America’s much-coveted, Professional, Drunk-Driver Immigration Visa demands killer qualifications. But do not apply for it unless you are “a person of color,” undereducated and well-connected.
“He should have been kept off the streets,” intoned CNN’s bimbo anchor, Brooke Baldwin.
Not one word was uttered—or allowed?—during today’s CNN segment about the fact that the man was not supposed to be in this country. It’s simple: Had Hernandez been THERE (in Mexico, presumably), chances are that Dimitri would have been HERE (with his parents).
Teletwits of amnesty such as Geraldo Rivera and Tamar Jacoby have argued again and again that the illegality of such perps—or, put more respectfully, holders of the Professional Drunk-Driver Immigration Visa—is irrelevant to the crime. “It’s not an illegal-alien story; it’s a drunk-driving story,” Geraldo once noodled on “The Factor.”
Geraldo was serious, although he should not be taken seriously. For their crushingly stupid claim to stick, Geraldo/Jacoby would have to demonstrate that, had this drunk, illegal alien been stopped at the border or been deported, his victims would have nevertheless suffered the same fate. Death, in Dimitri’s case.
As far as our CNN idiot was concerned, hers was a scoop, for she was able to seal the segment with that most penetrating of questions, pioneered by The Oprah-Anderson (as in Winfrey and Cooper) School of Journalism:
“Could you, Aileen Smith (mother of Dimitri), ever forgive Ramon Hernandez?”
When the events surrounding pederast Jerry Sandusky surfaced, I venturedthat, to an outsider, the American football scene was obscene—starting with its incestuous fraternities, the rock-star status surrounding handlers and players, their pompom-waving, knickers-baring groupies, and the tantrum-prone fans who experience bare-fanged fury when their heroes let them down. The problem with this freak show is that the participants are pathologically invested in it.
Besides, how did the words “coach” and “legendary” ever come to be paired? Ridiculous.
Now comes the news that the NCAA, whatever that stands for— reporters no longer follow the convention of first writing out acronyms in full—has leveled a punishment on Penn State that will likely affect every student at the university.
Collective punishment for transgressions (crimes included) committed by certain individuals (who are no longer at the helm)!
The football program will also be excluded from playing in bowl games and post-season games for four years, as well as having its football scholarships reduced from 25 to 15, and having to pay a $60 million fine, the equivalent of one year’s revenues from the football program.
Thirteen team victories have been voided. So many kids must have worked hard and played their hearts out. Why are they are being penalized?
Career and camera-conscious individuals will do anything to look as if they are busy doing something. This is all Brownian Motion, and terribly unfair.
I don’t know much about the political bent of Esquire Magazine. Is it left-liberal? (Bound to be.) Is it comfortably mainstream? (Ditto.) It looks like a déclassé New Yorker.
What I do know is that for “finishing off a 16-year old Yemeni boy—the son of Anwar al-Awlakias”—this writer, other non-beltway libertarians, and reporters outside the orthodoxy (the good folks at RT are an example) called Obama a murderer AROUND THE TIME HE COMMITTED THAT MURDER, not a year later.
Tom Junod of Esquire, a seemingly affable fellow, has only NOW come out with a “highly critical article about President Obama’s drone strike program.” To CNN, “Junod described Pres. Obama’s presidency as ‘lethal,'” and “told anchor Brooke Baldwin “why he wrote the article and the work that went into it.”
Read it, if you don’t mind the cloying format: a letter to the beloved Strong Man.
The point is that the establishment—Democratic and Republican—decides when Truth should be allowed to emerge. It’s not a conscious process; but a reflexive one. It’s not that these interests know the truth when they see it. Rather, reflexively, they marginalize those who speak it, until such politically opportune times when the truth can be spoken. Then they act (quite sincerely) as though they discovered said truth and are performing a great public service by speaking it.
If you want the truth about the plague of black-on-white violence, don’t watch Big Media’s news reports, where they work overtime to mask the facts. Don’t tune in to the vain chit-chat on Judge Jeanine’s show; read the Comments section. Despite the baffle-gab on cable, Americans get it. But why don’t they warn their vulnerable kids?
Let’s cut through the chase, the High School Graduate was killed because he was White. Don’t insult the rest of us with everything under the sun except what it really is, and very common. Let’s look at FBI murder stats, put that on TV.
Mild and meek, vulnerable boys like Carter Strange [or Marley Lion] deserve to be informed of the real dangers they face by the formative figures in their lives. Instead, these errant adults feed these precious people a pack of lies, and enfeeble them with pieties …
In any event, it’s not easy to find the Marley Lion story, and when it is “written up”—journalism of white-on-black hate crimes being so shoddy—the details are purposefully sketchy. Here is a journalism 101 FAIL from the Post and Courier’s EDWARD C. FENNELL:
Lion was shot multiple times early Saturday in a sport utility vehicle he had parked off Savannah Highway. Before dying, Lion told police he parked to sleep because he’d had too much to drink and was unable to drive home.
Marley Lion, a recent graduate of Academic Magnet High School, was shot inside his Nissan Pathfinder early Saturday morning in the parking lot by Famous Joe’s Bar and Grill at 1662 Savannah Highway, and around 4:05 a.m., police found him lying on the ground beside the vehicle. Lion was still alive at the time, and he told an officer he had been sleeping in the car because he was too intoxicated to drive home. He said two black males walked up to the vehicle and one of them shot him five times before they left the parking lot on a gravel path toward Yew Street.
The video shows someone walking up to the vehicle, doing something near the driver’s-side front door, and then leaving the scene when the vehicle’s headlights start flashing on and off. Detective Richard Burckhardt, the lead investigator in the case, says this is the point where Lion presses a button on a key fob to trigger the vehicle’s alarm system. About 20 seconds later, someone approaches Lion’s car with a gun and fires several times.
Police say the gunman is a black male who appears to be taller than the vehicle, putting him in the range of 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall. He has a medium to stocky build and was wearing a striped or checker-patterned shirt at the time of the murder, and he fled on foot toward the Ardmore neighborhood afterward, according to the police investigation.
Poor boy. He pulled over because intoxicated. He used good judgement—and lived long enough to tell the tale. But Marley’s dying words were for naught. As expected, an “errant adult” in the person of Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen has issued the standard obfuscations. “There is no indication that this crime was anything other than random, senseless violence.”
UPDATE (June 24): Anyone who has a child who looks vaguely like Morely—clean-cut, enviably pretty, all-American—will find it near impossible to watch this devilish culling of the boy. (I analyze the envy that propels en masse slaughter in Africa in “Into the Cannibal’s Pot.”)
And anybody who has a child that has been through the “system,” as has my own, will find that that kid has been groomed for sacrifice—and turns on her parent for warning her off.
Public education (helped by parents) has turned our kids into the prototypical white left-liberals, whose creed is PC pietism, and who are passionate about sacrificing their precious lives for Da Creed.
