Posted on 08/11/2006 7:12:35 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Because the Washington Post wants to obscure the basic reality of the situation, we believe that visitors to the nation's capital should be warned that there is a crime emergency in effect, sparked by a sharp increase in homicides, and they are potential victims.
The fact is that white tourists are being injured and killed by roving black male gangs, who are even showing up in exclusive areas such as Georgetown where some rich reporters live behind iron gates. The Post, however, has a policy of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the real nature of the problem.
In D.C., it appears, you're not supposed to talk about the racial aspect of the problem. Black police chief Charles H. Ramsey temporarily reassigned a white police commander who warned residents to be aware of suspicious black people in a section of the city where a white man, a British citizen by the name of Alan Sennit, was murdered by having his throat slit by a group of black male thugs. Ramsey considered his comments racially offensive, even though they were true.
The commander, Andy Solberg, had said, "This is not a racial thing to say that black people are unusual in Georgetown." Georgetown is the fancy and affluent area of the city that was described in a July 16 Post headline as "a virtually all-white enclave." While Solberg was reassigned for drawing attention to the potential threat posed by groups of black males wandering through white areas of the city and killing people, Courtland Milloy of the Post in a July 12 column quoted Ramsey himself as saying that "Young black males, in groups of five to six, ages 13 to 15, are displaying handguns and beating their victims."
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When a citizen has to draw a gun after some kid already has the drop on him it's basically too late. While the citizen should have the right to carry, the fact that a group of kids is walking around committing acts of violence just screams something else namely, the decay of the black community that the liberals and black police chief want to ignore and will accuse anyone who notices as being racist.
The food at Martin's on the Pike was good too.
The Jefferson Memorial is one of my favorite DC places. I visit it whenever I'm over there, but I don't think the evening is a good time for anybody going anywhere in the District. It's been that way - sadly - for many years.
I normally took care of business, then got the heck out of there, back to Baltimore (with a six-pack in the car in case traffic sucked.) :-)
But, in all fairness, DC is not much worse than Takoma Park or Langley Park anymore. Criminal gangs of all colors and nationalities own the streets in lots of areas surrounding DC.
The Soviets always used to brag about how one could walk around their capitol or kremlin area without being mugged, at night or otherwise. Of course, they had the much more severe "one strike and you're out". Hm.
One of the most impressive sights in D.C. is Friday evening at the Marine Barracks. When the band starts playing the Marine Corp Hymn about 30% of the audience stands at attention. It's my favorite 'tourist attraction' in D.C.
Black gangs were a problem in DC during the Civil War.
What????? From the reports in the news, you'd think DC is a war zone. I lived in DC (Georgetown and Capitol Hill) for many years and will be moving back next year after I'm married. I am in DC almost every week. Most of the crime is entirely confined to certain areas (slums). As with traveling in any large city, tourists just need to use a little common sense --- don't walk around the monuments at nite, don't travel off the beaten path, don't go to ATM machines at nite, don't walk down dark alleys, etc. It is my understanding that the tourists who were mugged were walking around the Mall at nite which is incredibly stupid. The Mall is very crowded during the day but becomes very quiet after dusk making tourists easy targets. The Georgetown murder was random and unfortunate but an extremely rare attack which occurred at 2:30 am. Unless you're planning on touring areas of the city with crack dens, trust me, you're safe.
Cops don't get paid that much, and it is much easier to bust speeders than armed gangs. Especially since the thugs will be out before the paper work is done and you risk loosing your job for "profiling".
Sign of the times. We are to PC to survive.
You know, I stood duty at those parades (I was a greeter and seater) for two years. I think I only missed 2 parades the entire time I was there; twice a week between April and Oct plus special occasions. By the time I left, the whole pageantry and awe had left me, and it had become a chore. That was 10+ years ago, and I am just now getting to where I can appreciate having been part of the whole experience.
If you liked the Friday Evening parades at the Barracks, you need to go see the Teusday Sunset parade at the Iwo Jima Memorial.
I'm with you. Some of the comments on this board are hilarious.
Thank you. I definitely will on my next visit. Is it Marines also? I can't remember ever seeing so many good looking guys in one place! LOL
Oh, and did I mention they were fit as well as good looking. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
Support the 2nd amendment.
It is really difficult for this kind of atmosphere to exist if law abiding people have the right to carry heavy duty weapons whenever and wherever.
DC first disarmed people. An armed citizen in DC is treated as a criminal. If that citizen shoots a real criminal in self-defense, then the DC govt. will put that person in prison.
Next thought is that when you allow a govt. to punish you for stating a truth, then you have become in actuality, a second class citizen. That mentality should be eliminated from the govt. All citizens should be treated equally under the law.
The DC national guard was de-certified.
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