Posted by
DawnDawn on Monday, March 30, 2009 12:25:51 AM
I am feeling tremendous loss and I wonder just how much lower our society and culture can go before we are all savages. The massacre of the four Oakland policemen last weekend was horrific and inconceivable. Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40; Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43; Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35; and Officer John Hege, 41 were gunned down in the prime of their lives. These men all had families they loved. Every day they knew the dangers they faced as they went out to do their civic duty only to be cut down by a low life piece of living pond scum, rapist thug whose only real job was most likely playing violent video games every day and smoking crack at every opportunity. It is very small solace that the perp was brought down to die in a hail of bullets. "Suicide by Cop". As unbelievable as it may seem, sixty people in Oakland gathered to have a rally and to celebrate the life of that cold blooded rapist murderer, hair on a hemmoroid who pulled the trigger and ended the lives of those very brave, young men. Police inquiries to follow, no doubt, as it was obviously a racially motivated shooting. SWAT sure didn`t take the time to read him his rights ....
Sunday morning, coffee, TV, checking the blogs, looking at the funnies, laughing at pbho`s teleprompter blog. The news comes out that eight people were killed in a nursing home in North Carolina. All of them elderly, in wheelchairs, ranging in ages from 78 to 98. Frightened out of their minds at what they knew were their last breaths. A nurse was also killed. The perp was apprehended and is in protective custody, no doubt. Three hots and a cot. Forty-five years old and, obviously, he has more than a few issues. Nothing a trip behind the woodshed with a couple of real angry white men wouldn`t cure if the world were truly just.
And now this. In Massachusetts, a 23 year-old maniac fatally stabbed his seventeen year old sister, Samantha Revelus. He then turned on his nine year old sister, Sarafina, who valiantly fought him off and called the police. She lives. When they arrived and broke down the door, he grabbed his little five year old sister, Bianca, and beheaded her in front of a police officer. It was her birthday. The cops shot him dead. This family is destroyed. Counseling can do nothing for these poor souls. My God! Samantha was a good student and had written a poem for a "poetry jam" at her school. Part of her verse reads, "So what lousy wind brought
you here? What values you offer? She's a woman, a queen, a goddess.
Don't treat her like any other." Could she have been writing about her brother? We can never know.
Every day we go to work or school. Most of the kids have activities and participate in school sports. We go to the market, hardware store or the gas station. We do the banking. We talk to the neighbors and meet friends. We have taken these freedoms of movement for granted and with no fear. These macabre incidents are not trivial and express the rage that many in our society cannot cope with reality. Stay vigilant and stay safe. Easier said than done.
When Rhett Butler was saying his final adios to Scarlett at the end of Gone With The Wind, he told her he was returning to Charleston, to find whatever was left of beauty, grace and dignity (paraphrased). I pray with all my heart that our society can find the beauty, grace and dignity that has vanished from our culture in such a short time. God bless and protect all of you.