astounding as any other because everybody goes, wow, it's gangs and gangs are killing off each other on drug things and whatnot. There's people literally innocently driving down the expressway, catching a bullet 185 times that so far this year and that's what about four times a week, you know, almost once every workday that somebody driving in and around the Chicago area on the highways picks up a bullet.
And you, and you don't hear that year that the statistics about the, you know, 55 shot over the weekend and three or four dead and they did that, but they almost publish it like a box score anymore. And that's because of course the prosecutor primarily in Cook County, primarily Tim Fox, treats the jail as a revolving door and it's hard to blame the police when they don't investigate or don't arrest when the sense is that they're not going to be prosecuted. Well, they try to blame or they blame guns, right, David? They would say, oh, you know, the problem here is, you know, this is there's just there's too many guns. Well, but but these gang members and and other criminal elements, you know, they're not going to just voluntarily show up and say, oh, well, you know, you said I can't have a gun.
I guess I'll turn mine in. I mean, obviously they don't care about that because and and really the fact that that they are not prosecuting and which is horrific. I agree.
It's a terrible thing. But the reality is, is that they've been they've been doing these kinds of shoot ups for, you know, a very long time. It's just now all of a sudden the prosecutor is saying, hey, you know what, by the way, we're not even going to bother to prosecute you. Well, this is this is incredible. I, you know, I used to be I was a Cook County prosecutor back when we actually arrested and prosecuted people.
Yes. When Cook County Jail itself is built to hold a little over 12000 people and the population generally while I was in the office, generally varied or somewhere in the low 11000 range and which meant that the bad people who were dangerous to society were being kept off the streets in large in large measure. And currently the population of Cook County Jail is a little over 3000, which means if you're going to if you're going to think about that, there's about 8000 people that historically would have been not available to harm the public and are out and about harming the public.
We have the same situation. I mean, it's it's the you know, of course, you hear the broken windows theory that if you enforce the small laws that then that has a ripple effect in terms of people determining that they're not going to break the big ones. And but we're just doing the reverse by apparently for all practical purposes. The state's attorney has legalized retail theft, i.e. shoplifting by indicating that despite the fact that the losses, if you take anything of value over three hundred dollars, you've committed a felony.
She won't charge anything unless somebody takes a thousand dollars or more. And that's just a policy and that's prosecutorial discretion. It's not. And so so the end result is, of course, is that people go into the store and I imagine they have a calculator on their cell phone and they add up what they got. They go, OK, we've got nine hundred dollars and change. We're going to leave now because they're not going to prosecute us because it's less than a thousand.
Right. And then you wind up with the same circumstances where the security guards, knowing that these guys won't be prosecuting. Why should they put themselves in harm's way? It's a horrible, horrible situation that's kind of spiraling out of control. Well, in San Francisco, you have I mean, Walgreens just announced they're closing five more stores for that very reason. They're just closing those stores. And there's a ripple effect, of course, because that means five stores that might employ, oh, I don't know, 30, 40 people, right, for all the shifts that they, you know, that they have. Pharmacists that are no longer going to have a place to work, you know, a variety of individuals that are no longer going to have a job and neighborhoods that are no longer going to have those services available to them as well. So, you know, there are a number of, you know, kind of throw the pebble in the pond kind of ripple effects that are taking place as a result of, you know, higher up law enforcement basically creating a lawless environment.
Yeah, that's exactly correct, Greg. And what can we do about it? Well, we can actually do some things in terms of taking a look at the people who are in charge of prosecuting. Nobody.
This is everybody. So many folks, of course, focus on the national politics and the White House and those things. When you and I had Sheriff Root of Macon County on a couple of weeks ago, we were talking with the sheriff about these kinds of things. And one of the comments was your local sheriff, your local law enforcement, your local prosecutor, day in and day out, they have probably more effect on people's lives than Joe Biden does.
You know, as miserable as these nine months have been, Kim Fox has probably had more effect in terms of people that are actually dead in Chicago than Joe Biden. And nobody talks about that relationship and how we need to pay attention to these local things. Absolutely. Because, you know, again, you know, it's interesting because you mentioned a little bit earlier about taking care of the little laws like, you know, broken windows and those will create deterrence. Right.
For those who might be considering breaking a bigger law, it's kind of the same thing. You know, you have to start at your local, whether it's your city or your county, then your state. But you've got to get the local taken care of and start working on that. And then the federal will begin to come into alignment because the people who are going to be running for office then at the federal level will begin to become aligned with the people who you have elected to put into local positions.
Yeah. And it's a proven strategy. It's a proven thought that it in fact does work to clear these things up.
But obviously, there are people who don't care about whether it works because their actual goal is chaos. What does this say about the position of, you know, city's district attorneys or county's district attorneys or, you know, or a state attorney general about the significance of who is actually sitting in those chairs? It says that those offices, the occupation of those offices is perhaps more critical than any other offices around, you know, in terms of the sheriffs and local prosecutors. They are as critical to the health, welcoming and safety of American citizens as anybody is.
When we get back, folks, we're going to take a break. When we get back, though, I'd like to talk a little bit more about that, David, because I know that's something that is deeply concerning to you. And and I think it should be concerning to all of us. And it's one of the tacks that the Soros Foundation and the Soros people have done. They have gone after local district attorney positions and funded radical people. We have one out in Houston that's incredibly radical.
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And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. Again, my guest David Shostakos. You can find David at CG contributors on the ChosenGenerationRadio.com website, CG contributors. And he's also written constitutional sound bites.
That's something you can pick up as well as his newest writings on the Declaration of Independence. David, we're talking about DAs and Attorney Generals and really the significance of that office and why it's important that we're paying attention to that. And then I know there's an event coming up about grassroots training, but talk about why these positions, because they're elected positions in so many states or in so many cities. That district attorney, that is an elected position. And it's important that we get the right people in there, isn't it?
That's exactly correct, Greg. In addition to the DAs and the local guys, there's also in about, I think it's 36 or 37 states, the Attorney General is independently elected. And everybody complains about what the governors are doing, but if you have the appropriate person in the Attorney General, they can actually control what the governor does. Because more often than not, the Attorney Generals are the ones that defend the governor's actions in court. And if the Attorney Generals were to sit down or the Attorney Generals of the states, where the governors are overstepping their authority, were to sit down and tell the governor, listen, we are not going to defend this in court because what you're doing is unconstitutional. The governors could be brought to heal Attorney Generals, where they are independent constitutional officers. The Attorney General's situation regarding the states is so much different than the Attorney General of the United States, which of course everybody pays attention to and gets all the publicity, because he's appointed by the president and works in the administration. In the local areas where the prosecutors in these various parties, like the Attorney General, are independently elected, they do not owe their duty or their responsibility or loyalty to government, they owe their duty, loyalty, responsibility to the people. And this is something many folks have not been educated upon and don't understand.
But they have their own independent legal authority and we need to hold them to that. And to the extent that we can do that, you have to be involved in many respects. And as we're talking off the air, this weekend here in the Illinois area, there's something called the Illinois Conservative Union 2021 Strategy Conference.
And at that conference, it's not going to be like a pep rally where everybody gets together and goes, rah, rah, rah, we're pro-life and we're pro-guns and etc. No, it's about how to become an election judge. What do you do if you're an election judge? How to be a poll watcher? What authority does a poll watcher have?
How to do canvassing, things like this. This is how to actually affect things in your neighborhood and your world by being involved in the political system. What kind of contributions you can make. I'll be speaking at this conference in Illinois and if anybody listening knows anybody in Illinois, ask them to take a look at the Illinois Conservative Union Facebook page that has a link to the event that's going on.
All day Saturday with breakout sessions. And if you look, there are other organizations, notably FreedomWorks, where I spent three days in DC last week, that do this kind of training and make it available to folks. And so you should look for that kind of stuff so that you can actually be involved and do something. Don't sit around and throw your shoes at the TV or complain to your computer that this is so horrible. Get involved.
Get out there and do something. No question about it. David, thanks so much for being here. I know you're going to have to jump off right away.
Yeah, I've got court in two minutes. Okay. I appreciate you, my friend. Folks, I'll be back with more Children's Generation Radio. Don't go anywhere.
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