-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 November 2001 09:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So Scott, next time you're heading out to your garage to confront these > people, I say bring a notebook and pen, go around to the front of the car, > and write down the plate number under the guise that you're turning him to > somewhere. We'll see how fast he hightails it out of there! And he'll > probably think twice about using your garage again!
Now if only we had an approach like this that would be effective against the open dealing of drugs on the larger retail corners along Penn Avenue North. Any suggestions? I am tired of being asked if "I'm straight" (which is not a question about my orientation) when I go to the store for a bag of chips. I'm also tired of the subculture that goes along with this criminal enterprise. Knowing that these people are willing to shoot others over business deals does not make me feel safe in the least bit. What if they perceive me to be endangering their business in some way? Of course, I fully expect that if we chase them out of their current locations, they'll show up somewhere else for a while-- and then those folks in that area will chase them out and they eventually end up back here. Wouldn't it be nice if these black-market enterprises were not the province of criminals (and I mean people who commit all kinds of crimes) , but rather well-regulated business people, so that we might have an end to all the nasty side-effects of those markets (litter, gang activity, lost sales tax revenue, harrassment, police behavior, etc) and can deal with those markets and any attendant ill-effects (disease, addiction, etc) more directly? - -Michael Libby (Cleveland/North Minneapolis) - -- ===================================================== | My Public Key available from: keys.pgp.com | or http://www.ichimunki.com/public.key | | Its Fingerprint | D946 FE20 79EE 2109 161B FAFB E029 56F4 A330 AA73 ===================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77q3R4ClW9KMwqnMRAiWkAJ9BAFPu+RJg8qeHFAyJVj2IPPE7LQCfaobL Kb6hBj/++Ydm7a7VDXHnMyk= =r8aK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
