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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:20:10 AM EDT
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/826059,CST-NWS-bagban05.article
City may ban little baggies COUNCIL | They're 'Marketing 101' for drug dealers, cop says March 5, 2008 BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee. Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of "self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width," after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park. Lt. Kevin Navarro, commanding officer of the Chicago Police Department's Narcotics and Gang Unit, said the ordinance will be an "important tool" to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses. The bags are used by the thousand to sell small quantities of drugs at $10 or $20 a bag. Navarro referred to the plastic bags as "Marketing 101 for the drug dealers." Many of them have symbols, allowing drug users to ask for "Superman" or "Blue Dolphin" instead of the drug itself, he said. Prior to the final vote, Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) expressed concern about arresting innocent people. He noted that extra buttons that come with suits, shirts and blouses -- and jewelry that's been repaired -- come in similar plastic bags. Burnett was reassured by language that states "one reasonably should know that such items will be or are being used" to package, transfer, deliver or store a controlled substance. Violators would be punished by a $1,500 fine. Health Committee Chairman Ed Smith (28th) said the ban is part of a desperate effort to stop what he called "the most destructive force" in Chicago neighborhoods. "We need to use every measure that we possibly can to stop it because it is destroying our kids," he said. It's for the children. 
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:23:31 AM EDT
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you know if we just got rid of all the children that would solve alot of problems.....
just sayin |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:24:47 AM EDT
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How much more Nanny-statism will the people in Chicago take? I shudder to think what it must be like to live under such a totalitarian regime.
 John |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:24:49 AM EDT
[#3]
 
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:25:42 AM EDT
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When? Maybe 25, or possibly 26, minutes to 4?
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:25:52 AM EDT
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Reminds me of Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal". Well, Mayor Daley is of Irish descent...... John |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:26:39 AM EDT
[#6]
 excellent observation |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:27:04 AM EDT
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Is this really surprising?
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:28:43 AM EDT
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Waiting for them to ban feet and arms, for the children. Socialist heathcare, don't yo know. |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:29:15 AM EDT
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Surely, the drug dealers won't come up with alternate packaging. These councilmen have out foxed those silly drug dealers this time!
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:29:28 AM EDT
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No but I find it endlessly amusing, whats next ban the cars so they can't be stolen? |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:29:47 AM EDT
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Small parts manufacturerers are packing boxes in anticipation, for moving out of Shitcago.
TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN,TAX, BAN, That is the Liberal Chicago Shitstain chant. |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:30:02 AM EDT
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yes.. we could do that for the children..
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:31:38 AM EDT
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Yeah, I highly doubt the dealers will find anything else to put thier dope in. The drug problem in Chicago is solved! |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:32:41 AM EDT
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I agree, let's ban children....for the children. |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:33:54 AM EDT
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And drug dealers are going to be deterred how exactly? They can’t drive outside of Chicago and buy those little bags? Criminals can get drugs, that are illegal everywhere into Chicago, but they can’t manage to bring in little plastic bags that are only illegal in Chicago into the city? There aren’t other things that can substitute for those little plastic bags? Does Chicago only allow the mentally challenged to run for office or something?
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:37:14 AM EDT
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There goes my thriving mini-bag business.
Perhaps I'll open an website that just sells tiny little bags to Chicago residents... |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:37:53 AM EDT
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The next ban will be balloons and condoms. |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:39:45 AM EDT
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Genius! |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:40:08 AM EDT
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Have you LOOKED at city hall lately? King Dick Todd "10.25% sales tax" Stroger Larry "Cabela's is an evil gun runner store" suffredin need I go on? |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:40:09 AM EDT
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Lets ban drugs!! That'll stop them!! oh, wait, nvm |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:43:50 AM EDT
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I'm tired of my fucking idiot law makers and Police Super Intendants. I used to like Chicago, Now I just see this City as a Shithole run corrupt fucking bastards who haven't got more than a seventh grade education. FUCK!
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:46:49 AM EDT
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Well BHO is from the Peoples Republik Of Illinois......that is the company he keeps,brain dead socialist liberals.
I have always maintained that if the taxpapers have to pay to birth a ghetto rat from a single mother or one with no dad and a half dozen other kids they ought to be spayed at the same time as the new birth. Easy answer...the new supply of customers dwindle as the older ones drop dead from illegal criminal activity,killing each other off or drug use |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:49:48 AM EDT
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It's back to wraping it in aluminim foil again...
 I'm just going to sell my dope in a brown paper bag so it looks like a sammich.......  
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:50:39 AM EDT
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Today Mike Flannery of Channel Two news announced Hillary won the Texas Democratic Primary because she carried the White Male Conservative vote.
Because she is a TRUE CONSERVATIVE, stands for Second Amendment Rights, and Conservative Values.
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:53:53 AM EDT
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NO! Drugs only come in little plastic baggies. Ban the baggies, no more drugs...BRILLIANT! I can see it now, a dealer staring at his mound of coke thinking to himself, "Now what the fuck am I going to do with all this shit now?" |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:54:52 AM EDT
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Bans really work, don't they Chicago? I mean shit, drugs are already banned and you guys have a fucking lockdown on that market. Doin' a great job. Really splendid.
And now I'm banning the ownage of page 2. It's for the children. |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 7:58:00 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:03:06 AM EDT
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WTF? lets just ban life, that would solve everything then. What A joke that stupid city is. Didn't they bring us the Asamanation also?
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:03:26 AM EDT
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I'd like to let you in on the solution. I'm doing this right now as well. 
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:14:22 AM EDT
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I once bought a little box of those little ziplock-style bags to put my old silver dollars and gold coins in. 1000 was about the smallest quantity... a lifetime's worth for me and then some.
I find that when I buy Lithium CR123 batteries in bulk, those little bags make an excellent container to hold a pair of those CR123s so they don't short out when I put them in my bag, pocket or console in my car. So much that we use everyday can be used for evil purposes. So should we go back to the stone age? John |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:20:46 AM EDT
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Then we'd have to ban rocks and sticks. And certain plants too... oh wait |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:22:27 AM EDT
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No problem
I got some ban compliant 2.16" baggies for sale  Fu**ing idiots FREE |
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Posted: 3/5/2008 8:23:44 AM EDT
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Well, thank goodness Party City still sells balloons cheap!
I'm just sayin' 
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Posted: 3/5/2008 9:16:04 AM EDT
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...or balloons or condoms or cigarette cellophanes or rolling papers or dollar bills or gum wrappers or saran wrap or vials or like the vast majority or drugs around here, sandwich baggie corners. But really, the only reason I clicked on this thread was to say that Chicago should have been fucking banned a long time ago. |
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