Happy Valentine's Day, Crime Scene style
Today is the 80th anniversarry of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, in which Al Capone's gang famously lined up seven members of a rival street gang and murdered them with Thompson sub-machine guns.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
ST. VALENTINE DAY 80 YEARS LATER 2-14-'09
On Feb. 14, 1929 in the era of open gang warfare over illegal distribution of booze and control of gang turf Al Capone,Scarface, lured his rival gang in a Chicago warehouse murdered 7 and wounded 6 with Tommy Guns. This was in the era of the "Great Depression of 1929", political corruption, massive unemployement and public apathy.
Now 80 years later the same massacres are taking place everyday along our border states by Mexican Drug Cartels at war over drug distribution and gang turf only difference is that they murder 27 at a time with AK-47 machine guns and shoot innocent bystanders.
Also 80 years ago the country was victim to psychotic bank robbers; John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie- Clyde,
Ma Parker Gang etc. who ran in banks firing guns, putting everyone on the floor and jumping the counter. Obviously these thugs have been replaced by Blood and Crips who have watched too many gangster movies. Seems like after 80 years the Bank Cartels would re-think their security procedures and the public would be outraged.
Happy Valentine Day,
Mike Alerich
Editor; www.bank211s-mike.blogspot.com and www.scorpio-security.com up-dated / posted Every Monday
EARTH TO EARTH...
EARTH TO FRANK
COME=IN FRANK, ARE YOU THERE
Hang tight, Frank will be back Monday.
hey mike, the stock market crashed in october of 1929. Every hear of the roaring twenties? if you havent, you should look it up.
Hey Mr. Smart,
I did look it up,Wikipedia is great!. I believe the term used was "era of the great depression".
Frank, U got swallowed up in those cuts? The paper says your on assignment for the last week. hope they paying you to be on that long assignmnet.
Hey Mike, feb 1929 was not a part of the era of the great depression. Have a nice day.