Okay, folks, it's another weekly roundup of things that make me want to inflict grievous bodily injury.
First up, the current crop of thug Russian Neo-Nazis who have adopted a neat new habit of luring in and then torturing gay people. Not that I give a pass to our own home-grown Neo-Nazi animals but these are a special kind of evil.
Instead of the typical drunken solo asshole trying to start some shit with anyone in the bar he feels isn't "manly" enough, these folks are posting fake profiles on gay dating sites for the sole purpose of luring in gay men to torture. Of course, where's the fun in just torturing one or two folks who were unlucky enough to respond to the wrong online ad? No, the real fun comes when the torture and beatings are videotaped and posted online to dissuade other gay men from committing the crime of being homosexual while Russian.
These folks take strength from the new Russian law, recently signed by Putin, that criminalizes such things as telling minors that gay relationships are as okay as straight relationships. The fines are increased exponentially if you use the Internet to spread that ridiculous notion. Lest you think it's all just grandstanding, four Dutch tourists making a movie were arrested and held last month under the new law.
These bastions of international goodwill are hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. Let's hope the international community lets them know in monetary terms how they feel about Russia's medieval ignorance.
Next up, the police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin who raided an animal shelter and killed a baby deer named, Giggles. Seriously. See, some folks found the baby deer, apparently abandoned, and brought her to the Society of St. Francis shelter. As the shelter is not a wildlife preserve, the folks there were making plans to transport the deer to a local wildlife reserve. However, a couple of anonymous tips to the cops letting them know that the shelter was harboring an illegal fawn inspired the Kenosha cops to dispatch nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs--all armed--to apprehend the illicit offender. They went in, tranquilized the animal, took her offsite and killed her.
That's what she gets for allowing people to take care of her--doesn't she know it's illegal to own wildlife in Wisconsin? Good thing for everyone involved there were those two anonymous phone calls to the police. You never know what will come from calls to the Wisconsin cops--like the neighbors who reported this little situation twice but no cadre of armed officers showed up for that.
On to this news story about a guy in Indiana who kidnapped a 6-year old girl, molested her and then told the cops that she wanted to have sex with him and that in fact, "it was her idea." Now, that's not an uncommon viewpoint of sexual predators. Heck, Ariel Castro said essentially the same thing this week during his trial of kidnapping and holding three women prisoner in his home for over a decade--he claimed the sex was "consensual." No, the stabby in this situation comes from one of the comments to the story--this comment.
This potential future Torture Chamber resident has done what very few individuals can do--try as they might--he/she has rendered me virtually speechless. So, I'll just leave this here for now.
Friday, August 2, 2013
This Guy--The Dungeon
**Note--it has come to light that perhaps the actual incident depicted in the link below may not have occurred as described. However, rather than removing the entry, I opted to leave it, sentencing all those "this guys" (and gals) who actually do this sort of thing (and similar) to The Dungeon.
This guy goes into The Dungeon today. My first reaction is to put him in The Torture Chamber but I'll extend myself to believe a tiny bit of possibility that this guy fundamentally understands what he did was at least a little wrong.
In case you don't feel like reading anything but my own gloriously wondrous writing, I'll summarize. A mom took her 2-year old to Wal-Mart. He was wearing a pink headband and a pathetic excuse of a human not only touched her child without permission but also referred to him as a faggot and predicted his future assault. No, really. That's what happened. Go read it. I'll wait.
Now, first things first, you never, ever touch a child you do not know without their permission or in the case of very young children, the permission of their parents. Children are not another species, they are young humans and therefore, entitled to the same respect of personal space and safety as anyone else. I think I am not naive for thinking that this jerk would not have reached out and smacked another adult in the head while they shopped. I could be wrong--he could be an utter psychopath. However, I feel it more likely that he is simply an entitled, confused individual with no concept of boundaries due to his resting comfortably in the cozy nest of white male privilege his entire life. So, in his own simian way, when confronted with something that seemed like a round peg in his square-hole world, he felt it was his duty to "fix" it.
That said, what kind of grown adult feels it necessary to hurl slurs at a toddler? How inferior and frustrated do you have to feel to lash out in anger toward a baby for not seeing things your way? The kid wasn't spraying him with glitter. The little boy wasn't trying to signal him using the Handkerchief Code. I feel safe in saying that not even Reverend Benedict Groeschel could claim the kid was trying to seduce this guy into that fabled "homosexual lifestyle" that seems to terrify so many people. No, the Dora the Explorer-loving kid was simply wearing a headband in his favorite color. For this, a 2-year old was assaulted, insulted and threatened by a grown man.
Kudos to the mother for not overreacting. Had this been my child, I'd be dictating this to the reporter who came to interview me in prison.
I have personally experienced similar idiocy, albeit on a somewhat less-physical level. However, the results could have been far more devastating. When my daughter was about 6-months old, she had a compromised immune system. It wasn't bad enough to confine her to the hospital but precarious enough that she couldn't come into physical contact with people without proper hand-cleaning procedures being carried out first.
While we were shopping one day, a couple of older ladies stopped to admire the baby. I gently explained the immunity situation, apologizing that they couldn't reach in and grab a tiny hand or tickle her belly. They were very understanding and caring, proclaiming her to be "precious" and "a miracle" before going off to continue their shopping.
Moments later, they were still nearby when I bent down to select an item from the bottom shelf, exposing the pentagram necklace I always wore. Standing, I caught the eye of one of the ladies and smiled, only to met with a look I can only describe as fearfully hostile. (It's the same look I am sure I have when confronting large spiders.)
Having experienced the same series of events more than once previously, I simply sighed and continued my shopping. It wasn't until several minutes later that I noticed that my tiny, immune-compromised child was not only handling but attempting to chew on what turned out to be a Chick Tract.
These people gave a (literally) filthy, hate-filled booklet covered in germs to an fragile baby based on their glimpse of a piece of jewelry and felt strongly enough about something they obviously knew absolutely nothing about to risk the very life of a less than 6-pound infant.
So, yes, these people are out there. And they belong in here.
This guy goes into The Dungeon today. My first reaction is to put him in The Torture Chamber but I'll extend myself to believe a tiny bit of possibility that this guy fundamentally understands what he did was at least a little wrong.
In case you don't feel like reading anything but my own gloriously wondrous writing, I'll summarize. A mom took her 2-year old to Wal-Mart. He was wearing a pink headband and a pathetic excuse of a human not only touched her child without permission but also referred to him as a faggot and predicted his future assault. No, really. That's what happened. Go read it. I'll wait.
Now, first things first, you never, ever touch a child you do not know without their permission or in the case of very young children, the permission of their parents. Children are not another species, they are young humans and therefore, entitled to the same respect of personal space and safety as anyone else. I think I am not naive for thinking that this jerk would not have reached out and smacked another adult in the head while they shopped. I could be wrong--he could be an utter psychopath. However, I feel it more likely that he is simply an entitled, confused individual with no concept of boundaries due to his resting comfortably in the cozy nest of white male privilege his entire life. So, in his own simian way, when confronted with something that seemed like a round peg in his square-hole world, he felt it was his duty to "fix" it.
That said, what kind of grown adult feels it necessary to hurl slurs at a toddler? How inferior and frustrated do you have to feel to lash out in anger toward a baby for not seeing things your way? The kid wasn't spraying him with glitter. The little boy wasn't trying to signal him using the Handkerchief Code. I feel safe in saying that not even Reverend Benedict Groeschel could claim the kid was trying to seduce this guy into that fabled "homosexual lifestyle" that seems to terrify so many people. No, the Dora the Explorer-loving kid was simply wearing a headband in his favorite color. For this, a 2-year old was assaulted, insulted and threatened by a grown man.
Kudos to the mother for not overreacting. Had this been my child, I'd be dictating this to the reporter who came to interview me in prison.
I have personally experienced similar idiocy, albeit on a somewhat less-physical level. However, the results could have been far more devastating. When my daughter was about 6-months old, she had a compromised immune system. It wasn't bad enough to confine her to the hospital but precarious enough that she couldn't come into physical contact with people without proper hand-cleaning procedures being carried out first.
While we were shopping one day, a couple of older ladies stopped to admire the baby. I gently explained the immunity situation, apologizing that they couldn't reach in and grab a tiny hand or tickle her belly. They were very understanding and caring, proclaiming her to be "precious" and "a miracle" before going off to continue their shopping.
Moments later, they were still nearby when I bent down to select an item from the bottom shelf, exposing the pentagram necklace I always wore. Standing, I caught the eye of one of the ladies and smiled, only to met with a look I can only describe as fearfully hostile. (It's the same look I am sure I have when confronting large spiders.)
Having experienced the same series of events more than once previously, I simply sighed and continued my shopping. It wasn't until several minutes later that I noticed that my tiny, immune-compromised child was not only handling but attempting to chew on what turned out to be a Chick Tract.
These people gave a (literally) filthy, hate-filled booklet covered in germs to an fragile baby based on their glimpse of a piece of jewelry and felt strongly enough about something they obviously knew absolutely nothing about to risk the very life of a less than 6-pound infant.
So, yes, these people are out there. And they belong in here.
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