Chicago: Banning tiny plastic bags for the children protection
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, City Council committee, crime, drugs, Ed Smith, fucking retarded, Gang Unit, Health Committee, health food stores, Illinois, important tool, Kevin Navarro, Narcotics Unit, police state, politics, prohibition, regulation, Robert Fioretti, Walter Burnett, West Side park, your rightsTiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee.Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of “self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width,” after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park.
Lt. Kevin Navarro, commanding officer of the Chicago Police Department’s Narcotics and Gang Unit, said the ordinance will be an “important tool” to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses. The bags are used by the thousand to sell small quantities of drugs at $10 or $20 a bag.
Navarro referred to the plastic bags as “Marketing 101 for the drug dealers.” Many of them have symbols, allowing drug users to ask for “Superman” or “Blue Dolphin” instead of the drug itself, he said.
Prior to the final vote, Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) expressed concern about arresting innocent people. He noted that extra buttons that come with suits, shirts and blouses — and jewelry that’s been repaired — come in similar plastic bags.
Burnett was reassured by language that states “one reasonably should know that such items will be or are being used” to package, transfer, deliver or store a controlled substance. Violators would be punished by a $1,500 fine.
Health Committee Chairman Ed Smith (28th) said the ban is part of a desperate effort to stop what he called “the most destructive force” in Chicago neighborhoods.
“We need to use every measure that we possibly can to stop it because it is destroying our kids,” he said.
How fucking stupid and stereotypical?! Like this will curb drug trafficking. Even if they could minimize access of small plastic selfsealing bags to drug dealers they will just move to paper bags. Small paper bags folded are only slightly larger and just as secure.
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March 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am
… and in an effort to crack down on drug use, Chicago is taken steps to outlaw fire. Contained inside a small pipe, sometimes called a bowl in street-slang, fire is a critical mechanism employed in the use of recreational street drugs. "Taking away this crucial chemical and physical reaction from the drug dealers will go a long way to getting these guys off our streets," says Health Committee Chairman Ed Smith. "As you may now, we’ve had a rough history with fire, so it’s about time we just plain outlaw it."
March 14th, 2008 at 8:43 am
While watching the morning news the other day, they ran a quick sensational piece on some new drug (no idea what it was called). The gist of the segment was that 1) It could be purchased at a garden / flower shop, 2) it gave you the same ‘high’ as marijuana and 3) the kids were doing it. Of course they ran out the "why hasn’t the gov’t hasn’t done anything to outlaw it" bit… however, they never explained why it should be made illegal. Does it cause cancer, didn’t say. Does it cause death, I didn’t say. All that was said was KIDS + HIGH + LEGAL = BAD.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Salvia divinorum?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
It might have been, I don’t recall. The shoddy journalism just rubbed me the wrong way. It was a local network affiliate, so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Are you implying the others are actually better?
March 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Wolf Blitzer provides my daily dosage of bombastic, panic inducing "Situation Room" theatrics every single day, regardless of what really happens. Then I tune to Bill O’Reilly to tell me how it is (sans spin), and over to Lou Dobbs for my "they took our jobs" fix. Keith Obermann on MSNBC reminds me not to take O’Reilly, FOX News, or his pretentious jokes seriously. At this point my attention span is dwindling, so I flip over to Jim Cramer, who’s yelling, beeping, gonging, shouting, and leering at me all the while. When I’ve had enough, Larry King’s insomnia curing no-preparation interviews guide me to slumber land. In spite of all that, cable news is still a degree better than its local counterparts. Even if the big networks keep hiring Tucker bow-tie Carlson back.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I actually liked "Tucker" the few times I saw it. Lets not ignore the bias however I likely have given he was I believe the only MSM journalist who supported Ron Paul for president. Tucker is far less nuts when he’s not in the combative environment his last show was like.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I get my news from good ole’ WZBN, the nations finest news source.