The Boston Tea Party was action against the British tax. Was the the gun dealer taxing Jesse? What was the gun dealer doing to Jesse? Nothing. Jesse's actions appear to be grandstanding.

When can you gun nuts learn how to speak and understand either the Queen's English or standard black US English like ya'll ought to?

Chicago has a long history of insidious political corruption along with racial tensions. It's a city (in a state) where the Mob (now white collar) controls both political parties tightly via blackmail and coercion.
The move to arrest Jesse Jackson looks like an effort to create racial tensions and civil unrest... the kind that the Bush Junta (and its Chicago friends like Chicago native Don Rumsfeld) would love to see in order to justify the onset of provoked 'terrorism' and a subsequent State of Emergency with Dictatorial Powers.
This situation should be responded to with extreme care and caution so as not to play right into the hands of the terror-creating Fascisti. A more appropriate response than anger is widespread worldwide indignance at the ignorance of the slippery Chicago Mafia machine (which of course is enmeshed in, if not in control of, gun sales; was instrumental in the murders of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King; and is very much a part of the Bush political machine).... they survive only by maintenance of their undetected secrecy, now disguised in suits and ties, playing the rigged stock market and cashing in on government privatization and contracts. Interesting correlation with the recent Mafia trials in Chicago.... and maybe revenge? or a distraction? Time to blow the Chicago Mafia Machine wide open for scrutiny, and get to the Root of the Problem that is destroying the United States while the Bushes and their friends are at the Helm.

I cannot comment authoritatively on the veracity of RestoreDemocracy's claims. I can say that the US Constitution does NOT protect the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson's actions. The US Constitution DOES protect Jesse's right to assemble AND petition the government for a redress of grievances, not to harrass a law abiding establishment. Its the Law that Jesse has grievance with, not the gun dealer. Pfleger agrees- "We need tougher gun laws. . ." He should take his assembly to where the laws are made, where the grievance resides. Could it be that Jesse knows this, and is using the ignorance of his followers for political capital? Or is he just another stooge?

Just goes to show you Jesse can get himself arrested. He just can't get himself elected.

An additional burden on all the black people in America have is the assumption that Jesse and a few others are their spokesmen.

It has to suck - I know how it feels when anyone says Bu$h the inferior speaks for Americans, Pope speaks for Christians, Tommy Thompson speaks for Wisconsinites etc.

As long as violence in America is loved which is what this country was built on, this country will further drown into the Orwellian model of persecution of peace makers and victory to violence. This country desperately needs a THOROUGH SOUL CLEANSING and Jesse Jackson, despite some of his issues, has already proven it to us.

True maxpayne, but it's Jesse, not Cindy who deserves the title 'media whore'.

I have noticed that suburban and upper income areas have gun clubs where people can congregate and practice firing their guns.
Maybe it they had such clubs in the ghettos people could target practice legally and maybe not be motivated to use humans as targets.

When somebody such as this gun nut gonna start pushing on Reverend Jackson, Jesse L Jackson Sr, ordained Baptist minister in the proud social gospel tradition, then somebody else in the Rainbow Push Coalition and their allies gonna have to start pushing back. Pushing is our copyright in the RPC, gun nuts. We gonna have to tell it straight to ya'll. This gotta end. Ya'll messing with the wrong brother man on this thing, and I'm just gone tell you like it is on this thing.

Maybe if we could get a large quantity of fully automatic assault rifles in black areas and in progressive working class white areas, middle class whites would all of a sudden start being strong gun control advocates.

V for gun nuts and fascism and know nothing about the constitution, why don't you join a fascist and gun nut forum, as it's clear you and these other Jackson bashers aren't progressive at all.

AD, do you know how to speak English? If more law abiding citizens in the ghetto owned firearms, there would be a lot fewer criminals.

AD,

Is that AD as in "Year of "Our" Lord"?

Please show me in the Constitution where I am wrong.

As far as "bashing" the "Reverend", I thought I was easy on the guy. He is after all in the wrong. He should be at the lawmakers offices, not at the gun dealer. The gun dealer didn't make the laws.

What exactly is progressive? Making more laws? We need less. Starting with the absurd cannabis laws.

I believe that Powerslave should be prohibited from posting any more comments here until he tells us, truthfully, how much he is getting paid to do so.

The Lawson customer in the store is probably typical of the low IQ level of most gunshop customers. He is blaming Jackson for being arrested--as if he arrested himself.

Before anyone starts biting my heels, I was raised in an NRA family whose members held several national records for target shooting. I fired my first firearm--a .22 pistol--at age 3. I gave firearms safety classes in high school and wrote the Washington State Firearms and Bowhunting sdafety manual.

And I say: GET RID OF THE GUNS, IDIOTS!

People can disagree on the fire arms issue, but they should not be "butted off the bridge" of discourse. People lament that in NY a woman was killed over a period of 30 minutes to an hour while onlookers did nothing. What were they supposed to do? In NY, a person can't own a weapon to defend himself, while Schumer and others like him, walk around with bodyguards. Call 9-11 and you are put on hold; interefere and you become a witness--in a corrupt system that will probably sell you out to the highest bidder. Who trust cops these days? Why do you trust a cop to have a gun--a guy who receives some fire arms training and has no training in the Bill of Rights or of the Constitutional rights he is supposed to be protecting. His job is to protect "property rights of The Man." I for one believe that this government fears a well-armed patriot. As long as true patriots own guns, there is hope for a country. Let Bush and Co. declare martial law, and I hate to say it, but patriot rednecks with guns might be all that stands between you and absolute tyranny some day.

And BTW, all of these killers such as the one at Virginia Tech and Columbine were all on psychotropic drugs and under the care of a psychiatrist. This pattern seems to be repeated again and again. You don't just get Prozac in this country--you are under someone's "care"--perhaps a "handler" and receive prescriptions. Is it just paranoia, or does the fact that the CIA has always had a big presence on the Virgia Tech campus have any relevance here? The Manchurian Candidate may not be a figment of a screenwriter's imagination.

Vfor911 writes (paraphrased): "... the US Constitution does NOT protect the "Negro" Rosa Park's actions. The US Constitution DOES protect Rosa's right to assemble AND petition the government for a redress of grievances, not to harrass a law abiding establishment. Its the Law that Rosa has grievance with, not the bus system."

There are lots of other substitutions one could imagine, right back to the Boston Tea Party. US history has a long, proud tradition of civil disobedience.

When the legal system is wrong, activists have a moral obligation to bring that to the attention of everyone, using any peaceful means. Jesse would not have been there if "petitioning the government" had worked!

Woa, I can't believe all the gun nuts here! The Second Amendment has been twisted from "well regulated militia" to "anyone who has $100 and a good dose of propaganda-inspired fear."

The power of the gun lobby is a huge reason I moved to Canada. True, the border is rather porous, but the general populace is the issue, and progressives here (unlike so-called progressives on this list) would be horrified at the thought that owning any sort of weapon makes them more secure. Rather, Canadians look to civil discourse and social justice as their main path to security.

More people are killed with their own guns than are killed by intruders. Wise up, folks: buying a gun doesn't make you able to defend yourself any more than owning a car makes you a mechanic.

Is there just one issue being spoken of here, guns, or are there many issues being hid by the guns?
Crime is a problem in Chicago and as noted by some , it is not relegated to the streets alone but in the power structure of city itself.
A society reflects the system it is governed by.
Someone infered that gun store customers are of low IQ; but I belieive that gun crime is just the lowest form of corruption in a society.
The inbalance created by corruption within a civilized governance, it is not surprising at what is illegal theft, but the amounts of legal theft, goes way beyond in measure of harm to society than the crook who holds up a liquor store.
A man kills others with a gun and is illegal; and so is a man who would defend himself against violent harm if he uses and or has even the posession of a gun with the intention of selfdefence.
Yet the corruption at the top permeates all departments including the Justice and the policing systems, the two bulwarks that are supposed to protect society.
The acceptance by most of populace of the corrupt system does not turn to rage until it begins to effect them directly. They have watched as funds are diverted from needed causes into special interest of connected persons to the leadeship.
A rezone here depresses an area over there, the taking of waterfront from small companys to give to larger Corproations or developers, a part of the system that uses the monetary funding for their own personal agrandizement insted of the issue, all are crimes of theft but differnt weapons being used in commiting them.
There is more going on in the US than just a gun crime it is a societal illness, call it culture, built up over two centurys of allowance of one form or another of crime to being justified over another.
A society that is in reality based upon violent actions by its leaders and accepted by its followers as our God Given right, or our secular duty to perform.

Helluva paraphrase Jan. You changed "Reverend" to "Negro". I don't care what color his skin is, I do care that he CHOOSES to go by the title Reverend. I revere nobody. To say that Jesse's actions are similar to Rosa's is ludicrous. Rosa was defying a racist law. What law was Jesse defying again? Are negros only allowed in a certain part of the gun store? No. Nice try.

Well, I hope we get some more comments. Consider this, Jesse went back three times before he was arrested. Did he want to get arrested? Did he ever try assembling where they make the laws? That would be interesting to know.

People didn't assemble where the laws were made at the Boston Tea Party, and this was back involving a bunch of European Caucasians. They didn't go to either their legislature nor the British Parliament.

Historical note-- not that many people owned guns during in the 1770s when the 13 colonies began their rebellion against the British Empire, but they took guns including cannon from British military installations, which is what would have to happen in a popular uprising or else some outside power would have to provide the weapons and munitions. Maybe an invasion by blue UN helmeted black African troops in black hellicoptors is what we need to liberate us from the rich white man's graft ridden, phony,
cowardly, lower than rat do do rule.

AD, WTF are you talking about? Am I one of those "gun nuts" you speak of? (Damn, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) Are you saying that since I own firearms, I am a nut? Should I turn in my firearms like a good little sheep? Should you or your government goons come and take them? And how are you going to take them, ask nicely? And if I refuse, then what? Is the government going to pull out their gun and say fork over your gun? Do you follow?