So it came as no surprise to me that someone using this pseudonym on my recent post about the Upstate Family Reunion left a comment that seems like it came from a caricature of a Black person, and not a real one:

Winter Santiaga on July 26th, 2010 2:04 am

personally i think it is a good idea to keep the family reunion goin there are plenty of other events that take place each year and nobody complains about it so why should the family reunion be cancelled. is it because of how many african american or black people i may say are in one gathering. im sensing that is the problem. not taxes or anything else, any local events there will be crowds and i think i speak for alot people….why be concerned about the trash if your not the one who has to clean it up…im just saying!!

Really? Let me start of by saying I didn’t alter this “sentence” at all but left it in it’s ungrammatical glory, random ellipses and all. I was confused as to how a person could be a African-American or a Black person but then I realized the Blacks this person speaks of may not be American. But why are Black Americans called African-Americans while Haitians, for example, are still called Blacks? Racism I suppose.

The main point here though is that “Winter Santiaga” suggests that no one should care about all the trash strewn everywhere because they don’t have to pick it up. I suppose a trash fairy comes around to clean up after Winter but the rest of us end up paying overtime to workers to do this, and with city budgets tight I don’t see how Simpsonville can justify the expense, which was my point in the original post.

Since the race card was thrown down let me just say this: I’m Biracial, I grew up in an all-Black family and we were taught to clean up after ourselves. It’s low class to do otherwise.

Now here’s the rub. Let’s say that only 1 percent of Upstate Family Reunion attendees share the view of “Winter Santiago” that you you can drop trash where you will and not worry about it. last year there were 35,000 people, so Simpsonville would be looking at 350 people who were throwing trash on the ground all weekend. But having seen the park the day after last year I know it isn’t 1 percent.

“Winter Santiago’s” comment is one of the best cases I’ve seen for canceling the event. Hopefully next year Simpsonville will come to their senses and say no to the Upstate Family Reunion.

Residents are said to “have concerns” about this year.

35,000 people showed up last year and more may be coming this year. City officials are coordinating with event organizers and promoters to try to make things more orderly, including having 50 police on hand and the city many of which will be state troopers moonlighting and paid by Simpsonville.

It’s unclear who will be handling the massive clean up. Let me venture a guess – you. As in taxpayers who are footing the bill for a event too large to be handled by the meager resources Simpsonville has at it’s disposal anyway. It’s a waste of money, pure and simple.

There comes a point when whatever imaginary gains a city has for hosting an event is outweighed by the hundreds of thousands of real dollars it takes to hold it. And having witnessed the garbage strewn wasteland Heritage Park was transformed into last year first hand I think hundreds of thousands of dollars is a conservative estimate. How many businesses really benefited from the Family Reunion last year? How many of the vendors and bands were Simpsonville locals? Simpsonville is spending money so that people who don’t contribute to the city can make a quick buck and stick taxpayers with the mess.

I’m not the one running the cost benefit analysis but frankly, this just seems like a bad idea. Simpsonville residents got burned last year, and now the people who run the town are asking you to stick your hand back in the fire, because they’ve thrown more of your money into it so it’ll feel different.

This was a bad idea, and holding it again after the disaster of last year is a really bad idea. Simpsonville City Administrator Russell Hawes claims that if there’s problems similar to last year the event won’t be asked back. Let’s hope that’s true.

But since they didn’t learn their lesson last time I doubt it.

No word yet if Andre Bauer was one of the arrestees.

From GreenvilleOnline:

One person was arrested and two teenagers were detained after scattered fights broke out near Falls Park on Saturday night in downtown Greenville.

A squad of 15 to 20 police officers brought the crowd under control near 11 p.m.

The two teenagers were detained shortly after the 10 p.m. curfew, when anyone younger than 18 and unaccompanied by an adult must be off the streets in the downtown area.

Greenville Police Lt. Mike Hudson said one woman was arrested.

Hudson said he ordered every officer who “wasn’t on a (911) call” into the area.

15-20 officers aren’t needed to “bring a crowd under control” due to “scattered fights” and a few rowdies in a downtown don’t usually prompt whoever is in charge that evening to order every cop not dealing with an emergency to flood an area. Sorry Mr. Walton, but I’m thinking this incident was more serious than you’re making it out to be.

Being a homebody I’m rarely downtown these days, but I’m told that there’s a rough element out and about. Falls Park is popular at night for both the atmosphere and the drugs. The plaza next to Spill the Beans is known to be a “corner” for dealers and the park itself provides plenty of unlit areas where kids like to get high among other things. Parents are apparently still in the habit of dropping off their spoiled brats with a wad of cash in the downtown on the weekends, and frankly we should be charging them for the damage those kids are causing.

At the very least the parents of the children involved should be forced to pay for the hours our police weren’t able to deal with other crimes while babysitting their ill-spawn brood.

We all know some cretin who uses some pop-culture psycho-babble to explain away their douchebaggery. Your pot-smoking basement dweller friend says he has “Aspergers syndrome” so they can’t find a job or thank you for the $40 you loaned them or the unpleasant, fat woman at your job suffers “low self-esteem” which can only be treated with addicting prescription drugs and you embracing adipositivity.

Of course anyone of moderate intelligence who has run into these types of people know almost immediately that the real problems all of them have is lack of morals, lack of character and often enough drug o alcohol problems. This is usually combined with laziness and a sense of entitlement which work hand in hand ensure the person never takes responsibility of their own life or problems.

Unfortunately we live in a culture that not only encourages this sort nonsense, but institutionalizes it. We send addicts and drunks to rehab instead of jail, we medicate children instead of disciplining them and we send people who need their asses kicked to anger management classes. This brings me to Chrissy Gail Greene.

This slattern is 30-years-old and was sentenced to anger management classes after a domestic violence charge on or about April 30th. Now just a few short weeks later Chrissy is in trouble again for a brutal and vicious attack on her ex-husband. From WSPA:

The arrest warrant says Green struck the victim in the head with a hammer and in the body with a metal tricycle and threatened to shoot him.

Greene and her brother went to the victim’s home in Inman around 8:00pm. on April 20 with her brother according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office incident report. Greene was intoxicated according to the report.

The victim says after being attacked by his estranged wife, she began to smash windows and doors at the home. The front storm door “had been shattered” according to the deputy.

A witness says Greene drove away from the scene with her brother, who “tried to stop Chrissy from attacking” the victim.

If she has an “anger management problem” why was the brother driving her to her ex-husband’s house while she was drunk? And why the getaway? It sounds to me more like Chrissy and her rotten brother are a couple of pieces of trash who run around causing trouble because they think nothing will happen to them. Nowadays there is some fancy term for it I’m sure, but my Grandmother used to call this a matter of “no home training” which was a euphemism for a child who was spoiled and never spanked. I’m not a spanking advocate, but in this cases it’s clear that this person has never experienced consequences for her attacks on others that would make her re-think roughing up people. A spanking as a child may have helped in that respect.

Anger management classes will not.

I will bet you good money that Chrissy and her clan of Jerry Springer guests can control their anger just fine when someone gets ready to lay a heavy hand on them. A person with an anger management problem used to be called a bully and though the terms may change the prescription for them remains the same. The lady friend of her ex should have pepper sprayed her then laid the boots on her until the cops came. I bet you after that Chrissy Gail Greene’s anger management problem would magically disappear, at least in regards to the couple she’s currently targeting.

People treat you the way you let them treat you, and the Chrissy Gail Greenes of the world can’t be cured by therapy because they aren’t sick. They’re just degenerates and should be treated like the animals they tend to act like. Let’s put her in a cage where she belongs, and stop pretending we can fix folks who are just bad people.

]]> http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/chrissy-gail-greene-proves-anger-management-classes-are-a-scam/feed/ 9 http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/bomb-hoax-in-travelers-rest/ http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/bomb-hoax-in-travelers-rest/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 22:34:56 +0000 Rob Taylor http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/?p=1455 The Greenville County Bomb Squad was called to 100 Morrison Drive in Travelers Rest today when a package was found on the doorstep with bomb threat attached. Investigators are now saying it’s harmless and they believe it was a prank by children or teens although they are not saying why they came to that conclusion.

WSPA is following this developing story.

UPDATE: Two girls, 11 and 12, are charged with leaving the package. The girls will be charged with conveyance of an explosive device, although police admit there was no explosives found at the scene. Overreaction?

I’ve had many online run-ins with tax protesters and most of them are superficially involved in the “patriot” movement but promote Stalinism, White Nationalism, Trutherism and all the various “isms” that would be considered fringe in any party not chaired by Alex Jones. The “Grand Jury” movement, the intellectual gutter from which this group congealed, is in fact old news. They’ve been around since the Clinton administration (if not before), vomiting out the occasional threat to officials about how they were going to be arrested … for the crime of somehow ending up the villain in some online-propagated conspiracy theory involving the Rothchilds, Bush and Jewish Space Lizards. I’ve also had my run-ins with the neo-Confederate movement which, as an aside, is overrun with perverts.

The danger of these groups is that they’re, well, full of nuts. In other words, these groups are a collection of crazies who were probably unstable to begin with. In that sense these groups serve a positive function; we know what they’re up to and who they hang out with. I don’t know about you, but I like having my weirdos all bunched together.

The F.B.I. is warning that the letters may cause people unrelated to the group to commit violence because I guess they think Americans are really susceptible to peer pressure. The Feds’ view of the threat seems suspiciously similar to to the theory that heavy metal causes Satanism or video games causes violence. I assume Tipper Gore is doing the profiling for them on this one.

The Christian Science Monitor has a good article of the left/right political synthesis of the Guardians of the Free Republic. Take away quote:

“Traditionally, critique of the IRS has come from the right, such as the Christian patriot movement, but [sovereign citizen] movements also invoke a lot of left-wing ideas like anti-capitalism that are consistent with the times and the downturn in the economy, where people may have property liens against them,” says George Michael, an expert on political extremism at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

Author Patrik Jonsson otherwise seems at a loss to explain this strange lefty/righty ideology, but what this group espouses does indeed have a name – Falangism. A quick read of their literature shows that the group is literally fascists led by a council of “Guardian Elders” who want to plan a peaceful coup in America to avoid the coming World War. Luckily they also happen to just be harmless kooks and I doubt they’ll be giving anyone sane any ideas.

A man who allegedly fled from the scene of a wreck yesterday was captured by Mauldin police today after a brief chase, authorities said.

The state Highway Patrol had asked the police department to check the man’s residence at Summer Wood Condominiums on Butler Road in Mauldin.

The subject ran from police but was apprehended late this morning and released to the Highway Patrol for further investigation, according to the Mauldin Police Department.

What a great plan. Commit a crime in the vehicle registered to you then hide in the house you are known to live in. He should have just left a note telling the cops he’d meet them at the county jail.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Six Upstate high school students face expulsion and criminal charges for contaminating another student’s drink it happened at Blue Ridge High School in Greer.

According to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office the students put something non-drug related, and non-life threatening in a fellow 15-year-old students drink when she temporarily left the class.

Deputies said the drink is being tested for urine and saliva.

The Greenville County School District said school administrators were made aware of the incident around noon yesterday.

Their investigation resulted in six students being referred to law enforcement and suspended pending an expulsion hearing.

And these little bastards deserve it. WYFF has a more graphic report:

A source close to the investigation said that it happened during a second period biology class at the high school Thursday morning while a substitute was filling in for the teacher.

The source said a 15-year-old student left class to take a test. While she was gone, a soft drink was taken out of her bookbag and spit, urine and pubic hairs were pit in the drink, according to the source.

The Greenville County Sheriff’s office has confirmed they are investigating the alleged incident, and that the details the source has given us are accurate. A spokesman said that the school resource officer at the high school was notified about the incident around 2 p.m. Thursday. The spokesman said if the allegations are true, the six students could face a felony charge of malicious tampering.

The sheriff’s office did not comment further on the details of the alleged incident but News 4’s source on this investigation said that the girl drank from the bottle when she returned to class.

They basically poisoned her for kicks. I hope that while the police are doing their investigation the parents are taking appropriate steps to deal with them. And by appropriate steps I mean beating them.