A 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