Posted on 12/02/2010 10:43:38 AM PST by raybbr
A judge revealed Wednesday what he called a disturbing motive behind the murder of Matthew Chew as he walked home from work in New London Oct. 29.
Six teens appeared in court Wednesday to face various charges in connection with the murder.
Reading from a sealed arrest warrant, Judge Kevin McMahon said the group beat Chew to death for "no reason" other than "because they were bored", according to a report in The Day of New London.
Idris Elahi and Marquis Singleton, both 17, are charged with Chew's murder. Brian Rabell, 18, and three 17-year-olds, Tyree Bundy, Matias Perry and Rashad Perry (no relation), are all charged with accessory to murder.
McMahon blasted police, who initially said Chew was using his cell phone to buy drugs at the time of his murder, and that the attack was drug related, the paper reported.
"I'm not happy with the police department's conduct," McMahon said. He continued that the victim's actions that night had "nothing to do with his death", according to The Day.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
You are correct. Teenagers used to work. Now they can’t (and won’t, and their parents if they happen to have a couple, won’t/can’t force them, it’s against the law, they have no work ethic, etc.
I think there are many, many who are 100% unfixable.
About 20-25 years ago my wife and I were eating lunch at new Pizza Hut in Acton, MA on a Saturday. Next door a new office building was going up. As we sat there eating, a kid about 11-12 years old was operating a payloader, scooping out the basement for the new office building. We watched in bemusement as he moved the dirt into piles playing with the biggest honking Tonka toy in the sandbox. No apparent adult supervision in sight. After we polished off about four slices of pizza, the kid parks the payloader and climbs into the rear of a pick up truck parked on the site, tosses out a 20” bike with ape hanger handlebars popular in those days, hops on it and rides off into the sunset.
I guess he must have eaten all his Brussel sprouts and his reward was being allowed to play with dad’s toys. Still pretty kewl.
Bet he was seldom “bored”.
You get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you tax.
We have been subsidizing bastardy and laziness for multiple generations. The 15 year old today giving birth to a "son of a thousand fathers" could very well be the great-grand-daughter of one of the original "beneficiaries" of the "Great Society".
It’s not race, it’s culture and upbringing. There are plenty of moral and responsible black people.
Paying women to have illegitimate babies was not a good idea (putting it very mildly). Basically AFDC and the whole leftist shebang has ruined two or three generations of millions of black people.
Of course, there are plenty of blacks who did not succumb; but unfortunately for them and everyone else, the majority were horrible influenced and it’s only getting worse.
Last figures I saw were about 80% of all births to black mothers were illegitimate. That’s ruination right there.
You could not run fast enough to give those two a job.
Don’t the gangs call it “wilding”?
These kids are far, far better off than the current resident kids in New London, who are doped up on riddeln (whatever), dumped in from of an electronic box, or pestered by schoolmarms. Andrew Carnagie started off as a bobbin boy in a mill making nine cents a day.
The "horrors" of child labor pale in comparison to sterile, lonely and useless pursuits of kids today.
We lived in Fairfield County for a number of years. It’s a real checkerboard. Most of Connecticut’s inner cities are cesspits.
You know, presented the alternative of starvation or work, I think they would “embrace” work.
One problem is that the consequences of crime are too weak to discourage robbery and mayhem. If prison were really objectionable, you’d see a lot less crime. There was what I call the Manheim Effect. When I was in Army in Germany in the early 70’s a GI pick up on the Strass for drug offense by the Polizei had the choice of facing a German court or a court-martial. Conviction was more of less a foregone conclusion in either case. When convicted in a German civilian court, he would face six months in a German prison in Mannheim, Germany. When convicted by a court-martial, he would face two years in Fort Leavenworth, KS. Invariably the defendant chose a deuce in Leavenworth over a half year in Mannheim. German prisons are unheated, the food is poor, there are few recreational opportunities, half an hour a day out in the yard. No TV.
Remarkably, it costs a helluva lot less to lock up a prisoner in Mannheim, too. The Germans just plain got a lot more bang for their penal buck.
“Executions need to start happening. Feral subhumans like these are not fixable.”
Agreed. Justice delayed is justice denied.
The “justice” system is broken. At all levels.
White guy beaten up by 6 negro thugs... HATE CRIME, HATE CRIME..... bored my aunt petoote! “HATERS” is more what they are!! If this had happened to 1 negro they would be streaming from the loudest pole!! HATE CRIME...
Suggestions?
Don’t forget haole.
You’re the lawyer, what ideas do you have?
I say “Broken” because of reading on FR and personal knowledge of friends who were innocent and yet one was convicted of a crime and the other was bludgeoned into plea bargaining. Actually a third was forced into a plea as well.
None actually committed any crime, what to speak of what they were accused of. The court supplied defenders did nothing, and the privately paid lawyer did absolutely squat.
I served on a grand jury for 3 months and discussed many cases, heard witnesses and cops. After the stint, the retiring county DA and I had a private little conversation. I opined that until public canings were standard, repeat criminals would continue sapping money and time and continue offending.
He sighed and said I was absolutely right, but that public wouldn’t go for it.
Well, sooner or later, the public will not only go for it, they will demand it.
Real punishment, not jail time, which costs huge bucks and does nothing to stop crime. In fact so much crime occurs in many prisons that’s a whole ‘nother topic.
Executions need to be brought back - for forcible rape, pedophilia, kidnapping, murder. Has to be brought back. Public executions.
Restitution needs to be made to victims who have suffered financially either directly or indirectly. There is no justice for victims.
The Miranda rule sucks. Cops’ hands are tied. Bad cops need to be thrown out of the force. Corrupt judges fired.
Very few people should be in jail. Does very few people any good and when they come out they are just as bad if not worse. Public pain and shame will be much better - cost is negligible, and the criminals will have a week or two to consider their lives, then the public pain and shame is administered, and they can re-focus their priorities. Those considering a life of crime will have motivation to reconsider.
After administration of public pain and shame, the (hopefully former) criminals will not have wasted years of life behind bars habituating them to be “clients” of the state. Since tons of tax money will be freed up, (and in peoples’ pockets, not the state coffers), privately run charitable programs for helping former offenders learn skills, trades and work ethics will be able to be formed.
Former prisons can be re-made into other uses. I have ideas for those, too!
The way it is now, “justice” is all too easy to be purchased, bias is incredible, jurors are handpicked to be the “right” kind of people, and AFAIK are never informed (or rarely) of their right to use nullification - voting not just G or NG, but NG because the law is unjust, wrong or unconstitutional.
Actually I know personally four people who were screwed royally by the “Justice” system, out of my small circle of acquaintance. One is still being ground in the meat grinder due to 10 years of probation - for a crime she did not commit.
It’s broken.
I agree completely. The fundamental issue is that the present leaning of the judicial system presumes man to be good. I am not talking about a reasonable presumption of innocence of a particular crime - I think that is the right approach. However, our society can no longer afford to presume across the board that with more education, more access to worldly comforts, and more opportunity, people will behave well. They won’t.
We are all depraved sinners at heart, restrained in our passions, desires, demands, and lusts only by either the understanding of eternal retribution, or the rod of the earthly authority. We must return to mainstream thought the Judeo-Christian God of wrath and redemption, of both mercy and justice. No one can afford to ignore this truth any longer. Tolerance has evolved into acceptance and then endorsement of a host of cultures that only embrace one form or another of self righteousness that we can never attain. We can be tolerant of those who believe themselves to be capable of seeing truth on their own, but the general underpinnings of our society must return to Christianity en masse or we are doomed.
The more we deny the one true God, the more He lets us have our own way, and that way is the path of self destruction. We need repentance and conversion to Christ across the board.
I remember that term from years back when a woman jogger in Central Park was attacked by a group of thugs, raped and left for dead. Horrific attack and shocking at the time. They called it “wilding” then but I haven’t heard the word used much since then.
It’s a good term as it’s descriptive of the bestial nature of these packs.
You're kidding right?
Maybe a school lunch program? After school art appreciation? Midnight basketball? Better yet, what about eliminating them from society.
On a practical level, I also agree that restitution would be preferable to imprisonment. Further than that, I think if we were all armed to the teeth there would not be much need for police either.
Believe it or not, the penitentiary was fostered by the Quakers to induce penitence. Is it not interesting that our current prisons are called ‘corrections’ instead? So the criminal is now just in need of correction? No - he is in need of repentance. That says it all, right there.
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