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Cocaine 101: "Stepping Over The White Line".
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by Barry ORegan | May 17, 2008 at 04:48 am
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ScarFace, Miami Vice, Cocaine Cowboys all show the Fast Life, Fast Money, Fast Cars, Fast Babes and even the Faster Downside when Coke Dealers "Step over that imaginary White Line" known as "Cocaine 101".
"Stepping over the White Line" is a Line Dealers, fueled by Greed gingerly step over when they feel invincible, such as portrayed in Hollywood Movies.
Stepping over the White Line is a term used in the Cocaine World, where Dealers "Take food from the Middle Man's plate." Always with Dire Consequences, usually quite Gory and Graphic, with Symbolic Meanings to send a message to other Cocaine Dealers, who forget the Cardinal Rule of Sales and Distribution.
Hussein El-Hajj Hassan was one such Ottawa Cocaine Dealer, who cut out the middle man, fueled by Greed decided to shop The Big Box Wholesale Store instead of the established Distribution Outlets. The Cocaine World is a world where everybody knows your name (eventually). Hussein, was caught, literally with his pants down, down around his ankles, as a Pick Axe sent body parts flying, sending the Cocaine 101 message home.
Cocaine 101 rarely give retests for a failing grade.
Hussein El-Hajj Hassan was shot once through the heart and once through the gut, his head bludgeoned and his right hand severed before the man was buried face down in a shallow grave, jurors heard in the first-degree murder trial of Shant Esrabian.
Esrabian is the first of three men to stand trial, accused for his role in the August 2004 slaying of Ottawa cocaine dealer El-Hajj Hassan.
Esrabian has maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings.
Expert testimony continued yesterday with forensic pathologist Dr. Brian Johnston presenting jurors with often graphic slides of El-Hajj Hassan's autopsy, and of the wooded west-end pathway where his body was discovered by a passerby nearly a year after his death.
Police exhumed the body, which was found face down in a crouching position, his boxer shorts around his ankles, on June 28, 2005. The autopsy was performed the following day.
El-Hajj Hassan decided to buy directly from top dealerhttp://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=79766c18-616b-44a0-a02b-30c4788913b0&k=15430
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at 04:54 on May 17th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like your introduction!
at 05:48 on May 17th, 2008
Thanks Amy, for the comments, My, you're up awfully early?
My intro is more on my experiences, as regular readers of my past stories will attest.
Many feel treatment and rehabilitation is the answer, from my experience, 20 year jail terms are more effective in keeping these types off the streets, you would not believe how many I encounter time and time again, though they protest innocence, my past photos I take of their labs belie their innocence. Hence my belief, prison is the only answer.
at 05:56 on May 17th, 2008
I'm in London, England actually - so it's almost 3 in the afternoon here!
at 06:08 on May 17th, 2008
OIC, You attending this Royal Wedding or reporting on it?
at 06:15 on May 17th, 2008
Oh, I'm the royal photographer! No, just here and working today only.
at 07:17 on May 17th, 2008
I'm jealous. I loooooooooooooove London, and England, and I have friends to visit in the UK when I can paddle across the pond. :}
Take lots of pictures for fun!
at 06:54 on May 17th, 2008
Well Lucky you, enjoy your time away.
at 07:18 on May 17th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:51 on May 17th, 2008
Thanks PEP, much appreciated
at 09:15 on May 17th, 2008
... and enough with Scarface, people! Yeah, it was a cool movie, but he had money for about 11 seconds before he went nuts and blew it.
By the way, I like this article! Well done.
at 09:39 on May 17th, 2008
Thanks Jordan for the comments, true he had his 11 seconds of fame, before getting his hail of gunfire fame.
at 09:56 on May 17th, 2008
... and most people don't realize that Scarface is a remake of a 1932 film of the same name (nobody ever calls Tony Montana "Scarface"), relocated to exotic 80's Miami... Oliver Stone chose the name "Montana" after his football hero, SF 49er Joe Montana.
In real life, of course, one wouldn't get a chance to yell, "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" It just doesn't work that way.
at 10:09 on May 17th, 2008
HAHAHA, ah Yes, Hello my Little Friend !!! I have heard of that mantra, that's what my girlfriend says to me when I step out of a cold shower. I mean come on, a guy has to allow for shrinkage, ya know, she aint buying it though dammit.
at 11:23 on May 17th, 2008
(Also, without the popularity of Scarface, would Rick Ross have a career?)
at 12:20 on May 17th, 2008
Who knows Jordan, who knows'