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Guns, Not Political Correctness,Will Thwart Terror
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Guns, Not Political Correctness, Will Thwart Terrorists And Killers
By C.T. Rossi
CNSNews.com Commentary from the Free Congress Foundation
August 06, 2002
While the juggernaut of the federal government is attempting to redirect its full weight toward using law enforcement as a counter-terrorism force, one local community is already wrapped in the grasp of a terrorist.
No dirty bombs or hijacked planes. Neither is this terror accompanied by the call for jihad or suicide bombers. The terrorist acts that have covered Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a cloak of communal fear come from the hands of a serial killer.
Prior to the advent of thousands dying in fiery skyscraper bombings, the serial killer was the most provocative news event that reporters could have come across their desks.
While the attacks of September 11th were on a grand scale, their end effect actually created a more galvanized and patriotic national community rather than instill dread in the hearts of Americans (as was the hope of the Islamists). The fear that Al Queda dreamed of creating is slowly paralyzing the inhabitants of Louisiana's capital city. Now the crime story that was once the ringmaster of all media circuses has returned to town.
Like any modern-day crime story, it was the forensic evidence that made the existence of the serial killer official. Baton Rouge law enforcement announced last week that DNA samples definitively linked the deaths of Pam Kinamore, Charlotte Murray Pace and Gina Wilson Green. Science has validated as true what the community had innately feared.
Green was the first victim. The 41-year-old nurse was found strangled in her home on September 24. Pace, a 22-year-old university student, was next. She was discovered stabbed to death in her town house on May 31. She had only two days before moved away from the street on which Gina Green lived. Kinamore, a 44-year-old antiques store owner, was abducted from her home on July 12; her body was found July 16 in a secluded area close to an Interstate 10 exit. Her throat had been cut.
From the real to the fictitious, Ted Bundy to Hannibal Lecter, over the years Americans have been deluged with the intricacies of a serial murder investigation. Most casual observers know that use of an FBI criminal profiler will be among the initial steps of the investigation.
If law enforcement decides upon the typical profile of a serial killer, they will be searching for a white male in his late 20s or 30s. He likely comes from a dysfunctional family background involving sexual and or physical abuse. Unlike in the realm of counter-terrorism, there is no squeamishness on the part of law enforcement about applying the criminal profile to look for suspects.
Aside from the obvious difference in attitudes toward profiling terrorists and serial killers, Louisiana Governor Mike Foster has added an interesting twist to the narrative with his recent comments.
Foster did not create a state task force headed up by a serial killer czar. He did not pledge more (and more intrusive) law enforcement to rid the city from this internal threat. He did not attempt to placate the rightfully concerned citizens of Baton Rouge by telling them that the FBI was in town and hence there was no longer any reason to worry.
No, Foster maintained that the safety of the community must ultimately rest in the hands of the people themselves. Mike Foster recommended that people arm themselves with
guns.
Foster reminded Louisianians that they have the right to bear arms and should learn how to use guns in self-defense, adding: "Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief."
Mike Foster's common sense approach reminds young women that a gun can be the great equalizer if they encounter the knife-wielding serial killer, but don't expect radical feminists to favor Second Amendment rights. Don't expect the new bureaucratic boondoggle called the Office of Homeland Security to espouse that citizens (or even commercial airline pilots) actually be allowed to exercise their gun ownership rights either.
Governor Mike Foster and the criminal profilers of the FBI are taking proven measures to stop a killer loose in the community. They aren't allowing themselves to be fettered by the chains of political correctness because lives are at risk. Our federal counter-terrorism "experts" seem to be taking the opposite tack.
Given the difference between Louisiana law enforcement and Homeland Security, in the future the media will be covering more terrorism and less serial killers.
(C.T. Rossi writes about contemporary culture and politics for the Free Congress Foundation.)
Copyright 2002, Free Congress Foundation
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200208\COM20020806b.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By C.T. Rossi
CNSNews.com Commentary from the Free Congress Foundation
August 06, 2002
While the juggernaut of the federal government is attempting to redirect its full weight toward using law enforcement as a counter-terrorism force, one local community is already wrapped in the grasp of a terrorist.
No dirty bombs or hijacked planes. Neither is this terror accompanied by the call for jihad or suicide bombers. The terrorist acts that have covered Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a cloak of communal fear come from the hands of a serial killer.
Prior to the advent of thousands dying in fiery skyscraper bombings, the serial killer was the most provocative news event that reporters could have come across their desks.
While the attacks of September 11th were on a grand scale, their end effect actually created a more galvanized and patriotic national community rather than instill dread in the hearts of Americans (as was the hope of the Islamists). The fear that Al Queda dreamed of creating is slowly paralyzing the inhabitants of Louisiana's capital city. Now the crime story that was once the ringmaster of all media circuses has returned to town.
Like any modern-day crime story, it was the forensic evidence that made the existence of the serial killer official. Baton Rouge law enforcement announced last week that DNA samples definitively linked the deaths of Pam Kinamore, Charlotte Murray Pace and Gina Wilson Green. Science has validated as true what the community had innately feared.
Green was the first victim. The 41-year-old nurse was found strangled in her home on September 24. Pace, a 22-year-old university student, was next. She was discovered stabbed to death in her town house on May 31. She had only two days before moved away from the street on which Gina Green lived. Kinamore, a 44-year-old antiques store owner, was abducted from her home on July 12; her body was found July 16 in a secluded area close to an Interstate 10 exit. Her throat had been cut.
From the real to the fictitious, Ted Bundy to Hannibal Lecter, over the years Americans have been deluged with the intricacies of a serial murder investigation. Most casual observers know that use of an FBI criminal profiler will be among the initial steps of the investigation.
If law enforcement decides upon the typical profile of a serial killer, they will be searching for a white male in his late 20s or 30s. He likely comes from a dysfunctional family background involving sexual and or physical abuse. Unlike in the realm of counter-terrorism, there is no squeamishness on the part of law enforcement about applying the criminal profile to look for suspects.
Aside from the obvious difference in attitudes toward profiling terrorists and serial killers, Louisiana Governor Mike Foster has added an interesting twist to the narrative with his recent comments.
Foster did not create a state task force headed up by a serial killer czar. He did not pledge more (and more intrusive) law enforcement to rid the city from this internal threat. He did not attempt to placate the rightfully concerned citizens of Baton Rouge by telling them that the FBI was in town and hence there was no longer any reason to worry.
No, Foster maintained that the safety of the community must ultimately rest in the hands of the people themselves. Mike Foster recommended that people arm themselves with
guns.
Foster reminded Louisianians that they have the right to bear arms and should learn how to use guns in self-defense, adding: "Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief."
Mike Foster's common sense approach reminds young women that a gun can be the great equalizer if they encounter the knife-wielding serial killer, but don't expect radical feminists to favor Second Amendment rights. Don't expect the new bureaucratic boondoggle called the Office of Homeland Security to espouse that citizens (or even commercial airline pilots) actually be allowed to exercise their gun ownership rights either.
Governor Mike Foster and the criminal profilers of the FBI are taking proven measures to stop a killer loose in the community. They aren't allowing themselves to be fettered by the chains of political correctness because lives are at risk. Our federal counter-terrorism "experts" seem to be taking the opposite tack.
Given the difference between Louisiana law enforcement and Homeland Security, in the future the media will be covering more terrorism and less serial killers.
(C.T. Rossi writes about contemporary culture and politics for the Free Congress Foundation.)
Copyright 2002, Free Congress Foundation
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200208\COM20020806b.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Police seek information on man shot to death
Houston police are investigating the death of a shooting victim whose body was found on a northeast Houston street Sunday.
According to police, the body of Jose Angel Soria, 18, of the 7400 block of Abilene, was found at 1 a.m. in the 7400 block of Anzac.
Soria, who suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, was pronounced dead at the scene. Evidence indicated he had been in a fight, police said.
He is the city's 141st homicide this year.
Police are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
Delivery man apparently kills teen in self-defense
A newspaper delivery man shot and killed a teenager Sunday morning while apparently trying to defend himself, police said.
The identity of the 47-year-old Houston Chronicle delivery man was not disclosed because he was not arrested and no charges are expected to be filed, police said.
Alvaro Felix Garcia, 16, of the 600 block of Crestline, died of a gunshot wound to the chest during the 4:25 a.m. altercation in the 400 block of Charles, police said.
According to Houston Police Department Officer Breck McDonald, a group of youths approached the delivery man while he was turning his car around, allegedly threw a beer bottle at him and lunged toward him. At that point, the delivery man fired one shot and killed Garcia, said HPD spokeswoman Sandra Aponte.
Garcia is the city's 142nd homicide this year.
The delivery man fled the scene, Aponte said, and safely arrived at his place of work before he called 911.
Body is found in ditch; detectives look for leads
Houston homicide detectives want to know who killed a northwest Houston man and dumped his body in a ditch.
A passer-by spotted the body of Nelson Federico Sanchez, 28, about 8:30 a.m. Sunday in a wooded area in the 3500 block of Creekmont.
Sanchez, of the 7400 block of Weatherhill Lane, apparently was shot to death at another location and left at the scene, said HPD Detective P. J. Guerrero.
Sanchez is the city's 143rd homicide victim this year.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1511859
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Norman Liebmann
Aug. 5, 2002
The Democrats are the Party of Re-writing Scripture-ism - the Democrat version of Genesis now starts, "In the beginning was the tax."
The Democrats are the Party of Greater Inner City-ism - where the O.J. Simpson trial established there is no difference between an ethnic joke and an ethnic jury.
The Democrats are the Party of Counterfeit Piety-ism - at the end of their terms in the Senate, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein will retire to a nunnery called The Sisters of Treason.
The Democrats are The Party of Jesse Jackson-ism - and the institutionalizing of reverse bigotry, black rainbows, and telling a wife, when she feels amorous, "I gave at the office."
The Democrats are the Party of Gimme-ism - who buy votes by making every piece of legislation a Marshall Plan for misfits. Having done this, it is the job of the Democrats in the House of Representative to distribute the crumbs. It is the job of the Democrats in the Senate to make sure there aren't any crumbs.
The Democrats are the Party of Hillary-ism - the term Hillary-ism describes the feminist who is just a vowel away from being called a twit.
The Democrats are the Party of Conformity-ism - its creature, political correctness, turned out to be a vampire. A few conservative journalists keep writing its obituary until somebody thinks of a way to kill it.
The Democrats are the Party of Katie Couric-ism and Margaret Carlson-ism - and other rabid chipmunks with trivial political opinions. Like most female journalists, they think everything they say is true, especially if they say it while crossing their legs.
The Democrats are the Party of Flunky-ism - the opinion of that bloated cipher, Bill Richardson, (remember him?) can always be counted on to confirm any opinion of the last person he spoke to.
The Democrats are the Party of Political Pantomime - for a political contribution, Barbara Boxer or Dianne Feinstein will describe to you how lady Democrats fake sincerity in the Senate and orgasm in the sack.
The Democrats are the Party of Primitive Religion-ism - one way of observing the high holidays is by advising the celebrants to be careful not to step in the Kawanzaa.
The Democrats are the Party of Choice-ism - in which everyone is given a choice except the fetus.
The Democrats are the Party of Female Liberation-ism - its liberated members are called Libstitutes.
The Democrats are the Party of Soccer Mom-ism - who do not know that when their husbands go into men's rooms, they stand in front of the urinals and fantasize that they have Bill Clinton by the neck.
The Democrats are the Party of Political Correctness-ism - a form of Fascism which replaced those roughhouse games of croquet in the Ivy League.
The Democrats are the Party of Inclusion-ism - which is tantamount to a lifetime dues-free membership in a leper colony.
The Democrats are the Party of Gibberish-ism - the world still laughs at the mention of the word Ebonics - that absurd patois known in the Ivy League as Affirmative English. Consistently, it is expected Harvard will soon establish a Rodney King School of Driving and a Greta Van Susteren School of Code Blue Orthodontia.
[Note: Yale now offers courses in Black English (Blinglish 101). Caucasian students can enroll sounding like William F. Buckley Jr. and graduate sounding like Jesse Jackson.]
The Democrats are the Party of Hypocrisy-ism - which promulgates as its basic tenet that everyone has a right to his own religion - as long as he doesn't practice it.
The Democrats are the Party of Interior Decorator-ism - one of whom has already re-vamped Barbra Streisand's anthem to be called "People Who Love Purple." (We assume purple is "in.")
The Democrats are the Party of Rosie O'Donnell-ism - who put that unsightly bulge in the airwaves.
The Democrats are the Party of the United Nations-ism - unlimited support for America-sponsored international welfare, and headquarters for world de-civilization.
The Democrats are the Party of Recipient-ism - distributing welfare checks along with supermarket coupons that are exchangeable for heroin-enriched Fruit Loops.
The Democrats are the Party of Cover up Journalism-ism - the liberal press is still trying to keep it from the American people that FDR was disabled. A retired KGB agent swore he saw Roosevelt's leg braces enshrined at the Kremlin.
The Democrats are the Party of Cultural Vulgarization-ism - that debases art with museum photographic exhibitions of genitalia. Their exhibit was cancelled when the curators found they could attract the same type of art lovers by just taking the doors off the rest rooms.
The Democrats are the Party of Feminism-ism - the movement is still out to make testosterone a controlled substance.
The Democrats are the Party of Street People-ism - with panhandlers proclaiming their ingratitude by rallying in Washington for The Million Shopping Cart March.
The Democrats are the Party of Minority-ism- who maintain their privileges by outnumbering the majority. (Don't do the math.)
The Democrats are the Party of Union-ism- who proved conclusively that a cure for insomnia is watching reruns of Welcome Back Kotter, or a job on the Federal Payroll.
The Democrats are the Party of Chad Dimpling-ism- a sexual practice by Floridians over the age of eighty. (As a result of the 2000 election, gerontologists now believe a Floridian over the age of eighty is a living redundancy.)
The Democrats are the Party of Abortion-ism - Henny Youngman said, "Take my wife - please." The Democrats added, "While you're at it, take my baby, too." (Democrats in California have made it legal to get a third trimester extirpation at a drive up window.)
The Democrats are the party of Empowered Poverty-ism - they improved the morale of minority voters by convincing them that, despite the conventional wisdom, beggars can be choosers.
The Democrats are the Party of Social Promotion-ism - that means every minority student that reaches the age of sixteen must be moved up into the third grade whether or not he has finally mastered the spelling of "cat."
The Democrats are the Party of Affirmative Action-ism - making it possible to have a computer in every cotton field. If they decide they don't like picking cotton, they can just Control/Alt/Delete it.
The Democrats are the Party of Power Blackout-ism - California Governor Gray Davis has made it necessary to run to your next door neighbor in the middle of the night to borrow a cup of electricity.
The Democrats are the Party of Liberal Journalist-ism - which has revealed journalism is not a profession, but a virus.
Democrats are the Party of 40% as a Passing Grade - ism - which provides upward mobility for the ignorant, the dense, and the rest of the motherflunkers.
The Democrats are the Party of Gun Control-ism - to keep rapists and murderers safe from citizens vicious enough to try to defend themselves.
The Democrats are the Party of Fertility in Denial-ism whose celebrants have made abortion clinics into their places of worship.
The Democrats are the Party of Barney Frank-ism - whose gender demonstrates that anything can happen when defective chromosomes copulate.
The Democrats are the party of Tom Daschle-ism and Robert Torricelli-ism - who are often invited to make themselves available in the homes of people who raise pythons and other pets with a taste for small rodents.
The Democrats are the Party of Environmental-ism - who want to keep the woods pristine by compelling the bears to go potty at Chevron Stations.
The Democrats are the Party of Hollywood-ism - where writers, actors and directors live with the morbid apprehension that they might not get a job that they really don't want.
The Democrats are the Party of Underarm Odor-ism - without which the aroma of politics might have to relocate under some other part of the body.
The Democrats are the Party of Euphem-ism - references to specific genders are determined to be politically incorrect. The term bisexual is unwelcome and henceforth to be replaced by the term "a personal of coincidental gender." (Say, what?) These people of the AC/DC persuasion will also be obliged to carry a special condom made by Rayovac.
The Democrats are the Party of Amnesty-ism - which will render immune from prosecution all illegal aliens, undocumented child molesters, and people given to the inhuman practice of picking kumquats before they reach the age of consent.
The Democrats are the party of Political Pablum-ism - which seeks to change the American form of government from a Democracy to Day Care.
The Democrats are the Party of the Artsy/Craftsy-ism - and are supporters of programmers at PBS who don't know the difference between a recital and a rectal.
The Democrats are the Party of Bill Clinton-ism - the only ex-President to have earned the title Traitor-Emeritus.
The Democrats have a lot of isms. Too bad they don't believe in any of them.
http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/articles/Norman_Liebmann.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878