Just another day on the Sinwagon

This is a response that was posted on the Star Telegram’s Crime Time Blog</a> concerning the Victoria Lindsay.

http://startelegram.typepad.com/crime_time/2008/04/teens-in-videot.html
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Giving these girls life in prison would be a crime in itself. By not letting them get an education and putting them in adult prison, socitey is just insuring they will become harden criminals. I have been in plenty of fights in my day, and I’ve won some and I’ve lost some. That’s just life. What has the world come to if you can’t even defend your name and reputation? I don’t feel sorry for the girl who got beat up, even though I’ve been in her shoes before. If you’re going to talk smack about people, be woman enough to stand up for yourself and FIGHT BACK! This girl probabily never got a woopin’ and had everything handed to her, that’s why she went home and cried to mommy untill she called the cops. When I came home all beat up when I was 13, my mom just told me not to pick fights with people bigger then me! That’s the country way, that’s the american way!

Posted by: TheGoodLife | April 11, 2008 at 05:27 PM
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All right, so…you have to know that I can’t keep my mouth shut, if you might not have figured that out by now.  And since this is my blog, I can be as filthy mouthed as I want to be.  I can have as many violent and anger fueled comments as I’d like.  Why?  Because this is where I get it all out, so I’m not spewing forth truck loads of anger and hate at all of the ignorant and inconsiderate assholes in the world.

I say the things you always wished you could….

So, on that note, allow me to respond to “The Good Life” they way I would initially have.

“Firstly, let me assure you, that if you’d gotten your ass beat by 6 people –after- being knocked unconscious and sustaining a head wound, you probably would have gone home crying to your mother as well.  Secondly, just because someone has a pacifist nature when it comes to physical violence, does not mean that they were given everything their whole lives.  My little sister would never hit another person, she’s not the least bit physically violent, and though being a pacifist has it’s benefits, obviously has its downfalls as well.  Some people just do not have it in themselves to be violent.

The nature of your attitude is atrocious, and fueled by nothing more than blatant ignorance and your obvious “ghetto” upbringing.  How do I know?  Let me tell you a story.

Less than a year ago I had the unfortunate experience of living at the Wyndham Point Apartments in Woodhaven, in DFW.  Yes, that’s right.  White girl with and education lived in Woodhaven.  And across the breezeway lived a woman with two children. An 8 year old little girl, and a 4 year old little boy.  Now the little boy was a handful, that was for sure, but kind and good natured.  In fact I don’t ever remember this child being cruel to anyone.  Now, below my apartment lived a woman with an 11 year old little girl, who as far as I could see, needed as ass whipping three times a day, just to remind her that she was only 11 years old and able to be subjected to discipline a the whim of the adults her in her life. 

Sometimes, children think they’re adults, and they believe it is within their right to make adult decisions, it’s our job as parents to provide our children with an environment where they can be …kids.

Well, the aforementioned little boy decided to go outside and play, there were a group of girl, including the one spoken of earlier, who happens to always be the ring leader.  A water mane had broke, and the kids were playing around the water.  The boy, being a boy, splashed the girls in jest, and in return, all 4 little girls threw the little boy, who was at least 4 years younger than all of them, to the ground and proceeded to kick him in the ribs, the face, the hips, the legs, the head…punching and hitting him, until he was able to get away and run home.

When his mother confronted the little girl’s mother, the woman’s response was thus: “If he can throw a lick, he can take a lick.”

Imagine the way my head began to spin off of my shoulders when the woman said this, knowing I have a four year old daughter in the house at the time of it all. 

This is the mentality we’re dealing with in the world, beat or be beaten. Never mind that the law that governs our society, should be the law that governs our homes.  Those young adults, who hurt Victoria Lindsay, they were not 8, 9, 10, 11 year old children.  One of them is 18 years old, a couple of them 16, 15, 14 being the youngest.  When I was fourteen years old, I knew that if I participated in a gang style beating, that my ass was going to jail.  That was that. 

I knew the laws, society lays them out pretty plainly, and complete disregard for another human being is not a good enough excuse to walk away from what they’ve done, unscathed, untouched, society telling them, by lack of action, that they are allowed to bully and threaten, to hit and beat on anyone they please, using their innocence and naivety as some kind of excuse because of their age?  No, absolutely not, under no circumstances should that be admissible as a form of defense against their treachery.

These children obviously need rehabilitation, and a little taste of their own medicine, of which can be found at a local Juvenile facility or even a Jail, hell as far as I’m concerned, take away their freedom and throw their mean little asses in prison.  But keep them off of the street.  We don’t need people like these teenagers running around, who have no regard for human life, whatsoever.  And I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen, those little girls are going to pick on the wrong person, with an older brother or sister, hell even a younger brother or sister, who isn’t going to take that shit lying down, and they’re going to find themselves in a world of pain.

That’s not how it should be, a person shouldn’t have to retaliate through violent means, they should be able to rely on the justice system, and the parental guidance of the young adults at fault, but unfortunately, people like “A Good Life” would never punish their child for committing such a crime.  They would reward their poor and horrific behavior, just as the lady who lived down stairs from be, rewarded her daughter for beating on a child half her size and age.  Who are you going to reward, when she shoots her mouth off to the wrong person.  When she picks on someone who isn’t going to take her shit?  What then?  What if she’s the last shove over the edge of a cliff of anger and retaliation with the next student, and that victim comes to School and pulls a Columbine?  Will you reward the person who finally stood up for themselves and put a bullet between your child’s eyes?  Because no matter how much your child may be able to defend themselves, fight back, pick on or be cruel to another person.  They don’t stand a chance against a gun with an angry, over the edge child who’s pulling the trigger.

What then?  Who’s going to take responsibility in this chain of violence? Who’s going to end it and how is going to be ended?  These are questions that should be asked, these are the questions we should be seeking answers for, solutions to. 

So until you can be part of the solution, and stop adding to the problem with your ignorance, shut the fuck up.

Miss “I’m so very delicate” Fayne