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Baghdad on the Bayou April 23, 2007
By Nicole Gelinas
You donât have to go to Baghdad to see what happens when government loses its monopoly on force; just visit New Orleans. More than a year and a half after Katrina hit in late August 2005, violent crimeâalready a grave problem long before the stormâpervades the city, endangering its recovery by driving some good people away and keeping others from returning. In recent months, the federal and state governments, confronting a murder rate that currently exceeds that of any first-world city, have brought law-and-order forces to the Big Easy to try to wrest its streets back from criminals. But any long-term solution to the cityâs crime woes must be local. Unless New Orleans itself can find the moral and political will to control the violence, it will only be trying to rebuild the dying city that it was before Katrina.
When New Orleans began slowly to come back to life after Katrina, it enjoyed a respite from violent crime, one that residents and their elected leaders thought would continue indefinitely. New Orleanians had a âsense of euphoria about the city being a new city, that the violent crimes just werenât there,â says U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, who handles federal cases for Louisianaâs eastern district. But after roughly ten weeks of peace, murdersâmany drug-related and acquaintance-basedâstarted to appear in the headlines again. Then, as the cityâs population began returning in greater numbers last spring, violent crime roared back âwith a vengeance,â as Letten puts it. The highly publicized shooting death in March 2006 of 28-year-old Michael Frey at the hands of a street robber in the Faubourg Marigny, a funky neighborhood on the outskirts of the French Quarter, seemed to trigger in many New Orleans residents the realization that things were now back to ânormal.â
The numbers tell the grim story. In 2004, the year before Katrina, New Orleans suffered 265 murders, yielding a murder rate of 56 per 100,000 residentsâalready four and a half times higher than the average for similar-size cities. In 2006, the year after Katrina, the flood-ravaged, much smaller city logged 162 murdersâa rate of at least 77 per 100,000 people, even assuming the most generous quarter-by-quarter repopulation figures available. (New Orleans has recovered less than half its pre-Katrina population of about 470,000.) In the first 64 days of 2007, New Orleansâs murder rate scaled even higherâmore than 87 per 100,000 residents. Such a rate in New York City would mean nearly 7,000 murders a year, well over the 2,262 it experienced at the height of its Dinkins-era violent-crime crisis 17 years ago. Other violent-crime indexesâfrom assault to armed robberyâhave moved in a similar direction.
The rocketing crime rate suggests that New Orleansâs bad guys are coming back to the city in disproportionate numbers. That shouldnât come as a surprise. The hoodlums, mostly members of an entrenched underclass, are impulsive and mobile, while working- and middle-class New Orleanians face big roadblocks to returning, such as shuttered schools. Some of the lawbreakers may have hustled back, too, because they were having a hard time adjusting to functional cities like Houston, which initially took in more than 200,000 storm evacuees. Unlike New Orleans, which has long failed at crime fighting, Houston actually arrests, charges, convicts, and imprisons its criminals (see âHoustonâs Noble Experiment,â Spring 2006).
Relentless crime was the main reason New Orleans had lost 22 percent of its pre-1960 peak population (mostly middle-class young people, black and white) long before Katrina. But the hurricane took a slow process of declineâmore middle-class hemorrhaging, more disorder, fewer livable neighborhoodsâand instantly fast-forwarded it to urban nightmare.
First, New Orleansâs âlegacy drug dealersââas James Bernazzani, special agent in charge of the cityâs FBI office, classifies those who were dealing before Katrina, almost invariably single-parented young black malesâlearned a lot during their months away. In Houston, still a major drug hub despite its better policing and justice system, Big Easy dealers met new suppliers and have now âflooded New Orleans with drugs,â says Bernazzani. Thanks to the increased quantity on the street, the price of a kilo of cocaine has declined nearly 20 percent since Katrina. Dealers who canât profit from such low prices eliminate competition through violence.
Many dealers and other criminals havenât returned to their old blighted neighborhoods, since four-fifths of New Orleansâs public housing remains closed and some of the cityâs poorest tracts are still flood-ruined. Instead, theyâve spread out to neighborhoods that were already struggling before the stormâCentral City, a sprawling, low-rise area to the east of elegant St. Charles Avenue, for instance, as well as ample pockets of Uptown, where residents of dilapidated housing have long lived in proximity to university students and professionalsâand made those places much more dangerous. A study earlier this year found that 31 percent of Central City residents feel safe today, compared with 45 percent before Katrina; 85 percent said that âpeople being murderedâ was a concern.
Some returning criminals take advantage of abandoned housing on half-occupied streets; others crowd with relatives in legal housing. âYou have families living doubled up, people who have serious problems,â says Al Mims, Jr., a Central City native who came back to New Orleans a week after Katrina. âBefore Katrina,â he explains, âyou had [drug] rivals who stayed miles apart. Now, itâs like having Wal-Mart and Kmart across the street from each other.â Mims, who lost his father in a Central City murder nearly two decades ago and was shot himself at 19, notes that most of his neighbors are hardworking. âMaybe 10 to 15 percentâ of the areaâs young people are criminals, he believes, but itâs enough. âTo have this come back after the most terrible natural disaster . . . â says Mims, his voice trailing off.
Itâs not just the violence; New Orleanians also face a dispiriting crush of property theft as they struggle to rebuild. In recovering neighborhoods, criminals wait for a returning resident to install new appliances into his damaged home, and then steal them when he returns to his temporary housing at night. David Kent, a former deputy chief of police who retired from the New Orleans Police Department in 1982 and who lives in the Mid-City neighborhood, says that âsalvage artistsâ regularly cut and remove brass and copper pipes. âPeople are trying to build their homes and their lives, and they find that their pipes are stolen,â laments Latoya Cantrell, who is rebuilding her home alongside her neighbors in the flooded Broadmoor area. Quality-of-life infractions are endemic, too. When I walked through the Marigny, a neighborhood that Katrina left unflooded, a couple asked if I had any pills to share; residents all over the city complain of blatant drug use and open-air drug sales. Of quality-of-life crimes, says Cantrell, âthereâs no comparisonâ with before Katrina.
Wealthier areas of the city, never impervious to crime, havenât been immune to its post-Katrina escalation. All along the river, in well-off neighborhoods that didnât flood, âweâre seeing a spike in crime,â says Bernazzani.
Intensifying the cityâs crime woes further, family relationships that were tenuous pre-Katrinaâin underclass neighborhoods, mothers and grandmothers raised children alone, with few exceptionsâare now completely broken. David Bell, chief justice of New Orleansâs juvenile court, tells me that 20 percent of the kids who appear before him todayâfor the most part, 15 or youngerâare utterly without parental supervision; he calls this a âtragic story no one is telling.â Some of these children have left mothers or grandmothers behind in Houston and other locales and returned to stay with relatives, who often donât watch out for them. Others, separated from their families in Katrinaâs chaotic aftermath, never reconnected with them. âTheyâve returned home, looking for their only parent,â Bell observes. Many of the kids whom Bell sees have been arrested for nonviolent crimes such as drug possession or sale, but as New Yorkâs policing experience has shown, such crimes tend to lead to more serious offenses.
You can drive through the vast, now-empty C. J. Peete housing project in Central City, and if you look just at the sealed windows and doors, you would think that no oneâs been there since the hurricane. But unsupervised teens stroll in the courtyards. In one, an SUV idles while its occupants likely complete a drug deal, according to the narcotics officer with whom Iâm riding. Just blocks away, as the project opens onto a main thoroughfare, black-and-white signs reading enough! enough! enough! festoon telephone poles, decrying the frequent violence in the area. Before Katrina, the signs had read merelyâmerely!âthou shalt not kill, illustrating how a crime-ravaged communityâs sense of impotent desperation has worsened.
New Orleans has yet another Katrina-related crime problem: it has become a kind of frontier town. Contractors and laborers have come from all over America to work on the cityâs damaged property (and from south of the border: one joke in town is that FEMA means âFind Every Mexican Availableâ). Often without their families, some buy entertainment on the streets, including drugs and sex.
The psychological consequences for law-abiding New Orleanians of all this chaos and criminality have been profound. In the Marigny, resident Nora Natale expresses a common sentiment: New Orleans may have the same number of criminals that it did two years ago, but since there are fewer potential victims to target, things are much worse. Since Freyâs murder in her neighborhood, Natale says, âIâve changed my lifestyle. I donât take morning walks.â Last summer, she called 911 to report a shooting in front of her house during an attempted robbery; the victim, a neighbor, survivedâand moved. Another acquaintance was run over by an attempted-robbery getaway car (she survived, too). Natale is candid about the corrosive toll: âI take a lot of little vacationsâ away from the city, she says. âItâs been a rough year.â
Katrinaâs protracted aftermath would challenge the nationâs best police and prosecutorial forces. But the fact that New Orleans hasnât had a functional criminal-justice system for years has made its post-hurricane crime predicament graver still.
No one would deny the cityâs acute criminal-justice challenges since the storm. Floodwaters heavily damaged court and police buildings; hundreds of police officers and prosecutors lost their homes; the police department lost its crime lab. But earlier this year, the DAâs office released news showing that the cityâs criminal-justice system wasnât just strained, but shattered: in 2006 and early 2007, 3,581 suspects, some charged with murders and armed robberies, walked free from jail or from bond, in many cases because the prosecutor didnât have the physical evidence to indict them within the 60 days mandated by the state constitution. Blame the continued absence of a crime lab. But what kind of a city doesnât immediately replace its wrecked lab so that it can keep hard-core criminals off the streets?
Mayor Ray Naginâs failure to replace the lab, even after 18 months had elapsed, didnât come from nowhere. New Orleans was pathetically lax about its criminal-justice system before the storm, as its weak murder-conviction and sentencing rates show. Four months before Katrina, district attorney Eddie Jordanâwho is elected, not appointed by the mayorâfound that âa murderer in New Orleans has a less than one in four chance of being convicted of that crime.â While Jordan wins no prizes for his performance, the problems long predate his taking office in 2003. An independent 2002 study by the nonprofit Metropolitan Crime Commission found that New Orleansâs felony conviction rate (as a percentage of arrests) was the second-lowest of the 11 cities studied; just 12 percent of those arrested in a given year were eventually convicted and imprisoned. For the other 88 percent, the report concluded, âthe criminal-justice system was little more than a revolving door back to the street.â
Police and prosecutors blame each other for these disastrous results: prosecutors say that the police prepare poor reports, often based on unreliable witness testimony, while the cops retort that prosecutors throw out perfectly good cases.
Itâs obvious what New Orleans should do, and should have done long before Katrina. The city needs to train its police and prosecutors better, pay them more, and manage them more professionally, in order to boost low morale and end high turnover. Before Katrina, New Orleansâs crime-fighting staffing levels, while modest compared with New Yorkâs (even relative to population), were comparable with those of other southern cities with lower murder rates, such as Atlanta and Houston. Since the storm, the police force has shrunk more than 10 percent, despite new recruits; the rate of attrition is double what it was before Katrina.
The city also must allocate its policing resources more effectively. The NOPD should have a massive street-crimes unit to do undercover drug buys and bust serial robbers, for example. Further, the city canât just temporarily ramp up its policing resources whenever it detects a âviolent crime wave,â as it has done for decades; rather, it must treat crime as a chronic condition, as New York does. And New Orleans needs to prosecute those individuals it does arrest and pressure judges to imprison the ones convicted.
Most important, the cityâs mayor, DA, and judges must recognize that tolerating nonviolent offenses leads directly to violent crimes. Because they donât feel any incentive from the authorities to stop their disorderly behavior, too many juveniles graduate from loitering to drug use to drug sales to carrying weapons to armed robbery . . . to murder.
In the mid-1990s, New Orleans got a tiny taste of what good policing can do. Then-mayor Marc Morial, confronting murder numbers that rival todayâs shocking ratesâ424 in 1994, or about 80 per 100,000 residentsâhired outsider Richard Pennington as police superintendent. Pennington cut corruption and implemented statistics-based policing and other crime-fighting innovations, slashing the cityâs murder rate by nearly two-thirds by the end of the decade. But absent legal, prosecutorial, and sentencing reforms, New Orleans never lowered crime to a level that any other city would consider acceptable, and it didnât sustain its gains. When Pennington ran for mayor in 2002, moreover, he lost to Nagin.
Good policing and prosecution cost moneyâand after Katrina, New Orleansâs regular annual revenues are down 23 percent. So itâs reasonable for the city to ask the feds and the state for operating cash for its police and prosecutorâs forces over the next few years, in order to give its tax base a chance to recover from the biggest weather-related disaster in U.S. history. Whatâs more, since Louisiana is running a surplus, Governor Kathleen Blanco could send the city one-time funds to upgrade the justice systemâs equipment. Over the long term, though, New Orleans, always a low-tax city relative to its income, must get used to taxing more and spending more to maintain a professional crime-fighting force. Violent crime will drive middle-class taxpayers out, or keep them out, before higher taxes will.
But fixing the cityâs dysfunctional criminal-justice system isnât just a matter of tactics and resources, because the mess reflects a deeper cultural problem. For over a decade, when I have pointed out to well-off New Orleanians that the city suffers high crime because it wonât control its predominantly underclass criminals, I have received lectures on how the real problem is anything but failure to enforce the law. I just donât understand, Iâm told, how bad schools, bad parenting, a lack of inner-city jobs, or some combination of the three must be fixed first. New Orleansâs moneyed, mostly white, eliteâwhich could have played a vital role in changing the political debate about crime, just as such citizens did in New Yorkâoften voices this âroot causesâ theory. As one longtime resident bluntly noted, âthe white elite is cowed by political correctness.â
Anger about crime in New York didnât just come from elites; worried working-class and middle-class voters turned out for Rudy Giuliani in droves. In New Orleans, such citizens, mostly black, often complain about crime, but they donât support the measures necessary to combat it. Just look at Jordanâs pre-Katrina report, which concluded that New Orleans often suffered from âboth jury and judge nullificationââthat is, ignoring the lawâespecially in cases against small-time drug dealers and users, âregardless of the evidenceâ (italics mine). In 2004, juries found nearly 60 percent of narcotics defendants not guilty, and that was after the DA had thrown out thousands of cases. âSome trial observers have suggested that . . . nullification . . . is based on distrust of the police. . . . Others think it may be due to judges and juries being unwilling to impose what they see as draconian sentences for drug use and petty dealing,â the DA concluded. Before Katrina, prosecutors chose to treat marijuana possession, being found with âcrack pipe residue,â and prostitution as misdemeanors, because jurors wouldnât convict in such cases.
Citizens also directly thwart the law in some neighborhoods. Central City native Mims notes that the mothers and grandmothers of suspects arrested for nonviolent crimes often beg neighborhood ministers to persuade prosecutors to release their sons and grandsons. Underclass mothers are often perfectly aware that their kids are involved in crime, and even encourage it, says Mims.
One post-Katrina case illustrates the point. In early February, 17-year-old Robert Dawson boarded a bus in Dallas and made the ten-hour trek to New Orleans with his mother, happy, according to news reports, to be returning to Central City after nearly a year and a half. Four hours after Dawson came home, he was deadâshot on the street multiple times, allegedly by a teenage acquaintance, Clarence Johnson. Johnsonâs mother had reportedly given him the gun that she kept in her housing-project apartment, and urged him to seek revenge on Dawson, with whom he had already gotten into a fight. After the murder, police found a family photo proudly displayed in Johnsonâs home: a snapshot of the boy, posing with a fistful of cash in one hand, a pistol in the other.
Lousy policing contributes to the general contempt for the criminal-justice system. The NOPD does have some heroic officers; but many are poorly managed and poorly trained, have poor morale, and do their jobs poorly. The result is yet more jurors unwilling to convict, since theyâve had, or their children have had, bad personal experiences with these cops. Flawed arrests and dropped prosecutions, too, mean that many witnesses wonât cooperate, since they know, as Mims says, that violent thugs âwill be back on the streets before sundown.â And everybodyâfrom white society folk who hire off-duty cops to patrol their streets to poor black kids who carry guns while walking theirsâknows that the only real security in New Orleans is private, not public.
Original Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1CACAB83-AA08-4AB5-B3D9-8E8269FC45BD
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Everyone has freedom of (and from) religion and belief, and the right to practice however they like, but it should never impact upon the freedom of others to live their lives how they wish. That the government is choosing to uphold this basic but vital principle is a fantastic victory for secularism, humanism and feminism, and another step towards a more equal and fair society.
Students have rights, their beliefs don't. If there is one message universities need to hear at the end of this academic year, it's this. For non-religious students on campuses across the UK, 2013-14 has been the most challenging year to date, with criticism of religion censored and religious rules enforced in lecture theatres. It has also seen the start of a significant fight-back.
It is this debate that secularists, both religious and otherwise, are fighting for. The movement doesn't aim to destroy or dismantle religion, but to create a society where no one group is granted special privilege or power. A society which ensures that all beliefs are protected and welcomed equally. But this debate can only be had once you stop using "secularism" as a slur.
Perhaps the biggest question that this examination raises is the extent to which Francis wishes to - or indeed is able to - start coming clean over child abuse by requiring reporting to secular authorities, and cooperating with them by providing information which the Vatican has hitherto kept secret and instructed others to do likewise.


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MrSandman commented on the blog post Obama Administration Moves to Censor Torture Testimony from 9/11 Suspects
That vote was one of the reasons I didn't vote for him last time around.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Cognitive Dissonance Arising From Failed Self-Reliance
It's difficult to educate them if you don't have the means to do so. Since television, radio, and newspapers are owned by corporate (and often right-wing) interests, the "free" sources available to lower economic classes only offer a corporate/right-wing worldview. Progressive/independent media are largely confined to venues that require an ability to pay for access. Computers, cable, and the like require disposable income. It's another reason why the middle class is under attack: it's those with the means to do so that have the resources to seek alternate information sources. I don't see a lot of poor, uneducated people with the means or will to seek out ways to educate themselves on the political and economic realities we face. Any education they are pursuing is for one purpose only: economic survival. A training program, a college degree, anything that holds out promise of avoiding the economic quicksand engulfing them.
It's why places like these are needed, but also why they're echo chambers. You want to educate and reach the kinds of people that make these choices that are not in their self-interest, it'll have to be in person or in ways that don't rely on existing media.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Iran/Mexican Drug Cartel Terror Plot Disrupted
Just read the AP story on this, and rolling my eyes at the following quote:
"We will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground," Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said at a press conference in Washington with Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Oh, the irony…
MrSandman commented on the blog post Approval of Congress at All Time Low
I predicted this to friends a few years back. Junior et al so discredited the Republicans that a donkey could've won in 2008. At the time, I believed that the Democrats were being handed a real opportunity, but it was a *one-chance* deal; if they screwed up in any way, the voters would essentially declare a "pox on both houses" verdict, and go back and forth for a few more election cycles, handing power first to one party, then the other.
Well, sad to say, black Reagan, as you know, not only screwed up, but screwed up royally. Whether he survives next year isn't the question; it's the "pox on both houses" election, and it's all going to come down to how local politics is, I think.
The system is irretrievably broken. At this point, either we continue to implode, or drastic changes will force the issue. It's all going to come down to what the national breaking point is, and *when* that point is reached…
MrSandman commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
This should've also been captioned/subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing. Over the years, police have overreacted/panicked when dealing with deaf people, and it's led to some tragic results at times.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: "Clap Louder!" Is Not a Solution, Economic or Political
The problem with many past protests (and the problem *I* have with them) is that too many competing messages are on display. You go to a protest, there are fifty different issues: end the war, save the environment, justice for Palestinians, jail the crooks, impeach a politician, etc.,etc. So instead of one coherent message, one unified voice, you get the whole spectrum of all the issues on the left (most of which are very valid issues, and deserving of attention, but it all gets lost).
If you look at our history, a lot of the short-term changes that led to long-term policy changes came about when you had economic-driven protests. Think the Shays Rebellion, Coxey's Army, the Bonus March. The union strikes were at their heart economic protests. Even the civil rights marches, initially about civil rights (and solidly focused on one message!) were starting to become economics-focused at the time of King's death (The Memphis sanitation worker's strike).
Americans can understand and will get behind something they can wrap their minds around, and right now that's the fact that Wall Street ripped us all off, wrecked the country, and STILL continue to rip us off. So where better place to protest than Wall Street? They're running the country, not the bought and paid for puppets in DC.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: "Clap Louder!" Is Not a Solution, Economic or Political
The only way anything will change is if people get in the streets and stay in the streets. Anything less than that will fail, I'm sorry to say (and as much as I would wish otherwise!).
It's why, despite the early planning and exhortations, I have no expectations of the planned gathering in DC in October. For one thing, people will just fly, drive, bike, walk in to town. They'll march, listen to speeches, then turn around and fly, drive, bike, or walk back out. Too many groups have done this over the years, which is why they're largely ignored.
For something like this to be effective and really drive home the point, the gathering should be in NYC, on Wall Street itself, and people should plan to stay. This would be far more effective, I think.
MrSandman commented on the blog post America Likely to Continue Futile Search for Party That Doesn't Suck
Back before the 2008 election, I saw it as a make-or-break election; a donkey could have run as a candidate for the Democrats and won. Bush and his administration had so ruined the Republicans that it was a foregone conclusion the Democrats would take the White House. However, due to the depression we were entering at that time, I figured the Democrats would get ONE shot at it. If they messed up (and we all know how that turned out!), the electorate would end up in a "pox on both houses" mood, and swing back and forth. This is exactly what's happening now, and what I foresee happening for a few more elections at least. I see control going back and forth between the two major parties until either everyone with half a brain opting out of elections and completely surrendering control to the corporatists (and we implode), or resistance that leads to civil war/revolution, or some other sort of volatile response, successful or not.
I hope I'm wrong, but that's how I see it playing out.
MrSandman commented on the blog post In Tax-Cut Capitulation, House Democrats Again Redefine Pathetic
There was nothing "astute" about running for president in 2008- an actual donkey could have run and won. That's part of why Obama ran then, because it was the best possible time to run. I don't find him "astute" at all- I see him as a craven political opportunist.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
Hey- I'm coming back awfully late, but now that my office has discovered and banned Firedoglake, I am not going to be able to check until late at night, which effectively puts me in EPU territory for all time. As I said, my rare forays into comments will become even rarer…
Anyway, yes, it was a brief comment you left. But I think we both have legitimate points, questions, and responses.
I will say that the student strikes of the 1960s did not succeed in their primary achievement, which was to end the war. However, the single-message focus of those protests heightened and legitimized dissent, exposed and increased rifts in public opinion, and forced people to re-examine what was going on in Vietnam and why we were there. It helped we actually were in whatever passed for a "golden age" of journalism back there, what with Cronkite's pronouncements after Tet, the NYT's willingness to publish the Pentagon Papers, etc.
Where the protests were successful was in borrowing from and expanding upon the civil disobedience of past generations and movements to the point that every cause, movement and group imitated them afterwards; the protests helped to politicize and radicalize a generation, and some of those protesters continued their interest and participation in politics- you can see that here on this site (it's possible many would have gravitated to politics in the end, but possibly not); and the Civil Rights movement and student strikes of the 60s originated and inspired tactics and techniques that were used successfully by later movements (The 1977 HEW sit-ins by the disabled borrowed elements from their 60s compatriots, for example).
I do agree the 1930s had more far-reaching impact, but that's due to Labor– when you combined Labor and the young and other groups, you had a very powerful coalition. The antipathy of Labor to the youth movement and the anti-war protests in the 60s didn't help, I don't think. But what happened then, as I mentioned earlier, badly scared the Establishment (especially the riots in the late 1960s– everyone was scared there was going to be a race war…) enough that they immediately developed long-term strategies to reverse all this. They've since succeeded all too well, sadly enough.
I also agree there was much violence. Sad to say, violence works, to a degree; violence helps the government and the Establishment to control things, to oppress people, but the same violence can also create powerful sympathies– look at the UAW strikes in the late 1930s, the attacks in Birmingham by Connor and his officers, etc.
I'll take your suggestion about working on a third party under consideration, but I suspect we may be several years late on that one.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
Ok, let's assume that you're correct, and it's a bad idea. What would YOU suggest? Because what we're doing now isn't working.
Yes, the protests were a factor in ushering in Nixon, and the Vietnam War continued until the cease-fire in 1973, but they shaped public opinion, and in ways that were to our benefit. The student strikes certainly scared the establishment; much of what they've done from Nixon's time onward has been a reaction to the events of the 1930s and 1960s, a reaction to both FDR and LBJ, a reaction to the labor strikes, the student strikes, and the Civil Rights movement. Unfortunately, thanks to the pushback that began in the 1970s, they have successfully implemented a long-term strategy to prevent this from ever happening again, short of revolution or civil war. Thus my comment about the choices that now face us.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
Thanks– this is a nice community we have here, but in general, we're all just preaching to the choir, or chastising trolls, or, unfortunately, lecturing newcomers on how they need to sit and be quiet and listen to those with experience, rather than welcoming them (not a great tactic, IMHO– we're gonna need all the friends we can get!). If I had a dollar for every time I've seen the phrase "torches and pitchforks" here, I'd have enough money to pay off my debts and start fresh elsewhere. Unfortunately for me, that's going to have to be virtual dollars.
I agree with you– we either need to start formulating alternate actions, or just accept for the time being that this is how it's going to be. It's great to try to change the system the way Jane is doing, and I think she's right, that it has to be done that way. But that doesn't mean that we have to accept that as the only path; it's time to start discussing Plan B, and maybe even additional paths. Sitting around here, seeing the same names and faces, is lovely, but it's a choir, and a choir that is stuck within the old paradigms, the ones that don't exist anymore. It's nice we have precinct captains, campaign committee workers, etc., here, but that's all from a 20th century American political system– one that doesn't really exist anymore. Unfortunately, too many people still believe in this traditional two-party system and how it works, even people here. The sooner we face the fact that the system is irretrievably broken and the corporatists have won, the sooner we can abandon the old paradigm. In doing so, we free ourselves to try to create a new paradigm, one that we can actually try to use to our advantage.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
veganrevolution and aldous, thanks. Would've responded earlier, but the site has now been blocked at the office (not too surprising), so my rare appearances here will become even rarer.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
Oh, one more thing I wonder: why didn't Feingold filibuster? Since he will no longer be in the Senate, he had nothing, really, to lose and quite a bit to gain by taking a stand, in addition to his vote.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Senate Passes Tax Cut Bill
Well, I guess that's that. We'll all go back to ranting about how this country's going down the drain, how we will or won't vote if they pass this, or if they do this one more time, and go back to our brand of slacktivism (which I've been equally guilty of).
At this point, we're going to have to suffer through an undetermined period of fascism before we emerge from the other side. The only way to try to immediately reverse what's going on is to take to the streets, and with Labor so weak these days, I don't see that happening anytime soon. So let's just head back to virtual torches and pitchforks, shall we? It's working so well…
Now, before you pile on me, I've been here (mostly silently) reading for years, and I admire Jane, Marcy, Christy, et al as much as the rest of you do. But the majority of the Left, including many here, continue trying to work change through traditional rules of the game, and those rules don't work anymore. Rallies on the Capitol Mall are a dime a dozen now, and have been reduced by Colbert/Stewart to satire. E-mail and phone calls can be easily ignored, since the only people who actually see/listen to them are lowly interns and staffers, and they're so easy to replace, don't you know? Petitions are highly overrated and meaningless.
When tuition increases here in California are met by outraged verbal protests and nothing more, versus actual student strikes in Europe as a response to the same thing, you know things aren't working.
What's needed that is "traditional" and "time-tested" is for the young and Labor to get in the streets and stay there. They still do in Europe, but not here anymore.
I suspect we're in the hallway facing doors: one leads to implosion and a steep further decline into fascism, another leads to revolution or civil war. Given the nature of Americans, the assaults on civil liberties and press freedoms, and the passive nature of politicking these days, I suspect it's the first door. We'll see…
MrSandman commented on the blog post Investigate the TSA, Not Tyner
Instead of a petition, why not links to the airlines' contact people? We could just send letters/calls saying we will not fly, or we will only fly when absolutely necessary (I don't know too many people planning month-long cruises to Europe these days), until TSA is abolished/reined in. That would be more effective, IMHO.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Darrell Issa Needs a New Baby-Sitter
Waxman is all bark, no bite. Issa's just going to try to go for the jugular as much as he can. Congress is in sore need of real oversight, but it isn't coming from anyone presently there…
MrSandman commented on the diary post With 12% Unemployment, Dismal Property Values and Solo GOP Rule, Florida Ripe for New Depression by Jim White.
Yup, except we still have the 2/3rds requirement for taxes, plus Prop 26 passed. Still, I think we have the potential to start crawling out, if not actually do it. Brown has a real challenge on his hands.
MrSandman commented on the blog post Top 10 Things We Did To Help Progressives in the 2010 Election
Great list– not enough to save this nation from falling apart, but I'm glad that all that was accomplished.
Thanks for everything you do, Jane.
MrSandman commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Ted Rall, The Anti-American Manifesto
Not when you have one hundred different messages at rallies and protests. It's why the early civil rights movement succeeded, because the message was one: desegregation, and desegregation NOW. While the anti-war movement was less successful, it endured because it too had one message: end the war NOW.
The last couple of times I went to any protests, I saw so many diverse messages and signs, it became difficult to tell just what the demonstration was about. Single-issue messages/memes work best. It's a lesson we need to re-learn.
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Jeep Wrangler Maintenance and Repair Questions (up to 1996)
mac24 Posts: 3,910Sorry, but I can't agree with this at all. Unless a clutch has known weaknesses such as in a 6 speed Matrix (just as an example) it should easily last as long as most engines. (350k miles and up)
While you make perfectly good points about correct operational practice, we will have disagree as to whether or not a clutch should be expected to last 350K miles.
While theoretically possible (maybe if all journeys were long, started on the flat, and no stops and starts were made along the way), but it's as much an extreme as the clutch that gets burnt out in a day.
To look at either extreme and say "that's how long a clutch should last" is unreasonable.
A clutch is an item that wears, it's not like a wheel rim for instance that can only fail by losing it's integrity, and the rate of wear will depend on a combination of operator technique and transmission load.
I think it's reasonable to say "the average life of a clutch is between 100K and 150k miles", but anything else would imply an unreasonable expectation to the owner.
While clutches can and do suffer mechanical failure, failure to transmit drive because of a worn friction plate does not meet that definition.
The clutch is just one of the items that can be expected to wear and need replacement during the life of the vehicle, and I believe that to expect otherwise would be optimistic in the extreme. -
samm43 Posts: 195I forgot to take into consideration geographical location. Hilly towns will can reduce that 350 to 200 or less.
I have had the opportunity to view clutches after very high miles in cars and heavy trucks by drivers who knew how to treat a manual. I have seen clutches only half worn with 200k miles on cars, and of course 100's of thousands of miles on heavy trucks. Remember, many of these trucks endure stop and go rush hour traffic in any major centre they frequent. Car drivers could use the same techniques as truck drivers do to get more life from their clutches. Pacing and anticipating stops is the one of the most effective. I will allow that my 350k estimate might be a bit high with cars, as wear will accelerate as less friction material is left because it cannot dissipate heat as effectively and is certainly high in hilly terrain. Not unheard of though. Many people don't keep their cars that long, but for fun ask around to a few who have actually kept their car for 400 or 500k miles ( a VW TDI owner for example) and ask how many clutches they have done. You might be surprised to learn that many will have not had to do a clutch yet. Yes it is a wear item, but like I mentioned before, so is an engine a wear item and many clutches will last as long and even outlast the engine.
Of course if maintenance items or neglect is practiced (like not fixing a leaking rear main seal) then all bets are off.
YMMV (this acronym really applies here this time, doesn't it?) :shades:
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1993yj40 Posts: 1My 1993 jeep wrangler yj 4.0L has started losing power at highway speeds (60-75mph). It happens going up hill under a load, going down hill without a load and on level road without acceleration. I don't notice it at other speeds with in lower gears. It doesn't happen all the time. When the engine loses power the tach bounces and sometimes the engine knocks.
So far I have used several different gas stations, added dry gas and fuel system cleaners. I've swapped the fuel filter. The spark plug wires are relatively new and not arching.
Hopefully unrelated, the alternator failed and I had to replace it. I've run out of ideas and I'm looking for some ideas so I'm not arbitrarily swapping parts.
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coherbert Posts: 1I have a 1988 Jeep Wrangler. I live at 8000 feet, but bought the car at 5000 ft. It was running poorly when I got it home. I adjusted the carburetor, changed the oil, and adjusted the idle. Runs much better now, but still won't start fist thing in the morning. I have to add starter fluid every morning. Once the starter fluid is in it turns over easily and then will start, no problem, for the rest of the day. It seems as though fuel is not running through the line after sitting for several hours. What would cause this? I have heard rumors or a fuel injector on 88 Wranglers???


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They look like bulbs to me. Mine have multiplied over the years all by themselves, I am sure by producing small bulbs like yours. Al |
Not bulbs....seed capsules. Very easy to grow from seed, taking ~3 years to flower. It's their most effective way of increasing. |
Yes, those are the seed pods. smivies - you seem to know how to do it - are the ones in the picture ripe enough do you think? |
- Posted by northerner_on Z5A ONCanada (My Page) on Wed, Jun 1, 11 at 17:59
Thanks for the id Smivies. My intention is to try to grow some Scilla under my apple tree around a grouping of primulas. I had thought of transplanting some of the bulbs from my present clump, but having stumbled upon the seeds, I wondered if I could go that route instead. But I need to know: do these capsules contain seeds? do I dry them and save the seeds? do I try to remove the seeds right now? when do I sow them? I found these 'seeds' on the ground, I did not take them from the plants, intimating that they are ripe. But they are green in colour and soft to the touch. Thanks in advance. Northerner. P.S. I am in Zone 5A, Ontario. |
The seed capsule drops to the ground following the arc of the flower stem as it slowly wilts. The seeds are likely nearly mature but leave them in the capsule until it starts to open on it's own (should only be a few days or week). The seeds, when mature, will be black (they are probably white right now). Sow (sprinkle on the ground) as soon as they are mature. |
- Posted by northerner_on Z5A ONCanada (My Page) on Fri, Jun 3, 11 at 8:01
Smivies: Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. I get a lot of satisfaction from growing things from seed - I guess it's nature's gift to us. The time waiting for these plants to flower are an adventure. I am now collecting seeds daily, they are very genrous re-seedrs. Happy gardening!! |
I have gotten a nice colony by just letting those seed capsules alone to do their thing. But I know you want them in a different area. I would try to make sure they are as ripe as possible, not picking them up while they are green. They are pretty big, so easy enough to spot. I found scilla blooming this year in two areas at least 15 feet away from where any are planted. So somehow, those seeds got around! |
- Posted by northerner_on Z5A ONCanada (My Page) on Mon, Jun 13, 11 at 8:26
Thnks for your post Linnea56. The seed I had were collected from the ground, dropped by the plants themselves, so I figured it did not mattter where they dried - on the ground or in the little container in which I had them. By the time you posted, they had opened up on their own and dropped the seed and I have planted them as advised above. Wish me luck!! |
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Filming in Santa Clarita reached an all-time high for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, city officials announced Wednesday.
Dramatic increases in film permits and film days generated an estimated $33.5 million in local economic impact — a 31 percent increase from the previous year — and marked the best year ever for the Santa Clarita Film Office, city officials said.
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The city is currently home to some of television's "most-watched" programming, including "NCIS," "Switched at Birth," "The Bridge," "Jennifer Falls," "Chasing Life," "Franklin and Bash," "Justified," "Utopia" and "Wipeout."
"The city is thrilled with the continued growth for the film industry," said Russell Sypowicz, a film office administrator. "I believe this is our third consecutive year of record growth, and we're thrilled because we have over 6,000 residents that are employed in the industry."
Other shows that regularly film in Santa Clarita include "CSI," "Criminal Minds," "Modern Family," "The Mentalist" and "Sons of Anarchy," and feature films like "Earth to Echo," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Dumb and Dumber To," "Fast and Furious 7" and "Saving Mr. Banks" also filmed scenes in Santa Clarita.
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The Santa Clarita Film office recorded a total of 1,370 film days and processed 531 film permits for location filming for the fiscal year, which represents a 44 percent increase in permits and a 28 percent increase in film days in comparison to the previous year, officials said.
Approximately half of the location filming days were attributed to television production alone.
"Santa Clarita has always been a film-friendly community," said Mayor Laurene Weste. "Over the years, we have focused our efforts on making the film permitting process as easy as possible, while balancing the needs of production with those of the residential and business communities. We were the first city in Los Angeles County to offer a Film Incentive Program and remain committed to doing everything we can to ensure our position as a top choice for filming in California."
The Film Incentive Program, as well as the California Film and Television Tax Credit Program, were implemented in 2009 as a way to retain and increase feature and television production inside the city.
Thousands of film-friendly locations, low permitting fees, expedited permitting processes and location within the entertainment industry's "Thirty Mile Zone" are other factors that make Santa Clarita an ideal place to film, officials said.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 4-11-12
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(1) Saint John Sea Dogs 5 @ (13) Baie-Comeau Drakkar 3
Quarterfinals – Saint John wins best of 7 series 4-0
C Danick Gauthier, SNB: 0-0-0, +1, 0 PIM, 7 SOG, 4 Hits
Playoff Totals: 8 GP, 7-3-10, +8, 10 PIM
Season Totals: 67 GP, 47-39-86, +46, 67 PIM
While Baie-Comeau could congratulate themselves for being the first team to come within two goals of Saint John in a playoff game, that party will have to be held while they are packing up their locker room as the Sea Dogs completed the sweep of the Drakkar with a 5-3 win Wednesday. Gauthier was held scoreless for the first time in six games, though he tied for the team lead with seven shots on goal. Saint John will await the lowest seed to advance to the semifinals.
(W1) London Knights 5 @ (W5) Saginaw Spirit 2
Western Conference Semifinals – Best of 7 series tied 2-2
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 1-0-1, +2, 0 PIM
Playoff Totals: 8 GP, 2-2-4, +2, 4 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
Vladislav Namestnikov's second goal of the playoffs, scored in the first period, gave London a 3-0 lead and turned out to be the game winner as the Knights scored four times in the first period, chasing Saginaw goalie Jake Paterson, and added an empty netter late for the 5-2 score to even the series at two games apiece. London takes back home ice advantage in the series, which shifts back to London for Game 5 on Friday night. Namestnikov's goal was scored when he banged in a rebound off a Seth Griffith shot. He was on the ice for a "plus†when the empty net goal was scored by Gregg McKegg (Leafs). Panthers prospect Vincent Trocheck had two goals for the Spirit.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 4-9-12
Submitted by chad on April 10, 2012 - 07:21OHL
(W5) Saginaw Spirit 5 @ (W1) London Knights 2
Western Conference Semifinals – Saginaw leads best of 7 series 2-1
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Playoff Totals: 7 GP, 1-2-3, E, 4 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
Saginaw stole home ice advantage away from top-seeded London on Monday night by winning in the Knights' barn, 5-2. Spirit goalie Jake Paterson (pictured), who was ranked No.3 among North American goalies by Central Scouting in their final draft rankings for 2012, stopped 42 of 44 shots for first star honors. Paterson could be a target of the Lightning with one of their second round picks. Among the saves he had was a remarkable stop on a Vlad Namestnikov slapshot that reportedly seemed like a sure goal. It would have been Namestnikov's second point in his last six games. He has been in a defensive role, matched-up against Saginaw's Brandon Saad (Blackhawks). However, Saad was on the ice for three Spirit goals on Monday, but Namesntikov was on the bench each time. Game 4 is Wednesday in Saginaw.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 4-8-12
Submitted by chad on April 8, 2012 - 19:59OHL
(W1) London Knights 2 @ (W5) Saginaw Spirit 4
Western Conference Semifinals – Best of 7 series tied 1-1
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 0-0-0, -1, 2 PIM (slashing)
Playoff Totals: 6 GP, 1-2-3, E, 4 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
Saginaw held serve at home, defeating the Knights on Sunday in Michigan. London won Game 1, 5-2. Blackhawks second rounder (2011) Brandon Saad (pictured) had two goals and an assist for Saginaw, who knocked off likely top 2012 pick Nail Yakubov, top-10 pick Alexander Galyenchuk, and their Sarnia teammates in the first round, 4-2. Namestnikov, whose line was matched up against Saad to start Game 2, has one assist in his last five games. Game 3 is Monday in London. <
North American Juniors Game Night: 4-6-12
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Tri-City Storm 1 @ Lincoln Stars 4
G Adam Wilcox, TC: Loss, 40 saves on 43 shots
Season Totals (with Tri-City): 32 GP, 16-16-1, 2.90 GAA, .916 sv%, 1 SO
Season Totals (with Green Bay): 9 GP, 7-2-0, 2.27 GAA, .918 sv%, 2 SO
Tri-City dropped a big game on the road against rival Lincoln, but Des Moines' loss at home means the Storm stays five points up for the last playoff spot in the West. Both teams have three games remaining.
(13) Baie-Comeau Drakkar 3 @ (1) Saint John Sea Dogs 9
Quarterfinals – Saint John leads best of 7 series 1-0
C Danick Gauthier, SNB: 1-0-1, +2, 0 PIM, 4 SOG, 5 Hits
Playoff Totals: 5 GP, 6-2-8, +5, 2 PIM
Season Totals: 67 GP, 47-39-86, +46, 67 PIM
Thirteenth-seeded Baie-Comeau, fresh off a sweep of fourth-seeded Victoriaville, was no match for top-seeded Saint John, who scored nine against the Drakkar on Friday night to take a 1-0 series lead. Lightning prospect Danick Gauthier scored his sixth of the playoffs in the win and led the team with five hits. Minnesota prospect Zack Phillips had two goals and two assists for the Sea Dogs. Charlie Coyle, another Wild prospect, had a goal, his 10th of the playoffs. Game 2 is Saturday night.
(W5) Saginaw Spirit 2 @ (W1) London Knights 5
Western Conference Semifinals – London leads best of 7 series 1-0
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM
Playoff Totals: 5 GP, 1-2-3, +1, 2 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
Predators first rounder Austin Watson had two goals and an assist, including an empty netter to seal the game, as London took Game 1 against Saginaw, 5-2. The Spirit were coming off an upset of fourth-seeded Sarnia in the first round. Namestnikov was scoreless for the third time in the last four games. He started the game alongside former Lightning camper Seth Griffith, who had two assists in Game 1. Game 2 is Sunday in Michigan.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 3-29-12
Submitted by chad on March 30, 2012 - 07:35OHL
W1-London Knights 8 @ W8-Windsor Spitfires 3
OHL First Round – London wins best of seven series 4-0
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 0-1-1, +1, 0 PIM
Playoff Totals: 4 GP, 1-2-3, +2, 2 PIM
Season Totals: 63 GP, 22-49-71, +15, 50 PIM
After Windsor stayed close in the first three games, London finally broke out of their "offensive slump†and put up a snowman on the Spits in Game 4 to complete the sweep of their first round series. Fans and followers of the Knights, who are loaded at forward, have been wondering where the offense has been the last few weeks. Hopefully for the Knights they found what they were looking for. Namestnikov had a goal and an assist in Game 1 but has been quiet since. He did have a helper in Game 4. London and Brampton are the only teams to advance so far in the OHL playoffs.
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I just caught up with the story and man, you are great at killing characters; however, it felt that when you kill a character, it was fast. Also the torture of Lux was too cruel, but I understand how Draven wants to do it. I can't wait for more so keep it up!
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Holy ****, I don't even remember my own story now... Okay, this week and the next is still filled up, but after that I'll read my story, and yeah, no promise of a new chapter yet, but I do promise I'll look into it and see if I can pick it up with the mood. Thx for still reading tho. Aaaand... how should I kill characters 'more slowly"? Coz when I'll read through my story again now, I'll probably make a few slight adjustments to the non-core plotline.
you know, you could make that noxus captures teemo and he dies, god, that would be awesome
My Teemo is different with a purpose, I tried to alter the character to be less annoying, making him more serious, voice deeper and hoarse from tobacco, and no longer a ridiculous "Scout" but now a leader of Resistance Militia and commander of a recon unit. But then it seems so I failed... And Lux was totrtured because I remember she was #1 on my annoying champion list. I also hate screaming women, and so Riven and this Vi turned up now, and yeah, I'm set. Gotta kill them if I'm gonna continue this story...
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Yeah I'll try. But then again, if I do, I'll have to finish 'till summer, and I'm finishing high school this year, which means baziliions of exams. And during the summer I'm full, I'm gonna learn cool 3D stuff like V-ray, Z-brush, Maya, and hell, even CryENGINE. So in the end I might come up with a CGI illustration of my journey Shen. But that's exactly a year from now, coz that's when I'll finish my character spec course. What matters is, that I really lack time full year for writing But I'll try.
Okay, so I read through the last chapter and corrected countless typos and grammatical errors I left in it months ago. I also added and expansion for the "escaping town" part, to make it more complex and believable. Unfortunately it then exceeded the character limit, and I had to cut it in half. So, this is the expansion, picking up after they reach the gate. I think it's worth re-read the last paragraph of the chapter from the previous post, as it really was almost cut off mid-sentence. Okay, so this is not a whole new chapter, but at least something. Still no promises on anything tho, but I hope you'll enjoy this little addition. I think the Noxus chapter really lacked this. It's also a great opportunity to check if my style has changed during the passed months Outside the wall lay the outskirts of Noxus, resembling more of a village than a town. According to lore, more honest citizens were residents here, those who worked inside the city but would rather choose to live outside. Therefore gates were usually open for the meantime, and also because trading caravans arriving from the North carried their goods into the city through the North Gate. It praised the noxian military infrastructure, that alarm was already raised here as well, and guards were setting up a checkpoint. Preparations to close the massive gates were also in progress. Akali quickly grabbed Kennen and tucked him under his cloak, a little similar as if she would be holding a child. After a quick eye contact with Shen, she produced a very believable cry of panic and ran towards the village before the gates were shut. Shen followed her with fast steps, and though his military disguise was poor, it was still that of a commander's, so he shouted with authorative voice again, before they could question him. "If you close the bloody gates how are you going to search the outskirts?! Dispatch a search squad immediately!" - he shouted as he was walking with speed like never before. It took discipline not to start outright running. He didn't actually have time to think over what he just ordered. "Sir, but we were reported that suspicious individuals fled towards the west..." "Then WHY are there so many guards here?!" - he quickly grasped the opportunity - "Get your asses immediately to the west, and assist searching units there!" "SIR! The gate must have a minimum amount of guards during an alarm..." "They stay here for ****'s sake!" - Shen closed it down, maintining his arrogant noxian style. He needn't continue the argument as he got past the gate by now - "I'll look for viable soldiers to dispatch west myself!" He finished as he stormed out. Now he needed to find Akali. They spoke no words, but he expected the woman to find a rather safe spot and observe from there, contacting him once safe. Years of work together was not in wain, she soon spotted Akali leaning out from behind the corner of a house, motioning him to follow. Shen quickly caught up to her. Kennen was standing on the ground now, without the protection of Akali's cloak. "This house is empty for now, quick, drop your armor in there, and here's a jacket I found inside." "Professional as always..." - said Shen as he peeled off the armor from his body and quickly put the new leather jacket on, shifting his identity from a noxian commander to a resident of the outskirts. "This village is too big." - Shen said as he looked around - "There's no forest or anything where we could quickly hide and disappear. We need to back it out somehow. Let me think..." "Our best shot is to appear as strangers visiting town..." - Akali began. "And strangers stay at the Inn..." - Kennen continued "And Inns tend to be close to trading posts if there is one nearby. And there must be one here. We can look for a caravan there." - Shen took on. "But trading posts, due to their nature, are at the edge of settlements, because that's where they have space for horses and carriages. It means we have to look for the Inn somewhere farther..." - said Akali. "Farther along the main road of course." - Shen finished - "The one that starts from the gate. We must follow it from a distance though, because guards will also use it. Quickly, grab Kennen and go." Staying a few house blocks away from it, they followed the widest road of the village, walking, but walking fast, trying to avoid suspicion. Lucky thing taverns always try to make themselves easy to find, this one having a huge sign hanging in front of it's veranda. Slowing down upon arrival, they entered the building. It was full of merchants and peasents, chatter and voice filling the large hall. The alarm did not seem to get here yet, but Shen and Akali knew that in short time, it very much will. Still, it was an advantage because the people in there won't remember them as 'ones ran in during the chaos' even if they actually only arrived a few seconds before the first guards. By the time the noxian military broke in the door, they were already sitting at one of the small, round tables, seemingly talking about something very important. Akali hid Kenen under the table, on her lap, covered by the cloak. The troops started questioning the Inn dwellers, and soon one got to the group as well. "We're visiting town." - Shen answered to the guard's question - "An old friend living here." "And who might that? If that's a real person, surely you can tell where he lives..." - it seemed noxian trained military wasn't that dump after all. "Ehhm ... we don't know exactly, we were just talking about how we're going to find him. You know it it's been some time we saw each other, and that was back in Bilgewater..." "Really? Is that so?" - the soldier was getting suspicious. After a quick thought Shen continued: "But he did say he has a garden. I'm sure it's not that usual in Noxus, in fact, you might even help us out here." "Ahm. Yeah. I know the old ****. An urban legend he is. But I have difficulties believing he actually has friends like you two... or that he ever was in Bilgewater. I'll think I'll just have to take you to a checkpoint and have someone look at your story, then we'll see." "He's been to Bilgewater!" - Akali interrupted - "That's where he knows Gangplank from. Or did you not know? If he's an urban legend, then surely everyone knows he's a freind of Gangplank." "Well, yeah, it's part of the story..." - the guard strached his head. "I'm sure nobady wants unnecessary work, so spare yourself, and your captain the trouble, will you?" - Akali continued, with a bit of womanly charm - "Actually, might we know why are there militia all over the place?" "No. Mind your business then." - the soldier grunted, then left them alone. As the guard got out of hearing distance, they could finally take a relieved breath. "That was close." - sighed Shen - "He actually caught me there. Thanks for the help." "Naturally. 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