Chris Birdy's Blog - Posts Tagged "whitey-bulger"

If you want to know about Catholics, talk to the Pope. If you want to know about Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang, ask Howie Carr. Ratman is the current book from Howie Carr. It covers the capture and trial of the greedy psychopath who terrorized the Boston area for many years. Howie Carr tells it like it was, and he should know. As a newspaperman in Boston, Howie Carr followed and wrote about the brothers Bulger with their tentacles reaching into the police department, State Police, FBI and politics. Even when his life was threatened, Howie Carr persisted. In this last chapter of the Bulger saga, Howie Carr shows Bulger for what he is, a Rat.

Anyone who has ever lived in Boston should read this heartbreaking story of the disintegration of an Irish family from South Boston (the greatest place on earth). From the police to the politicians and Whitey Bulger, everyone extracted their pound of flesh from these poor, proud people who would never snitch. To be a rat was the lowest form of sub-human life, and yet it turned out that the biggest rat of all was the king of Southie, Whitey Bulger.