As you may have heard, 10 people were shot and injured early Thursday outside the Deja Vu nightclub in Allentown. This is a sure indication that summer has arrived. Fortunately, no one was killed in what is being called the worst mass shooting in Queen City history. There will be those who will use this incident to clamor for more gun control despite knowing nothing about this shooting. State Representatives Pete Schweyer and his Bobbsy Twin, Mike Schlossberg, have already beat their chests and pointed to a need for more anti-violence programs. Do we really all need to learn it's wrong to shoot each other? Of course, everyone's hearts go out to the poor victims. Everyone except me. They refuse to cooperate and could end up being tomorrow's shooters.
No one has a magic wand he can wave to solve this problem. I do know this. The more cops there are, the less shootings. On the very morning of this shooting, Allentown swore in seven new police officers.
There are now 216 police officers.
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Friday, June 21, 2019
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Allentown is a lawless ghetto.
ReplyDeleteno leadership at all in the democrats of Allentown according to the mayor Allentown is a safe city with low taxes
ReplyDeleteThe hot dog days of summer aint even here yet and our state reps are useing it as a advertizement to sell the downtown rumble. Bernie even forget to mention the miniture bulldog looking lawyer that protected fed eds crimes now in a state position clamouring to polosi antics. The very same types of antics that help fed ed earn a cage in the big houwse.
ReplyDeleteThis is why those who can, move away. Urban liberals like to chide those who leave for places where they and their families feel more safe, as they attempt to peddle some Calvinist rationalization of the progressive rot. Allentown has incorporated every tenet of the urban Democrat agenda. Enjoy the paradise you created for yourselves, and keep voting for crud like Schlossberg.
ReplyDeleteAllentown is a shit-hole.
ReplyDeleteThe worst is yet to come.
Nuisance bar/night club that should be closed down. Gathering point for thugs.
ReplyDeleteThis will all change for the better when the hordes of millennials arriving find their dream apartments in Center City.
ReplyDeleteTHIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CLUBS!
ReplyDeleteBlaming the clubs is a witch hunt.
^Little protective of your drinking and dry humping degeneracy palace huh?
ReplyDeleteOnce again it’s those angry white men.
ReplyDeleteGhetto, Guns & alcohol
ReplyDeleteAt the top of Schlossberg and Schyers list of regrets about the shooting of ten innocent center city night clubbers is 1) No one died.
ReplyDelete2) The shooter(s) weren’t old white men 3) Multiple AR 15s do not appear to have been used.
The innocent would have had considerably more political utility if those factors would have been present.
Perhaps the next episode will be more useful to advance the Democratic Party narrative.
These clubs attract riff-raff and need to be shut down. The owner himself is a thug.
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ReplyDeleteThe Allentown police chief is not up for the job. No amount of marketing can hide the fact that Allentown is losing control of the downtown to gun thugs and motorscooter punks who rampage at will.
ReplyDeleteMy family has gone to it’s last hockey game in Allentown.
It’s time to seriously consider repealing the Second Amendment.
ReplyDeleteAmerica must stop the killing.
Consume shooting. Get excited to consume next shooting.
ReplyDeleteIn NorCo, John Morganelli has never hesitated to go after nuisance clubs. I am not familiar enough with Deja Vu to know whether it is a problem, but am sure that option is under consideration.
ReplyDeleteThis is where a grand jury helps. You call these uncooperative thugs and if they refuse to testify, lock them up.
Bernie if one were to look at the many llc's hands this has past through you too could see the connection to the former mayors campaign contribitors,"FREINDS OF THE CRIMINAL IN CHARGE"? Take a look at the camera shots and I would say you could see DeGrace also was a patron of intrest at this shin dig!
ReplyDeleteA strong undercurrent of racial politics runs underneath two of the stories that you address today.
ReplyDeletePeople may soon look back at the Pawlowski years nostalgically. It’s going to get that bad.
There is trouble brewing in Reilyville.
Who is ready to address the Big Lie?
ReplyDeleteA BILLION dollars spent and Allentown remains in a death spiral.
Educated millennials will not come to this place for all the subsidized apartments in the world.
Consider the school district, and weep.
will O'Connell do anything
ReplyDeletewill O'Connell do anything
ReplyDeleteWhat do you suggest?
O'Connell might move the ball forward by resigning, first. It would be magnanimous and productive. No hard feelings. It's for a better Allentown.
ReplyDeleteLVCI @ 2:59 PM
ReplyDeleteHow about a competent police chief for starters?
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ReplyDeleteAnother billion dollars won’t save Allentown.
ReplyDeleteI can almost sympathize with the victims being fearful of reprisal in this incident.
ReplyDeleteBut in another incident reported in today's MCall, cops were trying to apprehend a suspected shoplifter on 7th St. As they said at the quasimodo look-along contest, "the crowd turned ugly". These people weren't afraid, they were just pro-crook and anti-cop.
Ironically, they're the same people that complain about not having enough quality places to shop in their neighborhood.
No doubt, we can expect another article in the MCall highlighting this shopping injustice and blaming the shortage on "failed capitalism."
Maybe Billy Joel will write another song.
ReplyDeleteRay could at least ask him.
It’s a start.
This is great news for the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteNothing like a good shooting to gin up an otherwise bankrupt platform.
It’s only unfortunate that the shooters are not white people.
Maybe next time.
Poor JT Riley.
ReplyDeleteBummer for him.
Tens of thousands of millennials just can’t wait to move to Center City Allentown.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!!!!
“The community at large is not in danger.”
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!!!!
4.45
ReplyDelete"great news for the Democrats"
but such a thing is bipartisan after all the Republican patron Saint Ronald Reagan stated
"that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”
Also the gun fans clearly might want to rethink their famous "an armed society is a polite society" mantra.
The NRA should get involved with legal help as a group of people were merely using their 2nd amendment rights.
How dare the police try to infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms.
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ReplyDelete"These people weren't afraid, they were just pro-crook and anti-cop."
Why would you help the police if they act like an occupying army.
What level of community involvement exists there?
Try putting an officer or several in the neighborhood who walk a beat and know most folks by their name.
then you can get citizen's help
I blame the NEA, I mean the NRA.
ReplyDeleteRepeal the First Amendment!
ReplyDeleteAh, I mean repeal the Second Amendment.
Turns out that the first suspect in the shooting is a Life Member of the NRA.
ReplyDeleteFigures.
Any police officer who would walk around alone in that neighborhood would be on a suicide mission.
ReplyDelete6.46
ReplyDeleteno officer should be afraid if he knows the neighbors by name.
The police department can start a get to know your officer program.
have a arm wrestling competition and the winner gets to where the "I beat the po-po at arm wrestling" tee shirt.
or have a track event " i outran the po-po in the hundred yard dash" shirt.
or "i won the chess challenge and i got the officer's donuts".
involvement of the police with the community has many advantages
8.04
ReplyDeletewear not where
oops
I blame the police, the police and the NRA.
ReplyDeleteThis all can be avoided if we all Vote Blue No Matter Who.
Free tee shirts that say, SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL with every club membership, first drink on the house.
ReplyDelete5:52 PM
ReplyDelete"What level of community involvement exists there?"
You mean like bicycle cops or something?
Oh, wait...
It’s a shithole and the whole world knows it.
ReplyDeleteYes the driver is a life long NRA member, just like the cops can't tell the difference between a 223 or a 556 shell casing and the baby 9's found at the scene. More fake news pushed by those selling the downtown pikeman village. The village idiots are running the nut House as well as selling it too?
ReplyDelete@10:36 PM
ReplyDeleteCalm down, you are talking this all way too seriously. One must endeavor to find the humor in the situation, and there is plenty of laughs to be found. Our lesbian councilwoman has become something of an expert on firearms and it’s just a hoot listening to her homilies on the subject.
Our new Congresswoman has become a google authority on all sorts of gun violence. She has a range of wisdom to share and her loyal constituents bring their own body of scientific analysis to the subject. But where the Congresswoman’s fans really shine is the deep and profound moral outrage they bring to bear.
Just for starters they love children so much that they are cloaked with the rich purple hue of moral superiority that is unassailable kind and intelligently advanced.
They are better people than the rest of us and that additional moral authority goes a long way.
Pay attention to Ms. Wild, she has all the deep background on the subject to legitimatize her as an unassailable authority on Sensible Gun Control, and she comes from a military family.
This should all be a whole lot of fun.
If you can’t get a good laugh out of all this you aren’t trying.
Why hasn't Pat Brown said a peep he must be to busy building his unaccounted for pension package from Allentowns developers. Was he at the now infamous meeting in Whitehall that Wolf walked out on the contract solicitors?
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ReplyDeleteI am deleting comments coming anonymous llc from GOP hacks attempting to politicize this situation with sweeping attacks at Democrats. One of these assholes is Rolf Oeler.
ReplyDeletePolice have confirmed that AR-15's were seized. They have also made the gang connection. This is indeed a turning point for Allentown.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual.
ReplyDeleteNothing new for anyone paying attention.
Alan Jennings has weighted in with his usual profound insight.
ReplyDeleteIt’s gonna all be okay.
it is a culture problem
ReplyDeletePrograms.
ReplyDeletePrograms will solve everything.
And money for programs.
Program money.
Lots of program money.
O'Connell and his democratic buddies run Allentown what do you expect???
ReplyDeleteA dirt bike riding Allentown thug ran into a cop car. Two of the bike boys fled. This is now in east Allentown. It had been confined to center city around tilghman street.
ReplyDeleteThe gangs sown the streets of Allentown. Reals shame.