Death Wish Now
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Ed Morrissey provides the requisite outrage at the school administration's unconscionable preoccupation with covering their own public relations ass instead of protecting and aiding the victim of this crime.
What struck me about it is its similarity to an act depicted in the movie Death Wish II. Same developmentally disabled daughter, same sexual assault (though the movie version didn't have an audience). Hopefully this girl won't leap out a window to her death.
This is what, on the big screen, prompted Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey to extract his own version of vigilante justice on her attackers.
I remember seeing DWII in the theater when I was in high school. Maybe it was my youthful callowness, but seeing what was done to Kersey's daughter, the criminal justice system's official indifference to her plight, and Kersey taking matters into his own hands was a visceral cinematic experience. I wouldn't call it formative in the sense of rushing right out and purchasing a pistol that sounded like the guns on a battleship, or endorsing Kersey hunting down his daughter's attackers and slaying them in cold blood, but you could (or at least I could) effortlessly sympathize with his seething frustration. It was palpable, uncontainable, and contagious. Murderous, faceless scum destroyed first his wife, then his daughter, and all "society" was obsessed with was the rights and welfare of the scum. It was difficult not to cheer when he gave each of them their fifteen minutes of fame by blowing them away.
Given the state of depravity into which our culture has fallen of late, the fact that the real-life father defied school officials and called the cops is almost heroic in and of itself. Time will tell if his daughter's attackers are meted justice or coddled instead, but it doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence on that score that, while the school principal was fired, the assistant principal who first tried to convince the father to cover up his daughter's rape was merely reassigned.
If I were him, I'd be looking up alternative educational options.
It's either that, or look for Paul Kersey's pistol on eBay.
A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses....
School officials found the girl bleeding from the mouth. An assistant principal cautioned the girl's father against calling 911 to avoid media attention, the statements said. The girl's father called police.
Her father said the girl is developmentally disabled. A special education teacher said the teen has a severe speech impediment.
Ed Morrissey provides the requisite outrage at the school administration's unconscionable preoccupation with covering their own public relations ass instead of protecting and aiding the victim of this crime.
What struck me about it is its similarity to an act depicted in the movie Death Wish II. Same developmentally disabled daughter, same sexual assault (though the movie version didn't have an audience). Hopefully this girl won't leap out a window to her death.
This is what, on the big screen, prompted Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey to extract his own version of vigilante justice on her attackers.
I remember seeing DWII in the theater when I was in high school. Maybe it was my youthful callowness, but seeing what was done to Kersey's daughter, the criminal justice system's official indifference to her plight, and Kersey taking matters into his own hands was a visceral cinematic experience. I wouldn't call it formative in the sense of rushing right out and purchasing a pistol that sounded like the guns on a battleship, or endorsing Kersey hunting down his daughter's attackers and slaying them in cold blood, but you could (or at least I could) effortlessly sympathize with his seething frustration. It was palpable, uncontainable, and contagious. Murderous, faceless scum destroyed first his wife, then his daughter, and all "society" was obsessed with was the rights and welfare of the scum. It was difficult not to cheer when he gave each of them their fifteen minutes of fame by blowing them away.
Given the state of depravity into which our culture has fallen of late, the fact that the real-life father defied school officials and called the cops is almost heroic in and of itself. Time will tell if his daughter's attackers are meted justice or coddled instead, but it doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence on that score that, while the school principal was fired, the assistant principal who first tried to convince the father to cover up his daughter's rape was merely reassigned.
If I were him, I'd be looking up alternative educational options.
It's either that, or look for Paul Kersey's pistol on eBay.
posted by JASmius at 10:45 AM
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