Angry Minute 6-22-01

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On Saturday night Hennepin County's new $96 million dollar Jail opened with a bang.
The structure, designed to harbor the unsavory-likes of murderers, child molesters, and other criminals,
in fact held a much worse caliber of species---
A set of aristocracies in prison garb, sipping martini & rossi,
thinking they actually CAN stoop to a lower level for the sake of charity.
It was that crazy jet-setting charity called Magic 8 Ball,
who seem to try to outdo their own events each year for the sake of satisfying their own glib cause.

This year, their "dare we say" charity event was held inside the cement walls of the new Hennepin County Jail.
The lead organizer, and even co-chairman, Darren Ennis, said he went to look at the jail and saw just a shell… but then declared "If I can pull this off, it would be fantastic…a once in a lifetime… "
Oops.
He meant what a great opportunity to raise money and awareness for one of life's sad reality …
I could care less what the cause was for-glamorizing an institution we should be ashamed to have to have,
is irresponsible.
One attendee commented that one of the jail cells transformed into a Moulin Rouge piano bar
was "…different, unique, and brand new…"
...and tragic, distressing and woeful…
How can people lose so much of their perspective on such a pitiful reality.
Have we forgotten how wrong the world is that we need building after building
to house sick and sordid walks of life, or did we just stop caring, and as long as we turn our cheek to a different excuse, it doesn't exist??

The fact that they hid behind the facade of charity is what bugs me most,
then comes their frat-like lack of creativity…next year,
let's have the same sock hop at the same jail and see then,
just how artistic it really is…
when you're sitting next to Curly, who just fed his family into a wood chipper.

Yeh, that's what I call fun…