Comments on: The Gazette this week, part 2 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/ Goings on in Gaithersburg, Maryland Fri, 18 May 2012 06:30:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Brett Cosor http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-87717 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:05:00 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-87717 "And by the way lakeforest isn’t that bad, if you go there and happen to see some gang kids hanging outside don’t bother them and they won’t bother you. Gaithersburg isn’t anacostia or langley park." The sad thing is that Anacostia or Langley Park were not Anacostia or Langley Park either. There is something called a trend. As someone who has been here for 30+ years, I can tell you that we are aiming at the same target that Anacostia and Langley Park have already hit. I am sure that thirty or forty years ago some folks in Anacostia and Langley Park said, don't be afraid of the crack dealers, if you don't bother them, they won't bother you.... And by the way, that exact statement was made by lots of folks in 1938 about a short white guy with a funny mustache in Germany. If you don't bother him...... “And by the way lakeforest isn’t that bad, if you go there and happen to see some gang kids hanging outside don’t bother them and they won’t bother you. Gaithersburg isn’t anacostia or langley park.”

The sad thing is that Anacostia or Langley Park were not Anacostia or Langley Park either.

There is something called a trend. As someone who has been here for 30+ years, I can tell you that we are aiming at the same target that Anacostia and Langley Park have already hit.

I am sure that thirty or forty years ago some folks in Anacostia and Langley Park said, don’t be afraid of the crack dealers, if you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you….

And by the way, that exact statement was made by lots of folks in 1938 about a short white guy with a funny mustache in Germany. If you don’t bother him……

]]> by: gaithersburg resident http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-86637 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:15:28 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-86637 okay seriously lakeforest isn't that bad(whoever talked about going home in a body bag). But the previous posts were right not enough is done to keep criminals off the streets but you all seem to forget that not all illegals are criminals. In fact many of them are targeted by thugs because they have lots of money on them and they are reluctent to call the police. So remember that it isn't all ms 13, there are white and black criminals too. And by the way lakeforest isn't that bad, if you go there and happen to see some gang kids hanging outside don't bother them and they won't bother you. Gaithersburg isn't anacostia or langley park. okay seriously lakeforest isn’t that bad(whoever talked about going home in a body bag). But the previous posts were right not enough is done to keep criminals off the streets but you all seem to forget that not all illegals are criminals. In fact many of them are targeted by thugs because they have lots of money on them and they are reluctent to call the police. So remember that it isn’t all ms 13, there are white and black criminals too. And by the way lakeforest isn’t that bad, if you go there and happen to see some gang kids hanging outside don’t bother them and they won’t bother you. Gaithersburg isn’t anacostia or langley park.

]]> by: concerned Gaithersburg citizen http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84976 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:05:15 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84976 It would depend on if I want to go home in a body bag. It would depend on if I want to go home in a body bag.

]]> by: Brett Cosor http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84778 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:25:47 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84778 So, coGci, I stopped in Vienna, VA to get some lunch the other day. The little family restaurant had great food and I struck up a conversation with the owner. "What is it like to live here?", I asked. Without hesitation, he said, "Safe!". "The police do a great job of keeping people in line", he went on to clarify. Who in our Olde Towne could say the same thing? And it is not because our police don't arrest people, it is because the judges let them go. Firfax County, they let law abiding citizens have guns there. And yet they have less crime? What do they know that our leaders have yet to learn? I guess the results don't matter as long as you still to your ideology. Safe?! Don't you wish you could say that here? That's OK, I like our stabbings, shootings, strong arm robberies...we are keeping it real! Which mall would you rather hang out in, Lakeforest? or Tyson's Corner? So, coGci,

I stopped in Vienna, VA to get some lunch the other day. The little family restaurant had great food and I struck up a conversation with the owner. “What is it like to live here?”, I asked. Without hesitation, he said, “Safe!”. “The police do a great job of keeping people in line”, he went on to clarify.

Who in our Olde Towne could say the same thing? And it is not because our police don’t arrest people, it is because the judges let them go.

Firfax County, they let law abiding citizens have guns there. And yet they have less crime?

What do they know that our leaders have yet to learn? I guess the results don’t matter as long as you still to your ideology.

Safe?! Don’t you wish you could say that here? That’s OK, I like our stabbings, shootings, strong arm robberies…we are keeping it real!

Which mall would you rather hang out in, Lakeforest? or Tyson’s Corner?

]]> by: concerned Gaithersburg citizen http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84636 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:09:17 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84636 Oppps...criminals and illegals are one in the same. Oppps…criminals and illegals are one in the same.

]]> by: concerned Gaithersburg citizen http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84635 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:08:24 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84635 I have a friend who lives in New Jersey who comented that Maryland was more corrupt than NJ. Imagine that! I think you missed the CAC meeting when the CPT from MC compared Montgomery with Fairfax county. Same demographics except for one thing...Montgomery has 50% more crime. It's a much less risky place for criminals and illegals to do business. Isn't that special? I have a friend who lives in New Jersey who comented that Maryland was more corrupt than NJ. Imagine that!

I think you missed the CAC meeting when the CPT from MC compared Montgomery with Fairfax county. Same demographics except for one thing…Montgomery has 50% more crime. It’s a much less risky place for criminals and illegals to do business. Isn’t that special?

]]> by: Brett Cosor http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84504 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:41:15 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84504 Dear cGc, Well, the problem is that the voters are happy with the status quo. If they weren't they would do something about it. The bad thing about democracy is that it is like being in a union. No matter what you do, you all get the same stuff. And that means that those of us who read books rather than trust talking heads on TV to tell us what to think, study the issues and come to our own opinions rather than follow either the jingoistic or self-hating lines laid out by political parties; those of us who are agents of change have to wait until it dawns on the others. I guess this will continue until someone in the television world aims a camera at it and tell the rest of us what to think and they say that it is not right. Like I said earlier, the judges are not stupid, we are. Brett PS It certainly doesn't help that Maryland has been in the stranglehold of a single party for decades. So many of us say that we believe that competition yields improvement, but for political leadership, we have had a sole source contract for generations. Maybe that is why Maryland has some of the highest corruption rates in the country. How many can compete with Maryland when it comes to the number of governors who have been sent to prison? Dear cGc,

Well, the problem is that the voters are happy with the status quo. If they weren’t they would do something about it.

The bad thing about democracy is that it is like being in a union. No matter what you do, you all get the same stuff. And that means that those of us who read books rather than trust talking heads on TV to tell us what to think, study the issues and come to our own opinions rather than follow either the jingoistic or self-hating lines laid out by political parties; those of us who are agents of change have to wait until it dawns on the others.

I guess this will continue until someone in the television world aims a camera at it and tell the rest of us what to think and they say that it is not right.

Like I said earlier, the judges are not stupid, we are.

Brett

PS It certainly doesn’t help that Maryland has been in the stranglehold of a single party for decades. So many of us say that we believe that competition yields improvement, but for political leadership, we have had a sole source contract for generations.

Maybe that is why Maryland has some of the highest corruption rates in the country. How many can compete with Maryland when it comes to the number of governors who have been sent to prison?

]]> by: concerned Gaithersburg citizen http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84427 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:23:18 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84427 Brett, both very good posts but if you and I are the only ones reading it what does it prove? This needs to be stacked up in front of the county political leaders. Maybe placards with the photos of the families with empty seats at their family dinner? Until the crimes hits close to THE POLITICIANS home I don't think they will change their thinking. Sad as it is. The lenient judges have to go. Brett, both very good posts but if you and I are the only ones reading it what does it prove? This needs to be stacked up in front of the county political leaders. Maybe placards with the photos of the families with empty seats at their family dinner? Until the crimes hits close to THE POLITICIANS home I don’t think they will change their thinking. Sad as it is. The lenient judges have to go.

]]> by: Brett Cosor http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84173 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:45:19 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84173 This is from the current Gazette and it is a perfect example of what I mean. You can kill people in Montgomery County and never go to jail: "A Gaithersburg teen pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment for his role in the death of a man who was beaten, left lying in the road and then fatally struck by a car in January. ... The teen, who Simms said is unemployed and was expelled from Montgomery College's Gateway to College program, was sentenced to 150 hours of community service and up to three years of probation by Judge Andrew L. Sonner. He was ordered to complete substance abuse and mental health treatment; participate in the African-American Male Empowerment Network support group and a victim awareness program; abide by a 10 p.m. curfew; seek employment or enroll in school; and write an essay on leadership and a letter of apology to the Ramirez family." Thank you, Judge Sonner, will you write a letter of apology to the family of the next person this guys kills? This is from the current Gazette and it is a perfect example of what I mean. You can kill people in Montgomery County and never go to jail:

“A Gaithersburg teen pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment for his role in the death of a man who was beaten, left lying in the road and then fatally struck by a car in January.

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The teen, who Simms said is unemployed and was expelled from Montgomery College’s Gateway to College program, was sentenced to 150 hours of community service and up to three years of probation by Judge Andrew L. Sonner. He was ordered to complete substance abuse and mental health treatment; participate in the African-American Male Empowerment Network support group and a victim awareness program; abide by a 10 p.m. curfew; seek employment or enroll in school; and write an essay on leadership and a letter of apology to the Ramirez family.”

Thank you, Judge Sonner, will you write a letter of apology to the family of the next person this guys kills?

]]> by: Brett Cosor http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84170 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:32:46 +0000 http://gaithersblog.net/2008/12/03/the-gazette-this-week-part-2-59/#comment-84170 Our courts and elected officials at the county level have completely lost touch with reality and consistently make decisions that reduce the quality of living and increase the chance that we will killed or injured by violent people they both invite to live here and coddle even after they demonstrate their violent nature. Judges block transparent access to their records and run unopposed for office year after year. I have watched for over 30 years as this area has slipped to a point where no one feels safe after dark. Certainly not near my office in Olde Towne. I just cannot understand how people smart enough to get elected lose all their intelligence once they win. They hate guns with a passion, but have not met a violent criminal they wouldn't excuse. It is impossible to hire enough police to save us from rapists and killers if you don't put them in jail. Look at the facts. How much has to happen before they pay attention to it? How many dead bodies do we have to stack up in front of the County Executive, County Council, and Judges before they consider their ideological adherence to lavish sympathy for illegal immigrants, rapists, and murders? If someone intentionally lets an attack dog out of their yard and it kills someone they will most likely face legal consequences. But this happens every day in Montgomery County. The folks who run this place turn rabid dogs loose on us every day and we vote them back into office every two years. They are not stupid, we are. Our courts and elected officials at the county level have completely lost touch with reality and consistently make decisions that reduce the quality of living and increase the chance that we will killed or injured by violent people they both invite to live here and coddle even after they demonstrate their violent nature.

Judges block transparent access to their records and run unopposed for office year after year.

I have watched for over 30 years as this area has slipped to a point where no one feels safe after dark. Certainly not near my office in Olde Towne.

I just cannot understand how people smart enough to get elected lose all their intelligence once they win. They hate guns with a passion, but have not met a violent criminal they wouldn’t excuse.

It is impossible to hire enough police to save us from rapists and killers if you don’t put them in jail.

Look at the facts. How much has to happen before they pay attention to it? How many dead bodies do we have to stack up in front of the County Executive, County Council, and Judges before they consider their ideological adherence to lavish sympathy for illegal immigrants, rapists, and murders?

If someone intentionally lets an attack dog out of their yard and it kills someone they will most likely face legal consequences. But this happens every day in Montgomery County. The folks who run this place turn rabid dogs loose on us every day and we vote them back into office every two years.

They are not stupid, we are.

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