by La Shawn on December 16, 2008
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A rejected idiot named Majid Movahedi threw a bucket of sulfuric acid over Ameneh Bahrami’s head, blinding and disfiguring her. This woman had been kind to the fool, by the way. She’d given the obviously impoverished man clothing.
An Iranian court ordered that five drops of sulfuric acid be dropped into his eyes. (Source)
This kind of Islamic justice I dig. An eye for an eye, or in this case, two eyes.
“Eye for an eye,” which I think is better understand as “an eye only for an eye,” is a principle of legal justice to encourage proportionate punishment for a crime. Not too lenient, and not too strict; hence, an eye only for an eye. The punishment must fit the crime, a principle codified in our own criminal laws.
Some people cite Matthew 5:39 to argue that Christ put an end to the eye-for-an-eye principle. Not true. As I’ve stated before, that passage deals with personal insults and offenses, not criminal behavior, and admonishing against personal retaliations.
What about capital punishment? Should a murderer be executed in a similar manner in which he killed (shot, tortured, lynched, hit upside the head, etc.)? Our country has developed a system of punishment in which execution methods like drawing and quartering, burning alive, disemboweling, and other methods I mentioned are considered “cruel and unusual,” even if the criminal killed his victim(s) that way. Too bad. I wouldn’t flinch in the slightest to know a child rapist and murderer received within himself the due penalty of his error. Would you?
Majid Movahedi, prepare for the darkness.
(Photo credit: Washington Post)
Monday, October 1: Here’s another from the smart and brave Heather Mac Donald, responding to this op-ed by Orlando Patterson. An excerpt (emphasis added):
“Patterson’s discussion of black crime rates and family breakdown is anti-climactic. But just to make sure that his standing with liberal elites is unassailable, at the end of his piece, Patterson lets fly a few swipes at conservatives. He blames the black incarceration rate on, inter alia, the ‘hypocritical refusal of conservative politicians to put their money where their mouths are on family values.’ This charge, like so much else, is made up out of whole cloth. The only politicians and policy makers who have tried to programmatically strengthen family values are conservatives; the marriage movement, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, seeks to channel a portion of federal welfare dollars into marriage counseling for the poor. If any liberal politicians have gotten behind this idea, they are keeping quiet about it. And Patterson’s call for ‘greatly expand[ed] social services for infants and children’ –as if the last 40 years of poverty policy haven’t proven the futility of such money sinkholes — is a pathetic diversion from the only effective social service for children: two married parents.”
Saturday, September 29: I try not to blog on weekends, but I wanted you to see an op-ed by Carol Swain on Jena Six. She writes:
“Black crime is a serious problem that stereotypes all black youth. And it must be dealt with by a united black community that stands up and says enough is enough. Unfortunately, too many of our media-appointed leaders have failed to vigorously condemn the attack of the six against the one. This is unfortunate.”
Unrelated Note (9/28 @ 12:04 p.m.): Catch me on Bill O’Reilly’s radio show today around…now.
If you want to know what O’Reilly said about race relations in proper context (his conversation with Juan Williams), listen to his “controversial” comments in full (audio file – thanks IC!).
Later…For O’Reilly radio listeners looking for the CNN segment, here it is.
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by La Shawn on August 27, 2007
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Too funny. 
Update: “Vick told reporters that this incident has changed his life. He said he has found Jesus and is turning his life over to God.” (Source – video here)
Oh, brother!
8:18 a.m. PDT: Months ago, I read a strange story about a university president covering up the rape and murder of a student in her dorm room. Why would he do such a thing? I wondered. Was he trying to prevent widespread panic? Did he lie about the crime because the murderer was black and the victim white?
The woman’s own parents thought she may have died from an aneurysm, then they heard she’d died of asphyxiation. They didn’t know that she’d been found lying on the floor with a pillow over her head or that her underwear had been removed. (Source)
Despite the “foul” circumstances of the woman’s death, the university sent out an e-mail assuring students that no foul play was suspected. How was that possible?
An idiot-student named Orange Taylor was arrested and charged with killing the woman. He was living off-campus, having been barred from living on campus because of burglary and assault incidents. (10 to 1 he was an “affirmative action” student, but that’s another topic for another post.)
Whatever the university president’s reasons were for covering up the crime, he violated something called the Clery Act, which required him to report the crime to the students. Yesterday, the Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents fired John Fallon. The case had been investigated by the Department of Education and an “independent law firm.” (Source)
Good riddance to bad PC rubbish. And I hope the thug gets the chair, or whatever they have in Michigan.
by La Shawn on June 18, 2007
in Justice
Here’s what needs to happen next: Round up all 700 raping perverts, tie them to stakes, and roast them alive.
Oh, wait. I skipped a step. Give them a fair trial, then tie them to stakes and roast them alive.
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by La Shawn on May 30, 2007
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by La Shawn on May 29, 2007
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Update: I like this idea from a commenter (emphasis in original):
“In the 18th Century, England could send its ne’er-do-wells to Australia. It was a viable option to the death penalty. My variation on that is simple: send them to Antarctica. Send them there with a parka, a tent, a sleeping bag, and a week’s worth of MRE’s [meal, ready to eat]. They can kill each other for food for all I care, and their life (or death) is up to them and their own survival skills…Couldn’t happen soon enough in my opinion.”
By the way, don’t twist my words or my meaning. I didn’t say I’d gleefully throw things at child rapists. 
I’d do it somberly. 
I just happen to think some criminals should be subjected to modern-day stonings. Is that so wrong?
Commenter Gabe, a Christian, has a reasonable response (unlike mine, apparently) to the questions. Check it out.
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Wednesday, November 12: Read about another torture-murder. Plenty to go around.
Tuesday, May 22: For more coverage of the Duke case, see the latest post, Journalists’ Rush to Judgment.
Wednesday, May 16: Michelle Malkin covers the Christian-Newsom murders over at Hot Air.
Later…Fellow BC Baldilocks comments about the Christian-Newsom case at Hot Air (emphasis in original):
“Shades of the Wichita massacre (those perverts even mutilated the dog). And, yes, I saw no MSM coverage of that evil incident either.
“As many observers have noted, crimes committed by blacks — regardless of the race of the victim(s) — do not fit the MSMs standard narrative of black people always being the victim. Such crimes don’t even fit Fox News’ narrative.
“In the runup to Stanley “Tookie” Williams’ execution, I said that we black people do not need other people to listen to and cater to the psychopaths in our number because it gives such monsters encouragment and it infantilizes black people as a whole. Well, I think that, by ignoring massacres like this one and like the one in Wichita, the MSM entities, through their inaction and cowardice, are doing just that. It’s one of racism’s sneakier and more insidious manifestations.”
Tuesday, May 15: Wow. *** [letter removed from site - letter writer said he forgot to include link to my post - I believe him] lifted an entire paragraph from this post for his letter to the editor at Chattanoogan.com (last paragraph). (Hat tip: Matt Sheffield)
Also, several people in the comment section mentioned that “white supremacist” and “neo-Nazi” sites have taken up the Christian-Newsom murder case as a cause. What that has to do with the main focus of this post — the media blackout and feminist non-outrage — is a mystery to me.
In a free society, unpopular speech is protected. That’s why we have something called the First Amendment. That some people are using this case to further their nefarious goals, whatever they may be, is called life. Deal with it. People of all colors do things to manipulate and influence — for positive and negative reasons.
That so-called white supremacists may use this post or the Christian-Newsom case to bolster their movement or whatever won’t stop me from calling things as I see them. It’s the risk we take in a country that allows freedom of speech. Well, it’s a risk I take.
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I’m pleased to announce the kickoff of the “Super Tuesday of Equality” campaign.
Ward Connerly, Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, is the man behind the anti-race preferences in government momentum. Campaigns kicked off this week in Colorado, Missouri, and Arizona.
The campaigns are a push to place initiatives on the November 4, 2008, ballot against skin color preferences. Connerly and company have already encouraged three states to pay more than lip service to equality and ban government-mandated race and sex preferences in government hiring and admissions.
Californians passed Proposition 209 by 54 percent in 1996, and the state of Washington passed I-200 with 58.3 percent of the vote in 1998. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which appeared on the November 7, 2006, ballot as Proposal 2 after facing challenges by several groups, passed with 58 percent of the vote. (Also see An Affirmative Action Lesson for Mary Sue Coleman)
Michigan voters have spoken, but groups continue to challenge the will of the people and fight for skin color preferences for a certain race.
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The Duke case is over for me, in a sense. I’ll update you on Mike Nifong’s legal woes now and then. But for the most part, the case turned out the way I wanted it to.
Did you catch the former players and the NC attorney general on “60 Minutes” yesterday? I was hoping the formerly indicted men wouldn’t be bitter and would continue to behave like gentlemen, and they didn’t disappoint. They talked about how emotionally draining it was to live under indictment for heinous crimes, facing prison and knowing they hadn’t done anything to that woman.
As for her, sister needs serious help. If she doesn’t care enough to get it for herself, perhaps she’ll do it for her three children. I’ll keep them in my prayers.
There are blogs out there dedicated to the case, so check them frequently if you want to follow developments. The Johnsville News rounds up most Duke case-related articles and blog posts. LieStoppers is a group effort (with at least one attorney), with news links and commentary. Crystal Mess is run by an attorney, and John in Carolina frequently covers the media’s role in this mess.
KC Johnson, a Brooklyn College professor, started blogging the case because of the unbelievably inappropriate behavior of pampered Duke professors, screeching about the white male patriarchy and signing on to a “listening” statement filled with anonymous and third-hand quotes from black students. He’s gone on to write articles and consult for ABC, and he’s working on a book. He’s attended several hearings in person, live-blogging the proceedings. His Durham-in-Wonderland is the top go-to blog on the Duke case. Bookmark or subscribe to all the Duke blogs if you need a daily fix.
Read my latest Duke case column at Townhall, “Every One His Due,” where I castigate the castigators. An excerpt:
It was like an episode of “Law & Order.â€
Three, drunken, rowdy, privileged, elitist, indulged, slur-slinging lacrosse-playing white men accused of beating, strangling, raping (vaginally and orally), and sodomizing a poor, oppressed black woman forced to take off her clothes for strange men in order to feed her children, while the lacrosse team erected a “blue wall of silence,†barricading themselves within the old-boy protection of the moneyed white male patriarchy – no writer could have penned a more gripping drama.
Also see Star Parker’s “Getting perspective on Imus and Duke.”
Addendum: Read how DA Mike Nifong set about lying and downplaying the lack of DNA evidence, while forging ahead with the case and pandering to blacks at North Carolina Central University, a black college the accuser attended.
Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen?
On this day 150 years ago, the Supreme Court’s answer to that question was, “No.†A negro descendant of slaves could not be a citizen of the United States.
One hundred and fifty years ago wasn’t that long ago. But when you consider how far the descendants of slaves have progressed — the rights, privileges, and immunities they enjoy, the “preferred minority†perch they occupy, their relative wealth compared to blacks in other countries — 150 years seem light-years away.
Born a slave in 1799, Dred Scott had traveled with his master to free territory. After his master died, Scott sued for his freedom, arguing that since he was living in free territory, he should be released from slavery. A state court rejected his claim.
Dred Scott v. Sandford eventually made it to federal court, where the issue was narrowed to whether the federal court had jurisdiction over the case and whether Scott had standing to sue. As expected, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott, as a slave, had no standing; therefore, the court had no jurisdiction. The court went on to declare the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional: Congress had no authority to restrict slavery. Slaves were property and slave owners had a right to travel anywhere in the U.S. with their property.
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Update (2/16) III: A white college student fed up with the obsessive and silly pursuit of skin color diversity at the expense of common sense and fairness writes:
“Every morning, I sit down with a delicious Dewick breakfast, coffee and the Daily. As of late, every morning, I make it to the Viewpoints page and read a heart-warming article about tolerance, diversity and community. Then every morning, I roll my eyes, shut the Daily and reach for a newspaper from the real world. This morning, after reading that not enough white people came to the town meeting and that intro-level English classes should be turned into race relations classes, I have had enough.”
Read the rest.
Thanks for linking, Michelle. Check out this Washington Post article about MM.
Update (8:21 p.m) II: Want more proof that race preferences are on the way out? An hispanic cop sued because he claimed his department passed him over for lesser qualified blacks. And he won $254,000. Despite what liberal justices on the Supreme Court say, race preferences are unlawful and cannot be justified, even for god-almighty “diversity.” Expect to read about more such lawsuits filed by whites, hispanics, and Asians, and be prepared to see blacks and hispanics fighting to be THE-preferred-minority-group-in-charge. Pitiful, the whole bloody game.
(Hat tip: Discriminations)
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Update (1:47 p.m.): Commenter Duke writes:
“LaShawn, it’s much more insidious than you know. In all ‘Hispanic’ areas, where the stores, street vendors, and various other Hispanic entrepreneurs ply their trade they are required to ‘pay a tax’ to the gangs or get beaten, shot, etc. This tax acts to keep a class of people who would normally earn their way out of poverty mired in a lower class forever. MS-13 is actually an international terror group and Hispanics have been terrorized by this gang for four years. But if they sing they swing, as the saying goes.
“The race hustlers, almost always credit card liberals or professional agitators, have put up walls to protect the gangs. The now notorious Special Order 40, which is now used in every metro area, makes the police criminals if they demand proof of citizenship—asking for a valid driver license can be asking for proof of citizenship—or even look like they suspect anyone of being illegal. No searches of cars or trucks is possible so guns are trafficked back and forth across cities and states.”
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Update II (1/3): See “Hispanic-on-Black Violence: Protestors, Where Are You?”
Update: If Darrent Williams’s killer is black, expect to hear no more about the case. However, if the killer is white, expect man-bites-dog media coverage.
Also not of interest to the “black community” or white liberal media: latino-on-black crime.
Nifong responds to media after his swearing in ceremony (video).
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Why did certain blacks in Durham, North Carolina, rally around a black stripper claiming to have been gang raped by three white men but virtually ignore the more destructive trend of black-on-black crime in their midst? (Duke blogger KC Johnson elaborates on blacks’ deafening silence about the latest developments in the so-called rape case.)
Last year, four young black men were murdered by a black man in a drug-related incident, and I don’t remember the national or local NAACP or black citizens of Durham protesting against the perpetrator. I don’t recall the so-called New Black Panthers showing up at the courthouse and shouting him down, either.
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Wednesday, December 27: This post is closed to commenting. To discuss recent case developments, see 2007 Prediction: Mike Nifong Will Drop All Charges.
Update II (12/23): From a reader:
Dear LaShawn,
There are so many things I don’t agree with in your blog, however, you and I have seen eye to eye on the Duke scandal.
As a black woman, I was so annoyed and frankly embarrassed at people jumping to conclusions and lining up to defend this woman and drag these men through the mud. This was a disservice to black causes and to women’s causes. This was a disservice to humanity. To automatically judge a case based on people’s melanin content and whether they have a uterus or a penis is truly a disgrace, and the perpetrators of this are now laying low, hoping the whole thing goes away. I guess crow is a meal better eaten silently.
Thank you for staying on this case the way you did. I am glad those fake civil-righters and lame pseudo-feminists have been proven wrong. Since most of them lack a moral compass, I doubt that they will learn from their lessons but, hey, I can dream.
Jaded in California
Update (12/22 @ 3:33 p.m.): The Smoking Gun has posted the dismissal order. It seems the stripper-accuser may claim she was penetrated by something other than a penis. Under NC law, that’s not rape. Although I don’t believe she was penetrated by anyone or anything at 610 N Buchanan on March 13, 2006, the rape charges can’t be sustained based on the latest version of her gang-rape fantasy.
Commenter Richard Nieporent wrote:
It is perfectly obvious what Nifong is doing by not dismissing all of the charges. He is holding the three Duke Lacrosse players hostage in an attempt to prevent their lawyers from filing criminal and civil charges against him. Nifong knows that it’s much easier to convict the Duke Lacrosse players of sexual assault because DNA evidence is not needed. He is hoping that by holding these remaining charges over their heads they will be amenable to a quid pro quo of Nifong dropping all charges if they do not pursue a criminal or civil case against him.
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