Drug deal \u2014 or a conspiracy?<\/a><\/p>\nReporter Allison Roberts did a great job writing this story, but even I’m slightly confused after reading it.<\/p>\n
Let’s go buy some pot. No, let’s go rob somebody for pot. No, if we don’t rob somebody for pot, let’s just buy it with counterfeit money. Ah hell, let’s just shoot everybody.\u00a0 Doesn’t Washington St. sound like a lovely neighborhood to live in? Where’s the “Community Outrage” from the Usual Suspects that would demand a total clean-up of the crime-infested area?<\/p>\n
I’ve got an idea. Let’s hand this over to the “Coalition For A Safe Danville” because I know that they will get the changes in motion that need to happen. Wait, what? I guess it’s back to the old tried and true method of the neighborhood taking their own streets back from the criminals. Of course, that would take cooperation with the Danville police department. Perhaps that cooperation should be the real message of the Community Organizers instead of useless “Stop the Killing” marches.<\/p>\n
But I repeat myself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a feelgood story on how life is so tranquil on Danville’s Washington St. Not.<\/p>\n
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