Posted on 09/27/2007 1:27:29 AM PDT by zipper
Memphis is on a major fault line, the New Madrid fault. A major earthquake could make Memphis look much worse than 'Nawlins post-Katrina.
Another good reason for law-abiding Memphians to have guns.
He'd roll over in his grave if he knew how bad things are there now, especially in his old neighborhood.
I’m sitting in Memphis proper right now with a loaded .45 out in the truck.
Every night the news has a car jacking, murder rape or something, yet King Willie will probably get back in.
Elvis would be back in Mississipi now probably if he was still alive. Desoto county where I live is now one of the fasting growing counties in the nation, because of Memphis crime. Sadly the wolves are following the sheep, as there was a carjacking in my neighborhood late last year.
If there were a legal way for the voters to elect a convicted felon serving a sentence, the Memphis Democrats would. Then the Fords would rule the city from prison like mafia bosses.
No. Increasing crime rates under your "leadership" is your major accomplishment. There's something to be proud of.
Show me where a problem has been solved.
Well, as for your last paragraph, we’d never pull out of any government program if the direct recipients of the money were able to vote more money toward the effort; money earned by anybody but them!
All true! Funny how Memphis has spent the last few years annexing adjacent neighborhoods, in effect ‘chasing after taxpayers’; yet the net population of Memphis declined between 2001 and 2006. The taxpayer base is fleeing Memphis faster than Memphis can annex them!
so why does memphis have these problems?
somebody please explain......and don’t give me the “Oh, Democrats made folks do this”
like they have no control over their own actions.....that is just as bigoted as what the Klan would say
the culture is laregly broken and no one has the balls to try to fix it....they just lament and even refuse to talk about what has happened...for fear
something bad went wrong somewhere
many of us down here have lived this now for two generations and Memphis is but a glaring example...one of many
The leaders are a product of and thrive in that culture.
But the culture selects them, they are a product of the culture.
Folks who say otherwise are wishful thinking and simply saying broken cultures are not capable anything....like they are malleable mush to be exploited and can only be effected from the outside....that to me is no less bigoted than white supremacy talk.
I don’t know much about Memphis, but your assessment of “leadership as a product of the culture” seems fitting.
The beast did say “it takes a village”.
LLS
Supposedly there’s 100,000 illegal aliens in Memphis ...could that be part of the problem?
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/25/hispanics-are-seen-but-unseen/
Oh and uh, ICE is opening a new office for the fugitive illegal aliens in Memphis
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070927/NEWS01/709270403/1006/NEWS
The article didn't mention how the Hispanics contribute to the violent crime problem in Memphis. It's probably not what most would think -- it's not that Hispanics are perpetrating the crimes, it's that they're the victims probably 95 times out of 100. I don't know of a significant MS13 gang presence in Memphis, but it is a well-known fact that Hispanics working in Memphis tend to live in the low-income areas (Hickory Hill, Frayser) and tend to carry cash. That combined with the language barrier and fear of reporting their victim status after a crime makes them prime targets of the hoodlums in their neighborhoods.
Come to think of it, I just made a pretty good case for assuming Memphis is even more violent than the authors of the dubious "violent crime capital" title required.
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