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Politics : A Neutral Corner -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (1633)	12/6/2005 12:53:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

Good post. Certainly "the good old days were not always good", and many people struggle to meet their expectations in life because the expectations have gotten higher. I fit in to that category to an extent. I often feel like money is short, but than I spend over $150 a month on TV, internet and entertainment and I have a new moderatly expensive car. I certainly don't live with - "One television, no stereo, no VCR, no cable, one (used) car, six rooms for four people, no eating out, no cell phones, no vacations other than visiting relatives...".

To: Lane3 who wrote (1633)	12/13/2005 1:59:35 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

I never met the Yangs. They were murdered before I returned to the country, but I knew of them, because almost all of my Chinese friends and clients, most of whom were motel owners, mentioned their brutal murders at one time or another. I did know Xiao Chen, a 14-year-old stabbed by 4 much larger teenage admitted Crips wannabes who demanded the bicycle he was riding. He died, gasping for breath, in his mother's arms. Darnell, my friend Dennis's brother, was returning home from work late one night when he was shot dead by the Crips in a case of mistaken identity. Brian, the son of one my dad's childhood friends, was night manager of a suburban supermarket. A Crip member robbed the store, and was arrested 50 miles away in South Central LA after a high-speed chase, only to be released on bail the next day. Later that night, he returned to the store to eliminate the witness, pointed his gun at Brian, made him get on his knees and beg for his life, and then put the barrel of the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. (Brian survived.) I met Mark once or twice at parties. He and his lover were friends with one of my roommates. They were dining out with friends when Mark decided to go outside to have a cigarette. A car pulled up to the stop sign, a young man got out of the passenger side of the car, walked up to Mark, stabbed him in the heart, calmly walked back to the car as its occupants laughed and hooted, got in and they drove away as Mark expired before astounded restaurant customers had time to get outside to his aid. A gang initiation, said the police. Tookie Williams will die tonight. I really don't care one way or another about the death penalty. I do find it disgusting that so many want to make a hero out of a man such as Tookie Williams, who once admitted but now denies and never repented of his proven crimes. Through the organization he found, once controlled, and never quite denounced, this man brought about the most violent period of black-on-black crime in American history, causing the deaths of thousands of young black men (not to mention innocent bystanders), the incarceration of tens of thousands of others, as well as the damage done to the black community with drug dealing, and the impact on society as a whole. While Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, NAACP leaders and a host of other "reponsible black leaders" and "progressives" were grandstanding in Los Angeles, across the continent, in Mississippi, a law-abiding black man named Cory Maye finds himself facing the death penalty for defending his family against unknown house invaders because the invaders turned out to be undercover police breaking down the door of the wrong house. Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, the NAACP and the rest of the "responsible black leaders" and "progressives" were in the wrong place. They should have been in Mississippi. ________________________ After posting this as a comment on someone's blog, I thought this might be a better place for it.