I’ll admit I was pretty floored when I read that students at Cheyenne Mountain High School — my kids’ school — were busted for using and dealing heroin. Apparently, a hired drug-sniffing dog led police to a locker containing Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication, that hadn’t been prescribed for the locker’s owner. The word is that this kid ratted out his fellow drug-using students. Whether this was an attempt to minimize his crime, or to strike a plea bargain of some kind, I don’t know. I called my college girl with breaking news of the drug busts. “Yeah,” she said, nearly yawning, or so it seemed, “it’s not 25 kids, it’s only 15. I heard the two dealers are facing 7 to 12 and the rest of the kids are being sent to rehab.” With Facebook, news disseminates in real time so my scoop was already old news to her.
Undeterred, I dropped in on a fellow mother to deliver my bombshell. “Oh, yeah, there’ve been rumors of heroin use at Cheyenne for at least a couple years.” She proceeded to give me the lowdown on two of the alleged dealers.
Okay, everyone knew but me. But let me at least wager a guess about the future: since no drugs were found to be in possession of any student, there’s nothing the school can do to any of the alleged users. Not even a suspension, which is as it should be if due process is honored. I wouldn’t expect much more than hand-wringing from the parents who didn’t notice their children were strung out on heroin. The kids who’ve admitted smoking the stuff will likely be sent to $10,000/week rehab facilities where they can meet Mary Kate Olson or Lindsay Lohan and come back to mini-celebrity status.
The rest of us will distance ourselves from distasteful realities, likely with the full cooperation of teachers, shrinks, and media. One local headline read “D12 students were sold black tar heroin,” not “D12 students bought black tar heroin.” The subtle difference provides us a tiny emotional cushion.
Rather than dealing with the very real problems that plague our community, we’ll continue to emphasize the role of the drug-smuggling “Mexican nationals” in the corruption of our teenagers. Though the media has demonized them repeatedly, no one I’ve talked to knows anything about them, or exactly what a Mexican national is. But, then again, Cheyenne Mountain doesn’t know much about Mexicans in general, or blacks, or Indians that aren’t the school mascot. Come to think of it, we’d also never heard of BLACK TAR heroin. We thought heroin was supposed to be pure and white, like us. In any case, we take only prescription drugs, which is why we hurt for whichever mother had her Xanax jacked, the not-so-shocking incident that started this whole dark chapter.
This truly is a tragedy and many families will have a tough time getting through the holidays with such shocking news.
It’s great to have such a caring parent like yourself spend her time writing articles with such sarcastic and condescending undertones. Please stop being a cold bitch and open up your heart to the families involved with the understanding that anyone call fall into the merciless grasp of such addictive and destructive drugs.
Next time it might be your “college girl” who makes the headlines of the paper, and I’m sure even someone such as yourself would appreciate the support from the members of your community.
Heroin which has a German, a British and a U.S. patent.
Called Heroin because it was the “heroine” to rescue the Morphine addicts from their chains.
It’s a brand name like it’s near-contemporary Aspirin (“Hope”)
Morphine which got a good hard stranglehold on European and American markets due to the American Civil War and a Huge flare-up of wars across Europe including the Crimean War.
seems some English doctors had the brilliant idea that if they administered the morphine in a suspension of Alcohol the way they dd Opium (in the drug Laudanum) and taken orally, it would lead to fast addiction, the same way Opium does.
so the brilliant idea was to have the stuff prepared for that new-fangled shot needle.
Injected and bypassing the stomach it was supposed to not get you hooked.
Fooled.
Apparently the news of heroin use in our school wasn’t that shocking. It had been rumored for years. So, why then did the CSPD have to launch a months-long investigation right in the middle of our small high school to tell us what we already knew? Because we parents aren’t talking to each other, and we aren’t offering nonjudgmental support to one another, that’s why.
Graham, I think we are a fractured and secretive community. I think the pressure to be seen as the perfect kid, the perfect parent, the perfect family keeps people from being open and honest, and from seeking help when it’s needed. When problems do foist themselves into the public awareness, we have a tendency to shift blame or find scapegoats so we can maintain a tidy facade. My post was mimicking that type of magical thinking. The us/them black/white clean/dirty mentality that separates us from each other and from the rest of the world.
I am, in fact, very empathetic toward the families involved. I don’t really believe that they didn’t notice that their kids were using drugs. I think they did, and they were heartbroken about it, but they didn’t know where to turn for support. It seems our community would rather set up straw men than deal with the ugly stuff that’s in our Blue Ribbon high school. We need to come to terms with reality: we’re not that different, nor that special, nor that perfect.
I think the families will deal with this alone, with only bright brittle smiles from fellow parents as support. We’ll see.
I appreciate the comment.
The outpouring of support from the greater community is heartwarming. This is an example of the comment string on the KKTV blog:
Can you put a class war in your pipe and smoke it? I wonder.
Wow, I honestly cannot believe that naive piece of white trash would say something like that! let me tell you something, i graduated from cmhs in 05 and drugs have been prevalent there for YEARS, and those who wanted to use drugs DID and will continue to do so. JUST LIKE EVERY HIGH SCHOOL IN AMERICA. High school is a time for experimentation and rebellion, granted black tar heroin is a little intense but it does not surprise me one bit. listen, its not like these kids are shooting it up. I think when parents hear “heroin” they automatically think “needles.” This is not the case. They probably put it on some weed and smoked it or just smoked it by itself, to me that makes it a little better. Also, it’s most likely just one group of kids that have tried it a few times at a party or something, not junkies who are stealing money from there parents to get that next hit. The media wants you to think that this is a HUGE deal when in reality its been going on forever, it is just now public information. Oh and to that dumb ass woman in widefield? when my friends and i wanted to score some coke or something for the weekend we went to WIDEFIELD. Wanna know what widefield has?? METH. SOOO much better right?? what an utterly unintelligent human being. I’m sure her kids will be cleaning my land rover someday.
Probably just a typo, but you put the burning smack as opposed to banging it in the present tense.
In which case you might never be able to hire anybody to clean your land rover. Possibly never even own a Land Rover.
In which other case, you would be used to people using the title “you junkie” in front of or behind your name, or both simultaneously.
That’s what they do. I try to educate them a little, but I only do it gently, as opposed to walking up behind somebody and popping him upside his pointy little head.
BUT, I’m pretty certain that it WAS a typo.
I hope so. “The Life” is never heaven and really only bearable for short bursts of time.
haverat,
your comment is a perfect exmple of why every kid in the city who attends any school other than cmhs, css, cscs, and st. marys cannot stand you all. you are spoiled, stuck up, little snots. I agree with you that the heroin problem is being made into a much larger deal than it should be, because- every school would have similar problems if mommy and daddy gave the kids money to afford it. Also, meth, a cheap nasty drug, is not only seen at widefield or sierra, I personally have seen cmhs kids smoke it. My point is that drugs are at every school, the more expensive and hard-core drugs are just more prevalent at the high-end schools because the kids are spoiled rotten and can afford whatever they want. However, the fact that your parents made your life super easy and gave you anything you wanted and paid for college and are leaving you a nice big inheritance- does not make it appropriate for you to go to a website and bash others who are less fortunate and actually have to work for things. And I am not trying to put you down because I came from one of those rich, snotty Broadmoor families and found that I would rather be around genuine, kind people- even if they are poor. So I have truly seen both sides of this.
The two richest school districts in Texas (in America actually) are Southlake Carroll ISD and Keller ISD.
These are the kids Hannibal Lecter wouldn’t eat, because they’re spoiled.
One scandal of recent years, the Keller football team, with the best money could buy, sure to probably not take State but to at least be in the running, coaching staff equivalent to any college and most pro teams….
Being groomed to be leaders of the Free World yeah right…
The team, most of them were involved in this, were using $5 bills as toilet paper, took them out to a Not Rich section of the county, put them out in the street one or two at a time, and made videos of the “Bums” who picked them up… ha ha ha real fuckin’ funny that was yeah…
When they were caught, because they were publishing the pictures on the internet, “Hey, look at us, we’re überprivileged asshole SCUM and we can do “shit” like this to the Bums who aren’t überprivileged brats…”
And were suspended from football for not even the entire season.
Well, needless to say, this created a “shitstorm” politically in North Texas, where the Oblong Leather Ball is worshipped as a lower case “g” god.
Never mind that if a Poor person would do something like that he would be faced with Aggravated Assault charges, because human feces are TOXIC…. Perhaps attempted murder but Aggravated Assault actually carries a potential 99 year sentence with no guarantee of parole.
But “these poor children, being persecuted for high-spirited high-school hi-jinks” oh no, that’s a Horrible thing to do…
I might here add that their own Black Tar, the Heroin not the ‘other shit” bust at both Southlake and Keller were handled with the same “kid” gloves.
Class warfare? Indeed… but you notice, in the “class warfare” the Rich Bitches scream so loudly about, the guns of the cops and Militia are always pointed away from the Leisure/Management Class.
And, now, they can put biological warfare off on the Working Class, and walk away, (literally) Laughing about it.
Wow…Mrs. Walden.
I am friends with your daughter and I was shocked to hear you say something like this. I think you’re dead wrong and I find it offensive you think that these kids in trouble is something to be sarcastic about. Also, I hate to break it to you but Cheyenne isn’t even that rich of a school. There’s a few wealthy families but you all couldn’t even come close to some of the districts in other states. Everyone just needs to chill out.
I’d say Marie knows full well that the kids themselves have the real problems.
On our side of the Dividing Window though, the so-called In Charge Adult Society, it’s their certain attitudes toward that problem (and many others) that’s the subject of her scorn.
If I didn’t read it wrong.
As predicted, the elements of class and race have been raised, blaming the poor and the brown, because some of the Ruling Class actually believe that way.
I don’t think she’s as old as me, I’m kind of a dinosaur rapidly fading toward fossilization, so I got to see it longer, and she got to see it in more places.
My experience is that the Power won’t “let it be”.
They just don’t have any letting go or chill out to them.
You’ll be hearing this kind of back and forth for at least until February.
Or until something really big and scandalous happens, whichever comes first.
That’s the story of our society, and it doesn’t change much, not quickly at least.
Just re-read a lot of it, trying to make sure.
Comparing the peasant drugs to the rich folks drugs, coke v Meth, bangin’ smack v Chasing the Dragon, yadda yadda yadda…
That’s called Drug of Choice if you get into it but are lucky enough to get into some form of rehab.
hopefully, Friend, you’ll live long enough and society doesn’t implode before then, you’ll see a lot more of it and maybe help fix the problems, or at least make it a lot less “sux much dog” than it is now.
The only worthwhile advice I ever got when I was in school, “Buckle up kid, it’s a long ride and sometimes it’s even fun”.
The rest of it was mostly bullpoopoo.
To me this isn’t so much an issue of race or class. It’s more about hypocrisy, appearances and insulation. And, friend, I couldn’t agree more. Cheyenne isn’t a particularly wealthy school district, but you’d never know that from looking. The Beemer’s in the driveway, but the balance sheet is locked safely in the filing cabinet, next to the Xanax if the lesson’s been learned.
With all due respect, who are you to say someone is hypocritical?
The reason the majority of parents don’t realize their kids were/are on heroin/coke/etc is not because they choose to ignore it because of reputation. It’s because the kids at cheyenne
A) don’t do it frequently and
B) are quite good at lying. (I have witnessed this firsthand, and as a parent, don’t tell me you’ve never been duped by your child’s lies.)
The media and even fellow students at Cheyenne act as if this is a huge deal and that 30 plus kids are consistently using heroin. This is simply not true. There may be one or two or hell, even a handful of kids who use this drug on a regular basis (though I doubt it), but I can tell you with 100% certainty that it is not what anyone makes it out to be. That, is the real reason that parents don’t notice their child’s drug usage. It’s got nothing to do with class or race or hypocrisy.
And please, don’t go saying that it’s because they give their children too much money. In less fortunate areas, the parents don’t notice (or care) that their kids are using drugs either. So tell me, who are the hypocrites? Cheyenne doesn’t try to “cover” or “insulate” their problems. Cheyenne has frequent random drug checks that covered cars, lockers, random classrooms, etc…with drug dogs. You can’t fake that very well now can you? It’s not like they were covering these issues up.
Yeah, they had that kind of security at Poly High in Ft Worth when I went there.
People simply left the dope off campus, drank pickle juice for the dope tests and there’s ways to deal with dogs that well, you’d rather not hear about.
It involves the idea that most dope dogs are German Shepherds of the male variety.
The notion that brown-skinned kids imported the problem and it would never have happened under segregation, yes, it did come up.
“Our children are Purer than that”.
Like I said the refrain is kind of an old one.
The idea that it’s crap doesn’t keep it from being regurgitated every now and then.
The wording sometimes gets subtle, but, hey…
It’s what you call RealPolitik.
Calling it that would get you branded a Marxist, but Marx wasn’t a revolutionary, just an economist.
And as such has been proven right more often than Adam Smith.
Marx and Smith both agreed that in order for capitalism to succeed, there had to be an underclass.
Difference is Smith thought it a good thing.
I bet Smith gets taught as source in Economics classes at Cheyenne though.
Marx, contrary to the shrill whines of the Right, doesn’t get taught in public schools.
The Powers That Be can’t wash the stench of Class Warfare off of them, they based their entire system on it.
Also, as a former druggie, I should point out that in a high school with an enrollment of 1000 students, not rare… 30 kids would only be 3% and that wouldn’t jibe with statistics.
That would smell strongly of Cover-Up.
As some bright redneck leaning out the passenger window of a bright redSUV yelled at us at Camp Casey, it’s not the 70s anymore.
I congratulate him on his amazing powers of deduction, even though it took him 30 years to notice… but, he’s right.
It’s not the 70s.
It’s worse.
And yeah, true to pattern, some of the ‘rents are acting surprised their angels would be trying drugs.
Maybe it’s easier to pull off the act in the Higher Income levels of society, maybe it’s just because the motivation is so much stronger.
But it is an act.
Hypocrite is a Greek class of Actor.
You are an ignorant fool.
Marx believed capitalism was a good thing as well…in addition to fully recognizing the self proclaimed atrocities of it. What does this make him? Oh yes! A hypocrite!
Marx was taught to me at cheyenne and in college as well. But I guess you would know better right? Those damn shrill whines of the right.
Please don’t try to bring politics into this. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Friend, I trust you had a decent Christmas this year… I certainly hope so.
You are right that Marx believed that capitalism was a good thing compared to the feudalism that still dominated much of Europe (not to mention the rest of the world) in his time. That was a long time ago though and only goes to show that much of the historical Marxism of Marx’s time now has a certain dated quality to it. One rather thinks that Marx, if alive today, would probably see Capitalism in quite a different way than he did before? There is a lot less of progress in capitalism today than there was way back at the beginnings of the 19th Century.
Ah, but the politics do get injected, perhaps a poor choice of words considering the subject, into anything involving drug use, real crimes, and anything in between.
And, yes, it’ll be the politics of Race and the politics of Class.
And Marx started writing before our Civil War. Long before.
And yes, he wrote BOTH Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto.
And most people do recognize only a few catch-phrases, a quote or three given to them by whatever Dictator-in-Chief to prove socialism and Marx to be “evil”.
And, these will be the same people who will loudly proclaim integration in public institutions (like schools) and Society at large, of “Minorities”, to be the principle cause of all evil in our society.
Like Drugs.
Watch the original Svengali and Reefer Madness movies to see what I mean.
In the 40+ years between the making of those movies and when I first went to school, in a still-segregated Texas, not much changed in the way of propaganda.
Dr King was dismissed as a “Marxist” ideologue. Cesar Chavez was dismissed as a “Marxist” agitator.
Somehow it was put forth, and believed, that Karl Marx plotted a desegregated society in order to bring the Bright Shining Example of The Wealthy Ruling Class down to the gutter …since obviously, the Peasants and especially those with darker skin, couldn’t possibly aspire to the heights of Social Development.
See, I’ve witnessed it. Not first-hand since those who did thus, were usually either the ones who were murdered for “marxism” or “uppity Darkie-ism”… and the ones who murdered them.
The Rumblings from the Right began as soon as the story broke, a Bastion of Whiteness, breached by those communist colored “integrationists”.
Do we react to that, or merely let the fire burn itself out, run it’s course?
Since there’s way too much fuel laying around to wait for that particular fire to run its course, that leaves “HOW do we react to that?” not “Will we react…”
And, a war of words is far preferable to a REAL war.
Some would disagree. To them, nothing says “Civilization” like dead and wounded everywhere.
As for where the War on Drugs is heading, it’s where it’s already always was.
Fuel for the Corporate use of unpaid Convict Slave Labor.
The ones deemed most fit to be Field Hands, the black, brown or just plain impoverished, will be the ones given the longest and harshest sentences, just like always.
See, some things change so slowly, we’ve still got Slavery, mostly based on ethnicity, right here in Colorado and indeed, in most other states AND in the federal penitentiary system, 144 years after the end of the Civil War.
Think not? Go to the library and look at the law books, see how many offenses or levels of offenses, even Public Intoxication, carry a sentence of XX number of months or years, At Hard Labor.
But of course, I’m an idiot and don’t know a single thing about what I’m saying.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I knew allalong that there were drugs at high school that why they call it HIGH school, hahahahahaha
You missed my point. It didn’t have anything to do with what capitalism is today or was then. It was that he believes it is NECESSARY because it is (in his eyes) the only path to communism. It wasn’t that he “favored it over the european feudal system.”
Of course people call Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez Marxist. They ARE Marxist. That’s not to say either of them are bad people, but many of their ideas were Marxist. Good or bad. Why are you acting as if that is so appalling that one would call them Marxist?
How dare you accuse those you don’t agree with you of regurgitating propaganda from their “Dictator in chief” to prove that socialism is “evil!” Socialism is not evil. Socialism is a generous and kind idea, however it’s not economically fair and it causes more problems than it’s worth. That is why I oppose socialism. The majority of peoples lives should be handled on a private level. The government doesn’t need to be sticking it’s nose into every aspect of it’s peoples lives in order to ensure that everyone has “complete equality” because guess what? Everyone is not equal in every way!
No, I’m not talking about race or class or anything like that. I mean that everyone has different gifts and abilities and some people are more gifted and/or blessed than others. It’s not fair that those people have to sacrifice (what could be) some of their potential because someone else is not blessed in that same way. THAT is what is not fair. It is immoral. Socialism takes away the desire for change and new things. If everyone gets exactly the same things, why bother trying to be a doctor when you can work a jiffy lube for the same perks? They’re both helping people aren’t they? If you really want to see the United States slide behind the rest of the world (especially in education), then you should continue your support of socialism.
Yes there are some people that are greedy. Yes there are some people who are racist, but for you to criticize an entire political view and assume that they “are the people who view desegregation as a source of evil” is a bigoted and rude thing to say.
You yourself said that Marx wrote at a much different time, so why are you assuming that the people who oppose Marxism have this irrational phobia of lower class/different races? I was not there, people very well could have believed that race integration was “evil,” back then; but as a member of the republican party, I can tell you today that is not what we stand for and if you honestly believe that it is, you are gravely mistaken.
The Republican Party includes in their membership the Klan and the American National Socialist Party and the National Association for the Advancement of White Persons, headed up by David Duke who is a “former” Klansman, and actually ran for president (but didn’t get the nomination) on the Republican ticket.
They also include the entire corporate Heirarchy of BlackwaterUSA, who were used as mercenary Gestapo thugs in New Orleans during the Katrina tragedy, and made a point of shooting people they refer to as “niggers”, with the same level of immunity they enjoy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The War which Mr Bush and the Republican Party STARTED in Iraq, through the use of lies, lies and more lies, has very heavy racial overtones.
The standard term Republicans use for Arabian people or any Muslims is “sand-nigger”.
The Republican Party has since their institution before Mr Lincoln was elected, have been involved in the Wars of Extermination against Americans, Native Americans to be exact.
The Republican Party today is engaged in legal maneuvering to strip the Native American Nations of their national sovereignty, Mr Bush leading the charge on that.
As Governor of Texas he initiated proceedings against the only two recognized Indian Nations in Texas, the Alabamu-Coushatta of Houston and the Tigua of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, El Paso County (TX) claiming that the State and Republic of Texas has the authority to over-ride constitutionally defined treaties with Indian Nations, specifically with regards to Sovereignty of said nations.
The Republican Party also cheerfully encompasses such Cowardly Freak Jackass Squads as the Minutemen, who carry machine guns not only along the southern borders but throughout America, with the full stated intention of KILLING people they believe might be Illegal Aliens.
Illegal Immigrants typically don’t carry firearms, I guess that’s why Tancredo and his Thug “heroes” like the Minutemen feel safe about hunting them with machine guns.
Some of these people who are being lumped into the “Target” category by these Republican Groups include members of quite a large number of Native American tribes, such as the Mescalero, Jicarilla,, Chricahua, Sierra Blanca (Apache), Hopi, Navajo, Tigua,ZunI, Pima, Maricopa, Lakota, Brule, Ogalala, Cree, Oneida, Cheyenne, Yakima, Athabascan, Inuit … well, you start to see a pattern there?
They have not just dual citizenship in their Tribal Authority and the United States, but those on the southern border have a third citizenship treaty with Mexico and those on the northern and Eastern Alaskan borders have citizenship treaties with Canada as well.
Canada and Mexico, unlike your “non-racist” Republican Party, actually honor the treaties.
I have personally witnessed and indeed been a victim of Racial Harassment on the basis of these border issues.
One was in El Paso Texas where I was threatened by Border Patrol agents who, before finally identifying themselves, threatened me with drawn weapons and screaming at me in Spanish, which at the time I didn’t understand.
Then they told it was MY fault because I “looked” mexican…
You might not think of that as racist, but let me point out to you, IT IS.
To underscore the seriousness of that, at the same time in Arizona, the Border Patrol shot a man as he was climbing back over the fence into mexico.
The man survived, por la gracia de Dios todopoderoso…
The man was on top of a 10 foot chain link fence when the Coward Racist Pigs shot him.
Then the Coward Racist Pigs got away with it by saying that the man was menacing them with a rock.
If you want to test that theory out, you go and put a rock, any rock, doesn’t even have to be big enough to threaten somebody,in your hand, and try to climb a chain link fence with it in your hand.
John McCain, you might have heard of him, was the Senator from Arizona at the time and Backed The Coward Would-be Murdering PIGS.
And, the Re-puke-lickin’ Party has grown steadily more racist and antagonistic toward everybody who Is Not Rich.
John McCain, George Bush and Sarah Palin last month were campaigning in Georgia for one of their Fellow ChickenHawks, one whose Silver-Spoons status kept him from going to VietNam, just like Bush and Cheney and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly and in fact the vast majority of the Re-puke-lickin’ supporters of Mr Bush’s Racist Terroristic War of Imperialism.
They were supporting Chambliss who is not-very-secretly a member of the United Klans of America.
Chambliss who was running against a decorated VietNam veteran, and in a previous dispute concerning the Bush War, Mr Chambliss with the help of Karl Rove and George Bush and John McCain ran a Hate-Advertisement Campaign against Max Cleland, who had left three of his limbs and about a quarter of his body mass in VietNam.
That underscores the Truly Hypocritical nature of the Republican “leadership”.
I must have really gotten under your skin. 🙂
There are always crazies who associate themselves with a political party. The republican party doesn’t INCLUDE “the Klan.” Even if “the Klan” claims to be associated with the republican party. Also, why is it unacceptable for a group for the advancement of white people when we have the NAACP? That doesn’t mean they’re racist.
The war in Iraq was racial? WOW. Talk about ridiculous conspiracy theories. You will never know the extent to which the Bush administration has PROTECTED the United States from attacks. Whether you like them or not, they did their job.
As for the initial republican party being racist, there is some truth to that, but it certainly was not unique to the party. Just because you have a chip on your shoulder doesn’t mean that the republican party is racist today.
Did you really say that Mexico honors it’s treaties? The reason Mexican citizens are trying to cross the border is because the government is so corrupted they cannot improve the standard of living! HELLO! They don’t honor their treaties! If they honored their treaties why are there 29,144,140 illegals in the US?
The border patrol are doing their job and the people illegally crossing ARE BREAKING THE LAW. I’m terribly sorry that you have been mistaken for an illegal immigrant and yes there are some pig border patrol agents, however, it’s THEIR JOB to protect our borders. Whether you want to blame Mexicans for drugs or not, that’s where the majority of drugs come from in Colorado. That’s why border patrol agents are so important. That’s not to say ANY users shouldn’t take the blame as well, but the drugs ARE COMING FROM SOUTH AMERICA THROUGH MEXICO.
You wanna talk about cowards for not going to war? What about the beloved democratic party’s Clinton?
Wow you know what? I apologize. You lost me when at the beginning when you
stated that Republicans standard term for Muslims is “sand-nigger.” You are
an ignorant, narrow-minded, foul speaking fool.
‘The war in Iraq was racial? WOW. Talk about ridiculous conspiracy theories. You will never know the extent to which the Bush administration has PROTECTED the United States from attacks. Whether you like them or not, they did their job.’
Still trying to blame 9/11 on Iraq, are you? And yes, you hate Arabs and the war to occupy and oppress Iraq and its people is a racist war and you do support it because you are a racist personally, too. I feel filthy just replying to the likes of you.
You lost me when you said Bush protects us.
Bush is and always was a chickenhawk.
When his daddy bought his ticket out of going to VietNam he demonstrated it in spades.
When the PIGS had me handcuffed, strapped in a chair and torturing me with a Taser for talking back to them, neither George Bush, nor the American Army nor YOU were defending my rights.
And incidentally, talking back to the PIGS is not a crime, that’s why the Coward Punks made up charges to go along with it.
In fact, the so-called “war on terror” and the so-called “patriot” act enables the PIGS to arrest and torture and enslave anybody they choose at the whim of and for the profit of their Masters.
And equally important to enabling these Gestapo-like THUGS to do that even in America, is people who will trot out some variant of “The policeman is always right… The Army fights for your rights so how DARE you use those rights? If you’ve done nothing wrong, why should you fear the KGB, Comrade?”
Yes, you and people who hold similar attitudes enable terrorism from the U.S. Government at all levels, and encourage it in retaliation from others in the world.
Torturing people and imprisoning people as was done on the orders of Bush WILL cause more terroristic acts of VENGEANCE.
The war in Iraq protects nobody, not even the Oil Companies who are its Major ONLY beneficiaries.
Neither Bush nor the Racists who comprise the Republican Party are likely to ever change.
The drug “laws” as written and enforced are Racist and Anti-Working Class, always were and always will be.
If you ever want to open your mind about it, there’s a movie called Reefer Madness, which was actually taken into consideration as “scientific evidence” when the Marijuana Tax Act of 1935 was passed.
Put out by the same groups who put out “jungle Fever” and other propaganda movies which had the premise that Jazz (later rock and roll and still later Disco) were a communist plot to lower White Americans and especially White Women to the level of the Negro.
Which was the major objection to Marijuana use.
I have no objection to people not going to war, in fact, I encourage it.
The fact that people like Bush and O’Reilly and Limbaugh and Trent Lott and Saxby Chambliss (who is a Klansman) and Cheney BOUGHT their way out wouldn’t be objectionable either, IF they weren’t such hypocrites about it that they demanded other draft resisters be arrested and imprisoned for it.
Or arrested and imprisoned even those who came back from VietNam, and dared to speak against the war and subsequent ones.
Chambliss called Cleland a Traitor, do you realize what the penalty for treason actually is?
Chambliss called Ron Kovic a traitor too, that means that Chambliss, supposedly one of those “protectors” of freedom like Bush and Cheney and the rest of the ChickenHawks, called for the deaths of Americans who committed no crime other than criticizing the Warmongering Arrogant Bastards who are perfectly willing to send OTHERS to do something they consider themselves too good to do
And he had the full support of George Bush and the rest of the ChickenHawk Scum who infest the Republican Party.
and still does.
How did an article about a drug bust turn into a discussion about the government? I think the important thing to understand is that people who deal drugs or do them, are going to do drugs. The people who are smart enough to not do drugs, will not do drugs. It’s sad that the kids involved didn’t make the best choice, but they will probably learn from their mistake. I personally know the two kids who are going to jail, and they aren’t “corrupted” or “bad” people at all.
Some kids choose to do drugs and it’s their life, not yours.
Especially kids in high school… it’s high school, relax.
Sam, no one should go to jail for using drugs. In fact, we should stop fighting the ridiculous war on drugs altogether — which isn’t really about drugs at all — and cease our puritanical hand-wringing over substance use.
We’re a nation of addicts: food, sex, porn, alcohol, television, gambling, computering, gaming, texting, hoarding, spending, fighting. We’re obese, unhealthy, depressed, angry, confused, stressed, hurried, insecure and greedy. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction are everyone’s lot these days. There’s something seriously wrong at the core of American society. Maybe one day we’ll figure out what it is but one thing is certain, drug use isn’t it.
Drugs themselves aren’t political.
Drug enforcement IS.
Where the Drug War impacts the Other War, for instance, according to groups as diverse as Interpol, the WHO and the American DEA, the fighting in Afghanistan has precipitated the most massive Opium (codeine, methadone, morphine and heroin’s Mama.) crop in history.
As is common with drug enforcement, lower-class Dark Skinned persons are accused of Selling the heroin to the upper-class White Skinned Children.
Rather than the upper-class White Skinned Children actually buying AND using them.
As for a discussion staying completely on one topic and unwaveringly, that doesn’t often happen.
Still trying to blame 9/11 on Iraq, are you? And yes, you hate Arabs and the war to occupy and oppress Iraq and its people is a racist war and you do support it because you are a racist personally, too. I feel filthy just replying to the likes of you.
Oh I’m sorry? Did I mention 9/11?
NO that’s right. I didn’t. Thanks for putting words in my mouth though! “I feel filthy just replying to the likes of you!”
Oh and by the way, Im pretty sure the only thing that’s “filthy” is to allow someone like Saddam Hussein to put people through the horrible atrocious kinds of torture he did.
I already stated that yes some law enforcement officials are scum. So why are do you keep reiterating this? I understand you had some ugly encounters and that’s unfortunate but that’s not the republican party’s fault. That’s that person’s fault.
The fact that the “policeman is always right” YES that is a flaw in our judicial system. But I promise you, it’s a hell of lot better than other countries. You got dealt a crappy card, but sometimes you have to be thankful for what you have anyway.
I am enabling terrorism in retaliation? Wow what a bigoted thing to say. The reason terrorists want to hurt America is not because of our “tough laws” and “mean policemen” it’s because we’re not the same religion. They don’t like the promiscuity of people especially women here. It’s not nothing to do with Bush. If that WERE the case, wouldn’t they have attacked within the last 7 years!?
I’m not going to argue with you about this anymore. You have a chip on your shoulder from a bad experience and you choose to childishly blame a political party for it. The Bush Administration HAS protected America for 7 years from any attacks. I’d say that’s pretty good. Honestly? If you really hate America so much. Then leave.
“As is common with drug enforcement, lower-class Dark Skinned persons are accused of Selling the heroin to the upper-class White Skinned Children.
Rather than the upper-class White Skinned Children actually buying AND using them.”
What!? In case you have been too busy making misguided comments on this article, I will inform you that not one, not two, but three white cheyenne mountain “rich kids” were arrested in this case. Shocking I know, since the police are just so incredibly RACIST right?
Poor friend! He’s livid. Here he goes off on an injustice done to him by me!
‘Oh I’m sorry? Did I mention 9/11?
NO that’s right. I didn’t. Thanks for putting words in my mouth though!’
Well what did you say? Let’s take a look at your previous words, friend. I certainly wouldn’t want to attribute any remarks to you that are simply untrue. Below you do speak once again…
friend…. ‘The war in Iraq was racial? WOW. Talk about ridiculous conspiracy theories. You will never know the extent to which the Bush administration has PROTECTED the United States from attacks. Whether you like them or not, they did their job.’
Friend, just what other attacks are you talking about that Bush has supposedly prevented us from having a repeat of? Bush did a good job of what? Sorry if I thought somehow you might be referring to 9/11? My bad… So what the hell were you talking about then if not 9/11? You’re too weird, friend. I thought you were speaking about 9/11 and now you reassure all of us that I was putting words in your mouth. Comical. You were speaking about Bush having (in your learned opinion) protected us from another 9/11 attack, now weren’t you? You mentioned 9/11 now didn’t you, by doing just that? Good grief…
What? You are still making an illogical connection. I was saying that the idea that the war is racial is ludicrous and then saying that it’s messed up for someone to complain about something like that when all Bush has done is protect us. So yes. I am right. And you are wrong.
You accused me of falsely saying that you mentioned 9/11. That was not the case though. Here it is again from you…
‘Oh I’m sorry? Did I mention 9/11?
NO that’s right. I didn’t. Thanks for putting words in my mouth though!”
That is your accusation against me of supposedly falsifying your words and meaning.
No words were put into your mouth now were they? You did refer to 9/11 and then drew all sorts of erroneous conclusions that Bush had protected us from attacks, just like you later accused me of ‘putting words in your mouth’ when that was not the actual case. Jeez!
Not only did you refer to 9/11, you did it again right after accusing me of putting words in your mouth! Some people are just incredible!
I can criticize the war, but not because of any action taken by the United States Government in any form to “grant” me that right.
The Right was granted by God and acknowledged as such in the Declaration of Independence.
Which is either a binding legal document or we owe one huge donkey-load of back taxes to the British.
Nor does it have to be specifically included either in the Declaration or the Constitution for any Right to exist, the statement “That among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and has NO exclusions listed.
Much like “Freedom of speech, religion, the press, peaceably to assemble” doesn’t have the exclusions of “unless the Colorado Springs PIGS or John O’Donnell believe the right should be rescinded, violently and without prior notification”
Tell, Friend, do tell, were you one of those who said we should be allowed to continue to march in the Parade which we had paid the entry fee therefore?
Or were you one of those Fascist Provocateurs in the crowd who screamed for the other parade floats to run us over and for the PIGS, who started the incident, to “finish the job” and Kill us?
How many of the soldiers in the crowd stepped forward and actually DEFENDED our rights or our safety when it was their fellow PIGS who were doing the Terrorist Attack?
How many of these who you CLAIM defended our rights stood up when Eric and Elizabeth were charged with the CRIME of being victims of Government Terrorism?
How many of them testified either through direct sworn testimony or through an Amicus Brief (“Friend of the Court”)?
Did your coward little bitch of a soon-to-be-EX-President stand for freedom or protection from terrorism in that incident?
When his Blackwater Goon Henchmen were blowing away people in the streets of New Orleans, did he stand for Freedom or protection from a Privately Run, Publicly Funded TERROR group on That Occasion?
Seems like he “protected” us by granting the same immunity he gives these Thugs in Iraq to their illegal Terroristic Actions right here in America.
As to me being threatened with death for the crime of “looking like a Mexican”, It was very good of you to offer your opinion that those types of actions make YOU feel safer.
In other words you’re perfectly willing to sacrifice MY life or freedom in order to sustain YOUR illusion of freedom or safety.
The same way you APPARENTLY are willing to sacrifice the lives of “sub-human” Iraqis and especially their babies lives to sustain that same illusion.
It tells much about the Soul-less nature of the Republican Party while you try your damned best to defend their indefensible actions.
O my god. Playing the victim gets old fast. Let’s all take a moment for Brother Jonah since he’s obviously such a moral and upstanding person…unlike the white people of course.
I’m done with this shit.
Go fuck yourself.
and I referred to 9/11 when saying that I didn’t refer to it earlier. fucktard
Broadmoor moms that gossip like 16 year olds, and live for their daily lunch dates to dirrhea the same old “whose kids are doing what” all over each other are probably the reason some of your kids are doing heroin. As a graduate of cheyenne mountain, my mom was not on the PTA, was not concerned with being in trendy friendship circles full of botox queens that wear skinny jeans and think they themselves are still in high school, she did not spend her days blogging on gossip websites(she was at work).. Mostly, my parents acted like MY PARENTS. Our dinner conversations were about US and how WE were doing. Shockingly, I could afford to buy heroin if I really wanted to, but chose to buy keystone light instead. CSU 09!!!
I know all u parents are shocked by this, but I, a student at a high school in a very safe and normal area, am not. Last year 2 kids got expelled for using heroin in the bathroom (that shocked everyone) and i now know of at least 4 kids, all of which seem like normal, healthy teenagers, who are becoming fairly regular users of Black Tar. It is very disgusting and disturbing to us other kids, and I am glad to say i am yet to hear of any non-users say they wish to try or think its cool
im not getting into the whole govrenment 9/11 thing. I just want to say, i am a junior at Cheyenne, and i was a sophmore at Cheyenne went the scandal broke. Many kids were absolutely floored to hear about it. Some had no idea. Of course many did. Cheyenne has had a drug problem for years, like many of you had said. I was suprised it was not the cocaine problem that got busted, but the heroine. I still feel absolutely 100% safe at Cheyenne. I recieve an amazing education that i know i would not recieve at other Colorado Springs Schools. I never thought about leaving cheyenne because of the bust either, because i trust in my judgement not to make choices or put myself in situations near drugs like this. One of my best friends came back from rehab not to long ago for heroine, he is doing good with the support of his friends. He knew what people to stay away from. My dad is a doctor, and i live in the Broadmoor. I have no allowance, and i have a job to pay for my car, my gas, and my insurance. I completely understand where all of you come from saying Cheyenne is a rich school when there are mustangs and BMWs in our parking lot. But remember, not all wealthy people are arrogant assholes and have no drive for education or jobs. I am paying for my own college, and i think that is one of the best things my parents could do for me, i know the value of money. And i know what is expected of me.
Expect for yourself, and you’ll respect yourself.
Just a gratuitous Mantra affirmation.
It’s better than measuring your life by what others expect of you.
Party sober and have more fun.
Then, when you get rich and famous, you can lend me money.
Sorry, student, but if the education at Cheyenne was truly amazing, you’d know how to spell GOVERNMENT, SOPHOMORE, SURPRISED, RECEIVE, HEROIN. And you’d know that your best friend is doing WELL after rehab. Teachers and administrators in D-12 should focus their energies on teaching kids to read, write and spell, and worry less about things that don’t concern them, like drug use.
I know it sounds horrible at first yet look at what happened to our country when our government took away alcohol there was so much killing that the government had to make it legall just like now too many innocent are dyin and the dealers are making the cash, I say sell all drugs like they did before 1917 and make a lot of tax money from it, it would bring our country right out of our problems we could help the poor and give the police time to get those damn child molesters that are on the tv each day
this war on drugs has been going on for 40 or more years, 20 years ago i paid 50 dollars for a gram of heroin, it’s 20 now so who is winning the war on drugs ? sell it like we do hard liquor and make a lot of money and get our country back on top
getting people to not use drugs starts in the family no where else you cant stop it from coming here, hell you can grow it all here sell it and make the usa rich again use the money to fix our streets our kids our homeless, legalization would bring in so much money and there would be no more corner drug dealers and gangs it would solve so many things, it will get done some day in a hundred years when our society grows up but we need it now!
i was one of first students to get*busted*at cmjh in 1971. they didnt call my parents. i had to go home and have my mom call the school…on her birthday. one of worst days of my life……. in the 70s cmhs had some of the *best* drugs around thanks to older siblings…..some things never change……….
Makes plenty sense, Richer folk have more money for dope. It’s not like having money will make you automatically less moral, but it damn sure ain’t gonna make you more.
But, word of caution to the younguns, m’kay? More money means MORE dope, not necessarily better. You’re still dealing with people who probably use dope themselves, have a lot more access to it therefore tend to overdo things … a lot.
Never trust a dealer. Just don’t.
There’s a Steppenwolf song, I think it was on the Flip Side of Born To Be Wild… “God Damn, the Pusher man”.
If you don’t know the term Flip Side you probably don’t remember Steppenwolf either, even though most of the band is still alive and tour.
The same can be said of Legal Shit, operative word in that phrase isn’t “legal”. The Big Pharm companies will screw you worse than the street dealers and the difference is they have a lot of lawyers, they own the cops and the courts (through other industries they own) so if they “fuck you off” your family really ain’t got much recourse.
But cheer up, if you die in a back street $20 a night motel room with a needle in your arm at least your family probably won’t ever know at least. Cops will just use the word Junkie, another one, then scrape you off the floor, into the meat wagon, coroner will just call you John or Jane and it won’t make a bit of difference to him either.
Not a very dignified way to go no matter how you look at it.
Sorry, didn’t really mean to be the buzzkill.
Just, y’know, sayin is all.
Me, I’ll always see you as another human being. But I don’t run anything and especially not the Privileged classes of society. They’re the ones you’ll have trouble with. Wish I could be more helpful.
It won’t make your pain go away to know this but they’ll treat me the same way.
Y’all up for a little Pillow Sophie late on a messed up evening? I knew you are. So here’s the deal, I can’t condemn anybody for dealing with Spiritual Pain using Physical Painkillers.
Call it Emotional Pain if you will but it’s all good. (like Martha says)
I’m not EVEN perfect and wouldn’t dream of condemning somebody dealing with Physical Pain using the same medication.
So God, who IS perfect, why would He?
I don’t think He does. Just my opinion forged in the crucible of 50 years of walking this Vale of Tears and seeing all kinds of good people dealing with all kinds of really messed up shit.
Some people call that “permission to sin” but hey, who exactly needed or asked my permission? I don’t run anything. Wouldn’t take the job of Ruler if anybody offered.
So you’ll have a lot of problems dealing with people, some of whom are certified, registered licensed Assholes. It helps to face them if you’re in a good mood, a little mellow… but the chemical mellows don’t last long and when they wear off you won’t be mellow. Trust me. So see if you can cop a contact of some good mellow from me now, while I’m for some reason not in a bad mood. Maybe later I’ll have time to be pissed and rant and maybe even rave. but not now.
The rulers of Cheyenne Mountain make a comfortable living condemning people. If their kids or Heaven Forfend, they personally cop a ride on the Chemical Express that’s not their true failing. The condemnation is.
You know the basic laws of reciprocity, if you’ve managed to read this far… see, it comes and it goes…
To the “leaders” of Colorado Springs, don’t condemn those you feel are inferior. First because we’re NOT and being told differently tends to piss us off. And, quite frankly, you wouldn’t be able to handle it. Trust me.
But your condemnation is like carrying a live snake or worse, a gun in your pocket… The chances of YOU being the one bitten increase the more you carry condemnation around with you.
Or around your kids. Try to think how you would handle the pain another feels, spiritual or physical or emotional. Think how it would feel if your only means of handling that were to ingest poisonous chemicals. Admit it, about half of those who just said “no, not me, I never would do drugs” followed it with a swallowing sound from that 12 year old bourbon you’ve been sipping. Or the “special” headache pills Dr FeelGood prescribes for you.
Death on the installment plan. Funny, “installment plan” is as dated a term as “Flip Side”
(kids, CDs used to be called Records, they were flatter, black and you had to have a “record player” to listen to them. Computers were bigger than your apartment. The “records” had two sides to them, on the “45”s you only had one song on each side, one was the one the band and their manager thought would sell the most copies, and the other was whatever the hell else they wanted to put on it. When you “flipped” the Record on the Record Player… oh, damn it you can figure out the rest. All of this was when your mom and dad were in school and dinosaurs roamed the earth.)
Almost all of the things you mention happens to be astonishingly accurate and that makes me wonder the reason why I hadn’t looked at this in this light before. Your article really did switch the light on for me as far as this particular subject goes. However at this time there is one position I am not too comfortable with so while I try to reconcile that with the main idea of the issue, allow me see exactly what the rest of your visitors have to say.Well done.
Some very worthwhile points however think the research and bias leaves a great deal to be desired. Then of course, that?s just my estimation. Possess a great day definitely a thought-provoking post.
“We thought heroin was supposed to be pure and white, LIKE US.”
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
Actually, no.
Officially the 50th comment on this post. I called it!
YOU RACIST WHORE!! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE SERIOUS? BITCH
Oh and actually I am the 50th comment Brother Jonah, dumbass.