printA shaken witness, who’ll probably never exorcise the horror from his head, dilates on a beheading on a bus in Canada.
My daughter travels on the Greyhound; lots of young people do. I do too, although not lately. The thought of this 22-year-old youngster hooked up to headphones suddenly being assailed by an evil individual—how horrifying and sad. Rural Canada is so safe and peaceful; who allowed evil to enter? Must I now issue a warning to my daughter; “Don’t sit near ‘foreign’-looking men on the bus; if one sits near you, get up and stand near the old lady at the rear end”? Is this the misery that multiculturalism has wrought?
Would that guns were allowed in Canada. The poor slain man, a mere boy, might be alive, because some good soul would have dropped the assassin on the spot.
I’d like to think that the American authorities would not have engaged in a stand-off, but would have stormed the bus right away, filling the monster with lead. Wishful thinking?
The initial official silence about the killer’s identity: Canadian authorities would have extended similar cordiality to all foreign killers of their population, but also to “native Canadians” or Indians. Had the barbarian been a honky, well, you know the drill.
Canada doesn’t have the death penalty. I hope that once Vince Weiguang Li is incarcerated, that the inmates take care of business. The same criminal injustice system is charging Li with second degree murder–unpremeditated murder–rather than First.
Update I: As you listen to the accounts, note how the victim, Tim McLean Jr., is depersonalized–how little sympathy is expressed for this innocent young man’s awful demise (but empathy is oozed for those who had to stomach the scene); how his name is never uttered; how attempts are made to turn passengers into heroes, when frankly, from the available accounts, there seem little evidence of heroism. Where is the passenger who took a crowbar (one of those implements available on buses to pry windows open) to the perp?
Update II: Away from the malpracticing media, on Facebook, there is sadness and grief for a young friend. And better, intelligent reporting from CTV. A lot of talk about the bogus “mental disorder” exculpation. Expect more of the same. Prepare yourself with a refresher: read “EVIL, NOT ILL.”
Update III (August 2): The killer, Vince Weiguang Li, looks decidedly as though he might be from Muslim-populated western China. If Muslim, there isn’t a ghost of a chance Canadian authorities will admit it–not if they can avoid it. This from Lawrence Auster’s “View From the Right”:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at one point said the following:
‘RCMP announced Friday morning that they have charged Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton with second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie. A Chinese Muslim, Li expressed to investigators that his actions were motivated by the Koran.’
That has since been deleted from the site. Canadian blogs have made copies of it for posterity. Here is the sanitized version of the CBC story without the Muslim reference.
Update IV (August 3): Jihad is a corner stone of Islam. If indeed Li is Muslim, then his actions, smiting at the neck of an infidel, are perfectly compatible with Muslim martyrdom.
From “For the Love of Islam“:
“The Call to Jihad” instructs Muslims that, “When you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them.” “Holy war, which is demanded in Islamic law, is not defensive war as the Western students of Islam would like to tell us…”
Recommended reading from my Islam Archive:
“For The Love Of Islam”
‘‘Obsession’ By Muhammad”
“Benedict The Brave”
‘“Islamikazes in Our Midst”
If Muslim, the Canadians will opt for the mental-disorder mantle to cloak Li with. The American traitor class would do no different
Just another example of what Canada’s failed immigration policies are responsible for on a daily basis.
It is becoming more obvious to me that the real agenda of the authorities is to protect THEMSELVES rather than (and from? us.
I remember “Dragnet” when Joe Friday had no body armor and only a 38 revolver for a weapon. We have come a long way since then. “Coward” is a more apt description than “hero” for many policemen.
The Columbine High School massacre comes to time mind where cops waited outside while students were being killed inside.
This Canadian situation is not being resolved favorably toward the cause of justice. Of course the perp should be guilty of first degree murder, not second-degree or manslaughter. And of course Candians should have the right to bear arms on public buses.
Given that socialist Canada is more likely than the U. S. to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, I sincerely hope that we will not witness a repeat of this kind of crime in the future. In the sorry event that we do, I would hope that our neighbors to the north take their cues to action from our Constitution (that is, from the Second Amendment) rather than from European Union apologist platitudes.
Dear God. Cases like these make me hope all the more that bleeding heart politicians will not succeed in out-lawing guns and the death penalty from America.
Ilana,
Perhaps you’ve seen this already?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25966835/
Perp eats victim’s flesh…demonic.
[I urge you to excerpt this report at length in another post. The RCMP waits as the perp cannibalizes the poor victim’s body.–IM]
In the tape of radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as “Badger” and says he is armed with a knife and scissors and is “defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak.”
On the tape, which lasts about 80 seconds, officers continue to detail the attacker’s movements until one reports, “Badger’s at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it.”
Machete bus attacks are not exclusively a Canadian phenomenon:
http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/tucson_local_news_071008_machete_attack.41bbd530.html
An attack occurred last month at a Tucson, AZ bus stop as well, primary target a 17-year old girl. Interestingly, one of the girl’s teenaged friends tried to intervene as the attack was going on, no weapons available to her, which places her in my book as far braver and more competent than the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Ouch! I live in Tucson. Time to carry my OC-10 pepper spray. Pepper spray may sound wimpy but I believe this stuff would do the job.
Good G*d. I don’t know what to say. This stuff is so horrific that I can’t really even begin to try to imagine what it was like to be there. I would rather not even bother trying to remember this story for later – it’s something that I would rather get out of my mind – forever.
I used to live in Canada – in Bentley, near a small city called Lacombe. I remember how unbelievably stupid Canadians were. Born in America, I was a natural born capitalist (although not yet a classical liberal) and my gut feeling told me that the people in Canada were not able to be saved; they were too stupid, too lame, and too uneducated. Canada is destroyed.
Look at what the posts on these You Tube videos are saying, from Canadians, for G*d’s sake. How can these people see empathy for this kind of absolute horror? This is worse than any horror movie that I have ever seen. Totally gruesome, totally sadistic.
I’m at a loss for words. G*d help the poor man’s family, and to all the Canadians who endorse this by way of being sympathetic to this evil; may you rot in hell.
Werner Patels, I think that to describe Canada’s immigration policies as “failed” demonstrates a misapprehension of what they are intended to accomplish. By my reading of this story, they’re succeeding quite swimmingly.