ROLE MODELS: Sarah Palin’s Hometown of Wasilla Has a Meth Addiction Problem / Conservative radio host Laura Schlesinger is not down with the Palin nomination
lc
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By Jonas Oliver | Article Date: 9/04/2008 2:19 PM
Newly minted Republican superstar and vice-presidential nominee, Gov.
Sarah Palin, may have successfully fought oil interests and corruption
[?] in her home state of Alaska, but in her hometown of Wasilla, where
she was elected to two terms as mayor, her iron hand did little to
curb growing social problems in the tiny community.
According to published reports, Alaska State Troopers have designated
the Matanuska-Susitna area, in which Wasilla is the largest city, as
the methamphetamine capital of Alaska. Meth use is apparently
exploding in the borough, where production has expanded nearly seven-
fold in the last five years.
In 2003, authorities uncovered nine meth labs in the area. By last
year, however, that number increased to 42, said Kyle Young, an
investigator with the troopers who works with the local narcotics
team.
The most innocent victims of the Alaska’s meth epidemic appear to be
the region’s children. Officials with the Office of Children's
Services in Wasilla said their office receives about 40 calls a month
from people reporting abuse or neglect related to the use of the
highly addictive drug.
Meanwhile, reports of children living in meth labs and in otherwise
dangerous proximity to the drug and addicts help explain why such a
huge percentage (nearly 50%) of Wasilla’s total monthly child
protection calls are meth-related.
With less than 10,000 residents, Wasilla is but 12.4 square miles of
the 24,000 square mile area that makes up the Matanuska-Susitna
borough.
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"Conservative radio prophetess Laura Schlessinger is not down with
the Sarah Palin nomination. 'I'm stunned,' she wrote on her blog.
'Couldn't the Republican Party find one competent female with adult
children to run for vice president with McCain?'"
Skin...@hotmail.com
Well damnit we need some action up there! Let's form a task force to
study the reasons for this drug explosion. We can appoint a blue
ribbon committee to help raise the children's self esteem to the point
that they no longer feel the need to use drugs. Through a state
sponsored education program, supported oif course by a tax increase,
we can educate our children about the ills of Meth.
Then we need to set up support groups and hotlines to help these drug
addicts find common meeting places where they can share their
experiences under the supervision of a state hired and monitored
counceling staff.... all supported by a tax increast.
And of course we all know that poverty fosters drug abuse so we need
to set up extra Social Security offices so that we can give these poor
disabled drug abusers their social security checks quicker.
Then we need to set up a series of free clinics so that we can help
these poor unfortunates kick the habit through use of government
provided drug substitutes leik methadone....
And we need to increase local taxes a little more to provide more
patrol cars and police officers to crack down on the crack!
By God we can solve this problem with the right leadership and enough
tax dollars!
AHSO#1
Like Wasilla is the only town in America exclusive to this issue . I
guess the murder rate and drug problems in Chicago don't get counted
in this issue .
ChasNemo
> On Sep 12, 10:55 pm, lc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
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Wasilla is a tiny town and should be able to handle its own problem
according to rightarded views!
Jorge Duhbya Arbusto, POTUS (Retired)
Must have something to do with the proportion of meth-heads compared to the
population. Ya think??
Ray Fischer
You don't vote for the mayor of Wasilla and I won't vote for the mayor
of Chicago.
Deal?
--
Ray Fischer
rfis...@sonic.net
Jeff Spaulding
Apparently she failed to close down the many meth labs around Wasilla.
Probably tried to "pray them away."
That worked about as well as "abstinence-only" education worked for her
kid.
AHSO#1
What about the murder rate and drug problem in Chicago(obama's
hometown) ? Not relevent?
Day Brown
> Apparently she failed to close down the many meth labs around Wasilla.
> Probably tried to "pray them away."
Day Brown
> Well damnit we need some action up there! Let's form a task force to
> study the reasons for this drug explosion. We can appoint a blue
> ribbon committee to help raise the children's self esteem to the point
> that they no longer feel the need to use drugs. Through a state
> sponsored education program, supported oif course by a tax increase,
> we can educate our children about the ills of Meth.
>
> Then we need to set up support groups and hotlines to help these drug
> addicts find common meeting places where they can share their
> experiences under the supervision of a state hired and monitored
> counceling staff.... all supported by a tax increast.
>
> And of course we all know that poverty fosters drug abuse so we need
> to set up extra Social Security offices so that we can give these poor
> disabled drug abusers their social security checks quicker.
>
> Then we need to set up a series of free clinics so that we can help
> these poor unfortunates kick the habit through use of government
> provided drug substitutes leik methadone....
>
> And we need to increase local taxes a little more to provide more
> patrol cars and police officers to crack down on the crack!
>
> By God we can solve this problem with the right leadership and enough
> tax dollars!
Jeff Spaulding
> > Apparently she failed to close down the many meth labs around Wasilla.
> > Probably tried to "pray them away."
> Did the next mayor do any better?
Maybe the Alaskan posters can answer that.
Whatever, meth labs are highly flammable. You could take them out
easily, even with a Roman candle.
flanier
> By God we can solve this problem with the right leadership and enough tax dollars
And....you have a problem with this approach because.....?
"I'm all for spending 10+ billion dollars a month in Iraq rather
than..." ~ Citizen Combustible L. Moonscape, Esq.
Day Brown
> What about the murder rate and drug problem in Chicago(obama's
> hometown) ? Not relevent?
responsible, and if he didnt do the hiring and firing of law enforcement
and the drug task force, then what do you think he could have done?
Guillaume Ier de Normandie
Yeah! And it's not as though it's the only town with a pot-smoking
hootchie mama for a mayor, either!
> I
> guess the murder rate and drug problems in Chicago don't get counted
> in this issue .
Sarah Palin didn't govern Chicago.
Zeligg
>Sarah Palin’s Hometown of Wasilla Has a Meth Addiction Problem
> http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?id=20210§ion=67
>By Jonas Oliver | Article Date: 9/04/2008 2:19 PM
>
>Newly minted Republican superstar and vice-presidential nominee, Gov.
>Sarah Palin, may have successfully fought oil interests and corruption
>[?] in her home state of Alaska, but in her hometown of Wasilla, where
>she was elected to two terms as mayor, her iron hand did little to
>curb growing social problems in the tiny community.
>
>According to published reports, Alaska State Troopers have designated
>the Matanuska-Susitna area, in which Wasilla is the largest city, as
>the methamphetamine capital of Alaska. Meth use is apparently
>exploding in the borough, where production has expanded nearly seven-
>fold in the last five years.
>
Of course there's a drug problem in alaska; what else is there to do?
Seriously, there's a drug problem in most states and until someone
wises up and begins legalisation, there will always be a drug problem.
Zeligg
"You are megalomaniac, the worst kind, because you're a monstrous and
perverted idiot."
Oz' love letter to Zeligg
juanjo
Obama was never Mayor of Chicago. And of course Chicago is a city of
millions which makes it far more difficult to fight crime.
Wasilla is a town of 7000 to 8000 people and she was mayor. I have
lived in towns that small and everyone knows everyone's business in a
town that small. Hard to believe she was so ignorant of the problem
that she did not know she needed to do something about it. After all
she was a busy little beaver getting earmarks of federal money for
just about everything else she wanted to do, like build a hockey
stadium on land the city did not own.
Day Brown
> Of course there's a drug problem in alaska; what else is there to do?
> Seriously, there's a drug problem in most states and until someone
> wises up and begins legalisation, there will always be a drug problem.
members with partners back in the home district that make tons of money
off defending drug cases. They are never gonna do anything, no matter
how much more effective it would be, to kill that cash cow.
Zeligg
wrote:
Really? You think it's the lawyers who are trying to keep drugs
illegal? Drug money is a huge business for our government. It's
money that can be laundered into the military or spread across to
almost any project they want. The government is making far more on
drugs than any lawyers (or for that matter, any pushers) are making.
Day Brown
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:09:25 -0500, Day Brown <dayb...@daybrown.org>
> wrote:
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>> Zeligg wrote:
>>> Of course there's a drug problem in alaska; what else is there to do?
>>> Seriously, there's a drug problem in most states and until someone
>>> wises up and begins legalisation, there will always be a drug problem.
>> We'd havta stop electing lawyers first. Every legislative body has
>> members with partners back in the home district that make tons of money
>> off defending drug cases. They are never gonna do anything, no matter
>> how much more effective it would be, to kill that cash cow.
>
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> Really? You think it's the lawyers who are trying to keep drugs
> illegal? Drug money is a huge business for our government. It's
> money that can be laundered into the military or spread across to
> almost any project they want. The government is making far more on
> drugs than any lawyers (or for that matter, any pushers) are making.
boy gets pulled over and busted for pot, its $1000 to the bondsman ASAP
cause the parents dont want him raped and exposed to HIV in jail. Then,
its a few thousand more for the lawyer, and another grand for court
costs or other incidentals.
I dont have enuf reliable evidence to quantify how much the government
makes feeding off higher up the food chain. Living in Arkansas for most
of the last 30+ years, we knew there was something funny about the C-130
flights, and nobody was surprised when Hassenfus blew the cover off Mena
and the cocaine the CIA was dropping off there on the way to the
national C-130 support base as Jacksonville AR.
Right wingnuts like to blame Slick for it, but that operation was going
before he became governor. What he proved, is that he knew how to not
look into things he should not. The CIA rewarded him with the presidency
knowing he'd be accommodating. And would not pose the risk GH Bush did
in knowing more about what the CIA had been doing.
Course, now, there's C-130's coming back from Afghanistan, and you know
what they have on board; but you dont know where they drop it off. Yet.
If Ben Ladin did not exist, they would have invented him and 911 in
order to have the excuse for the war in Afghanistan and the profits to
replace those lost when the Contras were shut down.
If drugs were legal, parents could still sue the dealers for the cost of
drug rehab, therapy, counseling by the family clergy or whatever, and
families could also sue for support rather than going on welfare when a
parent gets strung out. But as it is, the legal system takes all the
dealer's money in criminal court and some of his assets are seized by
LEO as well. There's nothing left for families to sue for.
And if drugs were legal, families could as well sue all the way up the
distribution chain, and drive the whole system into bankruptcy. But that
would, as noted, dry up a cash cow for lawyers.