The Wire 5x05 Full Reaction

The guy who was with Omar that died in the apartment shootout is who the character Omar is based on. He was the real “Omar” in Baltimore.

One thing, the number Ronda put down on the paperwork is NOT Marlo's, it's the fake number attributed to the serial killer. Officially, they don't even have Marlo's number. Their plan is that the serial killer doesn't call, but they use the wire to listen in on Marlo's phonecalls.

Which just occurred to me, because politics has been discussed: Naoki Urasawa's (author of Monster) manga PLUTO was recently adapted into 8 x 60 minutes episodes by Netflix. It deals with the Iraq war, motivations for war, human rights and racism in general in a sci-fi setting. Could perhaps be interesting for the 1 x week slot for anime in the future.

Given that many of the patrons here following The Wire are politically active and interested, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that there were far-right riots here tonight in Dublin Ireland. There's been an underbelly of anti-immigration rhetoric the last number of months and years, with the country getting particularly worse in the nation's capital towards POC and foreign-nationals. Following a man committing a violent act in the city who was of Eastern European descent, the city centre descended into chaos tonight, with immigration asylums and migrant hotels being lit on fire by racist thugs. You'd think the country with an extensive history of emigration (and subsequently its own discrimination) would be exempt from the plague of xenophobia and white supremacy. I'm truly ashamed of my country tonight. It's only getting worse and will only continue to get worse. I thought those of you interested in global affairs would want to be kept up to date.