Thursday, September 11, 2008

Hammering Away at the City of Brotherly Love

SEPTA hammer attack suspect has lengthy criminal record
Someone with "a long criminal history including rape, robbery, assault" had free access to the rest of us why...?

Again--anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian. Because in a free society, people have access to box cutters, fuel oil and fertilizer, matches, and even hammers....

Ramsey this morning criticized other riders for doing nothing to stop the attack.

"They better pray they're never a victim, because if someone was attacking them that way they would certainly hope someone would step forward and help, and it starts with stepping forward and doing something yourself," Ramsey said.
That's easy for you to say, commissioner. But if I'd have been riding in that car, the only way I could reasonably be expected to oppose a raging lunatic with a claw hammer would get me arrested. By you. And the video camera would give you all the evidence you'd need to give me the Bernhard Goetz treatment.

"Honestly, I didn't even notice him," said Taylor, a 20-year-old laboratory assistant at the University of Pennsylvania and a regular SEPTA rider. "I was in my own world."
It's time you acted like you were in the real world, Taylor. The police won't help you, and between conditioning the sheep around you and warning off the rest of us, the only one you can really count on to protect you is yourself.
Lt. Frank Vanore of the Public Affairs Unit, however, said it was difficult to say whether others should have done more...

"The best thing to do is to be a good witness and call authorities right away," Vanore said.
Aside from contradicting your boss, lieutenant, do you ever listen to yourself?

When you're up against a real and dangerous enemy bent on killing you, Frank, here's what is best.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Richard Maloney, a SEPTA spokesman, said passengers did exactly what they should have: They got out of harm's way, and one contacted SEPTA police while another pulled the emergency switch."

Step One: Get out of harms way.

"The best thing to do is to be a good witness..." Vanore said.

Step Two: Be a good witness.

"...and call authorities right away," Vanore said.

Step Three: Call the "Only Ones".

How do these people sleep at night. You have the other passengers that don't help the man being attacked. You then have the "authorities" telling them they did the right thing.

In other situations where someone intervened, the "Only Ones" tell them that while commendable, it is not recommended.

Good grief!
I gotta puke!

Sean said...

G*d save us from the likes of these.III.

Anonymous said...

Caught a glimpse of the video (wow, the security camera didn't help much to prevent the attack, did it). The hammerman picks up a toddler and sets him down his other side, away from the victim, who appears to be an Asian male in his 20s. Then he reaches into a backpack, brings out the hammer and ...
(The hammerman is African-American. Racially motivated, or just an unaware opportune victim?) NOTHING was learned from the McCarthy murder by Colin Ferguson which spurred Carolyn McCarthy into our Imperial Congress. People on THAT train got out of harm's way, if they could. If not, Ferguson shot them dead, for reasons of racial prejudice.

Anonymous said...

The more people do not resist, the better for those who would be our masters. When the day comes, resistance/underground will be publicly beatedn and killed. Better learn to stay out of the way. It's a dark plan.

Anonymous said...

I betcha McCarthy is going to introduce a bill to get rid of claw hammers and the "little thing that goes up"

I'm past giving a shit what happens to these drones, I just hope that they don't breed. Human sheep is the only known neutered species capable of reproduction and something needs to be done about it.

Oh, and Taylor didn't really not notice, he was just being pragmatic and didn't think it would sound good to say it out loud.

Anonymous said...

excuse me, I didn't mean Taylor, I meant all his witnesses were being pragmatic. Taylor was just being an idiot.