The flouting of Prohibition was so blatant that federal agents targeted the city and the Purple Gang for prosecution. According to Robert A. Rockaway’s book on Jewish gangsters, But He Was Good To His Mother, FBI agents dressed as Hasidic Jews attended a service at B’Nai David on the Day of Atonement, hoping some wanted Purple gangsters would show up. The feds’ cover was blown when they stepped outside to smoke cigarettes, which is strictly forbidden on the holiday."
Detroit was the first midwestern city to collapse into ruins, Ann Arbor is closest I'll go. Group A sure seems to have Group B marching in lockstep, though. Why can't "normal" people see the leashes?
Detroit was the first midwestern city to collapse into ruins, Ann Arbor is closest I'll go.
No guts, no glory. I went into Detroit on a regular basis to deliver to a produce house. I recall a story about one of our drivers who was there waiting to unload. He was parked on the street and some black woman comes up to the driver side door (It was nice weather and he had the truck off and the windows rolled down.) and starts talking to him.
At the same time her male companion was sneaking up from the right. All of a sudden, three guys came off the dock of the produce house and kicked the shit out of that black SOB and threw him in the middle of the busy street and left him there.
The driver asked those guys, "Hey, are you just going to leave him there?" The answer was, "Damn right. You know what he was going to do to you."
When that place first opened, they put out the word. Mess round over here and you will disappear. Everyone who worked there lived within 10 miles of the place. So they spread the word and there was seldom any trouble. Moral of the story: Don't mess with the outfit boys. I liked going there because they all worked hard and treated you right. And there was no discrimination of any sort.
Group A sure seems to have Group B marching in lockstep, though. Why can't "normal" people see the leashes?
"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." Thomas Paine