Posted on 12/31/2013 4:45:43 AM PST by markomalley
Mark Andrew is a prominent Minneapolis Democrat. He served as long as he wanted to as a Hennepin County (Minneapolis and inner-ring suburbs) Commissioner, from 1982 until he resigned from the Hennepin County Board in 1999. He served a term as chairman of Minnesotas Democratic Farmer Labor Party in the mid 1990s. Last month he came in a distant second in a crowded field running for Minneapolis mayor, though it wasnt for lack of trying. There might be a left-wing cause or canard that Andrew hasnt supported in the course of a long public career, but I doubt it. Hes a liberals liberal.
Andrew is back in the news this month because he was assaulted last week in public at the Mall of America by two teenage girls, one 17 and one Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain 18. They were protecting a teenage boy who had stolen Andrews iPhone off a table at the MOA Starbucks. The trio had been casing the Starbucks all afternoon to assess the potential for a robbery.
Andrew gave chase to the teenage boy who lifted his phone. As he followed, the girls jumped him and pulled out a baton with which to pummel him. Im going to kill you! Let me go or Im going to kill you! Cutler-Cain yelled as she dug her fingernails into his face. Andrew took nine stitches in his head as a result of the beating.
The New York Daily News has a good article rounding up the facts of the story as of this past weekend. Yesterday Cutler-Cain made her first court appearance on charges arising from the incident and the 17-year-old was charged in juvenile court. KARE11 reports on Cutler-Cains court appearance here. I would like to know why the authorities arent moving to have the 17-year-old certified for prosecution as an adult, but thats a story for another day.
Andrews phone was recovered at the Mall. Where is the thug who lifted it from Andrew? Chercher lhomme. That too is a story for another day.
However you look at it, this is an appalling story. The theft took place in broad daylight at a highly trafficked spot in Minnesotas most highly trafficked mall. Andrew describes himself as a target because of his age, but, as I recall, Andrew is a tall, imposing man. He was nevertheless jumped by one girl while another beat him with a deadly weapon and Andrew was left to fend for himself. Perhaps real men dont shop at the Mall of America, or patronize Starbucks, but that doesnt exactly suffice for an explanation. Andrew says the patrons were too scared to help out. As it turns out, Andrew must have been the manliest man in the vicinity.
All this over an iPhone which, at best, might have a street value of a few hundred dollars. (Here is an article on the trade in stolen smartphones.) In all likelihood, however, wouldnt the phone would have had the updated iOS7 operating system with security features making it more difficult for anyone but the owner to use the phone?
Irving Kristol famously described a neoconservative as a liberal mugged by reality. In Minnesota, however, the liberals not for turning. In the immediate aftermath of last weeks events, Andrew was sticking to type. Andrew told the Star Tribune he would remain involved in the case and try to help his attackers.
Theyre damaged kids, and maybe theyre too far gone, but I think theres redemption for everybody, he said. So well try to find a way for them to get in a place where they can turn their lives around. Prison would be perfect.
I agree with you 100%. Believing in redemption does not mean one is a bleeding heart liberal who does not support having the punishment fit the crime.
As far as not always being able to find enough compassion in yourself to forgive, I’m in the same place you are - but I keep trying, and I hope you will too.
I wish you a happy and blessed New Year.
Yes, and widespread social unrest will serve Obama's agenda well, so even going prepared helps Obama. Never the less, it is wise to be armed and vigilant at all times and avoid times and places that make one a potential victim.
I’m afraid I do not.
Please clarify.
Thanks, ‘Pod.
Amazing how quickly this story died. A white liberal getting his butt kicked by two blacks (girls yet) and that is NOT a hate crime? Can’t have it both ways so they just hide the story.
Maybe the now awakened liberal will convert to being conservative.
You know, I was thinking that this idiot might have had some sense beaten into him. Apparently not.
Liberalism's fingerprints are all over the disincentives to action causing the bystanders to continue to do exactly that, stand by.
Suppose some red-blooded American male had leapt to the defense of our hapless liberal, he would have to be trading blows with a female. Perhaps an underage female. Probably an African-American underage female. Now, if you are a white, adult male do you feel law will treat you fairly under those circumstances?
Dare I mention the name, George Zimmerman?
The white red-blooded adult male will also have seen that the attackers were armed with some sort of weapons and he has been foreclosed by liberals from carrying weapons in this mall. Do they have guns? Why take a chance?
So one class of people have been put at a physical disadvantage over another class of people by liberals and the result is that the disadvantaged class is conditioned to passivity-or flight like a herd animal on the African velt.
If one engages, one becomes potential prey for vengeance and conceivably makes his family vulnerable. Likewise, if one becomes a witness at trial the same problems arise. Is there anything in our justice system which has not been so distorted by liberals that would incentivize any bystander to take risks on behalf of the innocent? In other words, does an ordinary man have faith in the rule of law, in the likelihood of justice?
Why take risks to no purpose inside of a system that does not want you to come to the aid of a victim, it wants you to stand by passively?
In Leftist's wake are left countless unintended consequences which do so much damage all of which is unanticipated and many of which are unrecognized by the electorate.
From my experience in talking to liberals,
you aren’t going to get one to admit that welfare destroyed black families.
Sheeperals derive their righteousness by their advocacy to “help people”, of course, in the most non-sacrificial way possible. They aren’t going to give up on the source of their righteousness any more than a Christian would give up on Jesus.
Welfare breeds fatherless families. Fatherless families breeds children who only know dependence and apathy. Society has given up on punishing crimes so the inevitable occurs.
I’m probably older than you. I have been cognizant of the thinning veneer for over 40 years. To me, its virtually gone.
Morlocks and Eloi. The new American Eloi are being bred and raised to simply accept their status as prey as normal and even righteous retribution for perceived past sins.
I have a sister there, seems nice. Great motorcycling!
See #15
“their lives around”
The jokes write themselves.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
How many MN liberals have ever converted? Supposedly, Norm Coleman did as he turned the other cheek at the fraud against him. MN people as a whole are truly dedicated to what is wrong with America.
Several-eponymous-references-here ping.
Theyre damaged kids, and maybe theyre too far gone, but I think theres redemption for everybody, he said. So well try to find a way for them to get in a place where they can turn their lives around.
I kind of think Andrew is saying these stupid things to enhance his political career. He probably depends on the minority vote to fuel his reelection chances. He could not be this stupid; I believe he is speaking like this to enhance his political career. Liberal derangement syndrome?
These "teenagers" are probably beyond help.
I was sorry to see that happened.
I wonder if I as a mom (STOP THAT NOW!) could have restrained myself from going in. At least tackle one of the perps and sit on her. I mean, really. Nobody would help the poor guy?
Lake of the Ozarks.
> In Minnesota, however, the liberals not for turning... Andrew was sticking to type. Andrew told the Star Tribune he would remain involved in the case and try to help his attackers. Theyre damaged kids, and maybe theyre too far gone, but I think theres redemption for everybody, he said.
Thanks markomalley. Apropos of nothing, I remember that episode of X-Files where the liver-eating semi-human creature turned on the shrink who’d got him released from the nutbarn and ate his liver.
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