Posted on 12/29/2004 5:48:19 AM PST by OESY
You just might be onto something there.....
"The latest craze now is "wet," a marijuana joint rolled in embalming fluid."
This was called "poor mans angel dust" in the 70's. The Moore family in Brooklyn used to sell it and obtained their formaldahyde from the Guarinos on Avenue X.
"The latest craze now is 'wet,' a marijuana joint rolled in embalming fluid."
I'd love to meet the person who thought this up!
Faulty morality and economics of which we are supposed to be "tolerant".
I happen to think it unjust to initiate violence against the nonviolent, which the drug war does do (and gun control laws also do). From that injustice, many others flow. Of course, this being a liberal gun-safety utopia brings about its own problems, such as making a lot of defenseless people to prey upon. No one small policy change will fix everything, but what's clear is that the present policies are evil, because they result in the evil seen here. (Abolish the welfare state, and the welfare mothers go away too, for example.)
Another of the great American Liberal experiments that failed. Kill the politicans there and you can clean up the area.
And didn't some Federal judge rule that she was violating the law by doing that, and that she had to release all of the people arrested in the raid?
The Federal court system will be the end of us all.
The voters in California, Texas, New York, Florida, Massachusetts and other states once asked that same question when confronted with a choice of governors, and New York City asked the question about its mayor, having first rejected Rudy Giuliani in favor of David Dinkins (with disasterous results). Different philosophies and policies can make a difference.
I'm sure many do "get the hell out of Dodge". For those that remain, the fear of leaving what they know is greater than the fear of staying.
Probably someone working the night shift at the morgue.
I'm sure this is where the writers of The Wire get their story lines.
I was supposed to be born at Cooper but the Dr. was convinced my mother couldn't survive the experience so they were pushing to crush my cranium ( I weighed in at over 12 lbs), my grandfather literaly carried my mother out of the hospital room and drove her to Lourdes...where I was born without a crushed skull or a deceased mother. Thank God he was there. My dad was a 20 year old truck driver on the road, my mother was unconscious and her sister was giving them the go-ahead to kill me when grandpop got there. He's one feisty little Cajun Catholic and 'der wasn't gonna be no baby killing dat day!' This story has become almost a family legend but my mother swore to it's veracity while she was alive.
I think Camden needs some good jobs and the army corps of engineers to get back on it's feet.
On the other hand, if Philly is dumb enough to pass a "no smoking in bars" law the Camden waterfront could become a hoppin' spot overnight!
Never anything really effective. One thing I do recall, however. The city's District Attorney, a fellow by the name of Asbell who craved the spotlight and was on TV all the time, showed up one night on the news after surviving an ambush in which his car was shot up by vengeful drug lords. I recall a cop being quoted anonymously that he didnt buy it. His reason was that the drug lords knew that if they did that, the hammer would fall and they'd all be put out of business. It turns out it was staged and the guy was put out of office in disgrace. But my takeaway was that the police could end the drug trafficing if they wanted to, but chose to look the other way for some reason. I suspect graft, of course, but it could be cowardice. Either way, it was a very telling comment that explains a lot about why Camden continues to be a wasteland.
Wow, remarkable story.
They'd be killing each other to take over something else. Protection rackets, welfare mother paychecks, anything you please. They will beat the defenseless for a living because it is the only livelihood they know
But unlike drug sales those crimes have actual victims, who will do what they can to prevent their commission and cooperate in their punishment. Drug prohibition is failing in much the same way that alcohol prohibition failed.
Camden's new nickname:
Caracas on the Delaware.
The summer of 2003, my husband and I decided to take our kids to the NJ State Aquarium on the way to Ocean City MD (we lived in northern NJ at the time) and we parked in one of those parking lots and headed across the street to the aquarium with no mishap. Getting off the highway and to the aquarium requires that one see little of Camden, so I had no idea...til we left, took a wrong turn and had trouble finding our way back onto the highway.
Having lived in New Haven CT, NYC and just outside Newark, I consider myself relatively exposed, but I had NEVER seen rundown city streets like they sport in Camden. It was mid-afternoon and I was nervous. We actually stopped to get directions from a traffic cop in the median to hasten our departure as much as possible.
It's too bad, because the aquarium and the kids' playground outside it are pretty cool.
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