The Bad Old Days are Back, Bernard Goetz 2: Brenddy Garcia

On December 22, 1984, while traveling the Seventh Avenue 2 express subway train in New York City, Bernard Goetz was harassed by 4 youth who he suspected were about to mug him. He plugged each one of  them, using an unlicensed revolver he was carrying.

The police initially failed to identify him and he was dubbed by the NYC press, the "Subway Vigilante". A rat fink, who knew Goetz carried an unlicensed revolver and that Goetz resembled the description of the "Subway Vigilante," tipped the police that it possibly was Goetz. Goetz surrendered to police nine days after the incident and was eventually charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and several firearms offenses. A Manhattan jury found him not guilty of all charges except an illegal firearms possession count, for which he served two-thirds of a one-year sentence.

It's 25 plus years later and another man, coincidentally with the same initials as Goetz, Brennddy Garcia, was forced to take justice into his own hands in the grimy subway system of New York City, in the number 2 train again, while the mayor was probably contemplating  how he can advance his plan to  reduce the use of salt on food in NYC, and Homeland Security officials were probably passing out more pictures of machine gun toting subway police that could be featured prominently in the dwindling circulation NYC propaganda rags, sometimes referred to as newspapers.

The great disconnect in all this is, for sure, another indicator that the empire, called the United States of America, is teetering on the edge of collapse. A youth has to defend himself in the subway system against a gang of thugs, when machine-gun toting police are supposedly protecting the same subway system against terrorists? The important question should be, "If the city isn't even protected against common thugs, who plan their crime sprees only seconds before they are executed,  how are these pictured machine gun toting  propaganda pieces going to halt a well thought out terrorist plot?"

Here's NyPo's report on the gang of thugs and the 19-year old forced to defend himself:

The two subway riders fatally stabbed along the downtown 2 line were attacked during a rowdy "train party" -- a fast-growing epidemic where youths, packing booze, smokes and sometimes weapons, take over a subway car in "wilding" episodes long after the bars have closed.

"It's like something from the bad old days of New York," a law-enforcement source told The Post..

Last Sunday, the group of 12 to 13 thugs that included the stabbing victims spent most of the night drinking and terrorizing people in Midtown.

At the Duane Reade at 40th Street and Broadway, some of them climbed on 6-foot-high theft detectors near the entrance as others yelled loudly around the store, three employees said.

They then joined the rest of the group. The plan was to board a downtown 2 train with 40-ounce beers and have a "train party" on the way home.

The young men harassed several passengers, and eventually zeroed in on Garcia and his four friends.

Garcia was smashed on the head by a bottle that shattered...

Garcia then took out his folding knife and let two of the thugs have it.

In typical New York City bizarre government thinking, where you are supposed to take mugging and getting smashed over the head with a 40 ounce beer bottle, quietly, like a wimp, Garcia has been charged with murder and assault.

The obviously brain dead prosecutor, John Veiga, said at the arraignment that Garcia "reacted to a perceived act of disrespect in a grossly disproportionate manner."

Bottom line: Big cities are  becoming outlaw country, again. Just a day earlier, a 14 year old in Washington DC shot up 10, leaving 4 dead, in a drive by.

The recession is causing cut backs in the police presence, which since they are government run are never that impressive anyway. And the absurd Homeland Security media posing is only wasting some of the cut backed resources.

As the economy continues to look more and more like a car stuck in mud and interest rates start to soar, things are not going to get any better at street level. Think about the best ways to avoid trouble (always the best plan) but realize that the machine gun toting police aren't going to be anywhere near you when you need them. That means you also need to take lessons on how to defend yourself, AND how to correctly leave the scene after you have defended yourself.

Another lesson here is to shut down your myspace site, twitter site etc. It is not going to be your friend, when you are in trouble. The media and the government now turn to those sites first to determine who someone is. 

NyPo picked this picture off the MySpace site of Garcia:

Despite the fact that Garcia appears to have acted in complete self-defense, NyPo because of this pic  is trying to smear him by calling him, "knife-loving."

I wonder if they will call Homeland Security the "machine gun-loving" Homeland Security because of the pics of Homeland Security agents pictured with machine guns?

If you like the big city life style, you better be prepared to defend yourself in the big city, but keep the details to yourself.