What a lovely story.
I think it’s time to bring back the old policy, the old way of doing things, expecially in cases such as this. Exceute them by firing squad. That is, if they are proven guilty.
What brought this on really is this: lately here where I live, the 5th murder happened for the year. The town is about 100,000 with a major university and two other colleges. So far, if I recall, every murder this year has been on and by a black man. Now, I could be wrong, and I’m not portraying racism here, it’s a concern. It’s a concern for the black populous of the United States. This is not new. There was a shooting in my neighborhood a few weeks back, against and by black men.
Is it music? Is it the parental unit? Is it family? Is it lack of education, the internet, or some other influence? What is it that drives and motivates people to commit murder, and what is it primarily (and historically) this year that is anyway, locally and SEEMINGLY on the headlines, that is pushing black men overboard? Drugs? Gangsta warfare? Rap? Image?
I don’t know, but I am concerned, because a lot of these guys are pretty cool dudes. I’ve hung out with them (black men). I’ve talked intelligently with them. I’ve shared stories with them over 40 years. What is the deal? What happened? And when? Was it always like this?
In contrast in a town south of here, two or three murders have happened and 2 out of the 3 that I remember were white males on white males. And they tend to be more violent and use trickery like body dumps and hack saws.
Why am I writing this? These four guys (and the article was the one that made the reference that all four men were black), are/were MARINES. They killed a MARINE. That’s destruction of federal property (some of you may giggle, but it’s true). When did this sort of thing start getting tolerated in the Marines??
Why is this tolerated at all? Was your pride angered so much and in such a way that the only thing you could think of was to murder someone? Not only that, EXECUTION style? (two shots each in the back of the head). I think it’s a power struggle. And I think the roots of such power struggles run deep back many generations to tribal wars. I don’t know, I’m drawing at straws. Mexican men have the same issue: territorial status and power as North American Indians.
Can it be helped? Will anyone listen?
DISCLAIMER: this article comes off as completely racist, I assure you, it is not intended that way. I am not a racist nor have I ever been a racist. I don’t participate in rallys, and I don’t promote racism. This is a CONCERN of mine, and has been for a while. I was raised properly and in such a way that I wouldn’t support hate crimes or hate speech. Maybe the article will open the right set of eyes that belong to someone with enough concern and power to maybe alter things. Maybe it already happened on election day.
