Category Archives: Crime

Updated: Virginia Tech Massacre: What To Expect

Crime, Individual Rights

For the time being, the Virginia-Tech massacre, where an Asian young man shot and killed 32 students (I don’t include the killer; media do, hence their reports of 33 dead) and injured at least 22 more, will end the insufferable Imus autopsies, and start the assaults on Second Amendment rights. Rosie will be mouthing what she regards as a given (ditto Bill Maher, the so-called libertarian): If all Americans are denied their right to defend home and hearth, it follows that all criminals will be unable to obtain weapons (NOT). Disarming law abiding Americans, with the exception of her security detail, is absolutely essential in order to prevent the odd evil individual from acting on his or her criminal impulses (NOT).

EVIL. Banish reference to that existential reality from your lexicon, won’t you? The “experts” have been dragged in to “explain” why a bad individual, described by his victims as calm and calculating during the executions, commits mass murder. To MSNBC’s credit, they mentioned that most such shootings have been carried out by individuals of foreign origins. Having brought that “out in the open,” to use the title of Paula Zahn’s putrid program about alleged, endemic, American racism, the network commenced the root-causes rabbiting. Society and the family must be saddled with the blame for the culprit’s actions.

You know the drill: crimes are never committed, but caused. Perpetrators don’t do the crime, but are driven to their dastardly deed, victims of larger, uncontrollable societal or familial forces. In the case of the common criminal, the exculpatory idiom is, “Daddy didn’t love me”; in the case of the terrorist it’s, “America loves Israel more than me.”

What we don’t need but will get in abundance is the staple mumbo jumbo from the experts, whose bag of tricks includes pharmacology (even though there is no scientific proof that these evil actions are fueled by misfiring neurons or defective levels of neurotransmitters), unconditional love (although adulation, with little or no corrective feedback, contributes to the creation of these monsters), and anger management.

Readings:

Coddling Killers: The Liberal Root-Causes Racket (The American Spectator), Mel’s ‘Malady,’ Foxman’s Fetish (WorldNetDaily.com) Trading Morality for Medical Mumbo-Jumbo (WorldNetDaily.com), Broken Brains? (WorldNetDaily.com), Sloppy Science Justifies Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (The Calgary Herald)

Update: Who knows? If not for the legislator, an armed student or faculty member might have been able to take the killer out before the body count reached 32. As WND reports, “More than one year before today’s unprecedented shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the state’s General Assembly quashed a bill that would have given qualified college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus… Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon entering campus.”

Perverse Reaction to Pummeling of Centenarian

Crime, Media

By now you’ve seen the surveillance-tape images again and again: an ancient woman pushes her walker along the foyer of an apartment building. A robust man moves in, and punches her in the head repeatedly. Before she goes down, the centenarian reaches pitifully for the purse the thug has snatched. He turns to finally flatten her.
This is a scene lacking in any nuances. At a time in her life when she ought to be shown respect, a frail lady is treated with brutality. That the woman, Rose Morat, is talking brave, and being made a celebrity for her tough-old-biddy stance after the fact does nothing to change that she was a helpless victim. To pretend otherwise is plain perverse.

The camera caught a frail lady being handled like garbage. She displayed no spunk, because people her age are too frail to fend off such a feral attacker. She survived, not because of her gumption, but because her attacker did not plan to kill her.
This is not how the network nits are covering the story. CNN has been running an up-beat segment in which the centenarian receives an award for bravery. To the sound of the theme from Rocky, Rose Morat shuffles into a room of cheering twits.
Not every story is a story of triumph. Sorry, thanks to this twisted hoopla, the thug is the winner, not the woman with the walker. This feel-good reporting distracts from the reality I described–and the real business at hand: Repeat the description of the criminal again and again; show his face up close; encourage his community to rat him out–that’s how this story should be handled.
A small consolation is that once in custody, inmates will probably restore a serious tone to the tale. I believe even thugs have a code of honor they adhere to.

Letter of the Week: South-Africa: Land of Blood and Tears

Africa, Crime, South-Africa

As an Asian man living in South Africa, all I can say is that we are living in the valley of death under the auspices of the ANC-led (mis)government. Aside from the farmers who are the breadbasket of this country, civilians are also living in fear, most of us not knowing if today is our turn to be senselessly murdered. Rapes, robberies, carjackings, child rapes, most with fatal consequences for the victim–these are an everyday occurrence, so much so that most people have become totally blasé, wondering who’s next. Twenty two of my friends and family have been murdered since 1995. If I had the financial resources, I would leave this valley of death tomorrow, without batting an eyelid. I have nothing to lose here except my life! I cannot call it a country any longer. It is a valley of death flowing with the blood of its citizens. Enough have been murdered in the last decade to fill Yankee stadium twice over. I kid you not!! And idiots such as Bono, Angelina Jolie, and some other blinkered westerners think all is sunshine and roses. The land of milk and honey…NO this is the land of blood and tears!

—Joe

The Genocide In Democratic South Africa

The Ugly Truth About Democratic South Africa

Self-defense: A Universal Right

Updated: Hornbeck: Too Busy Playing Dragon Ball Z and Gears of War

Crime, Morality, Psychology & Pop-Psychology

To all the muddled thinkers out there, who’ve bought into the (decidedly progressive) paradigm, according to which every misdeed is a disorder–think about Shawn’s parents. Quit working overtime to reduce cognitive dissonance and, instead, think rationally:

If my daughter were abducted, and given such freedoms as this boy was given; if she then visited her mom’s website and posted a message thereon, as this boy did, saying, “For how long will you be looking for your daughter?”–I would be furious. A parent in this situation is beside himself with worry — all he or she can think of is, Is my baby alive; is she warm enough. Is she suffering? Parents would be living every day with the fear that their child died in agony.
And this little shit can’t even add to his e-mail: “Your son is alive, don’t sweat … like, whatever. Sorry gotta run; I have a game of Dragon Ball Z and Gears of War on the go with my buddy Tony.”
Use your heads!
I know that my daughter, who still checks in with me even though she’s an adult, would have let me know she was alive. She’d be too scared not to. And she knows better than to try this line on me: “Mom, I was suffering that syndrome that nice lady on TV said I had, and that prevented me from calling.”
Perhaps my kid was brought up to think logically, which is why she’s such a mensch.

Update: Consider: small children during the Holocaust performed amazingly brave acts, such as smuggling food in and out the ghetto for their families. Some were shot on site by the Nazis. Read about the brave children of Afghanistan. The human spirit — that of children too—is irrepressible. Yet here people are suggesting that this lad was incapable of contacting his poor parents for 4 years, not even to let them know he was alive.