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(by VDH) Snapshot of a Sick Society --We protect the evil living and dismiss the innocent dead.
nationalreview ^ | August 3, 2011 4:00 A.M. | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/04/2011 9:30:44 AM PDT by dennisw

Quite often a brief news story sums up the collective pathologies of postmodern American society. :

Police call slaying of Hanford woman a random act Posted at 06:04 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2011

By Paula Lloyd / The Fresno Bee

A woman found slain at a Hanford car wash this week was killed randomly when a 17-year-old gang member happened to see her while taking a walk, Hanford police said Thursday.

Denise McVay was washing her car — something she did several times a week — early Tuesday morning before work.

The teen was wandering the streets after leaving a party when he saw McVay at the Royal Car Wash on Garner Avenue at about 5 a.m. and decided to kill her, police said.

The teen “simply wanted to kill somebody that night” and McVay, 49, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Capt. Parker Sever said. “It was a purely random act.”

The teen stabbed McVay several times and slit her throat.

The teen took McVay’s money and her car, Sever said, and drove to the home of a fellow gang member, Mauricio Ortiz, 18, of Hanford. Sever said the teen was covered with blood and told Ortiz what he had done.

Ortiz helped him ditch the car at Tachi Palace Casino and went with him to Visalia Mall, where the teen used McVay’s money to buy clean clothes, Sever said.

Walk through this story to learn something about our confused American society. First, note the discrepancy between the employed Ms. McVay — washing her car in the early morning hours on her way to work, apparently intent on having a clean automobile when she arrived —

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1 posted on 08/04/2011 9:30:47 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

MUST READ entire article at the source to understand what Victor Davis Hansen is saying


2 posted on 08/04/2011 9:32:11 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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Punish the innocent, reward the guilty.

It's the Communist way.

3 posted on 08/04/2011 9:37:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: dennisw

In a nutshell: The guilty have more rights than do victims.


4 posted on 08/04/2011 9:38:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
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To: dennisw

Wow. When VDH gets angry, his writing is brilliant.

}:-)4


5 posted on 08/04/2011 9:38:55 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: dennisw
The communists have used this view (evil=good; good=evil) as a useful tool. Some cultures have embraced it whole heartedly.


6 posted on 08/04/2011 9:40:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: dennisw

Sometimes common sense wins....Jose Saldona

http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/news/local/article_47c6653e-ba52-11e0-b4ff-001cc4c03286.html


7 posted on 08/04/2011 9:49:01 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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You see, it is characteristic of a morally bankrupt society to be absorbed with the evil living without much remembrance of the more noble dead. The former gang member and his family by all means must not be embarrassed; the dead woman is reduced to being “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Thanks. I like his point that she wasn't in the wrong place, she was in the right place. She was doing the right thing. The gang member was the one out of place in this drama.

8 posted on 08/04/2011 9:49:31 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: dennisw

As always he hits the nail on the head.


9 posted on 08/04/2011 9:50:06 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: dennisw

WTF. That gang banger has forfeited his right to life. People like him belong in prison or worse, dead !


10 posted on 08/04/2011 9:50:12 AM PDT by CORedneck
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He points out how we need to critcally evaluate every word, every sentence that we read in public media. Every word is carefully chosen and is designed to veil the evil which we have allowed to exist amongst us.

The devil hides like a lion in the grass, waiting to pounce on his victims, and we abide by never mowing the grass.


11 posted on 08/04/2011 9:58:07 AM PDT by schwingdoc
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To: arkady_renko

Exactly. She did nothing wrong.

A productive member of society was killed by a non-productive member of society.

Also, I like his point that the killing was NOT random. He picked out a weaker victim to prey on.

Had he instead encountered three large men washing their truck at 5 am, he would have kept his knife sheathed and kept walking.

But, the reality is, dark car-washes at 5 am are NOT safe in today’s world. Citizens need to arm themselves against the cockroaches that white-liberal guilt and Big Government policies have allowed to infest our culture.


12 posted on 08/04/2011 10:01:53 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: dennisw
When society deliberately decouples itself from inimitable truth, that is, faith, trust and reliance on God, we get unrestrained evil along with an overall incapacity to distinguish clearly between good and evil. We easily see this moral confusion on display every single day in our society. Hansen's example is one of many repeated over and over on various levels.

In this manner, the Bible accurately shows what our future will be as described int Romans 1:24.

13 posted on 08/04/2011 10:02:42 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: "Let them eat peas!")
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Civilized people are ill suited to deal with savages.
14 posted on 08/04/2011 10:03:12 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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This brings to mind a pet peeve of mine.....the news referring to young adults of 18 and 19 as “teens.” At age 18 one is considered an adult. But you see and hear all the time things like,

“Woman shot by armed teen. Joe Schmuck, age 18, shot and killed......”

If he was 20 they would say “armed man.” Most people, when they think of a teen, picture someone 14 - 16 years old.

Disclaimer: Names used are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely incidental.

15 posted on 08/04/2011 10:03:12 AM PDT by fredhead (I'm not sleeping, I'm checking my eyelids for cracks.)
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"transition from a shame culture to a guilt culture"

Nails it in a single simple phrase.

16 posted on 08/04/2011 10:07:23 AM PDT by DryFly
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To: Moose4

If this happened to someone in my family or a close friend, I’d make it my business to hunt down the perps and leave them “sleeping with the fishes”.

Enough said.


17 posted on 08/04/2011 10:08:45 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: CORedneck
That gang banger.....

Odds are he is an anchor baby or illegal himself. Or he might be offspring of legal immigrants. Either way, try him, execute him, then deport him.

18 posted on 08/04/2011 10:31:24 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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To: Moose4
A while ago, within the past year, he was on a tear about the
vandalism of his farm equipment by illegal aliens stealing metal, iirc.
19 posted on 08/04/2011 10:36:56 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: oldbrowser
Civilized people are ill suited to deal with savages.

In this case and others it is open season on white women by savages. Especially a white woman who is alone and she was justified in being alone here...Was merely washing her automobile before reporting to work. Maybe she had a date or other special occasion lined up after the work day

The 17 year old who murdered her, Jose Saldana, was able bodied, not working, doing nothing useful for society. Now the taxpayers will be forced to pay for


20 posted on 08/04/2011 10:47:38 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT -- works better if you're already smart)
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