On My Mind

I think the expression “you made your bed now sleep in it “aplies here.As long as the Jewish Times and misguided Jews continue to support liberal Democrats blindly(see the puff piece on O’mally in this weeks edition)we will suffer the affects of thier warped views.

I believe these attacks were part of a gang initiation rite.  The area in which we live is rife with gang activity which does not usually impact upon the frum community.  Unfortunately, gangs use attacks upon the helpless to enhance their status amongst their peers.  Perhaps the rabbeim in town can find a heter for us to carry defensive weapons when we walk the streets at night on Shabbos and Yom Tov.  I now fear for my husband every time he walks to shul.

Come now sir, certainly you must understand that ‘intervention’ is a political key word used to extort more funds from the public.  Link that word with ‘youth’ or ‘children’ and who in their right mind could say no?  Don’t you want to help children? 

Want help?  Get their parents to start caring about their own lives and those of their children enough to not tolerate those who would go around beating up people of any persuation.  Get the ‘communities’ (read: city blocks because there is sense of community) to start putting their feet down and saying enough is enough.

But things like this will not happen because we live in a culture where you almost should never judge, and certain not if those being scrutinized qualify as a socially protected minority.

From Duke to Baltimore and all over, the only ones fit to be judged are of course the rich, and preferably the whites.

I am sure those people walking with prayer books did something to stir up the ire of these imisunderstood youths.  How else could you explain it?

The unfortunate answer and this will continue to happen, is the moving out of Baltimore City. All who will remain will be the citizens who our current and likely next Mayor care most about, the criminals. The victims will continue to get fed up and leave the city. The tax base will continue to erode, taxes will increase and no one will be able to sustain it, and the system will contimue to breakdown.

Hopefully in 20 years you won’t see the Mayor warring with the Baltimore County Executive over the high rate of crime crossing over from Baltimore City to Baltimore County.

This is inevitable with the politicians as they exist today in Baltimore City….

No, you didn’t miss it, Phil. 

Someone pointed this out to Mayor Dixon at the Glen Ave. meeting.  I think her answer then briefly acknowledged the victims, and continued to emphasize the need to prevent new thugs by giving early intervention to kids at risk. 

Ok, but it sidesteps the part when they are already thugs.  If one is already a criminal, is there a program with good data that Mayor Dixon has in mind? 

So far by her answers, the victims seem way down on her list.