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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The WAY he said it was offensive. Paraphrasing, but VERY close "Black people in Georgetown act weird".
I'd investigate a bit mroe before you back the wrong horse. The underlying premise of this article is true - meanign you can't point out the fact that black gangs are the perps. But this bonehead officer did not help this cause.
Duh! They're called the City Council!
Rob
ages 13 to 15, are displaying handguns
I thought so as well, apparently they must've changed the law. Certainly these Goblins wouldn't break the law. /sarcasm
I intend to display my handgun should one of these BG's approach me. Of course the display will be followed by a live action demonstration of the effect of a .357 hollow point on a chest cavity.
Sounds like black Muslims, not just blacks. And if so, that's why it's being ignored.
God help us from our own leaders.
Violent crime in DC actually had gone way down from the dark Marion Barry mayoral days and in recent years it had become a much safer city. Lately though, it is definitely going back on the rise again for some reason, which is a concern.
But that would be an insult to most third cities.
We can thank a couple of generations of the leftist conventional thought for this situations.
First there is the nonrecognition of the fact that there always have been bad people, those in every society that are not fit to be with the public. There should be no compromise between order and evil. And this story is just the tip of the iceberg. When these guys aren't stalking white people, they are ruining their own community.
But more important is the orthodox liberal's attempt to separate moral behavior from the biblical principles that has inspired the best in American history. Without the force of God, exhortations to good behavior are just worthless wimpy PC whining with no effect on the hearts of men.
Without God, we are raising generations without working consciences.
these (black) thugs are terrorists by any definition of the word......WaPo routinely affords all terrorists any sort of anonymity and cover that they can. They are pro-terrorist to the core.
I don't guess The District of Columbia has a National Guard? ...maybe they can borrow some from Chocolate City?
D.C. is just another Third World country with all the corruption, ineptness and brazen dishonesty that go along with that. Going there at all is nuts and going there unarmed and unprepared to defend yourself is certifiably insane. The violence and crime have long ago spread out to the Maryland suburbs.
Good thing Wonkette reader, Superior Court Judge John Bayly, convicted that rich, white, privileged, Duke LAX player, Collin Finnerty. Gotta keep those hooligans throwing "fake-punches" off the street!
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16107.html
Why do you have to paraphrase when his exact quotes are in the article? Makes no sense. He did not say anything close to what you allege. Unless you're not quoting from the link provided.
I am surprised the Metro has remained as safe as it has. I suppose that will change too, eventually. Or maybe if assaults on tourists and residents increase, we might not be forewarned anyway since the "news" media won't want to reveal the true situation.
It's a quagmire! We need to pull out now.
Telling it like it is went out the window long ago and has definately affected law enforcement is parts of our country.
: ) It wouldn't happen in Texas, but white folks are not protected by the DC police, and there is a heavy penalty for packin a rod.
Come to Philly, we are on a record run for shootings.
About 3 weeks ago the ComPost ran a huge article about the lack of blacks living in Georgetown and a whole 200 years history of blacks in that part of town.
There has been a mini-crime wave this summer here in DC with tourists getting mugged and some murders in Georgetown. Eleanor Holmes Norton is a loser and a nutbag, but at least she has been calling for more police patrols because she does not want to see tourists mugged in her city.
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