Sangamon
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Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
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Sangamon
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 I sleep like a baby
(unlike some of these crooked politicians) Tom Shafer SCRA meeting 3/ 3/08 April 2008 GunNews They've moved former Governor Ryan into an old folks prison. He's 74 years old and his scheduled release date is July 4, 2013. He has a lot of years to serve in federal prison. The federal sentencing rules are extremely strict, perfectly delineated month by month. They sentenced him to 78 months. So he's going to be in this old folks prison for a long time. At 74 years old and facing at least five more years in prison, I don't wish ill on the guy although he certainly wishes ill on us, he could possibly not survive his penitentiary time. The guy was way, way up here and now he is way, way down there. Now you see the antics of Blagojevich who's now way up here and who is living high and flying high and now this Rezko trial started today. If I were a mobile guy without two kids and a lovely wife at home, I guarantee I'd put my butt on an Amtrak and I'd wait in line outside the Chicago Federal Building where the trial is being held with Rezko and all the players that are going to be indicted. Levine has already pled guilty. Another one has already pled guilty who was involved in this scheme where they extorted money from people who wanted to use some of the Teacher's Retirement fund to build a nest egg and also the Health Facilities Planning Board. They had a couple of their stooges on it who steered all the money to their certain contractors. If you wanted to build a hospital, a cat scan machine or an outpatient clinic, you had to go through their corrupt Health Facilities Planning Board and you had to give money to all these crooked politicians to get approval for for your health facilities. So to people who are elderly or have elderly relatives and are waiting to see the doctor or waiting for this procedure or waiting for a hospital bed to open, just remember, it's those crooked health facilities and their crooked politicians that own them, that are now into our healthcare for our citizens. It's an absolute outrage! Rezko's on trial for being a part of it up to his eyeballs. Levine has already agreed to plead guilty. They sent in a mole, that's a guy wearing a tape recorder. He talked to all these guys, Levine and Rezko, and I guess, maybe Cellini and maybe Blagojevich. Who knows who's on tape. They did seven minutes today on the Obama-Rezko connection on the CBS evening news, and who Obama bought his land from. Obama hired Rezko to go looking for a new mansion for him in Chicago. So he's in it up to his eyebrows and it's a huge can of worms. I don't know where it's going to lead. You see where Ryan is sitting right now. The bottom dropped out for Ryan. But before he was indicted there were all these nights when he must have thought, "Man, I'm crooked beyond belief and the feds are going to get me." I sleep like a baby. I sleep long, deep and continuous because I know that the feds are not going to go, knock, knock, knock, "Wake up Tom, we've got an indictment for you." That's not going to happen to me because I'm not a big, crooked, sham, wheeler-dealer, multi-millionaire sheister shackled loan guy from Chicago. No I'm just some rural gun owner pushing the pro-gun cause. Now Blagojevich and I think Cellini and of course Rezko, are way up there, movers and shakers who I believe have denied us a lot of rights for a lot of years and have put a lot of grief on us unnecessarily and have victimized us unnecessarily. Somebody called me out of the blue and said Cellini has a private vineyard out in California. I thought, "That's great but I'll betcha when he's sitting there in his private vineyard with his big glass of wine that he's wondering, "Is today the day when the feds have finally decided, we have a suppressed indictment naming you in fourteen felony counts for this and this and that and the total time if you're convicted on every count, 137 years?" Just like when Ryan couldn't sleep at night because they had a 22 count indictment on the man. The feds own all these federal prisons and they're never going away. They're going to be here when your grandchildren are your age. So Cellini might have a private vineyard in California but I wonder how he sleeps at night. "Is my name on that tape, is my voice on that mole's tape to Rezko, Levine and Blagojevich? I wonder what are they're telling this federal grand jury?" Cellini's probably thinking, "All of my hundreds of millions of dollars of my personal wealth, it didn't keep George Ryan out of federal prison." I don't believe it's going to keep Blagojevich out of federal prison and I don't believe it's going to keep Bill Cellini from being named in an indictment or keep him out of federal prison either. It's really funny how the world works. There is all kind of justice in the world so we'll just see. Again, if I could get on an Amtrak for the four hours it takes to get to Chicago and wait outside the Federal Court which I would have liked to have done for the Ryan trial. However, you're the last in line and then they tell you that it's all filled up, you don't get in today. The press gets the first three rows and the guy's wife gets the very close chair as she watches her husband go down the tubes federally. Everybody else gets shunted to the back and the courtrooms are not that big. I would love to be a flower on the rug during for all of this trial and to look everybody in the eye that is testifying with Levine entering a plea agreement. Another defendant whose name escapes me has already pled and has agreed to cooperate. Rezko was on bond and claimed he didn't have any assets anywhere else. The judge found that he had 3.5 million dollars a Lebanese billionaire loaned him if only he could make it out of the country and flee to Lebanon. But the feds are saying, "No, you're not leaving here to be living and flying over in Lebanon. We've got a little deal we're going to settle here in the Northern District of Illinois in Federal Court. You're not running over there and living like a millionaire in Lebanon. We're keeping you right here." So he's been wearing somebody else's underwear at the Metropolitan Correction Facility in Chicago. Remember this is a guy who is a multi-millionaire and is used to wearing silk underwear. He had the nerve to complain to the federal judge, "Hey, they're making us share underwear at this federal facility." Besides rolling on the floor with laughter when I first heard it, I said, "Man, where's my underwear drawer?" I pulled out all the pistols that I keep in my underwear drawer and then I said to myself, "You know, there's a couple pair there on bottom, you ought to put them in an envelope and put Rezko's name on there and say, "Here's a couple pair of clean underwear. I'm sorry what happened." So I loaned him out a couple pair of clean underwear and I hope to hell he enjoys those clean couple pair of underwear. When I think about all the grief and stuff with Blagojevich, and poor Tony Rezko and all the stuff he's done to us in Illinois by stealing out of the Teacher's Retirement money plus the Health Facilities Planning money and all of a sudden he's got to wear somebody else's underwear. I think, "Wait till you get to prison brother, you'll find out all about wearing somebody else's underwear. Tom Shafer's Commentaries Return to SCRA Home Page |