Posted on 08/02/2008 9:13:07 AM PDT by foutsc
California should be conservatives' exhibit A of Liberals Gone Wild. This is what happens when clueless liberals (Yes, including Arnie) let the animals run the zoo.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One man got stabbed. Another got shot in the chest. A 6-year-old boy was temporarily blinded when he was spray-painted in the face.
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Until people stop being so dam PC and get rid of the gangs, all this will continue. It’s going to get to the point that peoples rights will have to take a back seat until the gangs are gone. LA and Chicago got rid of them once, they can do it again.
BTW I believe it is illegal to carry guns in LA. Well there's more proof gun control works.
Too late! I'm already writing about it.
The cops know who they are. Hell, they have gang tatoos. The local government doesn’t want to solve the problem.
The freeways signs in L.A. have razor-wire on them in an attempt to keep them free of graffiti.
“The freeways signs in L.A. have razor-wire on them in an attempt to keep them free of graffiti.”
One of the “wonderful” multi-cultural attributes from Latin America.
When the revolution comes it will be time to purge wetbacks, liberals and tatooed MS13ers from the habitat!
Make you wonder if subsonic .22 aimed at their spray cans would dissuade some taggers. Paintballs might also be useful to cover “finished” works
I suggest a $25,000 dollar reward per graffiti artist.
That would be cheaper than what we are doing now.
After 25% of them are in prison, I think the message will be loud and clear.
Just throw the little tards in prison and lose the key.
Make gang membership a 25 year minimum sentence. Catch one of these bastard kids paint a wall, send them up the river.
This is such a blight on our nation. Whole communities are destroyed by this. Time to take off the kit gloves and get serious.
That is if the government actually wants to. You have to ask yourself how we got here, and why the government doesn’t give a damn.
They should send out a few police crews with instructions to turn the high-pressure hoses on the vandals, and escalate from there as necessary.
These goons have absolutely no concept of public or private property. They consider all physical surfaces their very own property by right of eminenct domain.They will kill to protect that right.
If the auto mechanic had returned fire, his shop would have been torched to the ground.
Here's a sample of their unmitigated arrogance:
"If we see someone calling the police, then we target them," said Mario Garcia, 20, who describes himself as a former tagger trying to become a professional artist. "You are trying to stop me from what I live, what I believe in and what I breathe? We are not going to let no one get in the way."
Maybe we should make these ‘artists’ fair game 24/7. I wonder if City offials would give you a bonus for shooting 3 or more at one time?
Or $12,500 per ear.
I thought of that actually. The problem is, you’d have gang members bringing in the ears of innocents.
Here you actually have to prove the guy did the deed, then send him off to prison.
Even taking the ears of gang members would not prevent them from doing it again.
Of course you could take the ears after conviction, just before they go off to prison. I’ll have to give that some thought... LOL
Pretty good description of Los Angeles. A hellhole. It used to be paradise. Now it's a hellhole.
thanks for posting this. i read it in the morning paper. this kid thinks he has the right to be violent:
“You are trying to stop me from what I live, what I believe in and what I breathe? We are not going to let no one get in the way.”
You see that in a lot of cities now.
Many of the overheads also have bullet holes in them. I've seen some with bullet patterns specifically similar to that of common machine guns.
Some areas of LA are clearly not safe.
That's not saying much for America, given the fact that Los Angeles has considerably less crime per capita than most all other major cities in other states.
Been lurking for a while, and had to register so I could comment.
They are not artists. They don’t deserve the title. They are POS vandals. The term “graffiti artist” really irks me. Its an oxymoron.
Okay, going back to lurk mode.
cant we be tolerant of artists trying to express themselves?
Yes. When the “artists” express themselves with their own money and their own property.
Wow, talk about a law that will put the fear of God in taggers. < / s>
How about second time you get caught tagging, you spend 12 months breaking rocks with a hammer 8 hours a day in chains as long as you go to school the other 4 hours. If not liking the chance to educate yourself, you break rocks for 12 hours a day in chains Three decent squares a day, no TV, no A/C, just rocks and books
Of course there are solutions that work, the only thing stopping the authorities from implementing these solutions are the grit and backbone to endorse draconian laws to restore law and order
There may come a point where civil war comes. At that point, anybody who looks like, or smells like, a gang banger will be targeted
Welcome to FR.
You do know there is no going back after posting your first post....................................you are assimilated ( insert evil laugh track)
Hmmm, I believe that my domicile should be graffiti free, guess I should take his attitude and not "let no one get in the way". Fair warning.
From sprawling elite opulent, private country clubs, complete with fine china, high end art, and white gloved well spoken waiters, with parking lots full of Rolls Royce's and Ferrari's, to senseless murder districts that resemble a trashed third world ghettos.
It's all here.
I am intimately familiar with the LA area.
I would think tracers might make things more interesting, though I don't know if one tracer would suffice or if two would be necessary.
Even this guy?
re. your #8
I’m down
RE: “The cops know who they are. Hell, they have gang tatoos. The local government doesn’t want to solve the problem”
Yes, to a very large extent police know exactly who gang members are — I’ve been to police sponsored community meetings held to educate us about the various gangs and their methods and how to recognize members.
Gangs are surprisingly sophisticated, using the internet and even function well with those “outside” while many are in prison. It’s all elaborate and well organized, and some of their methods are not unlike the Mafia type gangs of earlier years.
We used to be able to paint out local graffiti ourselves with no repercussions at all, but now even what appears to be just tagger wannabee graffiti can in fact be gang-related. Many people have been injured or killed for taking matters into their own hands so we are strongly urged to just contact the graffiti paint-out crews ASAP so this scourage can be removed within a day or two of it’s appearance.
They even put it on peoples’ property like walls of their yards, vehicles, and occasionally on a house itself. And I’m talking decent neighborhoods as well as the barrios/ghettos. For the record, most of what we see around LA is Mexican/other hispanic gang graffiti though there is also Asian, black, and Armenian among others.
It’s a total nightmare and though response to requests for clean-up is pretty swift, way too much time and money is being spent and it’s far too dangerous out there now. These gangs must be stopped but the authorities’ hands are tied to a great degree because of the ridiculous laws protecting the gang members’ “rights.”
The kicker is that gang members know they will likely not live beyond age 30 but they don’t care, so threatening them with imprisonment and/or death doesn’t help.
No parole if you get a tattoo in prison after your initial tattoos are removed.
I understand that removal is much more painful than having them put on.
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That's who runs L.A.
My idea of what prison should be, doesn’t conform in the slightest way to what they are today.
Prisons are a vile place. I would change things drastically. When people came out, they would not have networked to become worse than when they went in.
There wouldn’t be anyone running things on the outside from inside.
There wouldn’t be any happy dance going in because it would make someone look tough.
How about passing a law stating that the painting of certain types of graffiti on private property may be regarded as a deadly threat and treated as such?
They LA version of tagger looks a lot more militant. They won't be stopped unless the underlying gang culture is crushed. There are LA gangs going back generations. I do not see it happining.
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