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Originally Posted by chris lindberg
Money talks, I got a buddy over in Thunder Bay (drug dealer) who should have lost his drivers licence at least 5 times by now, he bought his way out of it everytime by "giving" his laywer $1500 to $5000 to make the charges go away and at least two of the charges were DUI's.
Corruption in the Courthouse, I'd bet a lot of these guys are Coke heads. Just seen on the News the other day a little tidbit about gangs in Calgary, they were saying the gangs and drug trade is being fueled from the people in the downtown office buildings and not the junkie's on the street.
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It's not necessarily that the upper-middle class are driving the drug trade....the jist of the article (that I took away from it, anyway) was that upper-middle class people/office workers/bored housewives etc. tend to shake their heads and get outraged over gang violence, "why aren't the police doing anything about this", etc. etc.....and then promptly bury their noses in a pile of blow (hookers optional). They're largely blind to the role they themselves play in this whole thing...yes, maybe Mrs. Soccer Mom gets her drugs from Martha down the block, but at the base of things, it's the gangs that are importing and distributing it along the line, and they're playing a part in driving that cycle. I took the article as more of a wake up call to these people- essentially telling them that despite their socioeconomic position, they are just as responsible for this mess as any crackhead or gangbanger out there.