I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet today.
I remember in high school, we discussed the famous and tragic New York story of a woman named Kitty Genovese. She was supposedly raped and murdered in Queens in the 1960's. All kinds of people were said to have hear her screams and cries, but nobody had the decency to intervene. If anything would inspire a vigilante, it's stories like the tragic Kitty Genovese story. Not to digress...
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| Charles Bronson in "Death Wish". |
Remember Charles Bronson in Death Wish? No there was a vigilante. He went looking for bad guys and meted out violent, permanent justice in ways that the police and justice system wouldn't, didn't, or couldn't. He took the law into his own hands.
I don't believe that has much resemblance to what Daniel Penny did. If there is resemblance, it is in that the justice system failed to remove a menace, Jordan Neely, from endangering society. Neely had reportedly been arrested 42 times. In one incident I read about, he broke a woman's eye socket in a literal random act of violence. The police and the courts failed to remove a menace from society, and he continued menacing, right up until his own behavior brought about his own avoidable death.
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| Daniel Penny innocent. The jury did the right thing... |
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| ...unlike this political activist disguised as a prosecutor. |
The message from Alvin Bragg, AOC, BLM? Somple: Give us more Kitty Genovese, less Daniel Perry.
Judge Jeanine Pirro interviewed him tonight on “The Five.”
ReplyDeletePenny wasn’t looking for notoriety or thrills.
He admitted that he wasn’t feeling very brave when Jordan Neely began threatening the other riders on the subway with him.
But he told Pirro that one of his biggest lessons from being a Marine was that bravery wasn’t the absence of fear.
It was being afraid, but doing the right thing in spite of that fear.
So when he saw the screaming, wild eyed Neely menacing the other riders in that subway car, he just “couldn’t sit by and do nothing.”
And by their own admission, the other riders on that car were glad that he did.
For some people, in their moral hierarchy, skin color is above right and wrong. For some of these folks, the fact Perry is White and Neely is Black is a stumbling block to objectively assessing right and wrong here. The real culprits here are the progressive criminal justice people in New York who are loathe to lock up criminals, the mental health community, who leave many, many like Neely to fend for themselves on the street, and Neely's family, who didn;t give a shit about him until the sensed a chance to cash in on this tragedy.
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