These days, the Level 3 is known as a place where mobs of drunken animals gather for a little late night/early morning fun. After the patrons finish getting drunk beyond belief and playing with illegal strippers, they pile out into the street en masse for more revelry. And by "revelry," we mean that they go out into the street and recklessly discharge firearms for no good reason and generally make themselves a nuisance to law-abiding citizens.
So imagine our surprise when we learned that Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker (R) has a close connection to the Level 3 f/k/a Touch thug bar. While we don't know if the straight-laced family values conservative has actually gone to the Level 3 to get his freak on, we do know that one of his staffers has a business interest in this thug bar.
Meet Saleem Baird.
The staffer in question is a young fellow named Saleem Baird. Mr. Baird serves as Senator Wicker's "Legislative Correspondent." For these services, Mr. Baird is paid over $50,000.00 a year in taxpayer money. No word on how much of that he uses to thug-up our downtown neighborhood at Level 3/Touch.
It seems quite strange that a conservative Senator like Mr. Wicker would allow a staffer to have a business interest in this type of night club. It becomes even more strange when one considers Senator Wicker's close connection with the ultra-conservative religious-right American Family Association. Something tells me Rev. Wildmon would not approve of the debauchery that goes on at this place.
Maybe one day Senator Wicker can tell us how he feels about one of his staffers being involved in this den of iniquity. Until then, we'll keep an eye out for Senator Wicker walking around downtown wearing a wifebeater and Cincinnati Reds cap and smoking a blunt.
HOLY SHIT!!!
ReplyDeleteI live in the King, and have personally WITNESSED through their windows nude dancing, under-age girls entering, all night debauchery (one of my neighbors WATCHED fornication in the parking lot, with a quick bout of urination right after the "deed"), illegal firearms ad nauseum.
ReplyDeleteDIS FREAKING GUSTING.
Does Senator Wicker know, or is this a smear campaign?
ReplyDelete3:50 if he knew, I think he would give the lil slimeball a choice. Thug, or non-thug. IE: you are outa here. Don't you?
ReplyDelete350, definitely not a smear campaign. I've voted for Roger Wicker everytime he's been on the ballot (going back to when I lived in the 1st district and he was congressman), and will continue to vote for him in the future. It is disturbing, however, that he has a staffer mixed up with this crap.
ReplyDelete4:29. He needs to fire his low class ass or he will regret this day he was introduced to fleas in his own backyard.
ReplyDeleteI'm a resident of the Standard Life building and have witnessed this (and called the police) numerous times. It's real. It's very real. Unfortunately because the gunfire isn't happening across the street from Mr. Wicker's bedroom window, it seems to go unnoticed. I'm absolutely amazed no one has been fatally injured. I'm also amazed that it happens like clockwork. I go to bed on Saturday night. At 3:30am, I get awoken by heavy gunfire. I call the police. The police respond and shout over the loudspeaker for everyone to go home. The crowd scrambles. Next Saturday... repeat. All it will take is one bullet to end the downtown revitalization...just sayin'
ReplyDeleteJust sayin...I feel your pain and understand as I am at the King and witnessed the damndest thing the night of JSU homecoming. 2:30 in the morning, people are pouring into the train station. LOUD. Cops drive by. Nothing. Until this city realizes that this outrageous behavior is outside the norm of decency, we WILL experience a tragic incident, someone will get shot, and the "decent" people that live, but don't drink all night long, will leave.
ReplyDeleteDo we have a Mayor? Is he aware of this crap?
@7:53--I thought someone did get shot a month or two ago. Started outside Locker Room and finished/died in front of the King Ed?
ReplyDelete5:48. You are right. Scuffle inside/outside Locker Room thug bar a few weeks ago at 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. Who the fuck is out at 2:30 in the morning on a "work day". Any way, hundreds of these low-lifes outside my apartment in the King on Capital Street raising all kind of hell. Cops took the dude DOWN with a shot to the shoulder, he got up, and they chased his sorry ass around the corner down Capital and took a right on Mill.
ReplyDeleteHad him spread eagle in the parking lot across from the train station. Took his sorry ass off. Another day at the ball park.
Very cool! Another blog to follow.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, I've been to the KE. And, we were up late due to a guest from CA who is on West Coast time and saw the debauchery and behavior shared here - this was a month ago.
Suffice it to say, we and my guest will never be venturing that deep into Jackson again.
One trip was enough to keep us out.
JPD is useless. They like to blame the DA and the judges but the cops are as much to blame for Jackson being a shithole as anyone. I've spent a week trying to get various government employees to do their jobs and all it has done is make me furious. Jane Tucker
ReplyDeleteSenator Wicker doesn't have to worry about what we think of him, although I'm sure he does. Realistically, no one has time to mount a campaign against him next year - the filing deadline is in January - so the earliest an opponent could realistically use this against him is in six years, at which time it will be long forgotten. Now, will Wicker do the right thing anyway and give this guy a chance to divest himself of his interest in this cesspool or find another job? I'm guessing yes. Bill Billingsley
ReplyDeleteSo, now that we've exhausted ourselves blaming Dale Danks, Kane Ditto, The white establishment in general, Frank Melton, the past seven police chiefs and Haley, we can now say with some confidence that Jackson's shit hole status is the fault of Roger Wicker. I'm beginning to see how this works.
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What really kills me is you get ripped off or whatever by the original thug and when you try to correct the situation by contacting the people who are paid by tax dollars to do something about it, they act like you're the criminal for trying to get anything done. Jane
ReplyDeleteNot living in Jackson that long yet nor being out at 2:30am, I don't understand how JPD could not do anything. Are they scared of the thugs? Does this element rule the night and JPD stays in until daylight? Is it the good'ole'boy do-nothing wait-till-tomorrow attitude that halts change? If the illegal activity you list is so predictable, shouldn't it be easy to catch and prevent? Thanks for a venue to post my frustration about what seems like it should be a decent city, but instead is a place I don't dare raise my children.
ReplyDeleteLooks to me like "payola", 8:23. Pure and simple.
ReplyDeleteGood Lord, I just noticed the links to the right of page, regarding other acts of trash and thugerry.
ReplyDeleteGotta love that tramp from Brandon.
Is this the club around the corner from where Dick and Jane's used to be? I remember leaving Dick and Jane's one night about two years ago and freaking out as we turned a corner nearby where dozens of people were in the road firing gunshots, screaming, and fighting.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't Sam Dabit own this place and rent it out on a monthly basis to these scumbags? Where is his picture? Why isn't he arrested if teenagers are topless in his property, his property doesn't close at 2, and it does not meet code?
ReplyDeleteIsn't this the SAME PLACE that shot up the brand new Pinnacle building at 2 in the morning last year?
Holy Mother of God! I KNOW this guy. He DOES represent Senator Wicker. NO WAY the Senator knows about this, but I will be sure he does now.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the Steadivest guy Marshall Wolfe who ran a ponzi scheme and bilked millions of dollars from local investors? Is he in prison? Somebody said Jim Hood put him away.
ReplyDeleteI am SOOO glad I live in Madison now. No one claims about this stuff at Soulshine Georgia Blue. Thank you Mary!
ReplyDeleteMe too! I've never seen guns being fired in the streets near Alumni House or Sombra. Jacksonians should spend a month and Madison to recalibrate their expectations. Then, a healthy level of intolerance for things like the public fornicaiton, urination, prostitution, and defecation can be introduced to the City with with slime.
ReplyDeleteMadison is not ALL that. I saw a guy smoking a cigarette outside of Georgia Blue in the middle of the day!
ReplyDeleteWho gives shit over here. We are not talking about that. We are talking about a U.S Senator that has a dirtbag on his staff, is in violation of many ordinances, who has has strippers arrested for illegally stripping, along with the manager, and is reported to have patrons slipping guns into womens' purses, on and on. Go call Kingfish. He is all over that stuff.
ReplyDelete1:06 was meant for 12:51.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder what planet we "live" on down here.
ReplyDeleteAs of last week Jim Hood has done nothing about Marshall Wolfe or the Steadivest fraud. Some newspaper said his scam was over 10 milion dollars. Poor Mississippians who invested with him.
ReplyDeleteI heard that Marshall Wolfe who ran Steadivest screwed family, friends, church members, even relatives out of millions of dollars and has still not been prosecuted. What kind of judicial system do we have in this state. I think he was operating out of the Pearl area and built a million dollar house in the Palisades at the reservoir.
ReplyDeleteHeard that Marshall Wolfe is working in Mississippi somewhere and has not paid back any money to anybody and took bankruptcy and left his investors holding the bag.
ReplyDeleteCurt, any updates on the great political activist Saleem?
ReplyDeleteTrying to get a comment from him or Senator Wicker. Will post updates.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with having a club downtown and the constant references to "thugs" is a little racist. Perhaps the thing to do is reach out to JPD with your concerns. If illegal activity is going on, they should stop it. If they don't, then you take it to the mayor. If nothing changes after that, then you can always vote Harvey out of office for being ineffective. The same thing was done with Sheriff McMillan. Things will change in January and hopefully Tyrone can straighten out some of downtown Jackson's late night issues.
ReplyDeleteBeen there done that= ZERO results.Tyrone? You have GOT to be kidding.
ReplyDelete"straighten out some of downtown Jackson's late night issues." @ 10:21.
ReplyDeleteNothing to straighten out except people that are pushing the envelope or breaking the law. It is ridiculous late night/early morning down here. Ridiculous.
Go out and be a neighbor to "Pops",or the strip joints, but not us. Please just LEAVE.
WENDY'S, LOCKER ROOM, LEVEL 3, FIRE, NEW TRASH AT THE OLD MARDI GRAS. PLEASE LEAVE.
Is Wicker Ronnie Musgrove's half brother ?
ReplyDeleteThey look so much alike.
Hope Curt talks to Senator Wicker. Am looking forward to his actions on this. Has anybody spoken to Ryan Annison, Wicker's "State Field Director"?
ReplyDeleteRE: October 29, 2011 10:21 AM - Please tell us just what race "thugs" are?
ReplyDeleteHEY IDIOT AT 4:28. SEE DIRTY WHITE BOY AND CHIP REYNOLDS. THEY = THUG. DON'T PULL THIS BLACK WHITE SHIT ON US. AS CURT SAYS, TRASH IS NOT A RACE.
ReplyDeleteWEAK.
4:32. You meant Chip Matthews, I am sure.
ReplyDeleteYou people need to get a life and a clue!
ReplyDeleteWe got a life and don't plan on losing it to a lowlife mob up to no good.
ReplyDelete2:55. HERE IS A CLUE. SHOW YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR DAUGHTER WR'S WEBPAGE. NOW. THEN TAKE IT TO CHURCH AND SHOW YOUR SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS.
ReplyDelete7:48 I showed it to my pastor he said nice pictures!
ReplyDelete9:00. If in Rankin County, we are not surprised.
ReplyDeleteTypical. Tuuuuurash.
God they set their dumbasses up for oh shit comments.
ReplyDeleteOK Curt, I see how this works. You must delete any post that is contrary to your opinion. Last week I commented about this and didn't agree with your connection of Wicker to this establishment. Instead, I pointed out that if this does exist as you say it does, it is the problem of Harvey Johnson and JPD.
ReplyDeleteBut since this website was created by you and Downtown Ben Allen, that didn't fit your purpose. Therefore, you don't want to post the comment - as I'm sure you will not do with this one either.
As I said before, I question your connection of Saleem to the particular problems you identify but rather the association of two different establishments into 'being one'. Further, even if Saleem does have a connection to the bar in question - its not a Roger Wicker activity. I made a 'comparison' to staffers of others (former Senator Lott, in particular). Guess that's maybe why you and Ben decided not to post it.
But the fact is - assuming you are correct in the problems you identify - CALL Harvey and his police department. Put his picture on the post. And his name in the headline. Its their responsibility to deal with these issues, no matter who owns the establishments or who is committing the crimes.
But - guess Downtown Ben doesn't want that - it would expose his charade of how good Jackson is being run.
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ReplyDeleteIts amazing how some of you perfect pricks have so much to say ON HERE.. ANONYMOUSLY, might I add! The entire vent session about downtown was first how much there is NOT to do! For those that are disturbed about the things taking place downtown, being the overly SMART person you are, should've known what it entailed upon moving. If you go to any city, from New York to Cali, downtown areas are overpriced, jazzed but run down with prissy tenants and urban lifestyles. I think the key is, from reading much of this, and the said attacks on every club in the area, is merely a sign of who is IN circle vs those that are OUTSIDE! In the midst of it all, be clear, these clubs probably pay more in taxes, bring more revenue and entertainment than any of you'll rent payment! More than you may spend at the Parlor Room or Downtown Cafe.
ReplyDeletehis is also a well calculated attempt to end spots that were picked and chosen... Let's see, on this site in general, Magoos, Locker Room and Wendy was mentioned... but NOT HAL-N-MALS (which was steps away from HnM) or F. Jones Corner??? Interesting...Easy to see!!! Oh well, we'll see how these blocks and walls are put in place and if they succeed or not. Hopefully DJT will someday expose Watkins and how he hustled his way in on getting the KE for a million and some change, at the expense of the city losing 3 mill from the Roberts Brothers... then go into how he defaulted on the LOAN once, maybe twice vs having cash money from the Roberts Brothers...
Good to see though, many of you want this little prissy snow white fairy tale of a city that will only exist here and no where else in America..Good luck!
P.S. One cmmt at the top - u said u watched a nude women through the window one night with underaged girls... Question: Did YOU check thier i.d.? And I must say, your eyes are remarkable to see THROUGH A TINTED WINDOW IN WHICH LIGHTS ARE FLICKERING...to be absolutely SURE she was NAKED!
I think the problem with many who object here is -- the money isn't being made the WAY you want it to BY those YOU DO NOT want it to be made by!
As soon as a mob of 500 animals pours out of Hal n Mals at 4am and starts emptying mags for no good reason, you will see Malcolm White's picture on here.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know if the comment at the top about the naked hoes was accurate, but when JPD Vice dragged 3 of their pastie and buttfloss-clad asses out of there and took them to jail, that was proof enough for us.
Lol... so crime is the all mighty sign to end businesses? Think carefully, bc I can give you MANY examples of crimes that have happened in places OTHER than nightclubs. Also, its quite evident that many of the opposing people want a squeaky clean city, world, etc...but its not going to happen! This will also NOT be some retirement city/state as if there's only one set of people that matter simply bc the same people that may party all night, go to jail, become loud, even the idiots are a part of those buying food from your friends restaurants, tires, clothing for children, etc just as your friends. Understand, I'm not for the foolery, not at all, however, to try and monopolize and control an area bc of the dislike, in addition to your disrespect with this animal shyt, is simply not going to change anything with those who opt not to. When the city made that 2 million bucks the other week, after the game, where would they have gone?
ReplyDeleteSome of the SAME people we all know, are buying the drug of their choice and I'm willing to bet you they will not take a drug test... they may be purchasing 'sex'...we have NO strip clubs... NO professional sports teams... so what is there here???
I like U-119 .. Hals, makes awesome chili .. but I also like Freelons and Birdland .. Until these FAKE smart people in office and running DJP come up with a level of entertainment that's inline, this will continue...downtown, north, west, south, east! Then the real kicker is the PIMPING they have in place for Farish St... but I did pay attention on how u ONLY commented on the club issue and not how the village idiots pulled off the theft of the year! Lol...
7:54.
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Brad! errr...Kamikazi.
754pm:
ReplyDeleteI have not heard one person in downtown that said there should be no restaurants or bars downtown. We want reputable, responsible business owners here.
You have a problem with the term "animal?" What would you call a wild mob indiscriminately discharging firearms in the street at 4am? Would you prefer the term "murderous thugs?"
You mention freelons. We have not posted anything about freelons. Intel we get is that Mr. Freelon tends to business at his club. Our information is that if one goes to freelons and goes wild, jpd is the least of their worries. Short answer is Freelons is not causing a problem in the community. That's because Mr. Freelon appears to be a responsible business owner. And that is precisely why we haven't said one word about his operation.
As for birdland, I will let the fact that you patronize that place speak for itself.
No problem with the nightclub "DREAMZ" either, that I am aware of, and it is downtown.
ReplyDeleteO.C. - I love your "Selective" attack tactic! I used Birdland in the same sentence with U-119! I'm quite diverse! The ONLY reason there is no problem with Dreamz and outside clubs is bc none of you LIVE near them! WHO ARE YOU TO DECIDE WHAT IS REPUTABLE?? Nonetheless, outside of the opinions in which we all have, your blogs are pretty much even across the board...from DWB - Wendy - and so on... Been fun, can't wait until the next one I see interest me! Until then, find out, and expose how the city gave the King Edward to Watkins and Crew, who had NO MONEY ON HAND, for 2 mill LESS than Roberts Brothers offered (CASH) plus the default on the loan, maybe 2 months...or why the police always block MILL St off when there is a projected large event at Freelons-WHO'S MAKING THAT CALL.....lolol... *Sarcasm, I know you won't*
ReplyDelete9:35 needs no response as the facts are so distorted, a response would be futile.
ReplyDeleteLet's just politely say that he/she/it does not know what he/she/it is talking about, and is simply passing along "street talk".
Interesting!! Its funny that we're all actually percieved EXACTLY like we always assumed we were by they yuppy trash. Of course you dont see anything about f. jones being open till daylight with fights, car wrecks, ect, you dont hear anything about craig running a red light drunk at 3am at nearly 100mph, you dont here about the owner of U 119 being a racist and not serving certain brown liquors in his attempt to keep black patrons out. These are the kind of bars that the downtown nerds feel as a safe house from the mainstream type clubs, bars, etc. I could go on & on but to call fire a meat market is an absoulte joke, there 1 of the most well respected concert venues in the country. If you want to see a meat market go in your precious F. Jones corner after 2am, its where all the meat head douche bags in there affliction shirts go to either fight or find some downtown jackson slut to take them back to "her" or "his" (yes that was a gay ref.) apartment to fuck & do blow. If the police really wanted to put a dent in the local drug trade all they would have to do it search all you yuppies apartments for coke.
ReplyDeleteI could go on & on but I have to work
Level 3 is also running the 3rd floor of the building without a legal permit, there is only 1 stairway going up & 1 going down so if there is a fire or emergency people are fucked
ReplyDeleteThe owner, SAM DABIT, obviously doesn't care as long as he gets his $4,600 per month.
ReplyDelete4600 cash. Also known as 51 grams or 204 lines, give or take.
ReplyDeleteRacist haters.
ReplyDeleteRace pimp alert at 1:09. Take your animal mob and your unlicensed butt naked strippers somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteYou people are something else... SMDH
ReplyDeleteSo because Level 3 caters to mostly black constituents, its considered a thug bar? Then taking it a step further & referencing it patrons as "drunken animals" is quite offensive & blatantly racist. Whoever wrote this is a COWARD hiding behind a 'veil' of anonymity. Don't hold your breath waiting to see Sen Wicker "wearing a wifebeater and Cincinnati Reds cap and smoking a blunt." You are a race baiting piece of crap, who would never speak such incendiary remarks in a public venue or to anyone of color. Keep in mind, you & the idiots that support this blog JUST moved back to Jackson. Jackson will always be Jackson, accept it or move back to where you came from. In the last few years, it became cool to live in Downtown Jackson, basically for the novelty. If that effect has worn off as I said before move back to Rankin or Madison County, where its "safe".
ReplyDelete8:08pm, settle down Junior. As I've stated previously, that tired ass race card just won't work here. We are equal opportunity a$$holes. If you don't believe it, take a look around this site. We have featured thugs, criminals, degenerates and trash of all races.
ReplyDeleteThe Level 3 is a thug bar because of its patrons' behavior. Wildly discharging firearms in the street for no good reason qualifies as thuggery, regardless of race. It is also characteristic of the behavior of wild animals, not law-abiding human beings.
Do you even live downtown? I doubt it. You're just a thug-loving enabler who's is more concerned with showing who "runs shit," than improving the community.
This statement from you is very telling about your character: "Jackson will always be Jackson, accept it or move back to where you came from."
Thanks for the suggestion, but go fuck yourself. From our point of view, there are two choices when confronted with a thug animal. We can either (1) run away, or (2) turn the thug animal's head into a fucking canoe. Judge for yourself which option we prefer.
We WILL clean up this neighborhood--by any means necessary.
We will leave downtown as soon as your little punk bitch Saleem Baird goes back to where he is from--NEW ORLEANS. You did know that right? The little bastard isn't even from Jackson and thinks he is going to open a strip club downtown.
ReplyDeletePeople downtown dislike the fucker not because he is black, but because he is a piece of shit. A poser. Trying to kiss ass in the republican party like hes the new JC Watts, and running a strip club a block away from people's homes at night. Like I said, little punk bitch.
In response to "TruF' said"
ReplyDeleteWhere are you getting your facts about K.E., Watkins and Roberts Bros? Or do you just make up shit? The Roberts Bros won the original bid on the King Edward and they defaulted on the deal with JRA. JRA then offered the K.E. to Watkins/HRI. They paid the appraised value of the building in cash to the JRA and then invested $89.6 million, employing hundreds of folks, generating sales taxes, ad valorem taxes, cleaning up blight, sparking a rebirth in that part of town. I don't know how you equate this action with Watkins "hustled his way" on getting the King and should be "exposed." Sounds to me like you've got a real jealousy issue here.
If your knowledge about other downtown stuff is as lame as it is about the K.E./Watkins stuff, then you are wasting everybody's time and energy reading your blogs.
I would say do your homework before posting and slandering folks, but given the tone of your comments, that's probably too much to ask. Perhaps you could just reveal your identity and let us judge from there.
808pm = Tougaloo grad. Memorized the dictionary but sounds like an idiot trying to use the words in a sentence.
ReplyDeleteYou can always tell who's guilty. When they don't deny the bad behavior and cry racism instead, it's a good indication they're guilty.
ReplyDelete8:08 = Guilty.
Dontcha love the way the prick posted that nonsense like he is the voice of the AA community. Does the moron think that Black residents of downtown want saleems strip club, gunfire, noise all night etc? Does he think Dntwn residents would be less upset if the perpetrators were white?
ReplyDelete8:08 IS A SELF SERVING "PROMOTER" AND IT IS APPARENT WHO HE IS.
ReplyDelete"In the last few years, it became cool to live in Downtown Jackson, basically for the novelty."
ReplyDeleteHey d/a at 8:08. I moved d/t because it is near my office, not "cool", but now that you brought it up, I WILL admit that some of the thug bars and white trash skank bars have opened down here, it IS b/c the residents, not the trash, have made it what it is.
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/12/09/3623884/stripper-charges-dropped-wicker.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. We're going to find out which Judge did that and make him/her the most famous part-time municipal judge in the state. Stay tuned.
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