I’m angry that we have allowed punks and gangs to wander at will for so long. Liberals made all kinds of excuses for their existence and behavior, but none of them suffered at their hands because they lived in fancy neighborhoods and never walked anywhere.
We, the working people, are the main targets of the criminals because we are out there walking down the block, to work, or the bus/subway, or to the local store.
Our kids are exposed to gangs and drugs because the police never admitted that either existed for years. My daughter and niece once gave me the names of 18-27 Hispanic/black gangs that existed in our area, while the police had just told me at a community meeting that there were only 5-7, and not all were dangerous. I sent them the rest of the names their intelligence unit missed.
I’m tired of drunk drivers hitting my family’s cars, and those of my neighbors (18 times in 3 years). We finally got the police off their asses, provided them with license plate numbers, home addresses, etc. and cleaned up our neighborhood, including wiping out a little drug operation.
The fact that my son is a federal police officer, and is very striking in his uniform, with K9, sent out a message to newcomers that you don’t cause trouble in our neighborhood or you could get shot or arrested, or bitten, then shot, and then arrested. You just can’t image how quiet it has been during the past few years. I wonder why.
I don’t mind rehabilitation, but in some cases, as in the situation of this poor woman who was struck by the shopping cart, her life has been severely damaged if not wrecked. My anger is directed at the bastard who did it. He needs to pay, if only as an example to the next jerk who might think it is funny to drop a cart on someone’s head.
In fact, someone was driving in nearby Maryland and kids threw a hugh stone thru their car window, nearly killing the person, and crippling them for life. The victim didn’t deserve that. That is why I’m angry. It could have been me, or my family. I can’t reserve my anger just for my family and friends. A stranger deserves the right to life just as much as anyone else.
Remember, an injury to one is an injury to all. We must get collectively angry if we are to have anything done. Nice platitudes and psychobabble don’t mean shit out in the real world. We are our brother’s keepers and that means protecting one and all from the barbarians.
Anger, leading to real justice, is the one thing that can unite us as a people. I agree that blind anger is not good, but directed anger helps to make our world a safer place. After 9/11, Americans finally got angry and got justice after ignoring the atrocities of the Khobar Towers, World Trade Center One, USS Cole, etc. No one wanted to point a finger, name a culprit, do justice to our dead and wounded and maimed.
I prefer to be a little angry because I was raised to be angry at injustice and crime. And I do something about it.
Call me angry, call me mean-spirited, call me anything you want to, but in the end, I bring the bastards down.
Two drunks went to jail last night when I helped the manager of a local drugstore locate and identify to the police these guys who had threatened her for not selling them beer at night. If the one who had threatened the manager, a woman, had made a move, I would probably be in the hospital today getting his teeth out of my fist.
MadMax, who really isn’t so mad, but just perpetually pissed off.
Good.
I totally agree with you.
But just look at some of the other posters in this forum. And this is a CONSERVATIVE group.
Personally, I like the epitaph on Sulla’s tombstone:
“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full”.
Sometimes its necessary to temper Christianity with a little Paganism.
Your neighborhood sucks. You should find a safer place to raise your daughters.