Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments

Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments
by Leroy "Nicky" Barnes

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Author: Leroy "Nicky" Barnes
Contributor: Tom Folsom
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-06
ISBN: 159071041X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Rugged Land
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ISBN13: 9781590710418
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Book Review: Crime Doesn't Pay for Black Males!
Summary: 3 Stars

This Nicky Barnes was something else. There's so much I want to say. I will first start off by saying that if he just had used his smarts to start a legal business, go on Wallstreet, or something, he would have really been a big man in history. He had the smarts and intelligence to be many great things. You have to be smart to stay alive in the streets and to get rich, crime may be dumb, but there is a level of intelligence involved in organized crime. These black guys in the underworld business certainly had smarts, which makes you wonder what they could have become, if it wasn't for racism and lack of opportunity, but at the same time, there's been many black men who overcame the odds and became something in this world and no one could ever take what they earned away, like it can be taken away if you do crime. You can fight back at the white man better with an education, the white man still wins in the end if your doing organized crime, because you'll end up in chains (like slavery) going to prison.

Malcolm X in his autobiography once said he knew many smart black guys in the underworld but racism held them back from becoming politicians, mathamaticians, detectives, police officiers, and so many other great things. Malcolm X himself was very intelligent but fail to crime because he was told he couldn't be a lawyer or attorney but only a carpenter. He looked on the street and saw other black men living as man, having power, by pimping, peddling drugs, and gangbanging and felt that was the only way of life for him but he turned his life around and became one of our greatest leaders and speakers.

Nicky Barnes has a lot of sense and intelligence, he could have been a great professor, wallstreet type money man, politician, the possibilities are endless, but maybe he had no one to encourage him in that direction. So many black men are told they'll never be nothing and they start to believe it themselves, feeling they can't be anything but a gangster, pimp, or drug dealer because that's the only occupation of successful black men they see. We have a black president now, we can be anything we want. If we do it the legal way to be successful, though it may be hard, no one can ever take away what we earn.

I have a problem with Nicky supposedly turning against his friends because they were sleeping with his wife and mistress. I don't get it. It's okay for him to cheat but not his women? Funny, how bad guys who don't do right want their women to do right by them. Women are very powerful. They say behind great men are great women but women have also been the ruin of many men so the "bros before hoes" quote don't always ring true. If you're a hoe don't expect your woman to be faithful. If it's true he had his wife killed. I hope he dies a long, horrible death. He did plenty wrong but didn't want anyone to do it to him? He got rich off the illness and addictions of poor blacks, his own people. He ruined the lives of many in his own community because of their addictions, so he hurt his community more then helped it, like many today. They weren't killing whites but their own people. I think what he did should be punished with death more then his wife or girl cheating. I wonder how his daughters feel about their father and what he did to their mother? His daughters paid the ultimate price. If your women cheating, there's other women out there. If you got played, accept it, and move on, there's other fish in the sea. I think Nicky thought his women would never cheat on him and his ego couldn't take it when he found out, so he wanted revenge and ruined everyone's else's life, because it's okay for him to have other women but not okay for his women to have other men, especially his partners. Funny, how us humans try to make rules for people to do right by us when were doing wrong. What did he expect? His women to wait on him until he got out? When he was in for life?

Some people feel Nicky did wrong by "snitching" on his friends, well, I feel he got back at them because he felt they done him wrong. He was in prison suffering, why shouldn't they suffer? They out having freedom, sleeping with his women, that would make anyone mad and want to get "the big payback" as James Brown would say. As fascinating as this book may be, I guess crime doesn't pay. Pretty soon you'll end up in prison or dead. There isn't much loyalty amongst thieves, especially in an already crooked business. All this don't snitch stuff going on in the black community is bogus. I don't see why we should let criminals ruin our community, their not ruining the white communities, because they know better, their taking advantage of their own people. I don't feel any loyalty to people like that. Kids getting killed in the street, kids getting molested, girls/women raped, old people robbed, I feel people who do that stuff should be told on if you know. Half our money go to pay taxes for police to protect us, let them do their jobs. I feel if you a real man, do what you do, but don't be cowardly going around telling people "don't snitch or I'll do this and that to you," if you ain't scared, be a man and do what you do, if you don't want to pay the price don't do the crimes. Be like the cowboys in the Wild Wild West days shoot it out and come what may. I feel it's more of us in the community then the criminals, if we all band together, they can't kill us all, but as long as were scared, they'll have the control.

Back in the old gangster days in the 30's and 40's people like Al Capone, Bumpy Johnson, and such took care of their communities, gave money to the poor, had food drives, gave toys to the kids, and such. That's why they were admired by their community and still remembered today. Their crimes didn't involved harming their community. There were no drive by shooting killing innocent children or people. They knew how to get their men without harming innocent people.

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Summary of Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments

From inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, the "Black Godfather" chronicles the 1970s New York City underworld and the most devastating urban crime wave in history.

1962 LEROY "NICKY" BARNES walks out of Green Haven State Prison. There are an estimated 153,000 heroin abusers in the United States.

1977 Two million junkies score $100 million worth of Barnes's smack a year. Sporting flashy suits, riding in a Citro?n with a Maserati engine and satisfying a wife while pleasuring a harem of mistresses, Barnes presides over a staggering multinational dealership that pushes dope and launders money with the efficiency of a Fortune 500 company. Despite President Nixon's creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration and New York State's adoption of the no tolerance Rockefeller drug laws, Barnes's operation seems impregnable.

How does a small-time hustler and heroin addict end up on the cover of the New York Times Magazine as MR. UNTOUCHABLE, the one gangster the Feds can't touch? And how is the future Mayor of New York City Rudolf Giuliani involved? With Machiavellian pragmatism matched with biblical fury, Barnes lays bare his life's remarkable trajectory--a rise, fall and resurrection defined by brutality, brotherhood and betrayal.

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