Thursday, October 16, 2008

Reaching Out to Find His Path

Victor Wells, who runs a program in North Chicago called X-Cons Save Our Kids, said he had been working with Starks and trying to help him find a construction job.

"This was a very bright young man," Wells said. "He was reaching out to find his path in life."

Starks was sent to prison in 2006 for residential burglary and school vandalism. He got a 4-year sentence and was two years into that sentence when he was paroled last month.
Well he couldn't have been too bright. When you reach out, it's generally a good idea not to be pointing a gun at another human being with one hand while you clutch for his money with the other. And while he may not have found his path, he certainly had no trouble finding the pavement.

Based on results, the guy had a gun, had no reservations about initiating force with it and was within shooting range--on top of a demonstrable history of being a sociopathic creep with a criminal record for victimizing others. In other words, a perfect candidate for the Bradys to add to their "Another Child Gun Death" statistics...

[Via Tom H]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you ever notice how every one of the "kids" that are shot and killed end up being canonized in the press as honor students with bright futures?

I always want to ask what the heck were they doing in the bad part of town at 3 AM on a school night with crack in their pockets?

tom said...

Practicing to be "authorized journalists" and "informants"? Ask the experts that open my letters and read my emails. I'm sure they know...

Glad to know from Mike V's post on Western that I'm not the only one who's having that happen.

Referencing:
(This poster provided as a public service by Mike Vanderboegh, Post Office Box 926, Pinson, AL, 35126, which is currently experiencing intermittent service due to incompetent federal mail surveillance.)

Nice to know I'm not an "only one".

Thomas H.
PO 1211
Dripping Springs, TX

Bastards want to StormTrooper us but they don't even have the balls to knock on the door and ask to speak with you...they like reading mail and kicking doors in.

Friend of mine in the local department says the new guys are being taught not to shake our hands because they'd be opening themselves up to a one-handed violent encounter. Who's paranoid now?

Anonymous said...

It's not just paranoia, Tom. It is also a heaping helping of chickenshit and a sneaking suspicion that they may just meet justice,which is definitely what they would want.

Isn't it passing strange that men who claim to be good fear justice for themselves?

Anonymous said...

make that "definitely NOT what they would want". Damn illiterate fingers.