Boston's War on Terror

We went to war because of the suspected weapons of mass destruction(WMDs) that our intelligent administration led us to believe, yet we sit idly back and let the real weapons of mass destruction take hostage of sections of Boston. Something is wrong with this picture. Something is wrong when children cannot even play in front of their houses never mind the playgrounds that have been turned into meeting areas for punks and scum.

There’s been a lot of finger pointing, at police, at local church leaders, at the mayor and justifiably so. But the answer does not lie solely with any individual. It lies with them all collectively working together to fumigate the vermin that are allowed to kill and injure and terrorize a section of Boston that will soon see many law abiding families leave out of fear.

Many of the victims are young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty five. Are they all innocent victims of hit and run shootings? Where are the parents? Don’t they have any idea of what their teenagers are up to? Have they lost the will to parent and love and discipline? It appears that everyone has given up. Nobody wants to talk. The police have few leads. If that’s the case, how is the madness ever going to stop? No cooperation is a road to escalation.

It’s going to take the cooperation of many that have to come together and work hard to put and end to blacks killing blacks. Addressing the root cause of the violence and tackling those issues, whether they are drugs, unemployment, or family issues, will help the area in reducing the senseless shootings. The community knows what the root causes are and should be working from within with the aid of external resources. They have a pretty good idea where the weapons of mass destruction are coming from.

There are people in other parts of the city who don’t care about what goes on as long as it’s not happening in their neighborhood. The comment you often hear is, “Well they’re killing themselves.”

Yes, they’re killing themselves, but just like a worm inside an apple they are slowly spreading out. Unless we cut the apple and get rid of the worm we will lose it entirely. There’s no use wasting billions in searching for WMDs in Iraq, tell Bush that they are here in Dorchester and Roxbury and Mattapan. The war on terror should be waged here to protect our own.