There are conflicts, overlaps, subplots, and Machiavellian chicanery everywhere. Another interesting current legal initiative is the personal campaign of Joe Fosco, scion of a Teamster union family once associated with the Capones, to recover blackmail money he claims was extorted from him by the mob and to establish his good name. He is fighting a lonely battle against public- and private-sector interests who are not accustomed to being treated as if they were accountable.
Chicago is the last stand of the conservative Democrats, the tough liberals of the Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Scoop Jackson mold, as the Giuliani-Bloomberg faction is the last stand of the liberal, Rockefeller-Javits Republicans. This Mayor Daley, chastened perhaps by the disaster of the convention of 1968 that alienated the local Left from his father’s hard-hat, multiethnic coalition, has suborned the Bill Ayers Left, and, in the manner of foreign populist-authoritarian regimes, like those of Castro, Chávez, Perón, the Mexican PRI, and even Mussolini, makes common cause with many of the intellectuals. The most visible product of the alliance of these bedfellows is the incumbent president; Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, former Chicago congressman Rahm Emanuel, are skilled and unselfconscious practitioners of the rough-and-tumble Chicago school of politics.
What America needs is a revival of the federal two-party system throughout the land and not just in the partisan identity of the president, Senate majority leader, and House speaker. The rotten boroughs will spoil the whole political system. Chicago, true to its vocation as a swaggering and muscular, streetwise town, has written a gripping suite of chapters in the country’s political and cultural history, but after 80 years, the greatest rotten borough in the world should be sliced, cleaned, and restored to its rightful owners. Thus, and not otherwise, can that remarkable and endearing city continue at the vanguard of national affairs.
This work is based on an article written for the National Review Online.
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Interesting! By someone in the media as powerful as Conrad Black naming Joe Fosco in one of his articles, Fosco has achieved national spotlight attention, in the mainstream arena. This is very impressive considering that Fosco’s publication, KTF, is a grassroots media group. I congratulate Joe Fosco on his success! Joe, when is the book coming out?
Way to go joe! Accolades like these not only lend further creedence to your work, further draw attention to a culture of corruption that chicagoans have accepted as status quo, but i believe will also aid your personal safety as you battle what i see as a dangerous group of juvenile minded ill intentioned thugs.
Thank you Rick and Vince. I am not pretending to be an Angel. I made my share of mistakes in the past, however, I am a new person the last several years and I fight crime the best that I can. My safety is a concern, but not as much as the safety as my loved ones.
joe,
you were never a labor arbitrator. prove it.
yes, you’ve never been… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i hear you owe… money. why is that? (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
oh no! joe fosco has an ip address. did you ever think i could be using a computer at an apple store, library, or borrow someone’s comoputer at a coffee shop for $5? i could use someone’s cell phone for god’s sake… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Furthermore, your comment proves your intent to harass. Every time you ask someone to barrow their phone to send harassing comments to this site, you are exposing your physical identity to an eyewitness. Thank you, American News Post).
mr. cerone still has all the voice mails you ever left him… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i never… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – false statements and insults are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
Dear IP Address 66.251.244.218,
I thought it was understood that I was never an actual labor arbitrator; I have never stated that I was. In fact, I explain it in detail here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=66
Yes, my finances are somewhat compromised right now. You are asking me why my finances are compromised. Ask John and Peter DiFronzo, Rudy Fratto, Jack P. Cerone, Esq., and Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr.
As to the voice mails that I left Jack P. Cerone, Esq., regarding the threats on my life that he played a part in, you may read the court transcripts, which detail the voicemails, here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=278
In addition, you may access this article, http://americannewspost.com/?p=819, which provides a very clear understanding of the details pertaining to the voicemails that you have mentioned. Thank you.
Please Cease And Desist With Your Lunacy!
Sincerely,
Joseph Fosco