People of Norwich

Come on people. I'm an ex-drug dealer trying to support my Family with my writing. If the parent's of Norwich don't start following my blogs I'm gonna have to go back to selling smack to your kids. Is that what you want? Huh? Follow my blogs and help me to be a better man. I'm trying real hard to take the high road but it's not easy people. I don't want to have to resort to providing your children with quality product because I can't make any fucking money due to the fact that I'm a convicted fucking felon. I'm a college student, and I support my family but times are hard. Norwich is fucked as it is. One more drug dealer isn't gonna make or break it but I just want to live a happy, peaceful, quiet life without drugs and having to deal with your scumbag kids stealing money out of your pockets to survive. It's a real pain in my ass every time one of these idiots had to bring me something of value they stole out of their homes or went to the pawn shop with to get money to buy dope. I don't need and or want all that stress so what do you say, huh? Help out an aspiring writer and blogger by following my posts and making suggestions about what you think and want me to write about. I have an extensive amount of knowledge about allot of different subjects. I am well traveled and well versed. If anyone out there gives a shit anymore, give your fellow citizen a hand. Thank you Norwich.

My best friend and his wonderful Mother whom I love.www.SCADD.com

Yesterday I briefly touched on the current state of the City of Norwich and the problems plaguing the once thriving City. I also mentioned the propensity for the youth of this area to not only use but sell the narcotics that seem to be everywhere these days. This is a photo of my best friend. He is currently incarcerated on charges of possessing and distributing drugs. My friend is not a bad person, he just has had issues with drug addiction and I am not about to pass judgement of anyone with issues of that nature. I myself am a former drug addict and drug dealer. If you Google my name I'm sure you can find out about my trials and tribulations in the drug trafficking business. Heroin and other opiates are running rampant over this entire state and have been for the last ten years. What does the State of Connecticut try to do in order to solve this problem? Lock up every single addict, and those with mental health and addiction issues, that they can possibly arrest. Now if anyone has been following the problems with the Connecticut Department of Corrections then you know how well this strategy has turned out for the almost bankrupt state. Prison populations are at almost twenty thousand inmates and the State can't support the numbers, at almost thirty six thousand dollars a year per inmate, and prison's closing due to lack of funding, things are coming to a head. There are also no long term drug programs left in this State to offer some kind of treatment for all these addicts. Drug addicts make up the majority of the prison population and are considered low level inmates and not deemed as threats to society. Why can't the state do something to get these people help? Programs like DayTop, Help Inc., and Brooklyn Bridge are fading fast and soon there is going to be no help or treatment at all for the rising number of drug addicts being arrested, convicted, and imprisoned. Once these men and women are convicted felons it is harder to rehabilitate them, educate them, and find them meaningful work that is actually going deter them from going back out and selling the drugs they live and die for. Take my friend for example. He tried to find work and only had misdemeanor convictions but with the poor state of the economy it was impossible for him to make enough money to survive. Desperation turns to depression, turns to using drugs to not deal with the depression, turns to selling the drugs to support the habit and make enough money to pay the bills, and ends up with arrest and conviction. People are always going to get high but there has to be alternatives to locking them all up. Prison isn't helping these types of individuals, in fact it is exposing them to even more addicts to network with when they are released. My friend doesn't deserve to be in jail. He should be in a fucking drug program getting the help he needs to rebuild his life and become a positive member of society. The idiots running this country and this State have run both right into the fucking ground. As the American Dollar declines and the countries prisons are packed full of now unemployable people, the economy will continue to spiral down the drain until our so called recession is a depression if it isn't already. Norwich needs to take it's proverbial head out of it's ass and take a look around at what is really going on. The Casino's haven't helped us at all. Quite the opposite actually. They attract the drug dealers from New York and else where that get YOUR children hooked who then have to sell the product to support their own habit leading them to arrest and confinement. There are alternatives to this fucked up cycle. Believe me I know. I am a former addict and a convicted felon who has been through the system and knows people on both ends of the spectrum. There are some good men and women out there trying to make a difference, like my friends at SCADD, but they are too few and far between. This Country and our City need to address the real problems of our citizens before we can ever hope to become what we once were. When I was a child growing up here and the City was prosperous, it didn't have these issues to the same extent it does today. Maybe that should tell everyone something. Hint, hint, wink, wink....

Norwich needs development of downtown and allot more.

Norwich as a community is not the same as when I was growing up here as a child in the eighties and nineties. It is no longer a "good," place to grow up. Downtown Norwich and it's development have been featured in the Norwich Bulletin, a joke of an editorial, and needs much more than the men and women running these committees believe. If you idiots haven't realized it, there is nothing for kids to get interested in. Nothing bringing in any tourists, besides the casino's, and nothing generating any cash for the City. Just visiting a larger City, even a shit-hole like Hartford, at least you see places to eat, shop, internet cafe's, educational tools and museums. Norwich needs to be totally revamped. A entire make over if you will. A new generation of leaders must emerge if this city is going to survive further into this century. Do any of the so called intellectual elite of this entire County have a clue what is really going on here? Let me tell you what your children are really doing. The entire area including surrounding towns is saturated with drugs. Heroin, crack, and oxycontin. Your kids are junkies. Every street corner has a Norwich cop on it yet this area is no better off then it was when I was involved in supplying your children with their drugs. Not only are the kids of my generation and younger all getting high, but their parents are doing the same thing. Prominent business men, politicians, and Norwich Police Officers. Oh my God! How shocking and what a surprise! I'm not going to start naming names but you know who you are. I sold you your heroin, remember? Since the rise of the might Foxwoods and Mohegan Casino's, the only kind of development that has come our way is drug traffic and businesses that are fronts for drug dealers to launder their money. I ran such a business in this town. The people of the Rose City need to wake the fuck up and smell the poppy's. You wonder why there are multiple houses on every street with for sale signs in the front yard? The real estate market bubble bursting, sub prime mortgages and foreclosures, sure. But people want out of this City and they are willing to take a loss on their property to do so. Some of you know what I'm talking about but most of you are clueless. The area has zero job opportunities and guess what? None are coming! Anyone in their right mind is moving out, not in. Where are the internet cafe's with free wifi, where are the clothing boutiques and even designer stores, where are the museums and cultural institutions? No where to be found in our once fair City. Too bad, growing up here was beautiful. It was a safe environment focused on education and bringing up the children of the City to become leaders, not mindless followers. If this City is ever going to change, and I don't believe it is, the first step is new leadership. Attracting developers isn't the issue, it's finding new developers among the residents of New London County. All the wasted space in this City and no one is willing to take a risk by developing it. No one is coming to save us, no white knights are going to come to the rescue. If Norwich wants to be saved the people are going to have to do it themselves. Fuck You Norwich,CT!