{"id":2284,"date":"2008-08-15T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2008-08-15T09:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T13:14:27","slug":"whats-wrong-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong in DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> this morning carries the story that DC’s Southeast residents are more than a little miffed at the rise in homicides in that quarter of the District – and they’re blaming the serial criminal they elected to the City Council;<\/p>\n

\u00a0A recent surge in homicides in Southeast has embattled residents pointing the finger at D.C. Council member Marion Barry, who is seeking re-election in November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThere have been 18 homicides east of the Anacostia River in the past 60 days, including 14 in Mr. Barry’s Ward 8.<\/p>\n

The most recent killing in the ward – that of Omar Finney, 22, of Southeast on Monday – prompted resident Joyce Scott to say Mr. Barry has squandered his influence with young people.<\/p>\n

“They love Marion Barry,” said Mrs. Scott, founder and president of the community group People United. “They would do anything for him. They would put their guns down for him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, they pointed their guns right at Barry a few years ago when three youths robbed him at gun point in his own home in Southeast. They’d do anything for him alright. If you continue reading the story, you’ll get the same sense that you had watching the people of New Orleans begging for help from the government in a situation they created for themselves.<\/p>\n

Southeast is a terrible neighborhood, it’s bad place to live, it’s a bad place to drive through. But the residents of Southeast tolerate criminal behavior and then they expect the government to fix the problems in their own families…they refuse to take responsibility for their own shortcomings. And then when the government takes extreme measures to fix the out-of-control problems, they complain about being inconvenienced.<\/p>\n

This is the same government who stood by while a mother murdered her four daughters last year, the same government who let a single woman pilfer more than $40 million from the District’s coffers over nine years. The voters send the same incompetent criminals back to their leadership jobs in the city government and expect them to do something for the people…and all they do is get more looting, killing and lies.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with DC? The voters…that’s what wrong. Now, I know one of my resident trolls will call me a racist…even though I haven’t mentioned race (believe me there are a lot of idiot white people in this city, too) and that’s part of the problem, too. Everyone is scared to mention REAL fixes to the problems in DC because everyone is afraid someone is going to get offended.<\/p>\n

And that’s why what’s wrong with DC will always continue to be what’s wrong with DC. We have tiptoe around everyone’s sensibilities and never come up with a workable solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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