The mind boggles
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pecuniumA firefighter in North Carolina was charged with attempted murder (in the first degree) for shooting at a man to save child from danger.
What, you may ask was the danger? That the man (father to the child) might get back on his bicycle (with the child in a helmet, and childseat) and resume cycling.
Diez was driving his car off Interstate 40 at Exit 55 at about 11:24 a.m. Sunday when he saw Alan Ray Simons and his wife riding bikes up the road with Simons' 3-year-old son behind him in a bike seat, he said.
“He decided he needed to tell them he thought it was unsafe that they would do that and have their child out there in an area where they had a lot of traffic,” Splain said.
Diez stopped his car and confronted Simons near 1360 Tunnel Road. When Simons began to walk away, Diez shot at him, Splain said.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot, Over.
I mean... I don't know what I mean. The man's daft. Mad as a hatter. Queer as a three dollar bill, four pecks short of a bushel (and yes, I know there are only three pecks in a bushel, you do the math). There is nothing I can think of, no matter how I slice it which in any way, shape, form, hypothetical, you name it, which can justify trying to kill someone because he is rising a bicycle with a child in a child seat.
Ye Gods and Little Fishes.
Angels and Minsters of Grace defend us.
What, you may ask was the danger? That the man (father to the child) might get back on his bicycle (with the child in a helmet, and childseat) and resume cycling.
Diez was driving his car off Interstate 40 at Exit 55 at about 11:24 a.m. Sunday when he saw Alan Ray Simons and his wife riding bikes up the road with Simons' 3-year-old son behind him in a bike seat, he said.
“He decided he needed to tell them he thought it was unsafe that they would do that and have their child out there in an area where they had a lot of traffic,” Splain said.
Diez stopped his car and confronted Simons near 1360 Tunnel Road. When Simons began to walk away, Diez shot at him, Splain said.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot, Over.
I mean... I don't know what I mean. The man's daft. Mad as a hatter. Queer as a three dollar bill, four pecks short of a bushel (and yes, I know there are only three pecks in a bushel, you do the math). There is nothing I can think of, no matter how I slice it which in any way, shape, form, hypothetical, you name it, which can justify trying to kill someone because he is rising a bicycle with a child in a child seat.
Ye Gods and Little Fishes.
Angels and Minsters of Grace defend us.
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:40 pm (UTC)When they say, again, and again, and again, that "Liberals" are dangerous, and need to be stopped, "by any means neccessary," they not only make violence seem more acceptable, they increase the tendencies to 1: judgement of the moral worth of others; and 2: the urge to lash out.
So, when something like this comes up (which has some hints of "Liberals") the possibility of violence goes up.
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Date: 2009-08-01 06:36 pm (UTC)I didn't mean, by the way, to pick (excessively) on the Roman branch of the Catholic/Christian Church -- many of the Protestant ones are at least as bad. I think it has to do with the assumption that people who have Money & Power have it because they _deserve_ it, and thus should be obeyed, as part of the Divinely-imposed Hierarchic Order of Things. This does not agree with my reading and understanding of the Teachings of Jesus the Nazarene (to whatever extent I'm a Christian by absorption). *sigh*