Greeting's List, Tuesday's is usually my late night getting home. It's really never a problem, even with the thugs out. But this night, was truly one of fear. I turned onto Co"crack" street, and the cars lined the street for days. Here was this suburban looking couple with a beautiful car pulling up with arm out the widow, stopping in the middle of the street. All I could think about was a shooting or worst MPD coming and pulling me over for something I did not do. I then was able to get by the car, and park. Not in front of my home, naw...But buy one of the 5 drug houses on my street. Where there were men coming out from the trees, and then people started to fight over who should made that last dollar. My whole entire body shook as I was going up my stairs, to the house that I own, in a neighborhood, that I love. I trembled with fear. First time ever that that has happen.
I have a terrible feeling that somebody some time soon is going to get killed out there, and it won't be the thugs, oh, heck no! It will be some innocent hard working person, that like me brought their house in the neighborhood, or maybe a child, my child. One of the neighbors has called MPD crack unit and has video taped these folks and still nothing! Even taped a neighbor and his insurance agent messing up his roof to get a new one. What will it take, the shed of innocent blood. What is the hold up??? I cannot understand. Go outside your own block and just imagine on one block, in fact on one side of the block, there are five, count'em five dope houses. Not to mention the "want-to-be's" that are there to make a fast buck. Why isn't that big ole police truck sitting on our block, so the kids can play in peace outdoors, if only for one day a week. Why? Is it because of low voter turn out, is it because it's a forgotten area? Why? Why should my six year old, and others like her on my block have to play in doors, why do I have to take my child into another neighborhood to play at their parks? I pay taxes, and I vote, why can't I get some protection, why can't my daughter get some protection. Why does somebody have to get killed before the help comes. The park board folks are not on task, they are way to busy, tying to pass the buck to make themselves look good, and the school board, oh well, they have a new $200.000 new toy to play with. MPD, well, what can I say?? Government, well it's not election time, and it not in their neighborhood. The so-called leaders, well that's easy, no cameras. Look, we need help. We just need help, I beg the powers that be (and ya know who u r) to help us, before that next batch of blood is innocent and belongs to a child. Vanessa Freeman Hawthorne "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Epigram Peace-Peace, REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
