Posted on 08/05/2007 11:43:52 AM PDT by shrinkermd
A good article written by a trauma surgeon comparing his Iraq experience with that of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides this there is this:
"...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa.
"...Unlike the Iraq conflict, this war is not on the front pages of The Post or on CNN. You have heard of the Washington area sniper shootings and the massacre at Virginia Tech. I am sure you have not heard about the "Lex Street massacre," in which 10 people ages 15 to 56 were lined up and shot, execution-style, in the winter of 2000. Seven were killed, three critically injured.
"...You haven't heard about this tragedy because it happened to inner-city poor people in a crack house in Philadelphia. Imagine, for a moment, if this had occurred in a suburban shopping mall or if a Marine unit in Iraq had been involved. There would be shock, outrage, 24-hour news coverage, Senate hearings and a new color of ribbon to wear. That double standard, that triage of compassion and empathy, is why the war on the streets continues unabated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Warming up for another push for gun confiscation.
Sheesh, while you're at it why don't you give them a free breakfast, too! Oh wait... nevermind.
No doubt these inner city gentlemen will give up their guns if gun possession becomes illegal.
“...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq.
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I’ve often asked liberals why the outrage over military deaths while lip-servicing deaths due to crime.
Talk about speechless . . .
I suppose the jargon is familiar to some.... not me. I had to look it up - thinking it was a gastrointestinal malady!
I feel like I’m going to throw up when I hear about “inner city” violence, as if the “inner city” (i.e., the buildings, streets, sidewalks, trees, parks, etc.) committed the mayhem. Let’s knock off the denial and tell it like it is: it isn’t the “inner city” that’s turned vicious and violent; it’s the inner city’s current inhabitants.
I grew up in inner city Baltimore back in the 1960s, when you could walk almost anywhere night or day (except North Avenue) and enjoy every second of the inner city’s ambience. Now, those same neighborhoods that used to be safe, secure, and, yes, even friendly, are vicious, violent hell holes.
Same buildings. Same streets. Same sidewalks. Same parkes. many of the same trees. Etc. What changed is the inhabitants — and their cultural behaviorial patterns. Maybe it’s time for the inhabitants to get themselves under control and give us back the days when our “alabaster cities gleam(ed) undimmed by human tears.” Now, there’s a thought.
Okay, fire away denizens of denial and shameless race hustlers (but, first, try reading some of Professor James Q. Wilson’s highly erudite works, beginning with this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/10/words-of-wisdom-from-james-q-wilson-on.html
I like to read about the mafia, and one of the things you see over and over is the people who lived in the nieghborhoods would never turn on the local wiseguys.
These kinds of stories are not given proper attention from the media because they are the reality that has been created by the Welfare state. They are the undeniable truth that Liberalism has not only failed many of those it was supposed to help, but is destroying this country piece by piece.
It's so much easier for the left who forced their agenda upon this nation to ignore the brutal violence they fostered, than to admit they were egregiously and tragically wrong.
That's not going to happen until the Welfare state and the entitlement mentality is destroyed. It has become a "normalized" way of life for so many, that they lack the basic understanding of what "normal" life really is. Furthermore, they don't understand it is within their power to change it, let alone that it is their responsibility to do so.
DOR the SPDJ because SPENF always QDPM and SPQR!! dammit.
Just saying.
DOR the SPDJ because SPENF always QDPM and SPQR!! dammit.
Just saying.
That’s why I’m a firm believer of having state troopers on the 394 bridge in Stillwater shooting everybody with an Illinois or Indiana license plate. That way, more violence is prevented.
“That’s not going to happen until the Welfare state and the entitlement mentality is destroyed.”
Yeah, but there’s another problem. That culture of evil and violence is transmitted from generation to generation, and that is a cycle that has to be broken.
It’s hard to see how that can be done.
“Okay, fire away denizens of denial and shameless race hustlers”
No argument from me.
But denial and political correctness will keep us from doing anything about it.
Hey, did you steal my phrase? I thought I was the only one that used that expression.
it is the OJ force. Black politicians will not persecute blacks on the grand scale necessary to save the Black inner city culture.
:)
That’s true. The liberal justice system with wrist-slaps for felonies is everywhere now, but flourishes in its greatest glory in the big cities.
Most people are smart enough to keep dumbass comments like yours to themselves.
Don’t you watch CSI?
GSW = gun shot wonds
GSR = gun shot residue
PBR = pabst blue ribbon
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