Snarky Hipocrite Uses Anonymouse Source

Remember when our favorite inbred white guy, Larry Wilson, tried to tear me a new one for being anonymous even after I used my name?

Well, Snarky Larry published a column in that paragon of journalistic ethics the Pasadena S-Nooze quoting some anonymouse gang expert. Oooooo. Isn't that against the rules there Larry boy?

Bad grammar and sucky writing are bad enough, but to break that major journalist rule about using anonymouse sources? Larry boy how do we know you didn't make it up?

Here's hipocrite Snarky Larry's writing:

I talked to a man who has worked with young people in the midst of the violence.

"Can you imagine the emptiness in the

soul of someone who could pull a gun on another person, a stranger or someone they knew, doesn't matter?" he asked.

Not quite.

"Can you imagine the effect on the entire community, the energy wasted? Can you imagine what it would be like if you lived there and didn't have to spend that energy worrying about your safety, your family's lives, didn't have to think about that? How could this be a healthy community?"

How indeed.

The whole mess, so little changed in the last two decades, makes me wonder about the futility of trying to, among other things, shore up public education in the local schools when the society right out on the sidewalk is so sick.

Few people will be much for studying when their dad's in prison, their brother's in prison, their mom's thrown up her hands.

It's a way of life, like any other. And to think that we're going to turn around the schools or a cycle of Northwest poverty and thug life by just telling kids to hit the books or pull themselves up by their bootstraps - it's a fantasy.

"It's as if we don't have the will yet, or the life force," says my friend, who knows the gang members, "to bring together all the players - to get juvenile justice, probation, parole, the police department, the sheriff's department, social workers, preachers, the schools, to plan a system-wide strategy of how we're going to get through this."

There's blood on the streets. There will be more. And the residents of the city and the town either get it together, or sign that check now to build another prison.

Public Editor Larry Wilson's blog is http://insidesocal.com/publiceye.

If you want to suffer through the whole mess, here it is.

Can we really trust somebody who says "There's blood on the streets. There will be more. And the residents of the city and the town either get it together, or sign that check now to build another prison."

Shabby scare tactic journalism Larry boy. Blood on the streets indeed! Hardly.

Mike de Leeuw