Williamsport is a town in the middle part of Pennsylvania.
You wouldn't want to go there. It's oppressively Republican and
backward. It's the kind of place where class is all important.
Well, Williamsport had a drug problem. The rich white kids were getting stoned. Rich white kids do that kind of thing, you know. The cops in conservative Williamsport weren't much interested in deterring drug addiction. They wanted to catch addicts and jail them. That's the way Republicans are (unless it's them, of course). They like to look down on others. They like to punish. They don't like to help. The Williamsport cops weren't used to jailing rich white kids. Jails were built to punish the poor for being poor and punish the blacks for being black and punish the laborer for being a lowly worker. Jailing rich white kids would throw the class system out of kilter. To help lure rich white kids, the Williamsport cops got a pickup truck. Blacks may like "pimp-mobiles," but white kicks, are hot after pickup trucks. It is the crazy Nascar mentality. Go figure! It was a very nice pickup truck, big and powerful. But one morning not long after the cops got it, it came up missing. Some crook had taken the pickup out-of-state and not just out-of-state, but out of the country! It looked like a serious crime. The cops had hardly used the pickup to sucker in any rich white kids. In fact, they hadn't caught any. They didn't much try to catch rich kids. Poor kids are what the Williamsport cops are after. So, where was the dandy pickup truck? It was in Canada by a fishing lake. Seems that John McKenna, the chief of police had stolen the truck. He called it "borrowed." His sidekick, another cop, Thomas H. Ungard, Jr., seems to have been his accomplice. Ungard was the Williamsport drug cop, the one who ignored the rich white kids. He liked fishing. McKenna and Ungard stole (or borrowed if you insist) the truck to haul a boat to Canada for a fishing vacation. There's no saying where they got the boat. The cops didn't say how many fish they caught or how drunk they got. This is the kind of thing you expect in places like Williamsport. It's a place of double standard. That's what it means to be "conservative." |
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