Posted on 08/17/2007 4:48:32 PM PDT by Coleus
The computer, its screen blank, sat on a table in the living room of Gloria Gomez’s apartment. Two blocks away, four promising young people had been shot, three fatally, and now Ms. Gomez’s two sons were being hunted by the authorities. She did not want to believe that her boys could have played a role in the killings, but she consented to turn on the computer, which one of her sons had brought into the house recently, while she was away visiting her native Nicaragua.
In seconds, the monitor filled with a blue-and-white wallpaper emblazoned with gang names, including that of MS-13, the notorious gang from El Salvador that has taken hold in a handful of cities across the United States. With a click, there was more: photographs of her 16-year-old drinking beer and Cognac, and making distinctive hand gestures signaling his allegiance to, or affection for, MS-13.
There was even a picture of him with two of the other teenagers the police have identified as suspects, seated in the bleachers of the very schoolyard where the killings later took place. Their fingers are splayed in V’s, thumb and pinky extended, in classic gang signs, and one is wearing across his face a bandana of blue and white, the colors of MS-13.
“Oh, my God,” Ms. Gomez said in Spanish. Ms. Gomez, of course, is not alone in Newark in trying to come to terms with one of the shocking aspects of one of the city’s most gruesome crimes: that four of the six suspects were younger than the college students whom the police say they played some role in killing.
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With a 16 year-old offspring in Newark, she’s in Nicaragua.
I was thinking the same thing. why isn’t child services and ICE knocking on her door.
“With a 16 year-old offspring in Newark, she’s in Nicaragua.”
It’s an example of those “fine family values” that Pres. Bush is always touting illegal aliens as having. Many that I’ve come across don’t have the family values of feral cats.
Can a nation this suicidally stupid survive much longer as a free country and an economic superpower?
Yes, with the help of people like you, Travis. Thanks for all that you do.
We’re throwing grains of sand at a tsunami.
It does “feel” like that at times. We are very early in the information age, whereas people seeking truth have the ability to connect rapidly. So many anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-life individuals and collectives are falling on the ash heap of history. The coalition of life/freedom lovers will prevail. The republic will stand, as will other like-minded republics.
Excelsior!
I wish I shared your optimism.
C'mon Travis! I never thought it was this screwed up as a kid or young adult, but it certainly is.
The reason I am optimistic is WE EXIST! My family, the men and women of the armed forces of The United States of America and like minded forces in democratically elected governments, patriots like you, all of the posters on this forum, like-minded bloggers, etc., etc., and every individual and family on the planet that produces, creates...values life, truth, freedom. There are enough of us to put the anti-freedom, anti-truth, anti-life forces on the run...and on the run they are. Our best days are ahead of us. We prevail. Life goes on and its beauty is beyond description for those yet to be born.
I hope you’re right.
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