Where is the “Lady in Red”?
Remember, she is the dame who snitched on Johnny Dillinger and was responsible for his being gunned down in front of Chicago’s famous Biograph Theater, in 1934. Dillinger at the time was “Public Enemy Number One”, and was popular with the masses for robbing banks and having a good time doing so.
All good things had to come to an end, though, and nobody should have that much fun thieving.
Along the way of robbing banks and showing off his athletic prowess ( he liked to jump up on bank counters while making his unorthodox withdrawls), Johnny D was so named a “Public Enemy” by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
Few know that the original term “public enemy” was first used in Chicago by the Chicago Crime Commission of the 1930’s. the first Gangster Era in Chicago. Yes, the dean of Crime in Chicago, Al Capone, make the list as well. It was used to disparage many of Chicago’s best numbers men, pimps and hooch providers. Or so it was thought by Frank J. Loesch, head of the Chicago Crime Commission.
Chicago folks — they knew better. They knew the real public enemies.
The real thieves of society were the corrupt, money grubbing and power hungry politicians and their lietuents, equally corrupt police, public officials and assorted business men.
Because we are smarter today, and getting smarter each and every day under President Obama’s administration, we can create our own “Public Enemies” list. Like our grandparents, we know who really belongs on that list. Being from Chicago, we especially know who is on the list.
Let’s play Hoover for the moment, minus the supposed ladies underwear.
The public enemies all have a Chicago connection.
Let’s start with Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff. His official White House Biography skips over his involvement in the Freddie Mac fraud, which, in part, has led to the current housing crisis. Emanuel managed to be quite handsomely paid for his hand in getting the financial giant in trouble and also for turning it into a political ATM for Democrats.
Emanuel is ever the opportunist. He is now famous for saying that a serious crisis should never go to waste, meaning that the opportunity for further graft and control are limitless while the public — the enemy– is confused.
Emanuel might be listed as “Public Enemy” Number Two.
He might be, that is, if it weren’t for the moll behind the scenes, Michelle Obama.
In another, less enlightened time, Michelle Obama might not have gotten her due as a power behind the Official Seal. This, however, is the twenty-first century, not the 1930’s. She is a fully Bonnie to Barack’s Clyde. She can handle her weapons and her man. Does anybody think that the pillow talk each night is about the kid’s homework? Michelle grabs a hold of one of those ample ears and whispers sweet but stearn instructions. She wants to right wrongs and be proud once and for all about this country, even if she destroys it to make it happen.
It is no surprise, then, that Public Enemy Number One is …. The Teleprompter of the United States — TOTUS.
You were expecting maybe President Barack Obama to be the head Enemy?
No, he is just the smooth and polished muscle.
Sure, he has his own ideas, most of them destined to change the United States into a version of Soviet-light, but he is just delivering the message that everyday appears magically on the Official Teleprompter.
His message is about control and spending. His controlling and his spending.
When Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI that July day in 1934, he was leaving the Biograph Theater with his wife and with his prostitute mistress, the infamous “Lady in Red”.
Ana Cumpanas was the “Lady in Red”. She went along for the ride with Dillinger and no doubt had some giddy good times, spending the money that the mobster took from the banks. Reality caught up with Ana, a Romanian immigrant facing deportation, and she wanted to go legit and make a nice home for herself in the US. So she snitched and soon Johnny D was wearing a plaster death mask. For her effort she got nothing. She was eventually deported.
Too little too late, maybe.
Today the “Lady in Red” is the defecit and national debt, and it growing faster than the number of appointed czars in the White House (not an easy feat).
Soon our own Lady in Red is going to snitch by forcing our national hand. The stake out is on. Our children and grandchildren are hiding at home and waiting for the outcome. Will they loose their savings and birthright because the Bank of The United States is being looted? Will they loose even the ability to go to the doctor of their choosing and have to use a mob doctor? Or even buy an automobile to their liking that has more horsepower than a golf cart, sold by a government connected car dealer.
Stay tuned….
Like the old serial movies of the 1930’s, you’ll have to tune in next week and next month and next year.
It’s not likely right now that anybody will be able to ambush the Teleprompter and pull the plug. Public Enemy Number One is having its say.
The Lady in Red is plotting and waiting her time.
Tune in in 2010 and we shall see.
