Detroit, Michigan - The Most Dangerous City in the USA

Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2008: Avoid Detroit and its Housing Market!

Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Detroit, Michigan - The Most Dangerous City in the USA...

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"Hello, Detroit Tourism Board...how much will you pay me to visit your city?"


That's right, we found this posted on MSNBC.com: Detroit named nation’s most dangerous city today. Welcome to my home town. I'm sure the local politicos and local news media are having s***s and fits over this one. The denial machine is operating in overdrive. Daring to still call itself the Motor City, this is one tag that it can't live down. Download Google Earth if you want to see it without experiencing the sense of danger, the sense of dread. If you do come here, don't go east of the famed Fox Theater. You may not come back - ever.

Oh yeah, the police and other local officials will tell you this - stay out of Detroit. It really is too dangerous. It's just like a cross between the Wild West and Iraq. And, the local news media recently reported that if you visit the Detroit casinos, you are being watched. And probably not by friendly eyes. Some folks are known to carry concealed weapons. And not always with the proper permits. A local judge (a she) recently got busted at Metro Airport for bringing a loaded gun inside...


Yeah, this is my home town - but not by choice. If you're not careful, and leave your car door unlocked while traveling around downtown, the hookers will hop in - uninvited. That's a fact. I'll swear it on the Bible, the Talmud and the Koran. I'm sure they do it out of desperation. It's everyone for themselves, and survival is the basic law. Survival in this town has become the natural law.


Just hired in at Chrysler? Well, you'll probably be drawing unemployment. Take a buyout from Ford? Well you'll be lucky if you make 9 bucks an hour as a baggage handler for NWA (that's what a friend of ours did). Working for GM? My friends at the Ypsilanti plant have been out for two months and have been told they won't be back to work for another week (maybe even longer...).


Your author just picked up a second part time job, cause his current employer shrunk his part time hours to just 22 hours a week - and its the holidays - their busiest season of the year. Oh yeah, and we were robbed at gunpoint (our location - and several others) on February 4th, the predawn hours of Superbowl Sunday. Health insurance - what's that? (With the new second job, we should be able to consider that). Just got paid the other day, and we're starving today. That's right - we have nothing to eat for Thanksgiving. Hard to be thankful, when you have to walk several hours to a local soup kitchen - and find out that it's out of food. We'll be renaming the holiday Thankstarving. That's OK - we've gone hungry before, and will again. As a matter of fact, we think we prefer starvation - it's better than getting shot to death.


Shot to death. Yeah, we've had to look down the wrong end of a gun barrel many times - and it was always in Detroit. Two local punks will be charged for murder and decapitation (desecration of a corpse) - they said it was a thrill killing. At least they got busted. More news to come on that one. They waylaid some poor guy from River Rouge.

I remember growing up in Detroit (West Side - near Lessenger Middle School and Kosciusko Elementary) when they found the severed head of a red-headed women in local Rouge Park. That's right near where I grew up - 20500 Tireman. My long deceased girl friend - Sue - had a couple of neighbors that were beheading their business associates nearby to her, a long time ago. Not to mention some other atrocities that were done to the corpses.

Forgot to mention my late cousin "Denise" who was shot to death some many years ago by some Detroit-ghetto junkie when she was working a Good Humor route to earn her way through college. The guy who did it got a bench trial and told the judge he didn't know the gun was loaded in the robbery. The judge let him go.

Some years later on, I read an article in the local News about the same junkie. Seemed that he went to work for two major drug dealers - at the same time. The one who took a baseball bat was called "Big" Frank "Nitti" Usher (if I recall correctly) and gave the murderous dopehead a lethal lesson in loyalty. Eventually, "Mr. Usher" was brought to justice, and, as far as I know, is still in the Big House. Which one? Not sure. That is real street justice.

Violence - the murderous kind - also happened amongst some of my former co-workers. One of them ("Dotty") was killed in a home invasion by a red-headed man (there we go, red hair again). She suffered. I don't know if her killer was ever brought to justice. She was a real nice lady, and a classic "Detroit" person - if you know the type. She did not deserve to go that way. Neither did "Denise".


That's the real dope on Detroit...the Murder City. Welcome seeker!

Why We Are Adopting the New Logo "This web site produced NOT using slave labor".

Why We Are Adopting the New Logo "This web site NOT produced using slave labor"...

Because it was largely inspired by our reading of the work of John Bowe ("Nobodies"...Modern American Slave Labor Market and the Dark Side of the New Global Market) as posted previously in...

John Bowe, The American Slave Labor Market and...
other gems from C-Span Book TV.

(Mr. Bowe has been kind enough to respond to our email, by the way...)

We've only gone half way through his book, but he has already provided us with the inspiration for the development of a new marketing logo. We suggest you ask your favorite socially conscious corporation(s) to consider adopting the new logo (Yum! Brands, Mattel...). We also suggest you contact your favorite US Senator or Congressperson regarding the same. And please purchase and read Mr. Bowe's book.

Please feel free to adopt the logo and place it on your website, product and so on. This is a movement.

This posting was NOT produced using slave labor.

The Latest Zogby Poll, 52% Favor Invasion of Iran and the Projected Cost with Interest to You

The Latest Zogby Poll, 52% Favor Invasion of Iran and the Projected Cost with Compounded Interest to You...

Dear Reader,

We don't mean to alarm you, but the Iran Invasion seems almost imminent. And, 52% of Americans favor the Invasion. See the Zogby Poll Results; Zogby Poll: 52% Support U.S. Military Strike Against Iran.

Further, the other night, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC reported that the Iraq war is costing each individual in the USA approximately $ 20,000 plus interest.

OK. Let's project on that, let's assume that you will also be paying a further $ 20,000 (plus compound interest) for the Iran invasion. Using the interest calculator, that comes to about $ 500,000 over the next 5 years at 30% interest coming out of your pocket. That's for you, alone. For the estimated population of the current USA (about 300 million) that comes to $ 150 Trillion. That's roughly 13 times our Gross National Product (give or take).

But, that's just an estimate.

John Bowe, The American Slave Labor Market and other gems...

John Bowe, The American Slave Labor Market and...

other gems from C-Span Book TV.

After a long period of apparent inertia, Book TV is broadcasting some real gems (click on either link for the schedule).

One of these was a terrific presentation given by John Bowe about his new book: Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. (We picked up our copy today, by the way). Mr. Bowe concisely reports his findings on the effect the "new global economy" (his words) is having on the illegal slave labor market here in the US and as perpetuated by US and other corporations around the world. Some (all?...) US corporations are apparently complicit in the use of illegal slaves to manufacture their merchandise. (We urge you to read this book, or view Mr. Bowe's presentation and boycott these corporations).

Mr. Bowe also reports on real life stories of the slave labor market...extant right here in Florida. Reference is made concerning a legal case concerning the slaver nicknamed "El Diablo". We can only hope justice is served in this case and others.

Per Mr. Bowe, we understand that the slave labor market is an effect (though slavery has been around since antiquity...) of the human mind's non-transparent need for getting goods and services on the cheap - no matter what the cost. Indeed, we have recently reported an example of this type of slavery to our local congressperson and labor enforcement department (prior to hearing Mr. Bowe's reports and views) - we have no results to report at this time.

Indeed, we feel that transparency is needed concerning the growing (and alarming) use of slave labor and its modern root cause: the globalization of the labor market. Please comment or contact us if you need more information about Mr. Bowe or his great book.

Immediately after the presentation by Mr. Bowe, we were given a talk by Mr. Tony Rafael (a LA correspondent) on his new book The Mexican Mafia. Not as spectacular as Mr. Bowe's talk, but deeply chilling. La eMe has taken control of the California prison system as well as control of the street crime present in that part of the country. We do not know how widespread this crime wave is... we are waiting for our copy of the book to find out.