That thing about "say a lie enough times and it becomes the truth" that Goebbels or Kaiser Soze or whoever said generally winds up being used by obnoxious middle-ground liberal types to condescend to the overly-religious or folks who don’t believe in global warming, but in the case of London’s burgeoning population of "Pakistani street gangs" it’s sort of true. You see, there really isn’t one. There are plenty of Tamil and Bangladeshi gangs with colourful names like the Tooting boys who get lumped into the general rubric of "pakis" by your average racist, which eventually filters its way up into the mainstream media to mixed levels of caring. For our second foray into Britain’s gangtopia, we decided to sidestep this little lingual hotspot and focus on the guys running the heroin trade in which these smaller "Pakistani" gangs dabble: The Turks.
Reader Comments
November 30th, 2006
6:03 am
Alright thanks for the informational, all I want to know is why heroin? Why not sell something invaluable like 1001 Arabian Nights book, or a magic lamp… Heroin is totally cliche
November 30th, 2006
6:10 am
“obnoxious middle-ground liberal types to condescend to the overly-religious or folks who don’t believe in global warming”
Care to name names? Prominent names? Like everything that Vice bitches about, these “liberals” are paper tigers, appearing only in the minds of contrarian New York transplants, overcompensating for having been born in Canada.
November 30th, 2006
8:48 am
vam is spot-on. If the caant’s would just stick to making and selling rugs, no-one would care what they wear on their heads or how many innocent people they kill on the tube. Probably.
November 30th, 2006
4:15 pm
this is an advert for a computer game right??
November 30th, 2006
7:55 pm
I don’t know why people seem so amazed by your conservatism.
A) You all buy that post-pc bullshit.
B) You all are a massive business.
December 2nd, 2006
4:38 am
I’m not amazed by the conservatism, just the asinine and grandiose way they advertise it, i.e., the war against liberal strawmen such as above as well as the much-vilified baby boomer ex-hippies who are making life a living hell for all Americans.
December 2nd, 2006
1:00 pm
vice uk sux the anus.