Posted on 09/04/2019 5:11:40 AM PDT by daniel1212
A crowd of about 40 protesters fed up with illegal drug use in their Alaska village gathered along the Galena airport runway on Wednesday and presented a choice to a suspected methamphetamine dealer who had just landed, residents said...
A village resident chosen as a spokesperson climbed aboard and discreetly delivered the message: Stay in the village and have every move scrutinized. Or, leave town and we’ll cover your ticket home.
The woman chose option two, and never left the plane.
It marked a victory for an Interior village trying to keep out drugs, but with few options for doing so, said Nolan Aloysius, mayor in the community of 475.
Everyone knows who the dealers are, but it’s hard to stop them, he said. Without evidence or probable cause, the city police officer and Alaska State Trooper, who were off that day, are limited in what they can do, he said....
They vowed to confront suspected dealers en masse. They’ll meet them at the airport and along the Yukon River when they step off boats. And once winter comes, they’ll meet them on trails when they arrive by snowmachine.
So when someone in a downriver village on Wednesday phoned residents in Galena to say a suspected dealer was headed their way, they threw their plan into action.
“People started calling, texting each other, and word went out fast,” Aloysius said. “Everyone took time from their jobs, ran over to the airport and made their presence known."
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.0 square miles (62 km2), of which, 17.9 square miles (46 km2) of it is land and 6.1 square miles (16 km2) of it (25.41%) is water.
Galena is inaccessible by road to other parts of Alaska. Residents rely on river cargo in the brief summer season for the bulk of its needs, and by air travel to access the outside world.
In May 2013, Galena suffered a freak catastrophic flood when the spring breakup on the Yukon River caused an ice jam approximately 20 miles downstream, backing up the river and affecting 90% of homes in the city. This flood was on the scale of a flood never seen before by Galena residents. In the part of town closest to the river, houses were submerged to the roofs in water, and properties on higher ground suffered damage also. Most of the residents had to evacuate in thanks to the efforts of the local airline, volunteer missionary pilots, and the Alaska National Guard. Some of the residents chose to stay behind and took refuge in the few last remaining dry parts of town. The flood dike the Air Force built around the runway managed to keep the river from inundating the runway and GILA.[7] Efforts are currently underway to help Galena rebuild, with the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and volunteer groups.[8]
Above content in comment was from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena,_Alaska
The ticket out cost $210. There are other less expensive options.
Sure but this is a charitable option, its Alaska if the community wanted them dead it could happen. I say good for these people.
Good for these people. Prayers for their continued efforts and for their safety.
I hope they alerted this scumbag’s next village target, though.
If we had any sense and guts it what we all should do but then someone would be offended or have their “civil rights” violated and the good people would go to jail.
Same thing ought to happen with all this “medical” marijuana crap. Run them out of town.
Good for them. I hope word was spread to other places. People used to run the bums out of town. This is their version.
I was assigned to Galena Air Station in 84/85. That area was 1890’s klondike and a lot of what most people would call civilized was ignored.
Sex and drinking in great amounts was the biggest thing done up there and the girls were trying their best to hook up with the GI’s and get a chance to bail down to the lower 48.
Example, there were middle aged women up there still in high school as they would get pregnant, have the child, get it a old enough to be handled, and go back to school. then the cycle would repeat.
Right before I got there, a guy came out of the trees, hooked up with a trapper’s wife for a tryist, left into town, husband came back, found out what wife had done and killed her, then went into old Galena, found the guy at the only bar at that time, Hoboes, and put his brains on the wall with a .357 from the back. He disappeared into the trees and they never caught him. Personally, I don’t think they looked too hard.
I’m not sure what the town is doing now as both sites there, Galena and Campion, no longer exist. But it was a real interesting place when I was there.
rwood
so is this town now responsible for things she does elsewhere? Instead of doing the right thing catching her in illegal act and sticking her in jail, they just sent her on her way to harm others and cause problems to other people’s lives and families
In Anchorage in the ‘70s, my girlfriend and I would get the table closest to the door at Chilkook Charlie’s. It would be a handy place to be if/when the shooting started.
See how simple it is to deport undesirables.
Non-liberal cities (oops, are there any?) should provide their undesirables with one-way bus tickets to “sanctuary” cities.
The problem was catching the criminal when you only have one city police officer and Alaska State Trooper, and who were off that day, so they prevented it from taking place. Even police have a hard time actually catching dealers in the act.
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