Posted on 09/25/2004 7:04:55 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist
Christián Antúnez chokes back a scream as the nurse sticks a needle above his left eyebrow. "Ay, Mamá!" he shouts. "It really hurts."
"Don't move," the nurse tells him, sticking him again and again with anesthesia.
He pleads for a break. At least four other men, all covered with tattoos, are taking needles around him, on their arms and legs, backs and chests. The whining rises from the chairs. One man has a tattoo on his scalp. Another has one over his top lip. Yet another on his neck. Mr. Antúnez, 22, has them everywhere.
The men have all come to this makeshift clinic in a neighborhood ravaged by street violence for a desperate and disfiguring kind of healing: to have their gang tattoos removed.
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LOL Just good ole boys doing the jobs Americans won't do.
During the last decade an average of 616 per year homicides were gang related in LA county, add New York and other US cities and the number would dwarf the recorded deaths in war torn Israel where the average rate per year is about 1000 which is about the same as the total casualties the full 2 year Iraq conflict.
Yet, over and over we hear the media debate critique and ponder for hours on end, while activists pour money and sponsor rallies with millions regarding these other places while the large terrorists gang problem from the illegal invasion right here on our own soil is being ignored !!!!
Gang-Related Crime in Los Angeles County
http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/topics/Crime/cr03x.htm
Death toll for U.S.-led coalition in Iraq tops 1,000
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/09/iraq.main/
Israeli and Palestinian deaths
http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/resources/mrates.asp
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The Clinton-Bush administration's dream for America coming true.
More accurately Bush=Clinton-Bush. NAFTA was the beginning of the end.
Thank you.
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