The mainstream media has finally begun to pound away at
the Capital Bill. My efforts to raise the alarm
regarding the outrageous, unconstitutional line items
are paying off.
Earlier this
week, the State
Journal-Register in Springfield ran the story
Churches to receive millions from state capital plan.
Yesterday,
Eric Zorn of the
Chicago Tribune
ran the story
Tax dollars to build and repair churches a Capital
idea? Evidently. in his
Change of Subject blog. Today, Eric ran the story
Holy capital bill! Illinois lawmakers earmark millions
for religious facilities in his regular Tribune
column.
In the State
Journal-Register story, Steve Brown, the spokesman for
Illinois
Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, is quoted as
referring to me as a "blowhard" and asking the question,
"Who made him king? Does he have any kind of expertise
on capital spending?"
Steve Brown is actually a
pretty good guy. He was a guest, several times, on my
Morning
Drive radio show on WJJG Chicago.
What's made me King is the
Disbursements of Public Moneys section of the
Illinois Code of Civil Procedure in the
Illinois Compiled Statutes.
What that all means is this: The Illinois Compiled
Statutes is the compendium of all of the state laws that
the Illinois General Assembly has ever passed. It
contains laws about such things as how elections are
required to be run, what the duties and responsibilites
of school districts and school boards are, and the
Illinois Vehicle Code, which contains all the laws about
how you get your driver's license and how fast you can
go down expressways.
Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes is the
Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. It's the body of laws
that governs how things work in the state's civil court,
as contrasted with the Code of Criminal Procedure, which
specifies the rules for proceeding in criminal court.
Article XI of the Code of
Civil Procedure is entitled
Injunction. Part 3 of Article XI is the part that
makes me King. It's entitled
Disbursements of Public Moneys and the relevant
provisions are 735 ILCS 5/11-301, entitled "Who may file
action," and 735 ILCS 5/11-303, entitled "Action by
private citizen." 11-302 allows action by the Attorney
General.
What 11-301 provides is that the Attorney General, or
any citizen, can go to court "to restrain and enjoin the
disbursement of public funds by any officer or officers
of the state government." 11-302 is the set of rules
for how the Attorney General would do it. 11-303 is the
set of rules and procedures that a private citizen, like
you or me, must follow in order to block the expenditure
of state funds.
That's exactly the statute that I used to stop
ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich from donating one million of
your tax dollars to Pilgrim Baptist Church.
The
Capital Bill is Pilgrim Baptist on steroids. I will
be using the very same statute and procedure, when I
file suit in the next few days, to stop each and every
one of the hundreds of donations of your tax dollars to
parochial schools, houses of worship and religious
ministries.
You see, Steve Brown, in religious countries, like
Iran, Iraq and the lands where the Palestinians live
near Israel, when people don't like what the government
does, they do something called "Jihad." They try to
make their point with government by engaging in the mass
murder of innocent civilians, doing suicide bombings,
setting off improvised explosive devises ("IED's") hidden
in or alongside the roadways, and engaging in general,
widespread terrorism.
We atheists don't do jihad. We're nice people.
When we have a bitch with government, we put our
concerns in writing. We then submit the documents to
the friendly clerk of the nearby court, present our
concerns to a judge and respectfully abide by his
decision.
Earlier this month, our
beloved Governor,
Pat Quinn, signed several
Bills honoring our veterans for their selfless
efforts to bring our way of life, including our way of
engaging in peaceful protest of and dissent from
government policy, to people in far-away places.
Our federal constitution's First Amendment says, in
pertinent part, that "Congress shall make no law
abridging the right of the people to seek a redress of
grievances from government."
Don't you support that, Steve? Which method of
redressing grievances with government do you prefer? My
way, which is the patriotic, American way to do it,
or the way that religious people, around the world, go
about it? You ought to be praising me as a hero and
super-patriot, instead of ridiculing me the way
religious people have traditionally respond to my way of
fighting injustice, one victory at a time.
The most remarkable thing about that Springfield
State Journal-Register story is that all 60 comments
that had been posted at the time I published this story,
100% of all 60 of those comments, agreed with me, and
disagreed with you and what Mr. Madigan, the General
Assembly and Governor Quinn did. That's never happened,
before, where everybody agrees with me on anything. I
usually can't even get my wife and kids to unanimously
agree with anything I do, and they all love me, I think.
Read those
comments, Steve. Listen to The People. They're not
happy with you or your boss.
Then, when you're done
reading all of those comments, you ought to get in touch
with me to thank me for providing this forum for
exposing what you guys in Springfield are doing to us.
