Swamp Musings

It seems all the cities run by folk raised in the wake of LBJ's "Great Society" seem to be hell-holes. God knows Detroit is a total disaster zone. Much of Chicago. All but a bit of DC. Do you know the name of the Eastern part of Palo Alto, California? ..been true for several decades. The widest river in the world? Used to be true but in-continental drift (liberal legislation) has merged places. Too many to even consider actually. When such is up and beyond 4^th generation and the "teachers" have been "taught" by the previous generation of entitled ones, the only "learning" is rather pitiful. Greater than 70% born w/o a recognised father, for 2 generations I've personally tracked a few raised by a combination of "aunts" (pronounced 'awnt') and older drug dealers. The awnts were already 2^nt and 3^rd gen "Great Society" winners.

Mayor Declares City Violence A Crisis

Violent Weekend In Philadelphia

The following I am posting in full as the PDN seems to have figured out bugmenot.com. The link is from Free Republic and the comments are quite amusing (not posted, probably in the hundreds by now). Sometimes I'll go through the trouble of opening a new hotmail/yahoo/charliemanson.com freebie email account and go through all the time to get "qualified" to view a source, this wasn't worth it. Highlights are mine of course.

Mayor John Street: Too many people get gun-carry permits in city

Phildadelphia Daily News | Mar. 16, 2005 | MARK McDONALD

IF AND WHEN Mayor Street sits down with the governor and leaders in the General Assembly to discuss the "crisis" of gun violence in the city, Street may ask for a tough new law restricting concealed handguns.

Street said he's "concerned and frustrated" by the number of concealed gun permits that are being issued in the city and that he may decide by Monday to order a moratorium on new permits.

The mayor's flurry of words came on a day when he called in his top police commanders to consider how to cope with an ugly outbreak of bloody killings across the city.

At the same time, Street sent a letter to Gov. Rendell asking for help in dealing with state gun law "that handcuffs our ability to regulate the sale of guns in Philadelphia."

But Street was quick to defend Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson, saying he "firmly and fully and completely and totally" supports Johnson.

Over the weekend, the city experienced 11 homicides, including a mother who killed two of her children and a 9-year old who was fatally shot in the chest as he sat in a mini-van. Speaking at a City Council budget hearing yesterday, Johnson said there have been 71 homicides in 74 days as of Monday. Asked what's happening, a somber Johnson said, "I don't know what's going on."

Though 80 percent of the murders involved handguns, that's about all that's clear.

Johnson said that 29 were the result of "arguments" generally about money and women, 19 have undetermined causes, seven were drug related, three were domestic, two were residential robberies and one each were sexual related and child abuse. But that left nine cases without a category.

Street said the pattern of killings is so varied that in most instances police would have great difficulty preventing the carnage. But he said he ordered Johnson to make a thorough review of the cases.

"We're never too proud to circle the wagons and go back to determine whether we can do things better," Street said. On Monday, the mayor will review whatever recommendations Johnson offers.

Street wants to put together a Philadelphia delegation including District Attorney Lynne Abraham to go to Harrisburg. And at the heart of Street's plans will be a frontal assault on Harrisburg, the keeper of all gun laws.

In his letter to Rendell, Street noted that Harrisburg has been quick to pass special legislation affecting the city, often against the city's wishes.

Gun regulation is another "special need," Street said. "We need tighter controls not only to protect our children and families but also to protect our law enforcement officers who are at risk every day," Street wrote.

Street, dear shit-fer-brains, show one murder done by a ACP holder.

He also told Rendell that the city has 28,000 active carry permits, compared to just 16,000 in New York City.

"We were compelled to issue more gun permits in Philadelphia in one year, 2003, than there are permits in the entire state of New Jersey," Street asserted.

"Compelled? Explain your use. My guess it was just your friends that knew that what you spoke in the next link was out of control.

If he had his way, Street said he would deal with handguns roughly the same way he wants to restrict second-hand cigarette smoke - a virtual ban.

handguns=second-hand smoke. Kewl! Bad boogie, can't have that uncontrolled stuff. Who, with a IQ greater than a snail-darter voted for your sorry ass?

Street said he sees few reasons for people to be packing heat in an urban setting. "For what? Why are they carrying? They're not hunters."

No, Jackass. They are the hunted. Your sorry city is a raging cesspool that no rational person cares to visit other than bright daylight hours. Take a tour sometimes you sorry waste of oxygen, view the results. One would assume you were moderately bright to become mayor but it's possible the word 'assume' reverted to the original meaning. I rather imagine the many gens of "Great Society" creatures elected your sorry ass.

Though the list of carry permits is peppered with the names of politicians and judges, Street said it's not for him. "I've always been very reluctant personally about carrying a weapon," Street said. "Part of it is that I'm fortunate to have the common sense to understand that if you have a gun you might use a gun."

20 bodyguards, armed to the teeth. I wouldn't bother carrying either.

The mayor is considering a 90-day moratorium on issuing carry permits or simply reducing the staff of 12 police officers who now handle the work to some smaller number, thereby slowing the process.

Dickhead, indicate any murder done by a carry-permit holder.

In October 1995, the General Assembly eliminated Philadelphia's authority to set its own standards for carry permits, placing the city on the same footing as the rest of the state.

When the police department handled the matter, Johnson said staff conducted a thorough background check on the individual who also was required to justify the carry request. By contrast, Johnson said Pennsylvania now has "the most lenient gun laws in the entire country. You can't do this in New York or the state of New Jersey."

Johnson said current law enables a gun buyer to distribute 10 guns to 10 people.

"If a crime occurs using one of those guns, the person who bought them has no responsibility. That has to change. He should be responsible for that gun at least to the point if its missing or stolen that he has to report it right away," Johnson said.

But is the gun violence washing over this city related in any way to the carry permits held by 28,000 Philadelphians? Street balked at the question, instead arguing that there are just too many handguns in the city.

I did a major database search on carry permit crimes, found zero. Found a fair number of excellent reasons to have one however. BTW, the permit requires a substantial background check here plus training if one has not had any. Pretty decent from where I'm sitting.

The issue, he said, is that in other states, "you may have a permit to have a gun in your home but that doesn't mean you are authorized to carry it as you walk all around the streets."

And how does he expect to convince a gun-loving legislature to carve out a special legal zone for the state's largest city?

"When you get enough tragedy, people will soften their position and they will understand the rationale for curbing the availability of these guns," Street said. "We are going to have to keep fighting this fight."

Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit. What can I say? Shit-hole cities all in major decline. All three (there are others, same story) were more or less excellent with class-one uni's until the mid-60's and now are turning into 3^rd world turds. I doubt if anything now proposed will even start a proper repair and there is not much chance anyway. It would take longer than a politician's career (it wouldn't have one, cutting off the trillion-plus a year to the "underclass", deader than a Kennedy), it's got to run the course to collapse and reformation. Next week? Next century? No idea. I'm a watcher, not a participant. That was finished on 24 December, 1986.


This is kinda interesting for those still in the loop:

Crime Rate Plummets

Now, since my month-long cold (or whatever it was) has faded, I've three-quarters of a green jug and a bottle of olives and it's probably time to see if that old Donald Westlake (pen name: Richard Stark) book is worth a crap. First I've read that isn't humor and if you are anything like me, it is sometimes difficult to re-arrange thought patterns when an old favorite author changes modes.


I've got a few photos. Six actually. They need explaining. One needs to be explained to me. Tomorrow I'm off and out to acquire bits of stuff and it'll take me 2 days to assemble said. If it works right, I'll be a right-happy knucklehead and write altogether too much.