Thinking Right

By Redneck Convert

July 2, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Well, I was all set to go down there in my F-450 with my double-barrel to back old Bearden up. But then I realized with payday not ‘til Thursday I couldn’t afford the diesel to go. So, I went took my shotgun over to the Lanierland grass airstrip here in Forsyth County, but the manager Joe Ed just grabbed his rifle and we wandered off into the woods and shot some squirrels. Nobody came and arrested us neither. Seems like that Buckhead fellow ought to move up here. Got to go deliver some beer for the next DOT board retreat. Probably have to make two trips. Have a good day everybody.

By deegee

July 2, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

“Like the good conservative, he opted not to create a spectacle”

HAHAHAHA! That was hilarious. Like the good conservative he created a news event, not a spectacle. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

By RCH

July 2, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

First,lets not debate if someone should be able to carry a concealed weapon. That is over with and is not the subject at hand.

The debate is should a public official violate the law AND take away the right of another.Mayor Franklin has done both of those.It is not the first time she has challenged local gun laws losing both previous cases.Just as before she stated that she had consulted with city attorneys and that they had agreed with her position. Are these the same type of individuals that had advised her on the city budget?LOL Once again the city of Atlanta will lose and pay. Once again the taxpayer will shoulder the burden.

If mayor Franklin wants to push her own political agenda that is fine but do not use my tax money to do so. If you believe so strongly in your position,put up your own money.

It would have been wiser to follow the current law and then appealed to Congress to enact a Federal law governing airports.Guess you had to grandstand.How much will this cost us?

By BFKaJ

July 2, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I think the city misreads its powers.

I approve of the Supreme Court ruling last week (conservatives + Kennedy). The ruling, opinion by Scalia, found the 2nd Amendment provides individual rights. I think any plain language reading (of the second through the eighth amendments) lists specific individual rights that the Federal government may not abridge. (Careful use of language required here: the Constitution does not “grant” rights, it merely acknowledges those rights that exist in nature. As a stray thought, I note a theoretical limitation in my argument, that the unrelated 1st amendment does not preserve individual rights, but rather merely restricts potential actions by Congress.)

The relevant portion of language from the 14th Amendment: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” To the extent that the Constitution acknowledges specific “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,” I think no state may thereafter restrict. As the 2nd amendment is one that holds such privileges, the State of Georgia may not abridge those privileges.

The State of Georgia, hereafter referred to as Dr. Frankenstein, is the creator of the City of Atlanta. The State of Georgia is unable to confer, to a sub-government entity, any power it does not hold itself. The City of Atlanta is thus constrained in the same way as the State of Georgia.

Totally unrelated, the Monday afternoon HIDT posts are greatly amusing. I wish I had his humor.

By findog

July 2, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Dear Jim, Do I understand your point that a local community cannot have stricter standards than the state?

That Kennesaw was in violation of this principal when they passed a law requiring gun ownership?

This is another red meat waste of time and money our court system could use to properly prosecute illegal activity.

By Redneck Convert

July 2, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Well, I see that other Redneck Convert done beat me to the punch again today. Even driving my Ford 450. Anyhow, I think that guy ought to walk in to that airport with a big 44 on his hip and just dare any of Those People that got the police jobs to take it from him. Then he could sidle up to a bar kind of cool like and have him a PBR while he’s eying people over.

Its only a matter of time till the shootouts begin anyway all over the place in this state. Some good old boy will take a dislike to something somebody says or does in a bar or restaurant and the bullets will start flying. We’ll be able to settle things ourselfs and cut down on the number of police we have to pay out of our taxes.

Anyhow, somebody has to stand up for our Right to Bare Arms. I might could bring my two machine guns and the anti-tank weapon to help the guy at the showdown but I expect people wouldn’t be happy without enough beer to sellabrate the 4th of July. So I’ll just stay around and haul the beer in to the bars and stores.

To tell the truth, it kind of scares the willys out of me that some of the people on this blog will be able to slip a pistol into their breeches or dresses and walk around all over the place. I bet Sister Dusty could hide a howitzer in that size 34 dress she wears. I sure hope Wooten ain’t giving out addresses of people.

Have a good day everybody.

By Atlanta Police Department

July 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

This is the APD putting out an APB for the real Redneck Convert. If our evidence is correct (and it is) he has not posted on this blog since June 25, something about cooking with lard in Southren (sic) recipes. We have searched everywhere, including all of his wife’s crevices with so success. If anyone should see the real Redneck Convert, please contact the APD, or his mama.

By James

July 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Last year Georgia lawmakers passed legislation ensuring only the state could regulate firearms to prevent confusing city and county ordinances. This year they provided licensed hangun owners additional common sense latitude regarding where they could carry. However, Mayor Franklin and Mr. DeCosta seem to be the ones lacking common sense as well as candor. Why didn’t they declare all airport property outside the checkpoints a “gun free zone” last week? TSA regulations allow you to take your firearm to a check-in-counter, fill out the proper form and place it unloaded in locked checked luggage. The ammo can even be kept in its magazine. How does that constitute a “gun free zone” when it takes about two seconds to load that weapon. This is grandstanding pure and simple.

By Peter

July 2, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Gosh it would take a Right Winger to make an issue of carrying a gun into the airport, and a silly Jim Whooten to write about it.

Good Job Jim, now where is Bin Ladden, the guy that threatens America each day he is alive?

Where is Bin Ladden the Guy who should be brought to justice for the Killing of Americans, and the destruction of American Buildings and Jets?

Gee Jim, why don’t you write about this MAJOR ISSUE ?

By dusty

July 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

By Redneck Convert

July 2, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

REDNECK…Excuse me! I’m down to a size 32…

Want to come over for some pie?

Fresh from my lime groves!

NOONISH?

By Atlanta Police Department

July 2, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

In the words of Emily Latella, “Never mind.” Welcome back, Red.

By TW

July 2, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

So, this is republican world, eh?

Economy - F

Foreign Policy - F

Security - F (D- if you want to count that we’ve not been attacked by aliens from Zoltar - good job on that, ‘w’)

Somebody tell Hannity his America sucks. The old one was much better.

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

July 2, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Right you are Jim. Us conservatives would never ever make a spectacle at an airport. At least not intentionally.

Once at an airport I was in a mens room stall at this young stud playfully asked me “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

I thought of course he was joking! The next thing I knew I was being arrested. I was humiliated.

My constitutional rights were definitely violated. I was violated. In this country you don’t even have the right to bear false arms! Outrageous!

Next time some stud at an airport bathroom asks its a banana in my pocket, not a gun!

I’m not going through this again! Us conservatives don’t make spectacles at airports!!!!

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Peter @ 9:47 - Jim is being a Good Little RepubliKKKan Shill by trying to distract everyone’s attention away from the abject failures of the past 8 years of RepubliKKKan rule.

You know, like the failure to find Bin Laden. Like “Mission Accomplished”. Like “Heckuva job, Brownie”. Like Bear Stearns. Like Abu Ghirab. Like…Like…Like…

Of course, his target audience is the typical Georgia cracker whose IQ is less than the gas mileage of their pick-em-up truck.

By Groovy McSmoothy

July 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

“Anyhow, I think that guy ought to walk in to that airport with a big 44 on his hip and just dare any of Those People that got the police jobs to take it from him. Then he could sidle up to a bar kind of cool like and have him a PBR while he’s eying people over.”

Wow, real Redneck, what pretty word pictures! Cool.

By getalife

July 2, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

The rep. that started this has backed down. You can’t bring them on a plane but with the feds in charge, I can see why he brought it up.

A nation of laws? *Yes (if we like them and choose to allow them to apply to us).

Finally, jim spews the truth about his party.

By BFKaJ

July 2, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Dear TW @ 10:04, I respectfully score it differently.

2001 D A F 2002 C A A 2003 B A A 2004 A B A 2005 A B A 2006 B B A 2007 C* A A 2008ytd C* A A

• Severe damage by new leadership in Congress

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

getalife @ 10:14 - You have to remember that, in the RepubliKKKan Fantasy World where Jim/Dusty/Esquire live, laws apply only to Those People and most certainly not to People Like Us!

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

TW, You’re an idiot. The DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE FOR TWO YEARS NOW. Hmmmm. Let’s think for a moment shall we. Before those morons were elected, gas was lower, the economy was great and WE STILL HAVE NOT BEEN ATTACKED. But then again, brainless idiots like you will never learn.

By Groovy McSmoothy

July 2, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

“Of course, his target audience is the typical Georgia cracker whose IQ is less than the gas mileage of their pick-em-up truck.”

Your gray gay dudeness, in case you haven’t noticed this Web site is based in Georgia. Your ‘tude is not cool, dude.

By Tom Ga Hunter

July 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Be happy that the City of Atlanta does not have any bigger problems.. I understand they are thinking of merging with Clayton County.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek, Just a reminder to you and every other socialist. THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE KKK. The democrat party was in control during the civil rights era in the south. People like you are hopeless, mindless losers hell bent on menstruating all the USA.

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Groovy, I moved to Georgia in 1984. Over the years I’ve lived in three of the Big Four metro Atlanta counties - Cobb, Fulton, and Dekalb - missing only Gwinnett. I’m fully aware of where the blog is based as well as, thanks to the constant examples provided by Dusty and BFKaJ akd jbmlaw, the factualness of my IQ comparison concerning Jim’s target audience.

By Maniac is accurate

July 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Boy I hope those DOT babes will do a pictorial spread in Georgia Trend! I’m just dying to find out what got Garland’s Pin jumping out of its Holster.

By Dennis

July 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, “A nation of laws? *Yes (if we like them and choose to allow them to apply to us).”

Mr. Wooten, why are you as silent as can be when George W. Bush breaks the law illegally spying on Americans?

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By TW

July 2, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Somebody also tell the sh!t float veterans that McSame’s abortion of a military record makes Kerry look like MacArthur.

But being that the last guy the GOP put up hid underneath his daddy’s bed during Viet Nam, I guess McSame is a step up.

The rightwing was so much better when it was tough. Before it dropped to it’s knees for big oil…or was it the wide stance?

By dirty harry

July 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC .. Do you not Understand it takes a certain majority in the senate to pass anything meaninful 60 votes…The democrats “WHO ARE IN CHARGE” only have 51, and then the president can veto anything he doesn’t like or support!

The republican obstructionists who vote in lockstep with this incompetent, failed presidency are at fault, and if you don’t see it you are the “IDIOT!”

By Groovy McSmoothy

July 2, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Holy cow, dude, I think I know you. Are you Warren who used to work at Carrier? Dude, I’m not gay, not that there would anything wrong with that.

By @@

July 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Well one thing’s for sure and certain Jim….

Obama will be bringin’ his gun half-cocked.

By ron

July 2, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Good morning,I find that gun laws are written in terms that are easily understood,thus I have no problem figuring out where I can carry.Others seem to have a problem,and it’s a large problem.It starts in the Supreme Court. As I see it,we the people loaned the government the power to govern.So doing,we kept aside certain rights for ourselves in a bill of rights.Five justices on the Court understand this and four don’t.These four would usurp the rights of the citizens and turn them over to government.Like in Zimbabwe.We kept these rights aside so we can’t wind up like Zimbabwe.

The people that penned the Constitution and The Bill of Rights were very wise people.They knew the King was soverign and they made sure that the government of the United wasn’t.

Mayor Franklin and others of her ilk need to realize that the people are the ones with the real power.Hers is only on loan and may be rescinded at any time.

By fearless fosdik

July 2, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I’m going to ask you a rhetorical question who might this active KKK member be .. If you say Robert Byrd you are dead wrong! He was at one time..But denounced his association a long, long time ago….

During the civil rights era..who was a democrat down here in the south? Oh, did you say Strom Thurmond? Soon to be a republican. The “Old Jim Crow South” Many if not most the most racist scum this planet has ever seen…Including Richard Russell.

By Dusty

July 2, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Awww shoot!!! I think jbm is reminding us that the city does not have more power than the state and the state has less than the Federal government.(Lawyers and their ‘plain’ language!) And others remind us that Mayor Franklin is going to spend a lot of money to learn all that. Maybe she will read this blog.

And…I may shoot RedNeck II with a howitzer, BB gun or sling shot if he throws off on Georgia one more time. Of course I don’t have any weapons and don’t wear a size 34 dress.(Redneck thinks everyone looks like his wife.) But it is a nice thought. To shoot him, that is.

(Oops there goes the telephone.)

jbm, which one is your humorous buddy HIDT?? I can’t tell. He has so many IDs. Hmmm.. Jene sais pas?

By Abundant Pundit

July 2, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

The new concealed weapon law is clear: a gun holder may occupy any public or private space anywhere in the state of Georgia with only one restriction: open mike nights at comedy clubs, (never mug on stage, drunks with concealed weapons get itchy trigger fingers).

The honorable Mr. Bearden should have allowed himself to be arrested. He obviously would have won, and then he could sue those responsible for his illegal detain, which would then protect the rights of all Georgians from gun prohibition advocates, (and other girlie-men).

I’m a 47 year member of the NRA. Most of my life’s highlights were with my old .22, a farm in New York, and those pesky woodchucks. Concealed weapon laws are a necessary evolution of the original amendment about militias. Criminals should have a doubt about who might get the drop on them during a mugging. People are not madmen, but some of us pray for one clean shot at armed robbers. (Amen.)

Conservatism 08: not a hand-out, but a handgun.

By getalife

July 2, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

commie,

There was another unsolved anthrax attack. The person of interest got a huge payday out of it.

By Just Nasty and Mean

July 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

G’mornin Jim, et al,

Seems to me Shirley Franklin is trying to distract from the complete and utter debacle the city of Atlanta is, and chooses to focus on a non-issue rather than getting the city out of a gianormous ditch she has driven the city into .

Shirley—you’re going to lose this argument and will do nothing but pee away scarce cash the city needs to fund all the wasteful BS you have introduced.

Shirley~~Do your job and quit wasting time on losing issues.

oh, and Ben DeCosta—don;t you have some billion dollar budget overrun for the runway and international terminal to deal with at the airport?

Oh, Why worry. The taxpayers will pick it up!

**City of Atlanta, MARTA, Clayton County, Lithonia, East Point, Fulton County, Grady——

—-Anybody see anything in common here?**

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

fearless fosdik, George Wallace and Bull Conor ring a bell? Huh? Those two were responsible for the hose sprayings in Alabama. Robert Byrd says the “N” word on national tv and has said it multiple times. And yes, he was the GRAND WIZARD. Please name a current GOP member who has ever been associated with the KKK. I can also name many black racists in your Democrat party. Obama being one of them.

dirty harry, Sure buddy. Keep telling yourself that. Also, what happened to Princess Nancy pulling out the troops? No, youre the idiot my mindless comrade.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

getalife, Would that be teddy kennedy? oh wait, he killed his girlfriend. my bad. Must have been John F. Kerry who served in Vietnam.

By Austell

July 2, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Here’s your chance to make a statement Abundant Pundit.

Take your gun to the airport and get arrested. Since you will win no problem. I think you probably are like most Republicans though. You want other people to do your fighting. You do your best work blogging. Keyboard warriors!

Come on Republican gun nuts! Show Jackson-Hartsfield your guns!! Come on Girlie men. Show us your big big guns!!! Show us your nuts.

Chickens

By MamaS

July 2, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

I wish he had gone to the airport and gotten arrested. I would like to be on a jury that sentenced him to the maximum possible time. If our Governor had a spine he would have vetoed that bill shen it came to his desk. But, I guess you can make more money bowing to the NRA than protecting the citizens of Georgia. The first time I am in McDonald’s with my grandson and see some redneck with his gun in his holster strolling in for a Big Mac I am walking out AND telling the manager why I will not eat there again. The ONLY people who should have guns in restaurants, movies, etc. are law enforcement officers and security guards. This law IN NO WAY MAKES LIFE SAFER! How long before some Bubba walks into the bank with his 44 and gets shot by a security guard who thinks he is trying to rob it? And how long before some bank robber walks in openly with a gun and the security guard does nothing because he thinks the guard is a “legal gun-toting customer”?

By "Charles," The Original

July 2, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

I think Jim Wooten hit the nail on the head. …”But the city is a creation of the state and the state does have a perfect right to designate where guns are permitted within its jurisdiction, including the land within cities. At the airport, the feds control one space —a space the state is not allowed to regulate with its laws — and the state, through its creation, the City of Atlanta, controls another…”

There is not much to question in this article. But if you don’t understand the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, there may be challenges.

Why are some politicians apprehensive of citizens possessing and carrying guns? I can think of only one legitimate reason. And it’s rooted firmly in the fabric of American History:

“…In 1773 the Tea Act placed a small tax on tea. The colonists were incensed that government claimed the power to tax tea. The Boston Tea Party was a direct challenge to the King’s authority to tax any item he pleased.

King George retaliated against the rebellious colonies in 1774 with the “Intolerable Acts.” The government began to fortify Boston and seized ammunition from the militia. In response, the colonists convened the First Continental Congress, and local militia throughout the colonies formed “the minutemen,” those men willing and able to be ready at a minute’s notice.

Shortly before midnight on April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston through the countryside to warn the minutemen that government troops were on the way to seize guns and ammunition in Concord. The colonies would not allow their God-given right to keep and bear arms be trampled, and at daybreak the “shot heard ‘round the world” rang out…”

Indulge me to make myself crystal clear. If and when the New World Order Crowd assisted by the so-called educated integrationist Negroes overtly rears its ugly head with tyranny, I want the minute men, patriots, heavily armed, locked and loaded, ready to preserve and defend this nation as the forefathers had done, July 4, 1776.

By Gunsmoker

July 2, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

You lib-tards need therapy.
The way you drag the Bush Administration into this news article about a local mayor defying a state law and exceeding her powers under a state constitution, it shows you’re irrationally angry and delusional.

By Sweet Home Colorado

July 2, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Denver’s City Council president is getting hammered with hate-filled messages in response to Tuesday’s surprise performance of the “Black National Anthem” by a jazz singer during a city event.

Her performance evoked angry reactions among some of the estimated 700 people at the event.

“There is no substitute for the national anthem. Period,” Councilman Charlie Brown said.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,

Let us march on till victory is won.

Bye Bye Obama

By fearless fosdik

July 2, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

CommunistAJC..Yes. You can add George Wallace, and Bull Conor and a whole host of bigots to your list. Today they would be republicans! I believe in my post I said racist scum. We are in the south you know? Remember Selma, Alabama?

Why do you think when it comes to the sentate the south votes strictly REPUBLICAN? GA, SC, AL, MS, NC, KY, TN…

Not one democrat in the bunch…RIGHT?

By Dusty

July 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Just to keep the record straight..ID Thief @9:50 ..Not real Dusty,,,,sigh…

Other liberal crazies:

TW@10:36 Tell sh!t vote veterans that McSame’s abortion of a military record makes Kerry look like McArthur..

dirty hairy@10:38 Blah blah repubs blah blah lockstep blah blah obstrctionists blah blah

fearless fosdick@10:49 Oh, did you say Strom Thurmond? Soon to be a Republican.

Strom is dead, honey. How about you?

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Sweet Home Colorado, Saw that this morning. Democrats have made this race about race. It’s what they do. Divide the country and win power. I wonder how Hussien Obama will handle this one. Blacks are the ones who are racists in this country. Not the other way around.

By Maniac is accurate

July 2, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

From NCIS last night, the scene is Tony and Ziva out on assignment. She is driving and Tony is looking at something on a laptop. Ziva looks over and almost wrecks the car. Tony: Ziva, keep your eyes on the road. Ziva: I have great peripheral vision. Tony: My scphincter doesn’t.

Great writing.

By Get Real

July 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

This has to be the dumbest bill ever written. You can take a gun into a restaurant that serves alcohol, but you just can’t drink it. Who does that? It will do nothing but cause more violence with renegade rednecks thinking they’r the Keystone cops. Do restaurants have any say in this? I don’t want some guy sitting next to my FAMILY at a restaurant with a load .45, gets mad because his order wasn’t right and shoots up the joint.

Or better yet, what will you Repugs do when a bunch of BLACK people come in with the LEGALLY concealed weapons, LOL!!!! I see you’re looking at it differently now!

By Abundant Pundit

July 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

There is a new DVD out at Blockbuster, “In Bruges”. It’s about a new hitman who accidently kills a child in a church during a hit on a priest. The movie suggests that there are a clique of hitmen who would rather commit suicide than kill a child. The entire movies character motivation, plot and denouement rest on that premise. The movie has the requisite shootout at the OK corral ending, (which has been the ending of every movie ever made, and which makes me wish the old west had never happened).

The movie has comedy, but it’s that dry comedy of Irish and British conterpoint over a ridiculously obscure point of contention. “What? He doesn’t like swans? What’s there not to like about swans? Swans are beautiful, arent’ they? Well alright then. He loves swans. Say it. Say he loves swans. He should love swans. He’s right to loves swans. That’s settled isnt’ it? Good, Now whack him.”

That sort of dialogue distracts the audience from the premise. These are cold blooded killers who think they’re living moral lives because all but a few of their victims were bad guys anyway.

The point here is that they used handguns, and ran around openly firing their weapons in the streets of Bruges, Belgium with no police in sight. Deliberating Assemblymen should never be allowed to see this movie when they vote about concealed weapons laws. They would vote no, and then attach a rider that prohibited the director of “In Bruges” from ever standing behind a camera again.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

earless fosdik, Can you read? I just posted that Bull Conor(D) and George Wallace(D) were responsible for Selma. Now, what republicans have hosed down or hung black people in the past 30 years? Not one democrat in the bunch in southern states? There are plenty of them. Hell, LA was run by Democrats for the last 40 years and look what happened to them! Liberal bastion of crap like Ray Nagin. Hell, the city of Atlanta is run by democrats. You’re living in the 1960’s buddy. This is 2008. You’re little racist rant has long since died out but hey, morons like you still believe that 911 was an inside job. Have fun with the alien anal probing.

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Commie - some of us are living in the 21st century, not the 1960. Do please catch up to the grown-ups…

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC @ 11:28, yeah blacks are the real racists. We enslaved whites for hundreds of years. Even went to war to perserve slavery. Once that ended we didn’t want whites to have any rights so we invented Jim Crow laws. Whites couldn’t vote, couldn’t own decent homes in black neighborhoods, had to step off the sidewalk when a black woman passed, and were even lynched. You heard about the white couple that was lynched 46 years ago and the Feds are just started looking into it yesterday? The whites eventually came up with their own songs because the National Anthem the blacks sang didn’t include them. Even in the Constitution, whites are considered 3/5ths a person. Look it up. Whites just got their Civil Rights in 1964.

Nowadays whites are discriminated against in favor of blacks for jobs. Most white men are in prison and never went to college. The black thugs have planes that fly to S. America to get cocaine and heroin to sell in the white neighborhoods. Whites don’t own any planes or large boats, but they sell the drugs and make the blacks rich. Most whites can’t even drive through Forsyth County after dark or they may be pulled over by the racist black cops.

Blacks have all the advantages of being legacies, so they get into UGA and Tech no problem. Blacks are the racists not whites. Yeah right!!

By Taxpayer

July 2, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Well, you see, your honor, it happened like this. I was just standing in line minding my own business like any other day. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of what looked just like an AK-47. I know now that it wasn’t but it sure looked real enough then. Anyway, I instinctively…

OBJECTION. Your honor, we’ve already established that the defendant has never been an Officer of the Law and has no so-called instinct to rely on…Sustained.

Mr. “I know my Rights,” You may proceed.

Anyway, I drew my Glock while simultaneously pivoting in the direction of the perp, I mean, in the direction of the gun that I thought I saw. It was then that some ABSOLUTE IDIOT in the crowd just yelled out “HE’S GOT A GUN” and everyone just started going crazy. Of course, my reaction was that the AK-47 was spotted by others and they all just got scared. Little did I know at the time.

That’s OK. That’s enough. I think you’ve answered my question.

Do you wish to cross examine? Yes, your honor. Let’s pick up where you left off, shall we.

Anyway, after that IDIOT yelled out, people started dropping to the floor and others started running and screaming and I lost sight of my target. There was someone speaking over the loudspeaker and all of a sudden there was total silence. I looked down at my shirt to see what the glimmer of red light was that caught my eye and that’s when I realized that I was in the sights of a whole lot of guns — big guns — big guns with lasers. I knew at that instant that my very life was hanging by a thread your honor and that’s when I learned what it really means to bend over and kiss your rear end good bye. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek, Uhhhh. That’s what I told earless fosdik. Can you also not read?

Chicago, Wow, your black bold type really intimidates me. Please call off your dogs. Now, uh, last time I read my American history, blacks were sold by blacks all over the world. Not just America. And, the democrats were running the south in case you didn’t know that either. You’ve visited the Revvvvv Wrights church one too many times. You sound more like the black racist I’m referring to. Everything in your rants refer to black this and black that. Black people need to grow up and quit blaming whitey for all of lifes problems. By the way, what black people are discriminated against? Would that be the high school drop outs who can’t read and write? That’s hardly discrimination.

By chicago's a crybaby

July 2, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

chicago, you whining crybaby

“Predominantly black” colleges are NOT racist institutions. Miss Black USA is NOT a racist institution. Affirmative action is NOT a racist program. “Diversity” hiring programs are NOT racist. Detrotit, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Portland are NOT racist cities.

You’re just a loser. Capital “L.”

By getalife

July 2, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Congrats to rush for signing a 400 million contract to keep feeding hatred to the ignorant gullible masses.

He got the moral corrupt listeners to vote for Clinton.

God bless America.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Commie, most whites believe that the government sells drugs in their neighborhoods as a way to keep them enslaved without chains and whips. These drugs aren’t grown in America and have to be shipped here. Whites wonder how so many drugs can get by Customs and the Coast Guard to be sold in white neighborhoods. Blacks just think its a conspiracy theory, and whites are just too lazy to earn a decent living.

* But the whites say how can they earn a decent living when their schools are so crappy. Blacks are afforded the opportunity to attend well-funded private schools with excellent college prep classes.*

The blacks have fathers that attended UGA who can get them admitted regardless of their gpa, just by making a phone call. Whites are just too lazy to see how the game works. Or maybe they’re just viewed differently by mainstream black society for not adhering to a society that treated them like animals for so long, go figure.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Chicago, Dude, I think you’ve been under Mayor Daleys chair far too long slobbing his knob. Hope all those alien anal probes will give you some common sense.

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Commie - you’re the one riding the 1960’s hobby horse so hard. In the 21st century where the Rest Of Us Live, it’s the REPUBLIKKKAN party who plays, and plays, and overplays, The Race Card. Go to YouTube and find some of ads the REPUBLIKKKANS used against Harold Ford, for example.

You can keep holding your hands over your ears and using decades-old examples of Democratic dipwads, or you can join the 21st century where it’s the REPUBLIKKKANS like Dusty, like jbmlaw, like Wooten himself, who don’t want Those People to have a voice in their government - like, say, thru voting.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Chicago, The blacks have fathers that attended UGA who can get them admitted regardless of their gpa, just by making a phone call. Whites are just too lazy to see how the game works.

Is that one phone call from prison? Cause that’s where most of you guys end up anyway. We white people are too busy actually learning and getting in to school the right way.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

**Crybaby I was responding to the well-thought out rant of the commie, but if you did your homework YOU would know that most historically black colleges were started as land grant colleges by STATES, so that they wouldn’t have to be admitted to other institutions like UGA, Univ. of Missisippi, and other large state schools. Blacks weren’t chosen to be in Ms. America pageant until the 70s so they started their own. And what about the “diversity” hiring programs the good ol boys have had in place for generations?? “No integration now, no integration NEVER!” Recall that?

On another note, did anyone watch ABC last night with all the people who had monkeys as children. And YOU PEOPLE think blacks are crazy.

By Ex-Georgian

July 2, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Reading the comments on this blog, day after day, have made me glad of two things: (1) That I left my native Jawjuh for good 47 years ago, and (2) that we’re going to have a black man as President. And after Election Day, I’ll be on this blog EVERY DAY, reminding you cowardly white trash scum about it.

By Curious Observer

July 2, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Only in dumb-as-a-turkey Georgia would legislators be stupid enough to write a law in which constituent rednecks are permitted to carry weapons into bars but not to drink in those bars at the same time.

Maybe these legislators need to know their supporters a little better. They might learn that Gomer doesn’t go into bars unless he intends to quaff a few. Or perhaps they figure that Gomer will already have swilled a six-pack or two before he goes.

Nice way to improve the national image of Georgia! Even West Virginians must look highly cultured in comparison.

By joyseka mcclaine

July 2, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

chicago, you couldn’t get into UGA or Georgia Tech and now your just crying like a little beotch.

My father nor mother graduated from UGA, hey, they never graduated from any college, and I was still accepted at UGA. I’m now a sophomore and lovin’ it.

Can you dig it, brother?

By Whopadoodle

July 2, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Bull Connor was responsible for Selma? That was a little out of his jurisdiction, wasn’t it?

By Ex-Georgian

July 2, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

Reading the comments on this blog, day after day, have made me glad of two things: (1) That I left my native Jawjuh for good 47 years ago, and (2) that we’re going to have a black man as President. And after Election Day, I’ll be on this blog EVERY DAY, reminding you cowardly white trash scum about it.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek, Where have you been? Last time I checked it was Bill and Hillary and Barack making race issues in the primaries. It was Robert Byrd who served proudly in the KKK. It was Shirly Franklin who ran radio ads saying the GOP was going to hang black people. The democrat party is the party of race baiting. Jesse Jackson, AL Sharpton, Cynthia Mckinny,…..I can keep going. Please name a current republican who plays the race card. ONE.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Commie, you’ve been drinking too much moonshie. I live in Kennesaw idiot. Stop the incest thing and read a book. You backwoods people have your own thought processes. I don’t have any time to go back and forth with you, I’m at work about to repossess your double wide.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Chicago, Monkeys as children. Uhhh… I won’t even go there. LOL.

I understand your frustrations with white people. But it is time to move on. Maybe we should go get a coke one day and talk about it. We could play ebony and ivory at the waffle house juke box.

By Blind Homer

July 2, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Chicago racist - This is directly from UGA’s website admission section. “In order to provide a diverse learning environment, the University will adopt policies and practices to increase diversity among its entering students.” Those policies include giving admission spots to black students even though they are less academically qualified than some whites that are denied admission. Please try and include some accurate information in your racist diatribes.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Whopadoodle, Here is a little history on Bull Conor. Notice that he was a DEMOCRAT!

After returning to office in 1956, Connor quickly resumed his heavy-handed approach to dealing with perceived threats. One prominent instance came when a meeting at the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth’s house with three Montgomery ministers was raided, with Connor fearing that a spread of the bus boycott that had succeeded in Montgomery was imminent. The ministers were arrested for vagrancy, which did not allow a prisoner bail, nor any visitors during the first three days of their incarceration. A federal investigation followed, but Connor refused to cooperate.

Shuttlesworth had been frequently in danger in the previous two years, having seen his church bombed twice. He, his wife and a white minister were also attacked by a mob after attempting to use white restrooms at the local bus station.

In 1960, Connor was elected Democratic National Committee man for Alabama, soon after filing a lawsuit against the New York Times for $1.5 million, for what he said was insinuating that he had promoted racial hatred. Later dropping the amount to $400,000, the case would drag on for six years until Connor lost a $40,000 judgment on appeal. In November 1962, Birmingham voters changed the city’s form of government, with the mayor now working with nine councilmen instead of three county commissioners. The move had been in response to the extremely negative perception of the city (which had been derisively nicknamed “Bombingham”) among outsiders. The most prominent example of this continuing embarrassment came in 1961 when the president of the city’s Chamber of Commerce was visiting Japan, only to see a newspaper photo of a Birmingham bus engulfed in flames.

Endorsed by the Governor of Alabama, George C. Wallace, Connor attempted to run for mayor, but lost on April 2, 1963. Bull and his fellow commissioners then filed suit to block the change in power, but on May 23, the Alabama Supreme Court voted against the lawsuit, ending a 23-year tenure in the post for Connor.

The day after the April election, civil rights leaders, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., began “Project ‘C’” (for “confrontation”) in Birmingham against the police tactics used by Connor and his subordinates (and, by extension, other Southern police officials). King’s arrest during this period would provide him the opportunity to write his legendary Letter from Birmingham Jail The goal of this movement was to cause mass arrests and subsequent inability of the judicial and penal systems to deal with this volume of activity. One key strategy was the use of children to further the cause, a tactic that was criticized on both sides of the issue. The short-term effect only increased the level of violence used by Connor’s officers, but in the long term the project proved largely successful, as noted above.

Connor railed, “the n**** loving Kennedys, want to change our way of life, down here”.[citation needed] He wanted Birmingham to ignore John F. Kennedy’s death. Connor stated, “Lee Harvey Oswald, a southern hero like John Wilkes Booth”.[citation needed]

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

I couldn’t get into UGA, by I did graduate from Morehouse College AND Vandy Law School You’re the beotch McClainw. You can talk to me once you start repaying student loans. Doesn’t matter if they’re subsidized or not. I was only stating history and if you took time to do the research you would know. Ever heard of Savannah STATE or Albany STATE. Land Grant institutions started by the STATE, get the milk from behind your ears sophmore. LOL, you just got out the dorm and are talking like you know something. You haven’t even started living yet. Why would I want to go to that redneck school. Listen to the fight school, they pay homage to the Confederacy!

By Marxist Liberal Blasphemy

July 2, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

The libs are hating this like a you-know-it passion.

“Earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for network news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer — combined”

Yeah, conservatism is dead.

NOT.

Stick that up yerasses, Dimocrat libs.

By Buzzer

July 2, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Hey Chicago - the civil war started due to the north imposing on the south extra taxes and runing the cotton trade not slavery - only after a few years did the north think abput freeing the slave. If you check Lincoln did not free the slaves in the states he captured. Indeed, if you check further it was african tribes selling their captives to the slave trade - there is enough blame to go all around - i don’t think slavery is right, and what happened is sad but that was a long time ago and most of the new young generation did not get born into slavery. So lets all “unite” and see the light instead and look to the future and belief in yourself and you abilities - that is change you can beleive in - only you can make a change, not some politician and their empty promises.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Chicago, You live in Kennesaw? Gee, my mistake. YOUR FREAKING NAME SAYS CHICAGO. Moonshine? Dude, you’ve been drinking antifreeze. You backwards people? You are the racist my uneducated friend. Repossess my double wide? That’s going to be mighty hard to do that because my 5 bedroom house is paid for. Guess you aint be gettin no reparations from me will ye? Aw shucks, my Mercedes Beennnz needs an ol change. But din agien my mastas degree don’t mean nutin cause i just be a dumb redneck. HAAAAAAAAA! Moron.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

Blind Homer, diversity can mean admitting more women. Those silly little things called loopholes. Please tell me what I said that was racist and not fact. When you look on the application for UGA, it specifically asks if you have any relatives that ever attend UGA. Why is that? While you’re reading my ‘racist diatribe’ read what I pulled straight from the U.S. Department of Education website:

In the years following the Civil War, with the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery and reconstruction in the South, things began to change. In 1862, senator Justin Morrill spearheaded a movement to improve the state of public higher education throughout the United States, putting an emphasis on the need for institutions to train Americans in the applied sciences, agriculture, and engineering. The Morrill Land-Grant Act gave federal lands to the states for the purpose of opening colleges and universities to educate farmers, scientists, and teachers. Although many such institutions were created, few were open or inviting to blacks, particularly in the South. Only Alcorn State University in Mississippi was created explicitly as a black land-grant college. It would be 28 years before Senator Morrill rectified this problem. The solution came with the second Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890, which specified that states using federal land-grant funds must either make their schools open to both blacks and whites or allocate money for segregated black colleges to serve as an alternative to white schools. Sixteen exclusively black institutions received 1890 land-grant funds.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

By Whopadoodle

July 2, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Again, Selma is 71 miles from Birmingham. Was he invited there to bust heads? Was he there? Your “history,” neglected any direct connection.

By BS Aplenty

July 2, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

GayGreyGeek

…or you can join the 21st century where it’s the REPUBLIKKKANS like Dusty, like jbmlaw, like Wooten himself, who don’t want Those People to have a voice in their government - like, say, thru voting.

I’ve been reading this blog for approximately 15 months. I’ve come to admire Jim Wooten and the AJC for allowing just about the best local “Freedom of Speech” forum available. Almost anything, save obscenities, can be stated and published. I tip my hat to the AJC and Jim for those saving graces.

Not once have I ever read anything by Mr. Wooten or other notable conservative bloggers like jbmlaw, dusty or even the infamous but ever so hilarious and insightful tftt, that suggested they, or conservatives in general, wanted to prohibit Those People (your term) from having a voice in government much less not have a vote. Not once have I read such tripe.

Why, then, on gawd’s green earth do You People (that would be leftists) continue to spout these lies as if they were settled truth?

Grow up, sir.

By Abundant Pundit

July 2, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Mr Wooten! Shock and Awe wasn’t a spectacle? You need spectacles, (and testicles), for it takes big brass ones to tell the truth at all times, sir.

There is a new DVD out at Blockbuster, “In Bruges”. It’s about a new hitman who accidently kills a child in a church during a hit on a priest. The movie suggests that there are a clique of hitmen who would rather commit suicide than kill a child. The entire movie’s character motivation, plot and denouement rest on that premise.

The movie has comedy, but it’s that dry comedy of Irish and British conterpoint over a ridiculously obscure point of contention. “What? He doesn’t like swans? What’s there not to like about swans? Swans are beautiful, arent’ they? Well alright then. He loves swans. Say it. Say he loves swans. He should love swans. He’s right to loves swans. That’s settled isnt’ it? Good, now whack him.”

That sort of dialogue distracts the audience from the premise. These are cold blooded killers who think they’re living moral lives because all but a few of their victims were bad guys anyway.

The point here is that they used handguns, and ran around openly firing their weapons in the streets of Bruges, Belgium with no police in sight. Deliberating Assemblymen should never be allowed to see this movie when they vote about concealed weapons laws. They would vote no, and then attach a rider that prohibited the director of “In Bruges” from ever standing behind a camera again.

Obama 08: America wont be a bad movie with him directing.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

You have a Masters degree and have the nerve to say blacks are racists. You must’ve gotten that online or at AIU somehwere. They make 5 bedroom doublewides now, technology has changed. Who brought up reparations, me or you? I don’t believe in handouts for anyone. Just the independent voter in me. I work for everything I have; my house, my rental properties, stocks, and my ETFs. Yes, blacks have stocks. And I never attended Wrights church because I’m Catholic. Yes, blacks are Catholics. I know you just spilled your moonshine reading that.

Your post was the initial, “democrats were racists back in the 60s” crazy post. Going back and forth with you won’t change anything; you have your views about blacks and I have mine about whites. Some of yours are wrong, as well as some of mine. We can continue to talk about your ‘din agien mastas degree’ (???) or talk about how your guy Bush has unashamedly screwed this country.

By Dusty

July 2, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

For goodness sake,

Today’s subject is guns at the airport. We are not fighting the Civil War. We are fighting terrorists. And the subject today is STILL about guns at the airport.

BS Aplenty 12:59

Good post.

Chicago@1:09

Bush has not screwed this country. In fact, he has protected this country along with black and white soldiers laying their lives on the line to do it. A little appreciation for them would show a bit of the open mind you claim to possess.

You say you are Catholic and never went to Wright’s church. Good! But are you going to vote for a man that was a member there for twenty years?

By Blind Homer

July 2, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Chicago - “believe that the government sells drugs in their neighborhoods as a way to keep them enslaved without chains and whips” sounds a touch racist to me and definitely not a proven fact. “Blacks (whites) are afforded the opportunity to attend well-funded private schools with excellent college prep classes”. I think you’re attributing prep school opportunities to racism rather than generational poverty, the poor white trash don’t have any chances to go to fine prep schools either. Generational poverty certainly has roots in racism but is also perpetuated by black cultural flaws like baby mommas. BTW, I went to Savannah State and did well enough (4.0) to transfer to UGA where I earned a degree.

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

BS - if you’ve “been reading this blog for approximately 15 months” then you should have seen several posts by Jim concerning “Voter ID” and the RepubliKKKans glee at making it difficult - if not completely impossible - for some of Those People to get a government-issued ID and, thus, be eligible to vote.

If you’ve missed the posts, I suggest Googling for them.

If you recall them, then I expect your 12:59 post to be totally withdrawn.

By notPC

July 2, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

So…the topic was the Mayor being above the law…and perhaps breaking it.

There is a part of Georgia code that specifically forbids municipalities, and that includes the great city of Atlanta, from regulating firearms in any way. That “right” is reserved for the state. The part of Hartsfield that is off-limits is only off-limits per Federal law, which trumps State law, and that is the secured or “sterile” part of the airport. Franklin and DeCosta have no authority to ban firearms from any other part of the airport. They are the ones that are breaking the law, not the citizen that chooses to exercise his or her rights and licensed by the state to do so. Unfortunately, it is the citizens that will pay for Franklin’s mistake through court costs and attorney fee’s paid from public funds.

By GayGrayGeek

July 2, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty - AFEES, dear, AFEES or STFU. Your choice.

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, DUSTY?

By Jimbo I

July 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

I’ve accidentally carried at the airport before I realized it was off limits. It didn’t really make sense to have it off limits to me and I didn’t think it counted as a gun free zone. I did in fact check for signs at the door (something I always look for before carrying in) and I don’t recall seeing any.

A: nothing bad happened. B: I walked past about 500 cops as I went to pick up my people. C: The chief reason I’m glad to see the places I can carry expanded is because I don’t like leaving the gun in the car. I keep hearing about people’s cars getting broken into and their guns getting stolen and I’d rather have it on my hip than vulnerable to theft. People ask why you’d need to carry all these places and 99% of the time you wouldn’t. You carry for the 1%.

How often does the 1% happen? I don’t know, ask someone who has had a kid after a vasectomy or their tubes were tied.. or ask someone who caught AIDs through a condom. The 1% happens every day, it has to. But I do know it doesn’t do any good if it isn’t on my hip or in my pocket and if someone should break into my car it’s not doing anyone any good if it gets stolen. You can reduce your risks considerably, but they’re never at zero.

By Blind Homer

July 2, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

notPC - No need for me to comment on topic as you’ve explained it perfectly. However, I think we should go back to wild west days where almost everyone is armed. Now all the women would pack too. Probably be a good idea to start teaching gun safety in elementary schools though.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek, Showing proper ID is racist? THE SUE THE DMV, THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY, RESTAURANTS, POLICE DEPARTMENT, SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, MOVIE THEATRES AND MANY MANY OTHER INSTITUTIONS THAT REQUIRE ID. Dude, you need to pull that dildo out of you gay arse and obtain some common sense.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Chicago, Why did I bring up reparations? Because I saved you some typing time by doing it. You brought up everything else. AIU? No, that’s your department Moorehouse grad. Is that school even accredited? Didn’t the black colleges lose their accreditation? Anyway, no brotha man I gots my masters from a good skoo. My three story house bees too big for you to carry off. Now I gots to go hang my rebel flag up.

PS: If you want to call me a racist go ahead because it reinforces my point about you being a race baiter. If you were a Vandy law grad you would be able to make a better argument than you have about white people.

By BFKaJ

July 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Chicago @ numerous times, I would be pleased to hear your analysis of the works of my heroes, Tom Sowell and Walter Williams and Clarence Thomas.

Dear BS @ 12:59, thanks.

By CommunistAJC

July 2, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

GayGrayGeek, If that is the best argument you can make about the GOP being racists then dude, you are gasping for air. Let me see. Hmmmm. Robert Byrd=KKK member. GOP= passing voter id to keep illegals from voting? I side with the GOP on this one. And no, I’m not wearing a sheet and a burning cross. That would be your party.

By BFKaJ

July 2, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Dear Communist AJC @ various times, you are doing the heavy lifting today, and quite well, my compliments.

By Chicago

July 2, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Blind Homer, I concede my argument to your response about generational poverty. Point taken.

However, my point about the government not selling drugs, but allowing drugs be to be shipped into inner city neighborhoods and sold. How else does millions of tons of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs get into this country with so much money being spent on the war on drugs. Go to ANY inner city neighborhood below the povery line and you’ll see drugs. How can that be?

During the early and mid 1980s, Lt. Colonel North was alleged to participate in organizing the transportation of cocaine and marijuana from the various sites in Central and South America into the United States as a means of funding the Contra rebels. Congressional records show North was tasked with finding funding “outside the CIA” aft