HW35B: Responding to Riverbend
HW35B:
Article:Sunday, September 07, 2003
Riverbend, Pg 52
“Its like Chicago….during the 1920’s when Al Capone was running it:” (Riverbend, 52) Who is Al Capone and why is he mentioned? His real name is Alphonse Gabriel Capone. Capone was an Italian gangster who led the crime system dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition era of the 1920’s and 1930’s. He was born in NY then moved to Chicago getting into the criminal organizations there known as the Chicago Outfit. He was also, know as Scarface. They are relating to Al Capone that he is like the Iraq puppets like Al-Jaffari, Al-Chalabi, Al Hakim and L. Paul Bremer. I can only imagine what Al Capone did because if he is being compared to the president puppets in Iraq, he must have had a severe impact and it must have been not been pleasant unless you wanted drugs and alcohol. When I think of Al Capone, I think of some top notch drug dealer like Johnny Depp in Blow.
Unknown, “Al Capone”, Wikipedia 9 April 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. New York: The Feminist Press.2005
Unknown, “Al Capone”, Wikipedia 9 April 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
