Obama & Capone Chicago Style Politics

Al "Scarface" Capone

So you thought that Obama "Chicago Style" Politics was over-the-top, far-right wing-nut demagoguery? How about if I add to the mix Frank Nitti, Capo of Al Capone, who ran the Prohibition Bootlegger's illicit Empire?

Now, I have a "Chicago Mob Style" Rackets  undercurrent in Obama's mentor training he embraced as a "Community Organizer" and now as the President of the United States wielding unbridled power as he dismantles the Constitutional laws right before everyone's eyes following the "Rules Of Radicals" book written by Saul Alinsky, an avowed Marxist socialist.

In "Barack Obama's Rules For Revolution" book by David Horowitz, he wrote "SaulSaul Alinsky Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909 and died in California in 1972. His preferred self-description was “rebel” and his entire life was devoted to organizing a revolution in America to destroy a system he regarded as oppressive and unjust. By profession he was a “community organizer,” the same term employed by his most famous disciple, Barack Obama, to describe himself. 

Frank "The Enforcer" NittiAlinsky came of age in the 1930s and was drawn to the world of Chicago gangsters, whom he had encountered professionally as a sociologist. He sought out and became a social intimate of the Al Capone mob and of Capone enforcer Frank Nitti who took the reins when Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion in 1931. Later Alinsky said, “[Nitti] took me under his wing. I called him 'the Professor' and I became 'his student'.”

While Alinsky was not oblivious to the fact that criminals were dangerous, like a good leftist he held “society” - and "capitalist society" in particular - responsible for creating them. In his view, criminality was not a character problem but a result of the social environment, in particular the system of private property and individual rights, which radicals like him were determined to change." - What depth in moral and ethical considerations by Saul Alinsky? ...NOT!

Epilogue:  Frank Nitti - Criminal Demise & Death

In 1943, many top members of the Chicago Outfit were indicted for extorting the Hollywood film industry.  The Outfit was accused of trying to strong arm some of the largest Hollywood movie studios, including MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and RKO Radio Pictures. The studios had cooperated with The Outfit to avoid union trouble stirred up by the mob.

At a meeting of Outfit leaders at Nitti's home, Nitti underboss Ricca angrily blamed Nitti for the indictments. Ricca said that since this had been Nitti's scheme and that the FBI informant, Willie Bioff, had been Nitti's trusted associate, Nitti should take the fall for the Outfit and go to prison. A severe claustrophobic as a result of his first prison term, Nitti dreaded the idea of another prison confinement. It was also rumored that he was suffering from terminal cancer at this time. For these or other reasons, he ultimately decided to take his own life.

The day before his scheduled grand jury appearance, Nitti shared breakfast with his wife in their Riverside, Illinois home at 712 Selborne Road. As his wife was leaving for church, Nitti told her he planned to take a walk. After his wife left, Nitti began to drink heavily. He then loaded a .32 caliber revolver, put it in his coat pocket, and walked five blocks to a local railroad yard. Two railroad workers (William F. Sebauer and Lowell M. Barnett) spotted Nitti walking on the track of an oncoming train and shouted a warning. They thought the train hit him, but Nitti had managed to jump out of the way in time. Then two shots rang out. The trainmen first thought Nitti was shooting at them, but then realized he was trying to shoot himself in the head. The two bullets went through his hat. Nitti finally sat on the ground against a fence and, with the railroad workers watching from a distance, shot himself in the head. Frank Nitti died on an Illinois Central railroad branch line in North Riverside, Illinois on March 19, 1943.