OUCH!!!!

That's the sound you make when you get spanked, most times by the TRUTH!

Contributor Mike Ali has written an excellent piece today in light of yesterday's very violent events.

At the urgung of many (including The Tazer's good common sense), that commentary is being posted below.
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THE KILLING FIELDS OF RICHMOND & BRING ON THE CLOWNS FROM THE CITY HALL

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I direct a question to all of you, please? How much longer will our COMMUNITY SIT IN SILENCE and while the wholesale slaughter of youth and young adults continues in the KILLING FIELDS OF RICHMOND!?

The Mayor's Office and certain members think that the Violence Prevention Movement is "one big joke" according to City Hall insiders. So they think our youth and young adults dying is" one big joke" and the Violence Prevention Boycott is "one big joke". Come on City Hall, keep making the community laugh and laugh some more! Just keep on keeping us entertained with your political humor! So come on you CLOWNS AND BUFFONS IN THE CITY HALL just keep to the script of what your doing, and your gonna see it's mighty ugly outside on the real killing fields of the mean streets of Richmond.

The stark reality is that the City Government of Richmond is OUT OF TOUCH and OUT OF CONTROL!!! I mean to sit back in SILENCE, while our kids are killing each other. THIS CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS JUST DAMN WRONG FOR THIS STANCE and their approach to the 'war on violence' has gone from failing.....TO LOST!

The Violence Prevention Movement is more united on a common front than we have been before! Soon the second phase of the Boycott will be put into effect, and what a wonderful day that will be in a short time coming. So let the CLOWNS in the City Hall keep on keepin' on, because the Community will NO LONGER PLAY 'THE CRYING GAME!'

'Yours in the Struggle for Human and Civil Rights in Richmond,

MIke Ali,
Committee of Families for the Safety of Our Children
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Sweet Merciful Budda...That hurt The Tazer it was so much truth!

Seriously, thank you brother Ali and everyone who continues to work towards solutions...we are going to be successful in this struggle!