A Woman Was Lynched Today
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Don’t Say Tragedy, Call Selfish, Cowardly Hate Crimes What They Are
The news readers keep saying that the murders of Naomi Rose Eversole, Marian Fisher, Lina Miller, Mary Liz Miller, and Anna Mae Stoltzfus, and the attempted murder of other, still endangered girls is a tragedy. It isn’t a tragedy. Tragedies are not planned in detail, they are not planned with everything including toilet paper for the comfort of the murderer taken into an Amish school from which adults and males are released before the murderer begins to carry out his plans. This was a hate crime planned and committed by a man who felt he was entitled to murder little girls he didn’t know. He felt that his gender entitled him to terrorize, humiliate and murder them.
This wasn’t a tragedy, this wasn’t a story set into motion for the entertainment or revenge of the gods, this was one man who believed his being born with a penis gave him the power of life and death over these girls. Maybe over all girls. He could have chosen any girls to murder. This man choosing to murder girls from what he would certainly have known was a pacifist sect is everything anyone needs to know about his sense of entitlement and his cowardice. His name and identity are useless except as a study in that particular type of cowardly, selfish man. After what there is to know about him has been collected and studied he deserves to be erased from the collective memory of the world.
Lynchings are not tragedies, they are crimes, sordid murders by self-centered cowards who believe that their gender, race, religion, ethnicity or class entitles them to murder other people. Knowing the murderers for what they are is all anyone needs to know about them. Using that knowledge of their taste in entertainment, their hobbies, their upbringing and their other pathologies in order to avoid producing more of these defective human beings is all that they are good for. None of this should be anything but a scientific study in pathology.
Dwelling on the names and lives of these cowards risks turning them into something they aren’t. While studying their psychological flaws the fact that they were selfish and cowardly should never be forgotten. People with mental illness can sometimes be selfish slime too. Normal people might see them memorialized on TV as examples of evil, potential killers will see them as heros to be emulated or topped. Ignoring that possibility even as the programs talk about the “copy-cat” nature of a lot of these crimes is a crime in itself. It is the same crime the neighbors of Kitty Genovese committed when they ignored her as she was being murdered. It is cynical indifference. It is time to put an end to sensation murder used as profit driven entertainment and entertainment posing as news. It is part of the problem in the age of TV and video.
Call these crimes what they are. Don’t memorialize the criminals. Don’t instruct their admirers and fellow degenerates.
This wasn’t a tragedy, this wasn’t a story set into motion for the entertainment or revenge of the gods, this was one man who believed his being born with a penis gave him the power of life and death over these girls. Maybe over all girls. He could have chosen any girls to murder. This man choosing to murder girls from what he would certainly have known was a pacifist sect is everything anyone needs to know about his sense of entitlement and his cowardice. His name and identity are useless except as a study in that particular type of cowardly, selfish man. After what there is to know about him has been collected and studied he deserves to be erased from the collective memory of the world.
Lynchings are not tragedies, they are crimes, sordid murders by self-centered cowards who believe that their gender, race, religion, ethnicity or class entitles them to murder other people. Knowing the murderers for what they are is all anyone needs to know about them. Using that knowledge of their taste in entertainment, their hobbies, their upbringing and their other pathologies in order to avoid producing more of these defective human beings is all that they are good for. None of this should be anything but a scientific study in pathology.
Dwelling on the names and lives of these cowards risks turning them into something they aren’t. While studying their psychological flaws the fact that they were selfish and cowardly should never be forgotten. People with mental illness can sometimes be selfish slime too. Normal people might see them memorialized on TV as examples of evil, potential killers will see them as heros to be emulated or topped. Ignoring that possibility even as the programs talk about the “copy-cat” nature of a lot of these crimes is a crime in itself. It is the same crime the neighbors of Kitty Genovese committed when they ignored her as she was being murdered. It is cynical indifference. It is time to put an end to sensation murder used as profit driven entertainment and entertainment posing as news. It is part of the problem in the age of TV and video.
Call these crimes what they are. Don’t memorialize the criminals. Don’t instruct their admirers and fellow degenerates.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. This story seems the *quintessence* of tragedy.
Generally, I'm the first to call a hate crime by its name. The Pennsylvania Amish murders, however, don't seem to fit that label. I haven't seen evidence that the killer was trying to terrorize women in general, or the Amish. The Unless I've missed a key element of the story, one sick individual simply latched onto the girls as a symbol for whatever personal demons drove him (why *they* symbolized such things to him is fodder for further investigation).
Yes, the girls were killed because of their sex. No, I don't yet see that the killer had an agenda beyond his own hurt. That's still reason enough to pursue understanding of the crimes in the context of this site's stated purpose--which I applaud.
Generally, I'm the first to call a hate crime by its name. The Pennsylvania Amish murders, however, don't seem to fit that label. I haven't seen evidence that the killer was trying to terrorize women in general, or the Amish. The Unless I've missed a key element of the story, one sick individual simply latched onto the girls as a symbol for whatever personal demons drove him (why *they* symbolized such things to him is fodder for further investigation).
Yes, the girls were killed because of their sex. No, I don't yet see that the killer had an agenda beyond his own hurt. That's still reason enough to pursue understanding of the crimes in the context of this site's stated purpose--which I applaud.
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: 4:45 AM
John, conclusions based on what we know can differ on what to call these murders but I don't see how anyone could ignore the that those poor children must have been terrorized before they were murdered and wounded. The murderer would certainly have seen that they were terrorized and I can't believe that was not something he found pleasure in. I don't know but can't believe that he didn't.
I believe it was specifically girls he intended to kill because he let males and adults go. Their gender was his criterion for choosing his victims. Their age and the fact that they were of a pacifist sect almost conclusively show that he wanted to murder the weakest possible girls.
We only have his word for his alleged motive, though some of that seems to have been untrue. Whatever else can be said about his inner pain, he believed that he was entitiled to murder these girls. He obviouly believed that gender was a part of that entitlement since he let males go when he could have murdered them too. I can't believe that he didn't think that it was due to his being a male that he was entitled to murder females. That is an attitude that is an epidemic of depravity across the male gender.
I am, by the way, a man just in case some here don't know that.
I believe it was specifically girls he intended to kill because he let males and adults go. Their gender was his criterion for choosing his victims. Their age and the fact that they were of a pacifist sect almost conclusively show that he wanted to murder the weakest possible girls.
We only have his word for his alleged motive, though some of that seems to have been untrue. Whatever else can be said about his inner pain, he believed that he was entitiled to murder these girls. He obviouly believed that gender was a part of that entitlement since he let males go when he could have murdered them too. I can't believe that he didn't think that it was due to his being a male that he was entitled to murder females. That is an attitude that is an epidemic of depravity across the male gender.
I am, by the way, a man just in case some here don't know that.
I questioned the hypothetical intent to "terrorize women in general, or the Amish," not the terror undergone by the victims and witnesses.
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