Does Eileen O’Neill Burke Get It?

Does candidate favored to be next prosecutor understand the nature of the battles ahead?

For the Chicago media, victory or demise is just one month away.

In preparation for the contest, the media has been engaged in an orgy of lies, collusion, and censorship with their most trusted comrade, Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx. In the past few months, Foxx has given a green light to the full overturning of the criminal justice system to a political movement with revolutionary intent.

Foxx has done so by opening up the prison doors to let out the most evil criminals at the same time as President Biden, no doubt with a smiling nod from Chicago’s treasured son, Barack Obama, has opened up the borders to let in the inmates from countries like Venezuela. These illegal immigrants are now organizing shoplifting rings, prostitution rackets, armed robbery squads, and burglary crews when not standing in line for handouts courtesy of Chicago Democrats.

The Chicago media, Kim Foxx, Obama, and their ruling faction of the Democratic Party share the Marxist view that crime is not a manifestation of character, but the result of social forces. In their twisted worldview, the worst criminals are, in truth, victims, the result of the country’s worst inequities.

In the past few months, Foxx’s henchmen have marched into various courtrooms with their media whores in tow to release one horrific killer after another, including the recent release of a member of the Spanish Cobra terrorist gang for the 2011 murder of a Chicago police officer, Clifton Lewis.

Go to hell, Kim.

Many Chicagoans with at least one foot in reality are looking to the election of the next prosecutor as the savior of Cook County and Chicago, an election in which Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke is heavily favored over Republican Bob Fioretti.

Hope is a subtle glutton.

Few in Chicago understand the play that is now being engineered against Burke. By flooding the justice system with freed killers, Foxx has laid the foundation for her media accomplices to push a relentless attack against Burke should she do the right thing and put a stop to Foxx’s hemorrhaging of criminals back into the neighborhoods where they can return to terrorizing the weakest and most vulnerable. Most Americans still do not recognize the clear evil that the American press, particularly the Chicago press, has become. Does Burke?  

The current media vipers are not interested in selling papers. They are happy to see all media become “nonprofit,” which is to say that the print media can become one unified chorus, limping along with the donations from its fellow ideologues so they can continue the hard work of monstrous deceit in the face of even the most concrete reality. Without the burden of making a profit, they are engaged in a collective collusion to take control of a narrative and attack anyone questioning that narrative. They protect their allies and punish their enemies, an ignorant mob action.

Remember when former Tribune columnist John Kass wrote an article critical of radical philanthropist George Soros and his support of radical prosecutors like Kim Foxx and a bunch of Tribune reporters wrote a letter calling Kass anti-Semitic? It was a stunning example of the depths to which these fanatics will descend in their crusade against ideological enemies, apart from their willingness to transform even the most vicious rapist or killer into a folk hero in order to wage war on the criminal justice system. Kass is now gone from the paper, but the zealots who signed the letter are still scribbling away at the once-thriving paper. They are among the most devoted Foxx miscreants.

Should Burke attempt to do the right thing when she takes office, she will face a level of media attacks she cannot imagine, attacks both professional and personal should she stray from or oppose the party line. That is a key reason why Foxx is letting so many criminals out right now. They are all fodder for the media to harass, obfuscate, and ultimately undermine a legitimate prosecutor’s office.

Burke’s silence over Foxx’s rape of the judicial system, particularly Foxx’s decision to release the killer of police officer Clifton Lewis despite the pleas of lawyers for the family members of Lewis, is a huge tactical error and a sign that Burke may not be prepared for what is coming.

Burke is also a Democrat, a fact that likely means she will not embrace the other lone hope for Chicago, the fate of the Department of Justice in the wake of the upcoming presidential election. Burke should well consider the fallout of the national election upon her own administration should she prevail in November.

A key reason why the left will do anything, anything to keep Trump out of office is the possibility that he could impose a legitimate Department of Justice. Nothing is so terrifying to the left than the public finding out what Obama and his henchman attorney general Eric Holder did to the DOJ from even before Obama was sworn in as president until the imposition of Merrick Garland as the current attorney general. Obama’s DOJ sent a clear message to Chicago’s captains of corruption: So long as I am in office, the crucial checks and balances built into the system will not apply. You have nothing to fear from the DOJ. That message was crucial music to Chicago’s corrupt ears, in particular the exoneration movement, for this radicalism was protected from federal scrutiny so long as Obama remained in office.

The upset victory of Trump over Hillary Clinton put the left into crisis mode, one reason the left responded by imposing radical prosecutors in big cities throughout the country, including Kim Foxx in Chicago. These prosecutors stood as a front line to harass, obfuscate, and hold the line in the battle against Trump and a truly reformed DOJ until the left could regain power, by any means necessary.

Trump was handcuffed from imposing an aggressive attorney general in his first term by his Republican colleagues in congress, who had as much face to lose as any Democrat. They would therefore only approve the likes of Jeff Session and Bill Barr, hardly crusaders for reforms. An aggressive, reform-minded attorney general in Trump’s second term was a nightmare the left could not endure. Hence the mail-in ballots, the suspicious stopping of votes late at night, the illegal undermining of elections through consent decrees and state judicial rulings, the FBI advising social media creators on what to publish about Democratic scandals, the spying, the fraudulent warrants, the Russia hoax, the suspicious ballot collections, and an aggressive, militant lawfare against anyone questioning the whole mess.

Rest assured that the Biden presidential front for the Obama regime is stuffing the civil rights division with radical lawyers in the wake of Kamala Harris’s diminishing poll numbers, a safety valve to harass and undermine Trump’s reform efforts.

Butt Trump knows these tactics now. If he is elected in November, the left, particularly the left in Chicago, could face an accounting that would send shivers throughout the country and expose the corruption in the media in a manner never seen before. History books might need to be rewritten.

Does Burke see it? Does she recognize the fact that should Kamala Harris prevail, the DOJ would remain a militant ally of Chicago’s corruption and would likely become another agent attacking her for any reform efforts in Chicago? Does she see how isolated she would become, how ripe she would be for putting down her reform weapons in order to survive? Does she see how so many of the prosecutors fired, even indicted, through the machinations of Foxx and her allies could become Burke’s fate? Does she see that Trump, no matter how offensive he may be to Democrats, provides the only avenue to reforming the horrific corruption of the city and the damage it has done to the entire nation?

There’s no half measures in America right now. There’s no putting one’s toe in the waters to test the temperature.

Does Burke see that?

Martin Preib is a retired Chicago Police officer. An author of three books, The Wagon and Other Stories From the City, Crooked City, and Burn Patterns, Mr. Preib’s written work has also been published in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, New City, and Tin House.  For his essay appearing in Virginia Quarterly Review, Mr. Preib was awarded the Staige D. Blackford Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In addition to his role with the City of Chicago, Mr. Preib served as the Second Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.