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Ghost in the Machine

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15. Oh, really?? I guess you've never been to the "Big City", where certain parts of the City are
Sat Jul 25, 2015, 03:25 PM
Jul 2015

nothing BUT drug havens. Mostly in the Inner Cities when I lived in Miami. There were places in Overtown, Liberty City, South Beach & Coconut Grove that the cops wouldn't even go into after dark because they would get shot at by snipers on the roof tops, and in the upper level floors, of the Project Housing. Whole neighborhoods were taken over by drug dealing gangs, and the "good people" either moved away, or accepted money to look the other way. They had teens, and even pre-teens, working as look-outs for the "Po-Po" or the "FIVE-0!" The gangs would take over whole housing projects, whole neighborhoods and whole City blocks, but I'm the bad guy who is "disrespecting the good people there"? Like I said, the "good people" who stayed did so because they were PAID to look the other way. The "good people" who stayed and didn't take payoffs, and spoke out against the gangs and drug dealing were either run out, burned out.... or killed! But I'm the bad guy!?!?!

You're pretty funny! Will you be here all week, with a tip jar on the stage?? Please forgive me if I've offended you, but I speak from experience, and call it as I see it. They were known as "drug neighborhoods" for a reason! You could get anything you wanted, from a joint, to angel dust, and everything in between.. cocaine, heroin, crank, crack, acid or anything else, even Pharmaceuticals such as 'ludes, oxycodone, hydrocodone, vicoden, amphetamines, diluadid, morphine... you name it, *someone* had it! That's just the way it was, back in the 80's... and the way it STILL IS to this day. I have seen it in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Knoxville and even Nashville!

Peace,

Ghost

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Oh, really?? I guess you've never been to the "Big City", where certain parts of the City are Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #15
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Okay, so you know the areas that I mentioned then, right? I don't know how old you are, but I was Ghost in the Machine Jul 2015 #19
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