The Heroin How To From NYC

It would seem that the collective brain trust in NYC has come out with a new book, 10 ideas on how to safely shoot heroin, or something along those lines. It should come as no surprise that the book was produced with taxpayer money at the behest of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Way to go Mike.

Now I expect this type of behavior from a Democrat, but Mikey switched parties in 2001. I think just to get elected because he was then mentioned as a possible candidate for president as an Independent. Hey Mike, how about making up your mind and sticking with it. Can you do that or does your ego demand that you waffle between the three parties just so you can be loved? But what the hell, the $100 million ($100,000,000) of personal money you spent on the last mayoral race is a tax deduction, isn't it? It's also a clue as to the megalomania you seem to suffer from.

Okay, back to the main topic. The hippies will say that this is a good thing because it helps the addicts shoot their dope in a safer manner. It will cause less disease and maybe a few overdoses. That's just laughable. There is absolutely no way that this is going to prevent these things from happening on any kind of measurable scale. Dopers will continue to die from being dopers, it's inevitable.

Remember what I do for a living? I've seen dopers come and go. I've seen a lot of them go. For some it takes a while. It looks like a horrible death, but these people don't care. All that matters to them is where the next fix is coming from. Plus they all know how to clean their needles. They know how to find a vein, that is if they have a decent one left. So preaching from the government does no good.

As Counselor Mackey at South Park Elementary says, "Drugs are bad, M'kay." People know it. It gets pounded into their heads from a young age. Hopefully from their parents, maybe from school, public service announcements on TV, from hypocrite celebrities and of course from the police. Remember that these drugs are illegal. So why is the city of New York helping the addicts learn to better perform their craft? I can't figure it out.

So now instead of making stiffer penalties for possession, sale and use of heroin the city is providing a "how to" booklet, how nice. This will only continue to ensure that more people get hooked on dope. I think what keeps some away from heroin is the fact that it's dangerous and now the government wants to take away that fear.

The fact that addicts are a tremendous drain on our society seems to be lost on good ol' Mike. Dopers can't hold a job for more than a few days because they are a slave to their addiction. It's hard to work doing anything when you are high on heroin. So without work what are the dopers to do? Well, they lie, cheat, steal, panhandle and anything else just to get a few bucks together to buy more dope.

Case in point. I had been dealing with a particular person in the city I work in. He admitted that he was a heroin addict. He was unable to hold a job because of his addiction. So I would find him on the side of the road with a cardboard sign with the usual, "will work for food" BS written on it. People would give him money and for a time he was going to a clinic and buying methadone. Now that wasn't going to get him off the heroin, but he could tell himself he was trying. The methadone was costing him $15 a day. If he couldn't get it by begging, he was committing crimes to get the money. Subsequently he was racking up several arrest warrants for those crimes. The last time I saw him he had those several warrants. I arrested him for that. In his possession were two balloons of heroin and several syringes. He told me that he could buy the heroin for $10 a balloon and one would last him two days while he had to go the clinic daily for the methadone. So I guess it was to save money. But anyway he has been in jail since. What have the citizens of this county paid to keep him there? Plus what have the victims of his crimes paid out?

So Mayor Bloomberg should be ashamed of himself and the citizens of NYC should be seriously irritated. It is irresponsible of Mikey to have had this booklet produced. Especially at the expense of the people.

Yesterday here in Utah a police officer was killed by a dope dealer. She was killed by the type of people Mayor Bloomberg wants to continue to help make a profit by getting and keeping more "customers." The suspect hasn't been caught as of this writing, but he will be soon. Then he will get the needle.

Does his Honor have a pamphlet for that?