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| Stupidity: The Ultimate Dream Shatterer By Angree Bruther  |
Greetings all, I hope everything is well with each and every one of you. It’s been an extremely long time since I’ve reached out to you and conveyed my opinions. Even though there have been a plethora of events in the world that I could have spoken about I sat back and watched every media outlet over saturate each one to the point that I didn’t want Highergroundonline to be apart of the media circus.
I received so many emails from people throughout the world to chime in on issues such as:
- Don Imus
- Jena 6
- Michael Vick
- Brittney Spears
- Bill O’Reilly’s “positive experience” at Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem.
However people after the shocking event that took place in Atlanta on October 13, 2007, I can’t sit quiet any longer.
For those who are unfamiliar with the “shocking event” I’m referring to, Clifford Harris aka T.I. aka “King of the South” was arrested on Federal Firearm Charges Saturday afternoon in a Walgreens parking lot.
The arrest comes after Harris, a convicted felon, accepted delivery of machine guns and silencers. Additional guns were found in Harris' vehicle and home. The ATF began to monitor this situation after a bodyguard that had been working for Harris since July of this year cooperated with Federal Agents after being arrested for purchasing illegal firearms.
The bodyguard advised the agents that he was purchasing the machine guns on October 10 on behalf of Clifford Harris. He admitted to purchasing about nine firearms for Harris, and about 17 firearms for other persons on previous occasions. Firearm purchase records confirm that the Bodyguard has purchased about 25 firearms over the past 18 months.
The Character Witness (as the official report from the Hall of Justice refers to the bodyguard) said that Harris gave him cash to buy guns on four occasions. Harris asked the CW to purchase the firearms for him because Harris has a prior felony conviction and therefore cannot lawfully purchase or possess firearms under federal law, while the CW could lawfully obtain guns.
Hold up people……………………………………………. What in the hell is wrong with this picture? See this is why I couldn’t be silent any longer. As many of you know from reading my commentaries, I’m a strong advocate of common sense & anyone who doesn’t use it I got to proceed to rip a new hole into their ass.
Question: What in the world was YOU T.I., thinking? If this holds up to be true you by far have to be one of the dumbest men that ever walked this fine earth.
See people let me explain something to you that many of you might not know, when you are a convicted felon you are required to sign a letter basically regarding the “do’s & don’ts” of what a convicted felon can & can not do. Possessing a firearm is one of the things that is listed under the “prohibited” list, as T.I obviously knew based on the alleged statement of his bodyguard.
Which leads to my next question.
If you knew about the above mentioned information, why did you go out and not buy one, but a freaking arsenal of firearms?!?! See I can truly understand a man in your position owning ONE firearm. Anything is possible when we live in a society where a fourteen year old Ohio teen planned another Columbine that was funded by his mother So I could understand one even if it’s against the law, but NINE, two being Machine Guns?!? What in the hell are you trying to do? Head over to Iraq with your own personal stash and fight?
Common sense would say, “Alright let me hire (or find) nine people who have never been convicted of a crime I can trust, give them money, have them purchase these firearms and keep some of these people around me at ALL times”.
Question: Speaking of hiring trusted people, don’t you have someone in your hired camp that you’ve known longer than 2 ½ months? Hell, how about one of your boys you grew up with or are they all felons too?
There’s a part of me that says this has setup written all over it. Do I think there’s an actual NYPD division titled “The Hip Hop Police”, a group of police officers that spy on entertainers associated in the rap music industry? Something like a 21st century version of J. Edgar Hoover’s C.O.I.N.T.E.L.P.R.O (do your research). You’re damn sure I do. However, this has nothing to do with a setup by the Hip Hop Police, or any other conspiracy theory that can be conceived. This does however have everything to do with common sense.
- Common sense would say, “I’m a convicted felon who’s changed my life, doing and experiencing more things than I ever dreamed of. And if I do something that’s blatantly against the law and get caught I could hang all this up”.
- Common sense would say, “Damn I just saw how they did my boy Mike Vick, maybe I need to stop doing this foolishness because regardless of how much money you have, the days of entertainers beating jail time is coming to an end.
- Common sense would say “I’m on National TV defining hip hop music and its culture on how it’s not corrupting America, how much sense does it make for me to be obtaining all of these weapons?” It’s really looking like Bill O’Reilly & Fox News have won
If T.I is found guilty of these charges, I do not have one sorry bone in my body for him. I’m reading all over the net how this is BS, how the new fashion craze will be “Free TI” shirts and how this bodyguard is a snitch and deserves to be “dealt with”.
Let me ask all you bama asses who agree with any of the above something, how ignorant can your asses be? Just like Mike Vick, if your ass does the crime, you got to do the time.
I have never worked for anyone I would actually do federal jail time for, this bodyguard allegedly gave up TI after they arrested him, he didn’t run to the cops telling on him.
Secondly this “Stop snitching movement” undeniable falls under some of the most ignorant mess I’ve ever heard. Put yourself on the other side of things. If you had a family member murdered and someone knows who the culprit is wouldn’t you want to know who did it?
If you happen to get set up and take the fall for something you didn’t do, I bet your dumb ass would be crying for a “snitch” then.
African Americans have to get out of this “Mafioso” mentality that a crew that’s committing illegal acts all represent one another.
Dove from De La Soul said it best:
See them Cubans don't care what y'all niggaz do
Colombians ain't never ran with your crew
Why you acting all spicy and sheisty
The only Italians you knew was icees…
African Americans (especially rappers, which is evident by episodes of MTV Cribs) watch these mafia & drug lord movies and start wearing them on their chest, as if they actually live this or now have to live this lifestyle. I find it hard to believe that watching the movie Scarface didn’t play an inkling (even if it’s subconsciously) in TI wanting to own a machine gun.
In closing I will say that I am sorry this had to happen to someone that on the surface seemed to be really trying to be an all out corporate hustler. With a musician networking website that TI describes as a “Facebook for artist” recently launched, owning a music/movie production company and acting (How ironic that he’s in Denzel Washington’s “American Gangster”) TI really seemed to be one of the handful of artists with a level head on his shoulders.
October 13, 2007 may have shot down any thoughts any of us ever had of that.
Until next time people, get it together.
Agree Bruther
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