I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS…
By David Vance On August 17th, 2012I know it’s Friday but I want to talk about Mondays. Well, a very specific Monday. It was Monday 29th January 1979. Here’s what happened;
16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day”
It inspired Bib Geldof to write “I Don’t like Mondays”. The point is that killing does not need a WHY.
Mark Steyn gets to grips with the issue here.
The media conventions are pretty much chiseled in concrete by now. If a guy guns down large numbers of people while shouting “Allahu akbar!” don’t worry, it’s a one-off, part of no broader pattern, just a “lone wolf” who succumbed to “workplace violence” (Major Hasan at Fort Hood) or worries about impending foreclosure (the Times Square bomber) or any of the other highly specific, individual, customized circumstances to which card-carrying members of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves are prone. But if a genuine “lone wolf” guns down large numbers of people without shouting “Allahu akbar!” the media herd stampedes to ask the obvious question: Why?
When it comes to Islamic killers, there is no WHY. When it comes to the others, the WHY is to the fore. Almost a double standard but as Geldof points out… ”What reason do you need to die”?
no I have to disagree with you both.
If it’s other than the Allah Ahkbar fan club the question they never ask is why. What they do is go into accusation mode.
It’s conservatives fault, it’s limbaughs fault, the question of why is rarely asked, the narrative of the anti gun politician or media nutter is the mode played out. Who on the right can be blamed.
And their silence on gun violence is just as deafening when it is truly a leftist nutjob doing the shooting. Two days ago I guy who volunteers with all sorts of LBTG groups walked into the headquarters of a pro-life pro traditional marriage organization and started screaming about chik fil a and shooting up the place.
A security guard after being shot twice wrestled the guy to the ground and disarmed him before collapsing.
Now where was the media coverage blaming Obama or any of the groups that spew hate at traditional christians or conservatives ?
No if a kook shoots some place up if he’s a muslim or just a kook you go after the right, but an obvious member of the left wing agenda gets buried on page 17 or blamed on society.
crazy is crazy and islamists are dangerous
That guy the other day was just an Obama supporter expressing his First and Second Amendment rights at the same time. He should get medals from THE treasonous NRA and the ACLU hate groups.