Unless you’ve been living under a rock in some foreign country, you’ve heard about the new drug hitting the street in some of the major cities. The young man, high on bath salts, that attacked a homeless man in Florida, or the college student who killed and then hacked up a man who was staying with him and his family, are just some of the stories reported by the news in the last three or four weeks. They’re horrid stories with fairly violent arrests, and the culprit is something that your grandparents once used to soothe sore muscles.
In the attack in Florida, it took no-less than six shots from police firearms to take down the perpetrator and get him off of the victim. The victim will require extensive reconstructive surgery to his face. The victim, also, lost one eye and ear as a result of the violent manner of the attack. One man does drugs, and two suffer as a result is not a new story but the types of violence occurring with this drug are very different. As a rule, the violence associated with most drugs ends with one victim—usually a pusher—dead and the other spending life in prison. Bath salts have changed that dynamic to a gruesome degree with the innocent being attacked and physically mauled, and in some cases murdered.
Most of us, in smaller towns, across the nation do not associate many crimes with the area we live in. True enough, some areas have seen a rise in crimes that were never present before; however, for the most part, crimes involving cannibalism and things of that nature are more prevalent in cities where the population is much higher and the availability of drugs is balanced to that dynamic. Yesterday’s newsproved that this drug is everywhere.
Denison, Texas is home to a community college that serves most of Grayson County. Thus, the name of the institution is Grayson County College. Fortunately, in this case, an officer was injured but not killed and the victim was subdued with Tasers, in contrast to gunshots. The young woman was taken to the hospital, after a considerable struggle to calm her, where they learned she had used the bath salts. Needless to say, it’s a situation that small-town police forces haven’t seen and certainly not at all common on college campuses.
The most frightening portion of the story is the ease with which this drug can be obtained. Just as we’ve seen spray paint and other aerosol cans restricted in sales to minors, and sinus medicines relegated to prescription use only, bath salts must now be removed from the store shelves to keep drug dealers from purchasing and cutting them to manufacture a highly dangerous drug.
It’s horrendous to imagine that we will have walking zombies among us, but this drug is as bad as it can get and too easy to acquire. The moral compass of this nation has reached a new low, and we are seeing the effects on our youth from coast to coast. We have strayed so far from God and the goals and aspirations of the great generations that came before us, until we have begotten children and grandchildren who willingly take a drug knowing that they might become the next zombie attacker in the news.
We can remove drugs from the shelves; however, the problem is much deeper and less easily resolved. As a nation, we have to return to a system that believes in rights and wrongs, and does not use excuses for horrendous behavior.
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I haven't deleted any comments. You asked me about it and and I answered. My husband and I watch KXII, which is an affiliate of CBS news. The original reports were on there and Fox, also, ran a piece on the Florida man.
Comment by American Infidel on June 14, 2012 at 8:45am Let's see if Donna deletes my latest comments, like she did my last innocuous (look it up, Donna) comment from yesterday! : )
Comment by American Infidel on June 14, 2012 at 8:44am For anyone who might be interested, all I wrote was that Donna still has not posted any legitimate news sources on verifiable links to substantiate her wild claims. Looks like she never will, either! Thou shalt not bear false witness...now, where have I heard that? See, Donna, that is what happens when you repeat false rumors...you are bearing false witness. Repent!
Comment by American Infidel on June 14, 2012 at 8:41am Wow, Donna, deleting my comments...how immature! How's it feel to be right all the time?
Comment by thomas walthouse on June 13, 2012 at 5:29pm Andrew Wilkow on xm 125 patriot has talked about this from the time it started,the walking zombies are the part of this story that should concern everyone.
I was just telling you where the information came from ...not defensive at all.
Comment by American Infidel on June 13, 2012 at 4:13pm Donna, instead of being defensive when someone points out factual inaccuracies (and that is putting it politely) in your blog, you should instead prove me wrong by citing legitimate news sources that support your claims of the Miami cannibal being high on "bath salts", and sensationalistic tabloids like London's Daily Mail don't count. You are breathlessly repeating rumors, and have cited no sources whatsoever. There is not one legitimate news source on the planet that stated for a fact that the Miami Cannibal was high on so-called "bath salts" at the time of his attack on the homeless man called Ronald Poppo.You know why that is? It is because the toxicology screens, done on the cannibal during his autopsy, have not produced final results yet. Until those results come out and are published, no one knows for sure what was in the cannibal's bloodstream at the time of the attack, or if any drugs he may have ingested may have contributed to his behavior or not.
I think many people today are uncomfortable with the notion of pure, unadulterated evil in our society, and in our world. It is so much easier to (without proof) blame a drug for someone's behavior rather than consider the possibility that the person committing the crime could be just the embodiment of evil, a faithful servant (either willing or unwittingly) of Satan himself.
Comment by Vern Shotwell on June 13, 2012 at 2:55pm Actually, A.I., "bath salts" is (are) the primary suspect(s) in the Miami case. One problem is that there is no specific single compound, or group of compounds to legislate against! From the above article:
"We could have 10,000 different substances banned before long, as the chemists in China or wherever they are keep modifying them,” Tommy Ford, a major in the sheriff’s office in Bay County, Florida, told The Miami Herald."
Infidel, according to the news, the bath salts are the bath salts that our parents and grandparents used and they are cut with other substances. This was the original report. As to the cannibal, in Florida, and again the guy that hacked up the room mate, those are the police reports. All I went by were news reports...plain and simple.
Comment by American Infidel on June 13, 2012 at 2:27pm To the author of this blog: You have absolutely no proof that the cannibal was high on "bath salts", which is the street name of a fairly new illegal drug, NOT the "bath salts" that your grandparents pour under the hot running water to relax with in the bathtub, for heaven's sake. The police at the scene of the horrific crime on the causeway to Miami Beach SPECULATED that the cannibal may have been high on the street drug known as "bath salts", but since the cannibal's toxicology reports are NOT completed yet, that theory has yet to be proven. What we do know is that what the perpetrator did was unspeakably evil, and thankfully he is dead, thanks to the quick thinking of a Miami cop. We also know that the cannibal's victim, Ronald Poppo, is recovering nicely in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, thank heaven.
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