Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com
Saturday, May 24, 2008
A Clockwork T.J. Waconia Orange
Flickr.com photo, graffiti in Greece
Jeff Skrenes said something funny the other day about T.J. Waconia. We were discussing my "let the punishment fit the crime" proposal to make Thomas Balko and Jon Helgason serve their prison sentences in some of their own North Side properties.
Skrenes said maybe somebody could psychologically reprogram them, like in that movie (and book) "A Clockwork Orange."
"How do you mean, Jeff?" I asked.
Jeff said they could be made to become violently ill whenever certain phrases were used, like "flipping houses" (Jeff imitating somebody becoming violently ill) or "straw buyers" or, well, any terms like that. Just like in the movie "A Clockwork Orange." Only then would it be safe to let them live on the North Side, even under "house arrest."
Funny, clever Jeff. Naturally, it was time to deliver my Johnny Northside catch phrase.
"You understand that's going right on my blog?"
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They could do with a bit of the old ULTRA-VIOLENCE to the property values in the neighborhood.
OK, I just made a comment to my own blog entry. I'm going mad.
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