Johnny D. Symon
Murder and the numbers game
By Johnny D. Symon
Yesterday was yet another day in the life for Spain: Two women were murdered by their husbands, one in full view of her young child. A Chinese man was knifed to death last night on a Madrid street, and the list goes on. Violence in all its forms is a daily occurrence throughout Spain. This country holds little more than 40 million people, and yet violent crime is widespread and growing daily. For a country that cried "No a la guerra!" when we removed Saddam, they seem to be blind to the war waged against its people by its people. As the present lunatic fringe government lessens the penalties against wrongdoers, violence grows.
The unthinking masses tend to wake-up and take note of atrocities only if those acts contain a large number of casualties or deaths. March 11, 2004, when terrorists set off bombs on a Madrid train, leaving 192 dead, was a prime example. 200 deaths in Iraq in one day earlier this week drew the attention of the Spanish people, though to less effect than that which is closer to home. But nowadays the tendency grows within each and every one of us to fix our attention on mass tragedy, while paying less heed to the everyday tragedy of individual people and families.
Our modern-world view of man's inhumanity to man has become subject to the numbers game. If a sufficient number of innocent people get wiped off the face of the map in one go, then it merits our attention, our disgust, and then becomes the subject of conversation for our control-freak, policy-makin' politicos. There's an element nestling within every Western political system that eagerly awaits the next bloodbath. In Spain this element pounced on the Iraq war, promising to remove all Spanish troops (on an humanitarian mission,) should they be elected. And when they were indeed elected back in March 14, 2004, three days after the March 11 terrorist bombing they kept their word. Shortly afterwards al quaeda issued a press release stating that Spain was no longer on their terrorist agenda, then last week they made another press statement, stating that Islam intended to regain Israel all the way through to "Al Andalus."
Al Andalus, of course, is the modern day Southern Spanish region of Andalusia. Radical Islam made no mention of the British colony of Gibraltar, it wasn't an oversight by the terrorists, they just regard the Rock of Gibraltar as another section of Al Andalus, which historically speaking is indeed true: Tarik, the Moorish invader, appears to be the first person to lay claim to this world famous pinion; Gibraltar means "Rock of Tarik." General Franco regarded Gibraltar as simply a "stone in the shoe of Espaņa," but Islam, of the North African sort, views it differently, it was the "stepping stone" to take Spain, so, conversely, to the British Military and NATO in general, Gibraltar is the most strategically sensitive region of the Mediterranean, and the most vital element to protect Western Europe.
When the numbers game starts to dominate the hearts and minds of the populace, terrorists become satisfied in the knowledge that they're winning their war with terror. Increasingly terrorists plan and execute atrocities close to election time. Algeria and Morocco have recently experienced this phenomena, and it's a phenomena that further proves the point that en masse the Western people have become desensitized to the evil acts against innocent individuals and families, even within their own neighborhood. Man's inhumanity to man, twenty first century style, can rely on local and national deference if it involves innocent individuals or families. This deference rises up the scale to finally reach the courts, and that's where the ultimate deference to evil occurs.
I happened to republish "The New Battle of Lexington" last Friday April 13, in my Knight Gothic archives. This ed highlighted an early attempt at gun control within the United States, and also highlighted a tragedy caused by a well-known crazy person in an English town called Hungerford back in the 1980's. But shortly after I republished this ed another well-known crazy committed a similar act in Virginia. This animal committed a sufficiently large tragedy that would wake-up the world's media, and grab the interest of the otherwise dumbfounded Western populace.
As with Hungerford, both of those jerks were known mental cases, who nevertheless were permitted to own guns. But the situation in Hungerford, England, was graver still because the UK is one of the strictest on gun ownership, not even the cops carried handguns. Man's inhumanity to man in Hungerford, therefore, was understandable because no one in the vicinity could return fire, whereas the Virginia situation should have ended much sooner and with less casualties. Many questions are left unanswered. But for me the only important question remaining is, "Why don't we regard ALL evil acts in the same manner?" The rape and murder of an innocent woman should leave the culprit with no delusions as to his subsequent fate.
Saddam Hussein was hung on a rope because he had nigh on a million people murdered. He waged war against Iran, invaded Kuwait, and constantly threatened Israel. He was hung by the neck as a result of the numbers game. Why don't we remove those modern-day numerics from the judgement system and give even single killers the noose? Let's regard man's inhumanity to man, in all it's forms, on the same level and with the same repulsion. So next time we hear of a rape and murder in VA, or any other part of the States, let's feel the same righteous indignation that we all felt last Monday when 32 innocent people became the focus of attention of a well-known loon.
© Johnny D. Symon
Yesterday was yet another day in the life for Spain: Two women were murdered by their husbands, one in full view of her young child. A Chinese man was knifed to death last night on a Madrid street, and the list goes on. Violence in all its forms is a daily occurrence throughout Spain. This country holds little more than 40 million people, and yet violent crime is widespread and growing daily. For a country that cried "No a la guerra!" when we removed Saddam, they seem to be blind to the war waged against its people by its people. As the present lunatic fringe government lessens the penalties against wrongdoers, violence grows.
The unthinking masses tend to wake-up and take note of atrocities only if those acts contain a large number of casualties or deaths. March 11, 2004, when terrorists set off bombs on a Madrid train, leaving 192 dead, was a prime example. 200 deaths in Iraq in one day earlier this week drew the attention of the Spanish people, though to less effect than that which is closer to home. But nowadays the tendency grows within each and every one of us to fix our attention on mass tragedy, while paying less heed to the everyday tragedy of individual people and families.
Our modern-world view of man's inhumanity to man has become subject to the numbers game. If a sufficient number of innocent people get wiped off the face of the map in one go, then it merits our attention, our disgust, and then becomes the subject of conversation for our control-freak, policy-makin' politicos. There's an element nestling within every Western political system that eagerly awaits the next bloodbath. In Spain this element pounced on the Iraq war, promising to remove all Spanish troops (on an humanitarian mission,) should they be elected. And when they were indeed elected back in March 14, 2004, three days after the March 11 terrorist bombing they kept their word. Shortly afterwards al quaeda issued a press release stating that Spain was no longer on their terrorist agenda, then last week they made another press statement, stating that Islam intended to regain Israel all the way through to "Al Andalus."
Al Andalus, of course, is the modern day Southern Spanish region of Andalusia. Radical Islam made no mention of the British colony of Gibraltar, it wasn't an oversight by the terrorists, they just regard the Rock of Gibraltar as another section of Al Andalus, which historically speaking is indeed true: Tarik, the Moorish invader, appears to be the first person to lay claim to this world famous pinion; Gibraltar means "Rock of Tarik." General Franco regarded Gibraltar as simply a "stone in the shoe of Espaņa," but Islam, of the North African sort, views it differently, it was the "stepping stone" to take Spain, so, conversely, to the British Military and NATO in general, Gibraltar is the most strategically sensitive region of the Mediterranean, and the most vital element to protect Western Europe.
When the numbers game starts to dominate the hearts and minds of the populace, terrorists become satisfied in the knowledge that they're winning their war with terror. Increasingly terrorists plan and execute atrocities close to election time. Algeria and Morocco have recently experienced this phenomena, and it's a phenomena that further proves the point that en masse the Western people have become desensitized to the evil acts against innocent individuals and families, even within their own neighborhood. Man's inhumanity to man, twenty first century style, can rely on local and national deference if it involves innocent individuals or families. This deference rises up the scale to finally reach the courts, and that's where the ultimate deference to evil occurs.
I happened to republish "The New Battle of Lexington" last Friday April 13, in my Knight Gothic archives. This ed highlighted an early attempt at gun control within the United States, and also highlighted a tragedy caused by a well-known crazy person in an English town called Hungerford back in the 1980's. But shortly after I republished this ed another well-known crazy committed a similar act in Virginia. This animal committed a sufficiently large tragedy that would wake-up the world's media, and grab the interest of the otherwise dumbfounded Western populace.
As with Hungerford, both of those jerks were known mental cases, who nevertheless were permitted to own guns. But the situation in Hungerford, England, was graver still because the UK is one of the strictest on gun ownership, not even the cops carried handguns. Man's inhumanity to man in Hungerford, therefore, was understandable because no one in the vicinity could return fire, whereas the Virginia situation should have ended much sooner and with less casualties. Many questions are left unanswered. But for me the only important question remaining is, "Why don't we regard ALL evil acts in the same manner?" The rape and murder of an innocent woman should leave the culprit with no delusions as to his subsequent fate.
Saddam Hussein was hung on a rope because he had nigh on a million people murdered. He waged war against Iran, invaded Kuwait, and constantly threatened Israel. He was hung by the neck as a result of the numbers game. Why don't we remove those modern-day numerics from the judgement system and give even single killers the noose? Let's regard man's inhumanity to man, in all it's forms, on the same level and with the same repulsion. So next time we hear of a rape and murder in VA, or any other part of the States, let's feel the same righteous indignation that we all felt last Monday when 32 innocent people became the focus of attention of a well-known loon.© Johnny D. Symon
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