1800-WOP-SHOT
An article in the NY Post (aka the only newspaper I read during the week) about the possibility of a high-profile mobster having his sentence shortened caught my attention this morning, mainly because it was on the front page. Basically, my countrymen are being persecuted for killing other criminals. If we reward people for snitching over the telephone to 1-800-cop-shot, wouldn’t it stand to reason that we also rewarded people who actually went above and beyond the call of duty and killed the leaders of criminal organizations? Or, as I like to say, those who have dialed 1-800-WOP-SHOT.
Based on anecdotal evidence from the fictional Elmore 
Leonard book "The Hot Kid" (incidentally, not about me) which takes place in the wild west, (not to be confused with the wild middle-east) -our government used to reward people for killing wanted criminals. I can only imagine that once the Italians started doing the killing, the laws changed. Shame on you, American justice system. First Sacco and Vanzetti and now this.
Also, the criminal in question, Anthony "Tony the Roach" Rampino was convicted for murdering a trial witness. Well, maybe if the witness could have stopped snitching long enough to draw first, he would still be alive. Really, who should be in jail here - "Tony the Roach" or the judge who "forced a prosecutor to publicly identify [the snitching deceased] as the secret witness at the murder trial of [Tony the Roach's] drug-gang boss?" Hmmm. If you ain’t getting bagged, stay the fuck from police. Can I get a witness (killed)?
If one continues to look at the Roach’s rap sheet, it seems as though the police at least share some of the guilt for selling "Tony the Roach" $30,000 of heroin. What was a police officer doing with that much brown, seducing Kate Moss? Entrapping Italians, that’s what.
And should we really continue to punish someone whose nickname is "Tony the Roach" -I mean hasn’t life already been cruel enough?
Fucking Tony the Tiger was released years ago, and last I checked one of the conditions of his parole was that he avoid all contact with children. Which he is clearly ignoring. Why don’t the police care? Because he isn’t Italian, that’s why.
