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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Asheville Citizen-Times Sides With Drug Dealers Part II

1/13/2007 05:22:00 AM 4 comments

The following is in response to a comment to Asheville Citizen-Times Sides With Drug Dealers:



Screwy Hoolie said...

What are you talking about, TP? I can't figure out your point. You quote the article that explains that we've increased enforcement and prosecution of drug laws, yet you find fault because...???

...the way the drug laws are enforced locally serve to support an entire industry in the court system, social services, mental health, and associated fields who are parasites to the problem. Cut down on the open air drug dealing, and some people might have to work for a living in the above industries.


I guess you're saying that government needs to do more to arrest drug users, but inferring that the newspaper, the television, and the city council are pro-drug dealer is, frankly, untrue.

The article you quote is the most damning evidence against your strange theorem. The city has done more, not less, and will continue to do so.

The above mentioned people are acting as enablers for the problem to continue by halting a whistle-blower who has exposed public corruption in these people, and ourselves. We have been complacent with this problem. By their actions, those who oppose Dr. Mumpower's efforts now become complicit in allowing the drug dealers to operate openly.


I don't think keeping Dr. Mumpower out of the police cars is going to make a difference.

Au contraire, it has made all the difference in the world!!!
Keeping Dr. Mumpower out of police cars was supposed to have kept him from making the problem public. Their clumsy political effort has backfired. Now people are talking about the problem of open air drug dealing in Asheville, NC.
And now, Dr. Mumpower is not alone in his quest to free the victims of the drug trade.

Further, when the man stole crack from someone in the projects, he became a drug thief.

If you truly believe that, file charges.

Strange days when the conservative blogger attacks the police for increasing enforcement of drug laws while getting behind the crack thief...

Strange days indeed.

Strange days, indeed. The conservative blogger wishes to see people freed from misery; not to be used as cogs in the wheels that support an entire industry that profits from their misery.

There is enough blame to go around...will you join Dr. Mumpower in solving the problem he has exposed?

Or will you continue to attempt to score political points at the expense of those poor souls who live in the projects, and those who have erroneously chosen a life of crime?










4 comments :

So, let me get this straight...

You're saying there's a conspiracy on the part of "the court system, social services, mental health, and associated fields" to keep drugs on the street and that the Asheville Police's increased enforcement and prosecution of drug crimes in the last year is meaningless because Carl Mumpower doesn't get to ride in a police car anymore?

That's really something.

Wave your arms faster and yell louder, TP, maybe people will attach themselves to the panic in your voice and ignore the obvious logical faults in your argument.

No conspiracy.
Its just politics.

So, do you object to citizens monitoring illegal activity and reporting it to the police, and even posting it to youtube so the world can see?

That is the crux of the problem.

Mayor Bellamy thinks it might be illegal for Dr. Mumpower to be in the projects monitoring this activity? Does this have anything to do with her brother?

The drug arrests indicate a problem, and are treating the symptom...more dealers appear, and older ones are retread as soon as they get out.

I have received some interesting emails that bear follow-up over the next few months...stay tuned for more.

I don't have any problem with Mumpower riding in police cars. It may raise awareness of the drug problem.

I have a problem with the way the drug problem is addressed. Our jails are full of drug-users, and we haven't even put a dent in the drug trade. It sounds like you think that another "surge" might get things under control. I think that's nonsense.

Saw this today: "It was Nixon who, in 1971, first declared war on drugs. As with Iraq, the strategy is flawed in its conception and execution, made worse by a refusal to change course in the face of failure. It strongly emphasizes eradicating the source of drugs, interdiction of traffic and draconian punishment for offenders. It neglects what nearly every expert believes — and European experience has shown — to be the only successful strategy: a demand-side emphasis on preventive programs and rehabilitation of addicts. The present administration’s claims of a shift to preventive measures is belied by the budget of its drug control office, which allocates a 94 percent share to disrupting the supply, mainly through environmentally hazardous spraying in Latin America and the Caribbean that alienates local farmers. ...

America’s unwillingness to recognize the socioeconomic context of the drug crisis at home and abroad, to see that being surrounded by failing states threatens its security, to provide aid where it is most effective, and to acknowledge that the root cause of this hemispheric disaster is not supply but its own citizens’ insatiable demand for illicit drugs, is as incomprehensible as the quagmire in Iraq."

I agree that treatment of addiction should be a very high priority...but the programs currently in place are a joke of the highest order, especially those in prisons.

It is my personal belief that those who complete a drug treatment program and remain drug-free should be rewarded somehow with a special notation appended to their records.

The enemy we face is the activity of dealing drug, and the particular enemy is dealing in the open in the public housing projects. Allowing an enemy any sanctuary is defeating the purpose of any war, as happened in Vietnam, and is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dr. Mumpower is not the only one fighting drugs, but he is the only one on the City Council who cares enough for the people living in the projects to go above and beyond the call of duty to help these people.
If I lived in Asheville, I'd take a turn with him, and would be pushing for a Neighborhood Watch program for volunteers to help.

I think you misunderstood who I was designating the enemy in this operation is...it is the open air dealing of drugs in the projects.

Dr. Carl Mumpower's efforts, carried to their logical conclusion, would put a serious dent in that problem.

In my personal view, we should view drug kingpins as enemies of mankind, and their lives forfeit. Any government who gives aid and comfort to them should be considered an enemy of mankind.

I am also not happy with the progress of World War IV, we have allowed foreign fighters sanctuary in Iran, Syria and Pakistan. We hunt them down with virtual impunity in Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia despite what you hear in the Legacy Media.

Do you not see the utility of setting up Observation Posts near known Drug Activity by Citizens?

Mayor Terry Bellamy has painted a big red political target on her forehead for opposing Dr. Mumpower's activity. Would she also oppose Citizen Activists who joined Dr. Mumpower? Or manned their own OPs?

By opposing this activity, people are de facto supporters of the open air drug trade in Asheville's Housing Authority.

You can help Dr. Mumpower by picking your own front to engage. Maybe you can address the inadequate nature of treatment programs in our prison system, or help a charity set up a program for those released from prison. These people really have the cards stacked against them and could use a beacon to point the way out of the hole they find themselves in.

My view is that the Citizens of our republic should shoulder more of the responsibility because the government is the problem, not the solution. The time is getting very close when people will push the reset button on our government, which is the Second Amendment.

I leave you with these words...I blame conservatives in the community as much as anyone else, for they have not answered the call, and stepped up to the plate to help Dr. Mumpower.

Inaction is not as bad as Wrong Action, but still culpable, once they have become aware of the problem.

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