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What's going on here does stink. For years now, gangsters in Liverpool have
operated through so-called 'security firms.' In essence, this means that
these firms supply bouncers for clubs and bars, often bars which have
proliferated through the laundering of heroin money.
The bouncers collect up to ú750 per 'doorman' per week--if the bar doesn't
belong to some gangster, or drugs trafficker. You can guess what happens if
someone doesn't pay up. In addition, the bouncers make sure nobody brings
drugs into the clubs and bars. They do this so that they can sell their own
drugs on the premises.
As for guns, although the judge/police accepted this was a one-off
transaction by Haase, the use of guns has grown massively over the last ten
years. There are underworld gun dealers who have supplied the weapons for
many shootings in Merseyside connected with the drugs trade.
A pistol is often included in a big drug deal as a sweetener--a bit like
buying a bottle of wine for a valued business contact in legitimate commerce.
And to quote the assistant chief constable of Merseyside, pistols are now
status symbols for the younger, hot-headed scumbags involved in smack dealing.
Barry Woodward
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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