Posted on 01/16/2005 12:53:51 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
The former gang member recalls watching them spread the newly purchased machetes from Springfield Mall on the bed and marvel at their sexiness. With reggae music booming in the background, the South Side Locos gang members began touching the steel blades and gripping the black handles.
They wanted revenge. One of their own, a 16-year-old boy, had just been brutally attacked in the Alexandria area by machete-wielding rivals in Mara Salvatrucha, the dominant gang in Northern Virginia. He had lost four fingers trying to shield his head from the blows, an incident so gruesome, audacious - and seemingly new - that it galvanized the Washington region to the surging gang populations.
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Is necklacing next?
They allow punks to do the maximum damage to each other with the least possible damage to bystanders.
The innocent are unlikely to get hurt in driveby hackings.
So9
What blue-zone gangbanger-protecting no-carry-law hell hole is this one from?
Of course guns kill, people don't.
Virginia, actually. Northern Virginia, in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. I used to live in Alexandria. The neighborhood where I lived is rapidly becoming a barrio. 'Latin Kings' gang tags everywhere, a couple of stabbings in the complex where I lived.
Broke the lease on my apartment to get out. Between the incessant, 24 hour a day noise and having my car vandalized a couple of times and having drunken 'latino immigrants' pounding on my door, none of whom spoke a word of English, that was it.
Ain't multiculturalism grand? Machete murders coming to a neighborhood near you. And to think that not long ago this was a civilized country until Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy decided we were letting in too many white northern European Christians and got legislation passed to let mostly cultural strangers into our country. Thanks a lot, Fatso. You live in the gated fortress of Martha's Vineyard. The rest of us aren't so fortunate.
"THAT"
Example: Houston has the 2nd largest num,ber of immigrants in the nation. Houston got its gang problem under control in the 80s through increased traditional law enforcement techniques including more patrols, under cover agents and specialized task forces.
Los Angles has an out of control gang problem.
Los Angeles, which is many times larger than Houston, has one-third the police officers and treats gang crime as an immigration problem which can only be solved by the federal government.
As long as local police departments pass the buck on gang crime instead of tackling it head on, the gangs will continue to proliferate.
Bull. They are both.
Tell me some more about how Hispanic illegal immigration will lead to a more moral America.
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