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Screw political correctness. If you have had to live among the trash that does these things, AND happen to survive, you can say anything. We have become too complacent about these inroads into society. It is time for people to take a stand against the local terror of drugs, violence, beatings and robbery by assault and all other societal ills that are beginning to plague us. YES, he is guilty only if proven guilty, but that is a rather good chance.IT IS ESPECIALLY A GOOD BET HE DID IT AS HE HAS PRIOR CONVICTIONS FOR DEALING DRUGS, THE REASON HE WAS ARRESTED. YOU ARE NOT TALKING ABO8UT A CHOIR BOY HERE, GEORGE.
But we are not talking about a person being mistaken for a pedophile, we are talking about an habitual drug dealer.
Well I think it's high time more people spoke out against criminal activity instead of making excuses for thugs & killers. Or would that be against their human rights?
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 22/07/2007 20:46:15Well I think it's high time more people spoke out against criminal activity instead of making excuses for thugs & killers. Or would that be against their human rights?...But in any case, as I said above, apart from beating his own chest, what is Polensek actually achieving.
I am sure the "PC" brigade will soon have the drug dealer free and sent on a cruise and then a safari and set up for life as society has traumatised the little fella !
George, you asked what i believe the letter was supposed to have achieved. Without knowing who leaked the letter (or did i miss that part?), we can not say that Polensek was out to make political gains in writing the letter. My personal opinion is that we have a politician dead sick of the drug dealers in his neighbourhood / ward, a politician so incised by the repeated offences of one particular drug dealer, that he took it upon himself to inform this person that he and his kind were not welcome.The letter also served as a warning that the offender would either, by his actions, end up dead or in prison. "real men go to school or work every day to take care of their family", is this not showing what society expects? Society does not expect people to support themselves through the sale and distribution of drugs.
Personally, i could not give a damn what Polensek's reasons for writing the letter were. If you have a politician willing to stand up and say enough is enough, no, not only stand up and say it, but to act on it. He gets my vote.
Personal feud or not, it makes a nice change for a politician to say what he thinks rather than being just a load of waffle that means neither 1 thing nor another.
There are those who have made a career (Paxman, Walden etc) out of trying to elicit from politicians what exactly they meant when they said something that was so couched in ambiguity that it could have meant just about anything.
During his time in Council, he has served on numerous committees as member and chairperson. Currently, he serves on the Employment, Affirmative Action and Training, Health & Human Services, Public Service and Public Utilities committees. In November 1999, he was unanimously elected as President of Cleveland City Council and worked diligently for his neighborhood as well as to create a legislative body that provided the same proven leadership for all of Cleveland's neighborhoods. Through his leadership, Council created the Neighborhood Equity Fund, which targeted funds for neighborhood development projects. He served as Council President until January 2002.