Posted on 02/13/2023 11:38:02 AM PST by Michael.SF.
Angel, the founder of Angel Cakes, was robbed while running errands in her car. After a suspect ran off with personal items into another waiting car, Angel gave chase and somehow got caught in the car door “and was dragged more than 50 feet before falling free in the middle of the street," according to Oakland Side.
She sustained serious injuries and was in the hospital, dying shortly after doctors confirmed she had lost all brain function.
In their post about her death, Angel's family and friends stated they hope her death does not continue the cycle of violence from the authorities:
"As a long-time social movement activist and anarchist, Jen did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity. The outpouring of support and care for Jen, her family and friends, and the values she held dear is a resounding demonstration of the response to harm that Jen believed in: community members relying on one another, leading with love, centering the needs of the most vulnerable, and not resorting to vengeance and inflicting more harm. "
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
File in the 'Careful What You Wish For' folder.
“Liberalism is trying to be substitute Christianity without the morality.” Try this:
Secularism, according to John Paul Sartre, tries to substitute Catholicism without God which is impossible and leads to despair. “Being with God or Nothingness.”
Nothing would surprise me.
Forgiveness doesnt mean absolved of negative consequences.
Just punishment is part of the foundation of forgiveness. Most people need that in order to be able to forgive and move on with their lives. Its hardly trivial or unnecessary.
Does this qualify her for a Darwin award?
It’s difficult to tell whose genes are best to be removed from the gene pool, the victim’s or the perpetrator’s.
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