Brothers in Broomhall / Handover / Park Hill have shown the way forward in dealing with the problem of drugs in our communities (a problem not only within the middle class' concentric circles of cocaine use, where i have been told they're openly snorting on the bar at The XXXX!) In some parts, dealers are getting some real justice... people using smack being beaten up with baseball bats at park hill, etc. not that idd agree with this way in dealing with the problem but i had to laugh when i confirmed this rumour that had been going about for a while... it seems muslim brothers have been exposing the drug dealers in broomhall in front of people, taking their drugs off them and putting them down the drain then taking the dosh and putting it into charity boxes (which is a start)...and in the meantime educating people that the real scourge of communities is drugs.
Now it might be fine for the get along gang at The XXXX and social workers to moralise at what the brothers have done here but come on, can the middle classes and their concentric circles of cocaine solve problems in their area while doing that? most of you live in nice leafy middle class suburbia of Nether Edge where the ony real social probelm you get is that dog shit on the pavement, even dogs on ropes shit on the pavement! while i agree with what the brothers have done in Broomhall / Handover, while i understand the anger that lead to people being beaten with baseball bats on parkhill - of course i do not agree with this.. but then if it was the middle class? (only kidding)
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mozaz
Now it might be fine for the get along gang at The XXXX and social workers to moralise at what the brothers have done here but come on, can the middle classes and their concentric circles of cocaine solve problems in their area while doing that? most of you live in nice leafy middle class suburbia of Nether Edge where the ony real social probelm you get is that dog shit on the pavement, even dogs on ropes shit on the pavement! while i agree with what the brothers have done in Broomhall / Handover, while i understand the anger that lead to people being beaten with baseball bats on parkhill - of course i do not agree with this.. but then if it was the middle class? (only kidding)
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BS
15.07.2003 15:50
This sounds like an urban myth (to use the polite phrase) and makes wonder about the accuracy of rest of what you have to say.
steve
hard drugs = downward spirul for all
15.07.2003 17:07
I don't think it is right to play the blame game and say "oh these drugys devalueing our houses" because drugs are a numbers game. You are more likely to become addicted to alcohol and other drugs if you are poorer and less likely to be able to pull yourself out of the "concentric circes". Also will beating someone up stop them from taking drugs or move them to another area?
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Ernest
This ain't news
16.07.2003 11:57
Tom
This can't be
16.07.2003 20:05
I mean the brothers.. they'll be dressing up in leather and burning chinese shopkeepers next.
Has nobody read wilhem reich 'the mass psychology of facism'
boneidol
Mass psychology of Facism
16.07.2003 20:07
boneidol
An act of rebellion Vs. An act of hoplessness
17.07.2003 10:20
Doing E every weekend and dabbling in a bit of coke or brown recreationally gives the green light of acceptance, tolerating those drugs currently wrecking Sheffield: Not the photogenic Sheffield where six-figure sum residences lie within a redeveloped city centre; And it won't wreck the Cultural Industries Quarter either, where narcotic passtimers can rehabilitate themselves by relocating back to the safety of their middle class backgrounds. People living in parts of Sheff that most activists hardly ever see can't as easily escape the shitty drugs that flood communities in Gleadless, Arbourthorne and just about everywhere.
Yeah, this is more sociological than geographical but rebellious kids' nosepowder makes a lot more money other side of the city where teenagers with no academic or economic future smoke crack to make themselves feel good.
How many reading this have ever pawned their TV or jewellry to buy another rock?
One thing about the muslim bros. tackling the dealers out in the open where the community is relatively strong, proves that it don't really require an anti-drugs militia to do this. On the other hand if action isn't taken now, then our communities will be much too fragmented to take on the dealers at street level. They're just kids making a bit of money for whatever, playing at being cool too. Just as kids in Nether Edge and Hunters Bar play cool by snortin coke. Same shit, different postal code.
Diamond Dawg
bs indeed
17.07.2003 15:45
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mozaz
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cocaine clampdown
18.07.2003 15:37
I think what Mozaz is trying to say here (if u read the full sentence) is that he understands the anger that makes people beat up local junkies but is not of the belief that it's a good thing to do (seems daft to hav to explain really, and I don't live on Park Hill so have no real understanding of the situation).
I don't know how many people take class A's whether that's in The Xxxx or wherever but if this counter culture has a fair few users about, then they must realise that they're offering an invitation to the Police State:- surveillance, arrests and clampdowns.
Whoops! there goes the movement.
People comment that alcohol is just as much of a dangerous drug and more easily available. It's dangerous but then Iv'e been pissed on occasions, had just a few on some more occasions and like a lot of drinkers I don't have a problem at all. If, however, I tooted a bit of brown once or twice becos the world's crap and i'm a victim (!) then I strongly believe I might hava bit of a problem with my daily life. Not that it's instantly addictive but the amount of people who've tried it once or twice is strongly outnumbered by all the smackheadz marauding this place.
This is serious shit and we need to start sorting it out.
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