Gehenna, a synonym for Hell, is a real place, or so the Bible tells us. You can see it today. It is a valley outside Jerusalem, the valley of the son of Hinnom, and it was where worshippers of the idol Moloch sacrificed children to sate their god’s hungers.
Gehenna was revived today in Newtown, Connecticut, where as many as 20 children at last report were slaughtered in an elementary school this morning.
We learn in the book of Kings that in the seventh century BCE, the prophet Jeremiah demanded that King Josiah destroy the idolator’s temple in Gehenna to prevent more sacrifices to Moloch. We can presume from the newsworthiness of this act that child sacrifice was once a relatively common practice in the ancient Middle East, as we know it to have been in other pagan cultures.
The connection between the protection of children and the practice of monotheism dates back to the beginning. After Abraham becomes the first Jew, the first monotheist, he is tasked by God to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, the miracle child of his and his wife Sarah’s old age, and he takes up the task without complaint until God stays his hand. The story of Isaac’s binding, the akedah, is one of the most challenging of the Bible and is often taken to mean God was testing Abraham’s faith with the ultimate demand. But one might also say that at the very dawn of the worship of the One God, the Bible was placing the sacrifice of children outside the realm of the thinkable for the first time.
The idea that civilization is dedicated to the protection and preservation the weak and the innocent, and not about fulfilling evil impulses to defile and destroy innocence, is the root and core of the West. One cannot conceive of anything more monstrous than a person or persons who could look small children in the eye and systematically shoot them dead. Which is why this crime, among the worst crimes in American history, is not just an assault on the children, or their families, or the town of Newtown—though it is all those things.
What the killer(s) did today was nothing less than a contemporary sacrifice to Moloch, in whatever form Moloch manifests himself today—the appeasement of a voice in the head, most likely. Evil, even if it is loosed due to mental illness, is an effort to destroy the common good by making good appear powerless, ineffectual, weak. Today saw a horrifically effective effort to give evil a victory. It has opened a portal and brought Hell to earth.
Gehenna is real again.
Amazing this guy can write a whole column about what happened today and not use the word "gun" once. That's what this is about. An attempt to move the subject away from guns.
Dear Tom n n nI understand your frustration but in my view Mr Podhoretz was trying to offer a deeper reflection on the issue of the presence of evil in our world. I think we need to do this. We need to be more profound because evil uses superficiality and simplification to win its battle over good. Using Mr Podhoretz words guns is surely one of the many Moloch we are sacrificing our children to. But there are also many others and it is the responsibility of those who believe in good to find them and expose them ALL
When will a politician in American have the guts to tell the NRA that WE nood to stop these monthly massacres of children?
When will a politician in America have the guts to tell the Educrats and School Psychologists to stop screwing with the minds of children and thus creating these monsters? n nChildren with Aspberger's are harmless, they are not violent at all. n nSomebody did something far worse TO him that pushed him over the edge. Did they lock him up in the psych ward? We already know that the middle school labeled him as "dangerous" and put him on a watch list — and that is something far beyond Aspbergers. n nAnd as to guns — he was a suicide bomber. Care to venture a guess how many children would have died had he strapped on explosives? Or if he had simply stolen a gasoline or propane tanker truck?
Well said. Senseless acts of violence stir up our emotions. Anger, fear, sadness, helplessness. There's no understanding the mind of a person who would even contemplate doing such a thing. You at least made some sense of the senseless and you avoided the US vs THEM/RED vs BLUE divisions that are such a part of our usual discussions after a tragedy like this. Thank you.
today is the day to introduce legislation to begin the process of gun control and registration. every time this kind of tragedy happens, the gun-nuts come out and say "this is not the time to discuss it." pray tell, why not? their stupid politics of "slippery slope" has got to be ignored.
What specifically do you propose that you think would've prevented this? I live in Connecticut. You seem to be exploiting a tragedy for political gain.
I mean no disrespect, but calling for gun control is not "exploiting a tragedy for political gain" it is proposing a policy change in response to a tragic event. Political gain would come from someone saying "vote for me and I will fix this." I agree that any such conversation will have to ask the kind of question you've raised: "what specifically would have prevented this." But having that conversation should not be prevented by adopting the tone you've struck – policy and politics are related, but they are not identical.
And so it goes over and over, time after time, when a gun tragedy occurs, when people start talking about limiting guns and ammos, they are accused of “exploiting a tragedy” as if it were a Virus that got loose on the school.
It wasn’t an accident or a sickness. Sure it was the act of a sick man, but even if he were sane when he got hold of the gun, should people be allowed to have such weapons and reloadable ammo that facilitates mass killings.
Every Principal and a percentage of teachers should have training and access to a weapon nearby.
And 22 children were slashed by a knife wielding nut in China, and the killing of women and children continues in Africa, often with machetties. So today is the day to introduce legislation to begin the process of knife control and registration.r nr nAs William S. Burroughs once said, u201cAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didnu2019t do it.u201d
Right, just as the GOP has been exploiting Benghazi for political gain. Only gun control is not political gain, it's a gain for all americans.
No.
Actually it was Obama's spokesman who said "this is not the time". Meanwhile, you will not trample >300 million citizens' Constitutional rights to defend ourselves especially from a tyrannical government. And without guns the guy could have easily built a bomb and destroyed the entire building. The fact that the school thought it was secure by having a buzzer and GLASS on door says he also could have broken the glass with a brick and stabbed everyone just like the guy in China stabbed 22 students.
connecticut already has the most stringent "gun control and registration" in the country. didn't seem to help, did it ? have any other brilliant ideas ??
Yes, ban assault weapons.
CT has its own "assault weapons" ban. But it's a loose term with little actual descriptive power. The weapons that the evil Mr. Lanza deployed in his depraved murder plot were his mother's and they were legally purchased and owned, at least as we can tell at this early stage. In any Gov. Dannel Malloy, my governor as I live in Connecticut, a staunch Democrat and thus not a person I voted for in 2010, told an a newscaster, quite poignantly that: We have the 4th strictest gun laws in the nation, but we live in a violent world, and we live in a violent nation. Certain individuals are completely insane, evil, and morally bankrupt, and they, much like other evil people we've seen in history, Eric Harris, Dylon Kleibold, Jared Loughner, Michael Ross, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, Adolf Eichmann, the Cheshire Home Invasion Murderers, Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, will find means to enact their destructive agendas.
Of course, Gov. Malloy has passed early release to let violent felons on the streets of Connecticut, and repealed the death penalty even for people convicted of heinous murders like what Lanza did.
I guess they don't have "gun control" in Norway… n
Clinically insane people like Lenewyorkais should be removed from a civil society. Prove you are not a coward and post your real name.
How well did gun control work for Timothy McVeigh? How many people die each year from overdoses of illegal drugs and we have drug laws out the yang. You liberals always jump to a conclusion with little or any thought as to the repercussions of what you want to do. Yeah, lets get rid of guns and only criminals will have them. Just see how the crime rate goes through the roof. One of the highest crime rates in the country is in Chicago and they have some of the most stringent laws imaginable. Go sell your gibberish elsewhere.
…followed immediately by legislation banning forks & spoons for their contribution to obesity. Then of course we must regulate rocks, broken glass, sharp sticks, ice picks, scissors, hatpins, knitting needles, and, and, omigod the whole world is filled with deadly weapons!
Do you know that 27 people each day die as a result of drunk driving? Are you ready to make alcohol illegal again? I believe they have laws against drunk driving but do they do any good. No! Your shallow argument to ban guns is about as sensible as banning alcohol. It is the idiot on the other end of the bottle or in your case on the wrong end of the gun.
Evil is real, and it manifests itself in our world through tragic acts of violence like what happened today in Newtown, CT. I weep for the families of the slain, innocent children.
I was just thinking about Medea, the Greeks dealing with annihilators in so many instances of literature. This essay certainly puts it in perspective. Thank you.
Once more a preserve liberal uses tragedy to push the complete enslavement of the populace to the government. The problem is not guns. We don't need *more* gun control that is putting a band-aid on the symptom. We need a return to God and morality How about we pray, invite God back into our country and lives, and hold the monster accountable for his actions. It isn't the guns to blame at all and it is reprehensible that they are even going there. It's the decaying morals of our country, the lack of God and the lack of accountability in this nation, in general.
We have a modern day Moloch — he is called Abortion. A nation that so devalues life and allows the slaughter of millions of children will see more and more Sandy Hooks, Colorado theater shootings. The solution is not more laws, but for individuals to acknowledge the Creator God in whose image we are made and seek a relationship with God through his Son Jesus Christ. Moral problems are solved by a change of heart in individuals, not a change of law imposed by institutions.
What nonsense! The bliblical people who practiced child sacrifice were not crazy, they were misguided as well evil people. The man who killed so many children today was definitely crazy, he was not practicing any religion, he was just acting out crazy thoughts in his head. Unfortunately he had a gun with which he could act out those thoughts. We can not get rid of all crazy people or be sure there will not be any more crazy people, but we can prevent them from getting guns.
How do you propose to do that?
Dream on.
He was seeing what it feels like to be really evil.
How are you going to prevent them from getting guns? This is the kind of statement that leads gun rights advocates to think you people are stark raving bonkers.
Considering that I can make a gun in my garage, how you gonna do that? And, of course, you can show where gun control has ever worked. And don't talk to me about Great Britain
Lenewyorkais brings up the usual expected idiotic comment. Would you feel better had the goblin used a bomb?
I’ll bet anything that this was yet another “GUN-FREE” zone. IOW the area already HAD “gun control”.
Here’s another idea, which doesn’t rely on your moronic faith is benevolent government: Don’t hire teachers that aren’t CCW-capable and equipped. Your children are in their custody all day long – why are they NOT required to put themselves between harm and the kids?
As the story of this tragedy unfolds, more than the Bible will be needed for reference.
Donu2019t hire teachers that arenu2019t CCW-capable and equipped. Your children are in their custody all day long u2013 why are they NOT required to put themselves between harm and the kids?r nr nThis!
Please don't neglect the book of Nesaviah in which we learn the powerful lesson of forgiverance and deliarion. God's will is indeed strong, but also meek and timid like the dandelion.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but literally every single mass school shooting was perpetrated by mentally ill young men. We can talk all day about gun control, but we really need controls on the mentally ill. Those controls may well include controls on their ability to obtain weapons, if there aren't such already. But my guess is that is not enough. People who display signs of severe anti-social behavor or are diagnosed with any mental illness need to be controlled someone. I'm not saying "lock them all up", but probably some of them should be locked up or in some manner controlled. The idea that in a country of 300 millon we can control the nearly 200 million guns is fantasy. But controlling the people who are known to have mental issues, or (regardless of diagnosis) display anti social behavior probably is the real solution to this grotesque situation.
Mentally ill young men who's family, acquaintances, schools, teachers and psychiatrists ALL KNEW it. And this case is especially illustrative of that if the guns were registered to the mother and not secured. All she needed was a Liberty safe for goodness sakes.
This is how the Holocaust happened. It is exactly how the Holocaust happened, the Nazis started with the mentally ill and there would not have been the tolerance for what was done to the Jews if the populace hadn't first accepted it being done to the mentally ill. n nCoincidence and causation are two very different things and mental illness does not cause these shotings although we rarely are told all the facts. This perp had Aspbergers — those are not violent children, not in the least. Something else pushed him over the edge, and we need to look at THAT…. n
More crazy people with guns please. Sincerely, the NRA.
I agree with you. Law abiding, sane, citizens ought not to be punished with restrictive laws, when the real problem is with completely insane and evil people. Unfortunately, Connecticut has its fair share, more than its fair share in fact, of the in insane, the morally bankrupt, and the personifications of evil incarnate. The reaction of the liberal Democrats who run the state is to repeal the death penalty, even for multiple murders, murderers who murdered humans in the commision of other felonies such as rape, arson, robbery or burglary, and murderers who showed aggravating factors like when the Cheshire, CT home invasion murderers raped three women, two of them under age 18, and then murdered them and burned their house to the ground. Then the Democrats in CT passed early release to let violent felons out of prison early and back on the streets, despite the fact that the state does not guarantee that these convicts will not murder, assault, rob or rape humans again.
Forget about Democrats and Republicans and partisan issues. Having more guns means more innocent people – including children – are murdered. So why on earth would you not want to decrease the murder of innocents? nThe death penalty (not that it might not be warranted for other reasons) has never been shown to be a deterent – the murderers generally don't believe they will ever be caught. So the equation is simple – less guns – not more state sanctioned executions – equals less innocent people dying,
Alison, you need to remember that all they have to do is declare that everyone is insane and then there are no more civilian guns at all. At least legal ones. n nThere is a real difference between being criminal and being different and what I blame the left for is blurring it. A lot of the mentally ill are criminals and should both be considered that and kept away from guns. But we are disarming our veterans — decent sane veterans who were put into the insanity of war and come back with PTSD, and responsibly try to deal with it, are punished with a LIFETIME ban on ever being able to own or possess a gun again. What a thank you to our vets….
But again, and expanding on your point, the progressive philosophy is that criminals are not responsible for what they do, instead society is to blame,and the societal impulse to lock those that show a propensity for violence in penal institution is wrong, and intead these people should be allowed to roam the streets and do what they will.
actually, Alison, you're pretty much bullspitting with that crap about your so-called progressive philosophy. n n nthe lunatic fringe doesn't represent the whole of the progressives any more than a vile dyspeptic goad such as Rush Limbaugh represents conservative philosophy. n n
So….? What is your point? What actual idea are you advancing? What one concrete idea are you advocating?
was there something obscuring my point? you can not ken that I was saying that you're attributing a silly idea to great masses of people who do not hold that idea? n ndo you not understand the actual point is that I'm saying that you're making a foolish mistake and offering a crock of shift?
Yes. Your spelling is poor. You express yourself in an obscure manner. You didn't provide a counterargument, you merely contradicted me. Big deal. I disagree with you.
You are very full of hate. You must be of the Left.
And again, regarding the mentally ill, there is a philosophy out there, popular on the left, that says that the mentally ill should roam the streets free to do what they will and that locking them up in a asylum is wrong, despite the obvious fact that they are ill and should be hospitalized. But the left, about a minute after some terrible tragedy, drags out the same argument that we need even stricter gun control, before we even have all the facts and a full investigation has been conducted. The reality is that such people want various laws that they prefer, regardless.
Liberalism is a form of mental illness. No wonder they want their compatriots wandering the streets. Insanity loves company.
Exactly,. Locking up lunatics would be a direct assault on Liberalism. So long as Liberalism is in control of academia, the media, the entertainment industry, and much of organized religion and government most lunatics are going to roam free.
Whom does your body belong to, yourself or the state? n nThe mentally ill who do specific things that are in violation of the law are one thing, but as to locking people up to force them to accept medical care because you think it is good for them is a really slippery slope. Do we lock up smokers and the obese so as to force them to quit smoking and loose weight, which we know would be good for them, but… n nI draw a very clear line — this is a free country and if you aren't bothering anyone else, you can be as weird as you want to be.
Over on the allegedly "non-partisan" National Journal you can see some hack write a biased pro-gun control article with zero argument. National Journal features no article with a counter argument.
I read five articles on National Journal that insinuated that we require more, of course, unspecified, gun control not more than 24 hours after this horrible tragedy.
Liberalism is to our Constitutional form of government what HIV is to the human body. Given enough time both will kill their host.
National Journal has basically advanced five or six pro-gun control news stories, whether they be tacit or explicit. They and other people state that they are non-partisan, but they push the pro-gun control political position like it's nobody's business!
Rush Limbaugh, God bless him, I know he gets some serious flack, was the only conservative I heard today speaking truth on this, when he said that liberals and progessives would discover a means to turn this unspeakable horror into politcal gains. And, thanks to National Journal, and other left-leaning news outlets, they discovered a way. Every single time a lone gunman takes aim at some innocent people, liberals tell Obama and the Democrats, who are not as centrist and moderate as is stated in National Journal, to push for more gun control and to attack Republicans. Period. End Statement.
An individual named only "Gfcm Biz" stated on National Journal that "i have been looking for a gun to kill my neighbour for the last two years. Cudn't find a single gun. By the way I live in Australia… " If you know who this individual is, please alert Australian authorities.
Since his premise is that "I can't find guns in Oz because of gun control" and headlines say otherwise, why waste the cops time with the rest of his false claim?
"Gfcm Biz" made a serious and credible admission of attempted murder. It should be investigated by Nat'l Journal and reported to the Australian authorities. If we've learned anything from this tragedy, it is that we cannot underestimate threats made by the mentally disturbed.
It might be that this person is incompetent, but a threat is a threat.
National Journal does not seriously respond to threats made on its comments section.
I live in Connecticut, but "Gfcm Biz" stated in no uncertain terms that he/she/it wanted to kill "neighbors" in the nation of Australia. This is a serious, credible threat and I need help in solving this crime.
If you have any information in solving this crime, you could save multiple lives.
Moloch is still in business today, operating a network of temples under the name Planned Parenthood.
Gfcm Biz, an Australian national, has spent the last two years trying to murder his neighbors. Please tell Australian authorities the true identity of this person so we can prevent yet another tragedy!
Pardon me for saying so, but I don't feel that Commentary Magazine has done good enough job of providing strong cover for the Republican Party. What, is it left to me in the comments section to defend the only viable party that anyone has on the center right? Puleeeeeezee! What is expected here. Give the GOP a robust defense, they may not always get it right, but they do a creditable job! n
If we need to have meaningful debate about protecting the most innocent of us, would this be a good time to bring up that 3000 abortions were performed today? Just asking.
Gfcm Biz has stated that he or she wants to kill his or her neighbors
Despite the local horror, despite the blood-seeking spotlights of the media, 311,000,000+ Americans lived a normal day. nWhat seems forgotten is that no civilization can long endure such an incessant focus upon irrational events. nNeither can it rid itself of such occasional insanity by lingering pornographically over them. nAll is not 9/11 and the pre-Christmas slaughter of school children. nYet the good is ignored to celebrate the evil.
n n n nGfcm Biz has stated that he or she wants to kill his or her neighbors n
I hope that it is not you're family. You've been warned. I must go to bed.
Once finally, please be alerted to the fact that a Gfcm Biz , an Australian, has threatened to kill their neighbors.
Because I love Commentary Magazine and its community, you were warned. I live in CT, and I weep for those who suffered at the hands of evil figures today. I am not a believer, so to speak. But if there is a higher power out there, I beseech him or her, to regard to humanity in esteem and save us.
Amen.
As horrible as this is, it is to be expected. After all, there are several thousand child sacrifices to Moloch every day in America at Planned Parenthood clinics. Time to turn back to God.
It’s Time to grieve John. How dare you taint these sad moments of America by Hebrews horsemanure. Hell is Jehanum not Gehenna. Abraham wasn’t the first monotheist. The first monotheists were Enoch, Ehud and Noah. How would you feel if all those 27 lives that Adam Lanza took were Jewish children? Israel will turn Newtown Connecticut to Kigali and order Obama to invade Dubai to shoot Obaid Karki in the face as they did to Osama in Abbottabad. Yesterday I received an email from you asking for Donations. No wonder your subscribers are ditching Commentary Magazine because of the trash that you’re publishing. Back to Adam Lanza. Lanza’s Mom, Nancy taught her kid Adam 2nd Amendment-Manhood to shoot 223-caliber 9-mm rifle when he was only 8yo. Adam Lanza was good kid until he was devastated by something his mom & brother committed in his presence that he couldn’t endure. Something far beneath Connecticut hypocrisy that forced Adam Lanza to shoot his love one and anybody his mom loved: “her pupils” nPsst: it’s Newtown. They ain’t Newton in Connecticut. John! n
At least one of the children who died in Newtown was Jewish. He was buried today. nIn Ma'alot, in 1974 three Arab terrorists from Palestine killed more Jewish children than died in Newtown. But you likely never heard of them. The Arabs were not autistic. They just hated Jews. nWhat did Adam Lanza's mom and brother do that he could't endure — hug? nOr are you implying some improper sexual activity. If so, a comment in Commentary is not the place for it. Send it to some grocery checkout stand rag.
Nonsense. What distinguishes child sacrifice is parental attitude. It was parents—usually mothers—who brought their children to the priests for sacrifice in the ancient world. The stricken and bereaved parents of the children murdered in Newton were in no way complicit in the tragedy that befell them. n nTo the contrary, contemporary American attitudes toward children by parents and by society at large are the most sympathetic and enlightened in history. Dicken’s England is not far in the past. Not very long ago, children were chained to machines. Child labor ended only yesterday. Universal love and protection of children is brand new. n nSo widespread was child sacrifice in the ancient world that some view it as an early form of birth control. In Carthage of old, mothers would bring their infants to the priests each year for sacrifice to Ishtar (Ashtoreth; Easter; Esther; Aphrodite) in order to propitiate the virgin goddess for good harvest (Dagan; grain). The priests would slit the infants’ throats and ritually paint Ishtar eggs with their blood. At a single altar to Tanit (yet another rendering of Ishtar) in modern Lebanon, archaeologists unearthed the remains of twenty thousand infants under the age of one. nAfter their defeat in the Second Punic War, Carthaginians complained that their failure on the battlefield was owed to the reluctance of the upper classes to sacrifice their infants. The nobility were compelled to turn over some four thousands of their infants for sacrifice. n nThe Romans, who derided their Carthaginian foes for baby killers, routinely exposed their own unwanted infants, leaving them naked to die from exposure to the elements on a hill or mound designated for the purpose. The Romans criticized the Jews for weakness of character evident in the Jews’ refusal to follow the Roman practice. n nIshtar under a variety of names in a variety of cultures ruled the ancient world for millennia. Her memory is faintly recalled in the contemporary celebration of Easter with the painting of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny, both elements of the myth of the birth of the Grain God, Dagan, by Baal (Baal Zevuv; Beelzebub) and his consort, the virgin morning star, Ishtar. The descended virgin star is also probably the goddess incarnate in the meteorite inside the Kebaa in Mecca, venerated by Muslims. The contemporary Jewish celebration of Kiddush and its derivative, the Christian Communion hark back to the Biblical celebration of peace over bread and wine (Dagan v’Tirash) between Abraham and the Jebusite King of (Jeru)Salem. n nThe tragedy in Newton, Connecticut is anomalous and freakish and has no connection to any of this. To suggest otherwise insults the mothers and fathers who are and will forever remain its victims. n
Ok How about this ? The children were sacrificed, purpose to be determined. Jesus was crucified in the "3rd hour" , which in Jewish time is 9am . Adam Lanza in my estimation started his rampage not with the children at 9:30am, but with his mother who more than likely died closer to "9am"….Jesus rose on Sunday and the first reports said that all the bodies in the massacre must stay where they lay until Sunday. They were not going to release the bodies to the families until "the investigation was done" but then the medical examiner threw in a twist. All the bodies were removed and ready by 1:30pm Saturday, except the mother and the son which would be complete on Sunday. The first killed and the last killed…Alpha and Omega. The number of dead 26 + 1 = 27. The number 27 …the trinity(3^3=27).
Although, I didn't comment on it, and I do not have the expertise in ancient pagan religions that you have, I must agree with you on your well written and expressed point. I thought the comparison of this crime to the ritual sacrifice practiced in the Levant to be inapposite. Over on Reason Magazine, someone, perhaps Mr. Doherty, has written the most rational and measured response to this crime I have seen on either the left-wing or conservative outlets, which basically stated that, statistically your children are safe, safe at school especially, but they will never be absolutely safe, and that is one of the eternal liabilities of being a parent to children.
TO: John Podhoretz, et al. nRE: Gehenna n nNope. n nGehenna is practiced at every Planned Parenthood abortion mill. n nRegards, n nChuck(le) n[The Truth will out....]
Newtown is not Gehenna. Gehenna is the 1 million children killed every year in America in the name of convenience or in honor of some un-named feminine deity. We are as barbarous as Gehenna.
But, by and large, I have found that the conservatives have had more decorum than the Democrats, like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D- NY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Steve Kornacki over at Salon, Reid Wilson writing for Nat'l Journal, the editorial board of the Washington Post and Donna Brazil, who have basically tried press their advantage and see what will stick in the wake of this massacre.
But this is in 21st century American political discourse the new normal. The opening moves and salvos being mere minutes after any event happens. There is now no time to think. One must thrust or parry immediately.
One thing that National Journal doesn't do, unlike other website like Pajamas Media, is warn posters not to threaten people or else have their threats reported to the police.
Press reports indicate that the Mother,a survivalist,stockpiled weapons to allay her fears about the economy. But she was well aware of her son's mental problems-as his transfers from school to school and home schooling indicate…..Not to realize the probable results of this combination of circumstances makes her extremely psychologically dense to say the least.. And to bring this unbalanced,socially inept kid to the firing range in an attempt to "bond" is certainly in itself,if true,an act of madness……….The phrase blaming the victim will immediately spring to the mind of anyone reading this-but in this case the symbiotic,pathological relationship that the papers have described shouldn't absolve the mother of responsibility – even though she too was tragically killed………As for people who think lack of religion is the root cause-the Lanzas were apparently Church members,and so at least on the surface, weren't effected by our society's general descent………….. J.P. has written a great,thoughtful and moving piece.
Mario Capecci a Nobel prise winner was saved from hunger and brought to US as little boy by an American soldier in 1945. My Italian student asked how many children who died during the WW II were potential Nobelists. I said among the 6,000.000 murdered Jews there were many potential Nobel prize winners. nNoah Pozner if he would live also could be a Nobel prise winner… n
In Rio (Brasil) the police periodically shoots homeless children… nThe killing of children started in the cave age and continues unabated till today on all the continents of this planet. Only the noble Inuits (commonly known as Eskimos) do not kill children and old people even during severe hunger times…
Oh, look, a squirrel. Hahaha I find that the most racist human beings on the planet are liberals. They think that black people can't possibly think for themselves. So they degrade the ones who do not think like they do, ie, Congressman Scott. Liberals are also quite sexist, portraying women such as Sarah Palin as a slutty flight attendant. When she is one of the most accomplished Governor's to ever hold the title. (male or female) But that's the Democratic party of today – trying to keep "minorities" under their thumb.