By John Kass | Sunday March 29

The worst sound in the world comes from the throat of a father or mother of a child killed by an illegal protected by powerful politicians as the news media begins to edge away from them, ignoring their child and their pain.

It is the sound of anguish. You can hear it in Chicago.

I’ve been hearing it far too much lately, that desperate sound in the throat of a grieving parent. Their sorrow overwhelms them. The fact that their sorrow is ignored by journalism as journalism serves political lords overwhelms them. Their throats begin to clench and what remains is a climbing ladder of anguish and a high-pitch screeching for desperate breath.

You may think of the many angel moms and dads out in America mourning those kids, from Kate Steinle, shot in the back in 2015 while  holding her father’s hand as they walked on a pier in San Francisco. “Dad, help me,” she said as she collapsed, “Help me.”

Laken Riley was a Georgia nursing student who also was senselessly killed in February 2024. And Katie Abraham from Illinois, slaughtered and forgotten as she sat quietly in a car waiting at a red light in Urbana with friends, as a car driven by a drunken illegal hurtled down upon them at 75 miles per hour. And so many, many others killed by migrants here illegally in the United States, all of the illegal migrants ushered into the United States by Democrats and former President Joseph Biden.

Billons of  dollars were spent on the illegal migrants by American taxpayers whose children were killed by those tax subsidized illegals, some by gunfire, some by a crushing blow with a rock, some by the impact of a vehicle driven by the illegal while drunk. In each case there was silence from Democrats, and silence from the news media lest mention of the dead anger the partisan leftist subscribers.

In the midst of that crushing silence, anguished parents want their murdered children to have mattered, but the media and leftist political indifference angers them and their throats begin to close up as they raise their voices. Their screeching digs deeply into anyone who hears them and are possessed of human souls.

And now Sheridan Gorman, the 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University who was recently out with friends at the lake shore hoping to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights when illegal Jose Medina-Medina—who had already been arrested for another crime–fired shots at them with a gun.

Gorman was hit in the back as she tried to run away. She died. Chicago Police detectives used facial recognition technology to track her killer down.

Sheridan Gorman was failed by open-border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he carried out this heinous murder.

On May 9, 2023, Medina-Medina was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and released into the country under the Biden… pic.twitter.com/s6v57GPwyu

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 23, 2026

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) placed the blame for the murder of Sheridan Gorman not on the Biden Democrats protecting illegal migrants–or lavishing billions upon them as they wreak havoc in the cities–but on  President Trump.

The governor said part of the blame for the murder belongs to the Trump administration because they have not stuck to their “edict” of targeting the “worst of the worst” when it comes to illegal migrants.

I have no doubt that Gov. Pritzker patted her on the head and handed her a low-carb treat. Not to be outdone in the groveling to Pritzker, the Tribune’s own pro George Soros newsroom union boss wrote a news story with this headline: “Sheridan Gorman’s family blast officials for using her name in ‘political arguments’ about Loyola student’s death.” My translation? Republicans are not to mention Gorman’s name until this dies down so as not to upset the governor.

The Tribune also first describe Medina-Medina the killer as a “Rogers Park man.”

The legacy media knows it is in serious difficulty. So why anger people further by treating Sheridan Gorman’s murder as an annoyance?

Why would Democrats who created the problem and media work together to cover it all with a bushel?

Is there more to this than mere political partisanship?

Then I heard Arthur R. Andrew on Dan  Proft’s Morning Answer program on WIND 560 AM. Andrew’s theory: That it dates back to the times of the Spanish Civil war and an exceedingly bitter communist fanatic known as “La Passionaria” who coined a phase None Shall Pass. This was the phrase that fueled intolerance and the intolerance and fanaticism that allowed Spanish communists to murder at least 8,000 priests and nuns in the Spanish Red Terror.

La Passionaria’s true name was Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, honored and beloved by the leftists from Spain to Cuba as a mother of their revolution. As I listened to Proft and his guest, and as I wrestled with a topic for this column, I thought of George Orwell’s observation of ideologically aggressive leftist women, like our intolerant AWFLS of today.

In “1984” he wrote, “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

Arthur Andrew explained the political theory, that the Spanish communists believed that to give one inch would create an avalanche and lose everything. I know there are voices being raised everywhere except the Chicago media. And through the yelling, all I can hear is the anguish of the parents. And in our time, Democrats don’t give an inch as did the Communists in Spain years ago. And the children die.

That’s why I selected the painting below by Danish-born artist August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck. He settled in Paris as a young man, to study at the famous École des Beaux-Arts. Schenck spent most of his career in Paris, specializing in painting landscapes and animal subjects, which were often seen as a metaphor for human relationships and society. These included several snowy, winter landscapes depicting sheep struggling for survival.

Yes, I know that I’ve used this paining before. But it explains our current condition with a clarity that’s needed now.

In Anguish, a brave ewe stands defiantly over the limp body of her lamb. Blood from the lamb’s mouth trickles on to the snow.  The pair is encircled by a mass of menacing black crows. The situation appears hopeless, despite the bravery of the ewe.

The anguish of our American parents go unheard. They are mocked by political actors, by media sophists, tricksters and party propagandists as America is overwhelmed. In panic and outrage at the unfairness of it all, their throats begin to clench up. You can barely hear them.

But you can’t pretend they’re not there.

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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He left when the newsroom began supporting George Soros. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.

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