It will be interesting to see how politicians and the media handle this case, as opposed to the Zimmerman one.
QuoteOne of the teens charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane in Duncan, Okla., previously posted anti-white statements on his Twitter feed.
James Edwards, 15, Chancey Luna, 16, and Michael Jones, 17, have all been charged as adults in Lane's death. Lane, a 22 year-old student from Melbourne, was out for a jog last Friday evening when the three teens began following him in a car and shot him "just for the fun of it," according to Duncan officials.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/black-teen-who-murdered-australian-jogger-posted-racist-tweets/#ixzz2chdedAQR
The town where that happened is a flyspeck on the map. Seriously. People from Duncan would drive to Lawton to "go to the city" despite Lawton barely being 100k at the time (including Ft Sill). We used to have to go to Duncan for XC meets, or the occasional road hoops game (no, I didn't play - but had to send someone to cover it for the school newspaper). Fortunately, they weren't in our soccer league so we got to avoid having to go East Bugtussle in the Spring.
Thing is, that town's so small there's no way in hell people didn't know what these idiots were up to. Seriously. There's maybe 30k people that live/work in Duncan, and of those 30k, how many are black male teens? 100? 150, tops? That doesn't mean that every black male teenager is a criminal, but in a town of only 30k, there's only so many criminals to go around, and it's not hard to think of "the black male teens" and the "old white drunk guys" and the "daytime hooker (http://mynameisearl.wikia.com/wiki/Patty)". The cops in town had to know who these crotchwaffles were, and had to know they were trouble.
You don't wake up one morning and decide the first crime you ever commit in life is going to be killing someone. You don't commit the big crimes without committing the small ones first (crimes of passion are a different animal).
There won't be any of these same uproar of hand holding from the justice department because us white people deserve this ........ >:(
Frankly, if the victim wasn't a visitor from Australia, no one outside of Oklahoma would have heard of this at all.....unless it was three white kids who shot a black kid and happened to tweet about how much they hate blacks. Then we would have Sharpton marching on Duncan, Oklahoma demanding "justice".
Quote from: Steelgrave on August 22, 2013, 09:39:58 AMThen we would have Sharpton marching on Duncan, Oklahoma demanding "justice".
that march would likely double the population of the town, too...
^Yeah, I know. One of my daughters in law is from an even smaller town just outside of Duncan. Having this sort of thing happen there is unprecedented.
Check this bullsh!t out:
QuoteIn Australia, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, a noted advocate of gun control, is telling people to stay away from America.
"Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice," Fischer said Monday, according to the . He continued:
"This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gunshows.
"People should take this into account before going to the United States.
"I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers [but] it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA.
"There is a gun for almost every American."
Of course it's the NRA's fault that 3 pos teenagers were bored and wanted to watch some one die. Not surprisingly, this bit of reporting comes from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/20/213781714/australians-shooting-death-echoes-from-oklahoma-to-melbourne (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/20/213781714/australians-shooting-death-echoes-from-oklahoma-to-melbourne)
Jesse Jackson really dropped the hammer on this one. It's "frowned upon".
https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/370199192276201473 (https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/370199192276201473)
Quote from: mirth on August 22, 2013, 11:09:47 AM
Check this bullsh!t out:
QuoteIn Australia, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, a noted advocate of gun control, is telling people to stay away from America.
"Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice," Fischer said Monday, according to the . He continued:
"This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gunshows.
"People should take this into account before going to the United States.
"I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers [but] it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA.
"There is a gun for almost every American."
Of course it's the NRA's fault that 3 pos teenagers were bored and wanted to watch some one die. Not surprisingly, this bit of reporting comes from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/20/213781714/australians-shooting-death-echoes-from-oklahoma-to-melbourne (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/20/213781714/australians-shooting-death-echoes-from-oklahoma-to-melbourne)
It was inevitable that a gun-fearing nation like Australia would view things in this light.
I'm more concerned about the overt racism. In three generations I thought it had been erased.
Apparently not.
Quote from: mirth on August 22, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
Jesse Jackson really dropped the hammer on this one. It's "frowned open".
https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/370199192276201473
I'm sure the President will come out and tell us that if he'd had a son, he'd look like Christopher Lane.
Was one of the shooters a "white-black" at least? That'd make apportioning blame more palatable.
What is a white black? Like an albino?
The double standards are starting to make me more than nauseous.
You'll have to ask the media types who constantly referred to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic."
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 22, 2013, 11:32:18 AM
Was one of the shooters a "white-black" at least? That'd make apportioning blame more palatable.
A news report last night indicated one of them was described as "caucasian."
Difficult to know exactly who is who. What is clear is that at least one of the suspects has used racist language on his twitter feed.
Quote from: mirth on August 22, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
Jesse Jackson really dropped the hammer on this one. It's "frowned open".
https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/370199192276201473
Quotefrown (froun)
v. frowned, frown·ing, frowns
v.intr.
1. To wrinkle the brow, as in thought or displeasure.
2. To regard something with disapproval or distaste: frowned on the use of so much salt in the food.
v.tr.
To express (disapproval, for example) by wrinkling the brow.
n.
A wrinkling of the brow in thought or displeasure; a scowl.
source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Frowned+Upon
it would seem it was one American Black, one African American and one African Albino American Caucasian ::)
Quote from: LongBlade on August 22, 2013, 11:15:42 AM
I'm more concerned about the overt racism. In three generations I thought it had been erased.
With relics from the sixties and seventies like Sharpton and Jackson, the phenomenon is never going to disappear. Or diminish for that matter.
It is disturbing to see how large a crowd of proselytes they have every single time they crawl out from under their rock.
from where I sit the racists are now mostly black. go figure that one out.
The media doesn't help with this crap either. I usually don't name names but one of tbe worst reporters I have ever seen for race relations is Soledad O'Brien. I totally despise her. Everything she does portrays all whites as evil and every other person as a victim, always.
That doesn't really separate her from the crowd these days.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on August 22, 2013, 09:16:07 AM
There won't be any of these same uproar of hand holding from the justice department because us white people deserve this ........ >:(
what do you expect [honestly] when you have a program like Affirmative Action ... its apologistic and skews not just the employment playing field, it has profound long term social and psycological impacts
Hmmmm, maybe the three killers were inspired by this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/ (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/)
Quote from: Steelgrave on August 22, 2013, 05:12:56 PM
Hmmmm, maybe the three killers were inspired by this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/ (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/)
Looks like other sources, such as the Huffington Post, are now running with the story as well....although their focus is more on this nutjob being anti-gay rather than racist. His site is already down, I'm betting his Facebook is soon to follow
https://www.facebook.com/pages/War-on-the-Horizon/355898438553 (https://www.facebook.com/pages/War-on-the-Horizon/355898438553)
SPOKANE, Wash. -
WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.
http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/elderly-man-dies-after-being-attacked-outside-ice-arena/-/101214/21574858/-/9flm7iz/-/index.html
Police report is more succinct.
http://www.khq.com/story/23225525/88-year-old-man-assaulted-at-eagles-ice-arena-has-died
Quote from: Bison on August 22, 2013, 06:52:14 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. -
WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.
http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/elderly-man-dies-after-being-attacked-outside-ice-arena/-/101214/21574858/-/9flm7iz/-/index.html
Police report is more succinct.
http://www.khq.com/story/23225525/88-year-old-man-assaulted-at-eagles-ice-arena-has-died
Makes you want to cry. A hero like that suffers at the hands of a couple of fools.
It's madness.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 22, 2013, 08:16:10 AMYou don't wake up one morning and decide the first crime you ever commit in life is going to be killing someone. You don't commit the big crimes without committing the small ones first (crimes of passion are a different animal).
yep (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9585945/teens-charged-following-death-christoper-lane-australian-college-baseball-player-oklahoma)
QuoteEdwards has had prior run-ins with the law and came to court Friday -- apparently after the shooting -- to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.
Dude goes out and shoots someone, then drives to the courthouse to sign probation documents. SMH
WTF?!?!
Quote from: Windigo on August 22, 2013, 04:09:43 PM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on August 22, 2013, 09:16:07 AM
There won't be any of these same uproar of hand holding from the justice department because us white people deserve this ........ >:(
what do you expect [honestly] when you have a program like Affirmative Action ... its apologistic and skews not just the employment playing field, it has profound long term social and psycological impacts
Oh I agree but don't get me started on that. :D
Too late!
.
Frightening and good points. I have no answers. I do see an embracing of all kinds of mindlessness by kids of all races. At a minimum acts like Public Enemy and NWA were still political. Now it's all about 'thug life' or whatever. These kids are probably raised (or not) by animals and never have a fighting chance to become good at anything but being worthless parasites.
Quote from: Gusington on August 23, 2013, 02:06:20 PM
....but being worthless parasites.
And the only way to deal with parasites is extermination... not "trying to save them" not "keep them around on the tax payers bill" .... Just extermination.
>:(
I think you'll find crack cocaine at the heart of the problem.
Cheap and addictive, it was the "perfect" drug to introduce to poor people and drove much of the gang violence to the heights it is today.
My wife is an assistant principal for an elementary school in, shall we say, an 'ethnic area.' No racism intended, that's just the demographics of where she works. Most of the parents are single and work damn hard to try to raise their kids right, but invariably there's quite a few bad apples (both children AND parents). She regales me daily/weekly on how some horrible little kindergarden or first-grade monster assaulted their teacher or acted basically like a caged animal on crystal meth. She's had her office torn apart by six- and seven-year-olds before, and the front office has had to call the school district's cops to come out to restrain the little buggers numerous times.
Then the parent is called (unfortunately, this is singular in some cases, or the grandparent in most of the remaining ones), and they just kind of say "no way, MY kid would NEVER act like that" or "Just wait until I get you home" where butt-beatings occur (sometimes in the office, actually, in front of the staff, which never goes down well), but invariably never work, and then said little monsters are taken off to what is termed an "alternative campus" - which is basically another name for pre-juvenile hall.
I wish corporal punishment was still an option in school like it was when I was a kid. Not that this is going to solve all the problems with stupid children (stupid parents that have no clue how to raise a kid right are just as bad, obviously), but dammit, it's tough to argue that the threat of having your silly butt paddled in front of your peers at the front of the class isn't going to humiliate you into at least trying to act like a human being.
What a pair of bastards! >:(
well Zimmerman is in the news again...
Quote from: Keunert on September 10, 2013, 10:36:05 AM
well Zimmerman is in the news again...
yeah... a little unsettling learning some of the detail