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She Said She Was Gonna Do It...                

by Michael Kirwan

 

There was this "case" in the news a few weeks back about a family (Dad, Mom and two doubtlessly adorable children) that had parked at a scenic lookout while touring Bear Mountain in upstate NY. He got out of the SUV to take photos of the inspiring landscape (in front of plenty of witnesses) and Wifey put the automobile in gear and plummeted down the steep embankment in an attempt to kill herself and the kiddies. Dramatic footage, the children are unharmed thanks to their safety harnesses, the Mrs. reduced to a stunning example of smashed corpsedom, the media is in a frenzy to lay blame for this family tragedy on someone. The man was arrested because his spouse had been making suicidal threats for years and he had apparently "facilitated" her death by leaving her in the car unattended. He "endangered" the welfare of his children by stepping away and leaving them with their mother. The callous brute! Even though he was yards away snapping pictures of trees and mountains, getting a few minutes respite from the woman's constant blather, he was led away in handcuffs. Somebody has got to be responsible! He won't fair well in the judicial system. He's Asian (there might be language/cultural issues), not terribly attractive (although that didn't help Scott Peterson---whom I could have gotten off by supplying an equally plausible theory to the very lame case presented by the State) and seemed guilty of the most grievous offense known to the American way of life, he didn't seem to really care. No screaming, collapsing or boo-hooing. This guy refrained from gnashing his teeth and pulling clumps of hair from his head whilst demanding an explanation from God. He seemed, if anything, peeved that the stupid bitch had crashed his car and left him with no obvious egress from the winding road of the mountainside, charming though the lookout was. If a suspect is too cold they're guilty. If their histrionics are too over-the-top they are guilty. There is a very narrow margin of bereavable behaviors that are legally accepted if someone close to you is murdered or, as in this case, takes their own life. She told him over and over and over again for YEARS that she was going to kill herself and their offspring. He was supposed to do SOMETHING to prevent her from carrying out this regrettable business. Right?
So it seems that nowadays a man must sit atop his dopey wife to prevent her from harming herself. I must say, I'm shocked that one of the "A Woman's Right To CHOOSE" activists haven't objected to the man being required to stymie the heartfelt wishes of his mate. If any husband should have been taken to task about his woman's homicidal activities it should have been Russell "Rusty" Yates when his demented pet wife drowned her 5 little "angels". Sheesh. He kept pounding her into breeding an army (despite a documented postpartum history), installing her in a "renovated" school bus, demanding that she home school the brats and destroying her mind with religious zealotry of the most strident variety. I think there was even an elderly relation suffering with Alzheimer's disease thrust on this unfortunate creature to make sure her burden was absolutely ridiculous. If the Asian dude goes down for his wife's bit of "Thelma & Louise"-like theatrics, somebody should indict Rusty Yates for being the true agency of his children's watery demise.
 

Just a tangential aside here....I believe it was on the "Abrams Report" where I saw one of those profoundly irritating professional legal woman commentators calling for the Asian husband to be strung up by his balls for "encouraging" or "enabling" or "allowing" his crazy wife to kill herself and endanger the two dumplings. She (the "lawyer-woman) was reaching into every cranny she could find to tag this guy as the default murderer. It seems that no woman is actually responsible for her own self-destructive actions. Anyway, this severely coifed "Talking Head" adamantly insisted that between husbands and wives there exists such a profound bond of understanding and communication that the camera-wielding man HAD TO KNOW that his wife was capable of this desperate deed at the scenic stop-over. I fired off a surprisingly unacknowledged email that pointed out that husbands, boyfriends, and male coworkers can only survive the company of women at all by so tuning them out that the endless nonsensical ramblings, screeches and chirping emitting from the ladies barely registers as human noise let alone comprehensible language. I would imagine that a mate who routinely employs the "I'm gonna KILL myself!" tirade gets tuned-out even more profoundly since after each whiny threat the bitch is still sitting THERE. That this TV "expert" should proclaim that there could be no possibility whatsoever that this man didn't immediately comprehend the true depth of his wife's determination to finally make good on her suicidal nagging is......troubling. It's almost shocking how many of these (predominantly female) consultants/interviewees/"regular contributors"/spokesmodels/hired shills (does anyone else out there find Nancy Grace uncompromisingly repulsive?) impose ultimate judgments on the situations they're called upon to weigh in on. It's funny how these myths and assumptions become emphatic declarations when delivered by someone with a suit, regular teeth and a book deal. Men should naturally "hear" what the women in their lives are saying! Hahahaha!!!!! Oh, boy. That's rich.


But I had a point to make. This husband committed no real crime (other than marrying a nut) but he is accused and will probably be convicted anyway. There is a whole new set of "thought" crimes that (mysteriously) the free citizens of this country have signed on to in recent years. If you hit another car or damage property or run over someone whilst driving, THEN you have committed a crime whether you are intoxicated or not. Being drunk behind the wheel is not hurting anyone or anything and therefore shouldn't be an illegal act. Just because it may increase the probability that a person might have an accident is not of itself a criminal act. If the police stop someone who is driving erratically (but nothing more) they should put them in a cab and impound the car. Period. That's it. But instead there are violations, there is community service, there is mandatory AA courses, there is a host of obnoxious penalties for the "sin" of drinking. If an actual crime has been committed then punishment should be meted out to the offender regardless of their blood-tox levels. But for simply being in a position to kill, maim or destroy property, not actually doing any of these things? Solely being inebriated should not be a reason to turn someone's life upside down. It's a thought crime.


Another "crime" that has been insinuated into our national conscience is "Conspiracy to Commit...." a vague, nebulous indictment originally proposed to ensnare racketeers who had outwitted the feds for decades. The reason I'm mentioning it is that recently there was a news blurb about a group of "Terrorist Conspirators!!!" out of Liberty City, Florida delivered in triumphant terms just in time to eclipse the (not really so) secret government banking-spying business. I was frankly dumfounded that the NSA/FBI/HSA (I'm guessing that's what the Homeland Security Agency is tagged as. It might be something more elaborate and imposing. Who cares? Just another police department as far as I can tell) felt that stopping these guys from doing anything TERRORISTIC could be such a noteworthy achievement. Honestly, I've lived in Miami and am fairly familiar with Liberty City and if these guys couldn't get it together enough to escape from that dismal slum there wasn't a chance in Hell that they could pose even a farcical threat to the Nation' pillars. I'm not joking. Liberty City is easily one of the poorest, dumpiest, most pathetic eyesores on the planet and the few residents who haven't managed to get the fuck out of there are so brain-dead that it's startling. 70% illiterate, 60% unemployed. All the roads around Miami are built to prevent stray tourists from accidentally even SEEING Liberty City. These people have no money, no brains and mediocre drug habits. Their particular brand of Islamic beliefs are a horrifying blend of prison pseudo-indoctrination, voodoo hoodoo and crack-induced visions all wrapped up in some very cheap costuming. For crying out loud, they were beseeching the undercover operative for FOOTWEAR!


I especially love the "conspiracy!" charges made against some dumb clown who pays off a faux hitman to kill the troublesome spouse or conniving associate. Caught on film handing over the envelope with the first installment of cash, right there on tape giggling while insisting that the other party be truly dead and not just roughed up. But again, no real crime has been committed and the forfeiture of the down payment and the humiliation of having the secret footage aired on television (which should prove adequate grounds for divorce) should be the end of it. Thinking about someone's death, talking about getting rid of a certain person, soliciting a devious goon to do the dirty deed, none of these things actually results in a murder and as no one is technically dead, where exactly is the crime? So now it becomes a legal matter if you speculate, postulate or just dream of knocking off a heavily insured wife or a weasel-like business rival? When did the American populace decide that simply expressing an interest in a criminal enterprise should result in jail time? When did mere plotting escalate into a penitentiary sentence? I don't get it. I don't understand why a people who espouse freedom and liberty and justice could allow the government to turn THINKING about doing something awful into a punishable offense. And where does it end? Right now America has more citizens incarcerated per capita than any other nation in HISTORY (including Stalinist Russia) and with the advent of these new ("National Security" facilities where the suspects are detained unindicted, untried, unproven guilty and secret) prison camps how long will it be before regular Americans begin disappearing into these places? We've given our government the power to run unsupervised concentration camps. What term will they apply to the homegrown version of "enemy combatants"? At what point will simply disagreeing with government policy result in being whisked off into a black van in the dead of night...and eventually see Americans abducted in a daytime crowd setting? As they push fear and paranoid propaganda further down our throats as a means of cowing and controlling us, are we going to be capable of raising our voices in dissent? Look at all of these recent "Exposes" where men are tricked into thinking that they've made a connection with some underage Lolita via the internet. The "girls" being violated DO NOT EVEN EXIST yet all of those poor fools are led away in chains after being roughly subdued by the police. It may be distasteful but it shouldn't be a criminal matter unless someone is ACTUALLY HARMED. That the media continues to showcase this scenario over and over again is just another way that we are being acclimated to the notion of "Thought Crime" as REAL crime. These guys may be sleazy and degenerate but wanting to fuck a kid is not the same as fucking one. The humiliation of being thusly entrapped and having your name and predilection known to the authorities should be sufficient punishment. We should all be questioning these tactics and the broader meaning behind these methods. If thinking like a "terrorist" or like a "child molester" is enough to get you locked away, how soon will it be when some of your own thoughts or ideas or opinions are reason enough for them to come after you? Think about it. Or maybe you should think no such thing. "Thought Crimes" are the calling card of the Totalitarian State. Like I said; if nothing is stolen, no one hurt or killed, no property damaged, then no criminal activity has occurred. Just being capable of doing one of these things, or talking about it or even making motions to arrange for it to happen STILL shouldn't be illegal in a "free" country. Later.

 

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