Posted on 06/26/2015 4:26:53 PM PDT by Beave Meister
James Triplett had his customers lined up around the corner in broad daylight, the feds say.
Not for concert tickets. Not for iPhones.
For heroin.
Now 42 people are facing state or federal drug charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin around West Grenshaw and Independence in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Among them is the 33-year-old Triplett, also known as “Trell,” who authorities said controlled the drug market in the area.
Investigators even included a photo in a federal criminal complaint spanning more than 200 pages. They said the photo depicts a line of people waiting June 16 to get their hands on heroin supplied by Triplett’s organization in the 3700 block of West Grenshaw.
The photo was taken just south of the Eisenhower Expressway, which has come to be known as “Heroin Highway.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
They were all in line and people noticed a drop-off in muggings... they put 2 and 2 together...
just kidding
Confederate flag to blame!
Ladies and Gentlemen
Fellow Americans
Lady Americans
This is James Brown
I wanna talk to you about one of our
Most deadly
Killers in the country today
I had a dream the other night, and I
Was sittin' in my living room
Dozed off to sleep
So I start to dreamin'
I dreamed I walked in a place and
I saw a real strange, weird object
Standin' up talkin' to the people
And I found out it was Heroin
That deadly drug that go in your veins
He says:
I came to this country without a passport
Ever since then I've been hunted and sought
My little white grains are nothin' but waste
Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
I'm a world of power and all know it's true
Use me once and you'll know it, too
I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
I can make a good man forsake his wife
Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
I can make a man forsake his country and flag
Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
Some think my adventure's a joy and a thrill
But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill
In cellophane bags I've found my way
To heads of state and children at play
I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam
I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg
Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
So now, no, my man, you must (you know) do your best
To keep up your habit until your arrest
Now the police have taken you from under my wing
Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king?
Now, you must lie in that county jail
Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
So squirm - with discomfort - wiggle and cough (hack!)
Six days of madness, hah! You might throw me off
Curse me in name! Defy me in speech!
But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach
All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
Hear now! younng man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
Don't be afraid, don't run! I'm not chased
Sure my name is Heroin! You'll be back for a taste
Behold, you're hooked!
Your foot is in the stirrup
And make -- haste!
Mount the steed!
And ride him well
For the white horse of heroin
Will ride you to Hell!
To Hell!
Will ride you to Hell!
Until you are dead!
Dead, brother! Dead!
This is a revolution of the mind
Get your mind together
And get away from drugs!
That's the man!
Back! Back
maybe he accepts ebt cards
“I’m respected in Turkey and I’m legal in Siam.”
Siam became Thailand around 1949 or so, and they currently have very strict laws surrounding drugs.
Not sure what the status was back when Brown wrote the song, but it’s not historically correct.
I think he must have heard about the older times in Siam, when the British basically forced them to keep opium legal so the British could profit from it. Maybe he didn’t know those days were over, or was just taking some artistic liberty.
Or he just needed a word to rhyme (kind of) with “Japan” :)
We'll be winning the War on Drugs any day now.
OBAMA - Yes I did!
SO TELL ME, HOW ARE THE COPS GOING TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOST BAG MONEY INCOME....... PROBABLY O/T WILL ROCKET IN CHIRAQ NOW... CHIRAQ IS A LIBTARD CESSPOOL... NOTHING BUT CRAP LIVES IN IT AND NOTHING BUT CRAP COMES OUT OF IT ...
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