This story may seem disconnected at first but there is a point to this whole scenario if you care to read it all.Think Before You Decide...
The news this week is disturbing enough when things happen that we can doing little to prevent.A woman walks up to another woman who simply stopped to get a little peace and quiet while eating her sandwich at lunchtime..The victim was in her vehicle in a large parking lot to a mega store.
She had chosen the spot because it is in a parking lot that is away from the other cars.The store is also far away from her parking spot so no one will be bothered by her presence.This was a favorite spot to just get away from the madness in this world.To find a peaceful moment away from things.
Another women,A complete stranger, randomly walked up to this the peaceful woman's car and pulls up a pistol and fires 2 shots into that woman's head.Killing the woman as she sat there.
No reason can be given for the shooters actions.She had just picked out a victim at random.The victim leaves a husband and two children.She had no enemies and many friends.The shooter will be either tried as a murderer or found to be incompetent to stand trial by reason of insanity.The victim will be dead and lost to her loved ones and friends forever.
The shooter was caught after this incident holding that gun on a nearby store attendants head.Again,No reason but that near victim lived by reasons unknown.The shooter had 2 pistols when caught later.She knew neither person she picked as victims.A life was lost who we must now equate with another. That murderer we will support and take care of for the remainder of their life.Perhaps to soon be released to live free as a bird.Perhaps to become insane again to shoot someone.Will the bullets match the fatal one.Trial by a judge and jury to follow...
The next article was about Penn state university.An institution that was in the news a short time ago for UN managed abuse of university situations.A coach that was well known had been abusing children.
It went on for years with knowledge it said in the news by university officials.This was mentioned to reflect a past event of problematic moral proportions.
Now that same university is once more in the news for another well published incident which resulted in a death.A death which is being passed off by the courts as just sports kids doing what they do.That foolishly lost life apparently meaningless for the judge. A judge who has dropped pretty much all responsibility for forcing a hazing "pledge" to drink so much alcohol then allowed him to fall down a flight of stairs.The good frat brothers pledged to stand together. They did.They left him where he lay for helpless hours injured,dying and alone.No one had the decency to call 911 for help, so he died.Just as if they had put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.Were They also insane?
Being a child of a lessor god His family apparently was looked on as less important to the judge. Justice is not really worth their sons life?So in his honors infinite wisdom dropped a majority of the charges.What would make this not ,Not worth anyone else who might copy cat.
Boys just having a a little fun with the newbie.A Fraternity,Frathousegood time.
Was the Judge a former Frat boy?Was he just seeing how it was. A slap on the back for the good ole boys?Thats how we frat bros used to do it to those newbie worms we made crawl as pledges,right?The judge may have thought.No doubt the defense may have also been thinking?Should that be taken into a closer look?Would that cloud an attorneys sense of thinking?
The perpetrators of this hazing are all athletes?The Television showed them in various uniforms that were team oriented?Readers need to ask themselves this question:Why are team members boozing it up on a State university in the first place.Where is the The university's dean of students?Finally,
Where is the other parents who pay this place to hire degenerates and allow students to kill other students.They seem to also be okay with hazing to death students.Highly insured Children policies?
Where is the person who is in charge of this frat-house?Why are they not held responsible also?What kind of team rules apply there if these guys actually are on a university team playing sports with gallons of beer.This is sports season for many sports and alcohol is in use with these supposed reps of the university?Drug and alcohol tests all round and often...
Readers may also ask themselves if this college/university needs to have whatever funds yanked until they get their "stuff" together for a lot of rule enforcement.Maybe clear out the deadwood that seems to run(is anybody running this place?). Sounds like the animals are running the ZOO.The inmate running the asylum.
The community around the university never seems to mind all the bad publicity I guess.The trial is right there and no one seems disturbed with that judges decision. Maybe, except the parents who raised a son to go to school and be murdered.It is not Columbine is it?Or is it?
This is not the only school with problems.I know about bullies and peer pressure as a child. This is just one of the more advanced versions.Peer pressure out of fear from those in mobs
I have a personal example for you.
My old cub-scout patrol leader Frank Jefferies (6years my senior)Pulled a Knife on me every morning at the school bus stop.I had cut my finger on a scout trip with a scout knife I got for Xmas.I was 8yrs old.When I got to high school years later, Jefferies.and his older friends, on the football team would grab me and hold me while he would threaten to cut my sideburns with a 6inch pocket knife at my throat asking me if I was a "bleeder.The other kids I had gone to school with all my life stood and did or said nothing.He couldn't grow sideburns in the 1960s.still can't.
It became a morning ritual with him.I know about ,peer pressure,bullies and mobs...I ended up walking 1 mile to school and a mile home. Through snow and rain.My parents both worked.The local cops said my word against the mobs wouldn't hold up in court.Told me it sounded like a personal problem and they didn't get involved till did he cut me or killed me.
I believe it was a famous author who stood before a judge and said ,"the law is an ass"The writer served time for that remark...But I digress.
This college students, parents paid big money to this place to allow bullies to kill their son in an institution that again and again shows a need for major/radical changes.The Judicial system feels this guys life is not important enough to punish the killers/bullies who killed him.
They may not have physically pushed him down those stairs drunk (OR did they?),but they bullied him into doing so out of fear of the mobs actions.The "boys" who were suppose to be responsible men murdered that student just as if they had the pistol of the first murderer.There is no difference.
Had they not been there and done those actions,That student would go on to become a useful part of the world.
Fraternities type situations don't need to have such Membership nonsense. Universities need to assign the student to the places Student and institutions are link with. I really don't see any real reason to even have Fraternities.Either you are living there or your not.The excuse to be a Member is no permission of abusive behavior
There are too many such things that are allowed to happen in peoples lives that should never happen.
To try to fight a mob legally is practically useless when it comes to defending one self.Its no different in school as a student.The student becomes the victim because it isn't happening to the other students. SO No ONE gets involved to avoid the mobs attentions.Thus the person becomes like those we read about when it seems hopeless .That's peer pressure by a mob.The frat bros.are that same cause and effect that's not acted on by another force.Institutions that fail to regulate the actions in a situation they know is not right.Like those Frat bothers and the kids at the school-bus stop.
The flip side of this, is some people enjoy picking on and singling out individuals.
They join the mob.It make them feel empowered.It makes them feel powerful for their inadequacies.
Jefferies couldn't grow sideburns for lack of?maybe male hormones. He had been embarrassed by this little boy who cut his finger on a camping trip.He was supposed to show me how to make a fire but sat in a corner that night..The other little boys had to help me put a band aide on my cut.Jefferies sat by himself and refused to help.He held that in his heart for the next 6years.I never got my merit badge though we had a nice warm fire that night.
Those Boys that helped me always remembered my incident. Those who were there at that students death, will remember the events leading up to it.If they were too drunk to remember then, whats the next thing they will be too drunk to remember?Vehicular homicide?is there any difference At Penn State University?Death the results of drunkenness, is still Criminally Negligent Homicide anywhere in the USA.I guess the exception would be a mob with the judgement of a judge clouded judgement.
WAS the judge a frat brother?What would be the cause of this judicial blindness?
The system as it always has, protects the mob on their word against the victim.When the victim is dead the mobs story can become law.Ask any lynch-mob what happened. The judge at Penn state just did.
Ask any rape victim after a court trial about the mob inside who listens so intently.Would the court room people have gotten help or would they have just watched?
The law is something WE THE PEOPLE hold as our tool to keep us under a system that is supposed to be one equal for all people.Human nature is not any different in many cases than the zebre getting killed by the lions.The other animals just run away and watch.We are supposed to be above that.We often fail so terribly. There are so many times when the law is bent and corrupted to the will of a few against the one.The law is supposed to punish those who would do another harm.
Where humans are involved there's no way to make it perfect.We are an imperfect species at best.Those who have been know to walk on water are short lived among the imperfect majority.
When the time does come to make thing equal and right we often fail miserably.
Your honor I do not rest my case...
Till next time dear readers Please pass on what ever some one has done to make your life better to someone you don't even know.The people in Louisiana and Texas have nothing and even a little wil go so far to make their lives a little better.PASS IT FOREWORD dear friends. Maybe its one of the small things we can do to be better people and make the word "MANKIND" less tragic.
RJP
