Posted on 06/22/2015 11:39:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: A friend of mine sent me a note over the weekend. "Two 21-year-old young men. One of them over here, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. Two-time golf major championship champion: Masters, USA. Jordan Spieth, University of Texas. Greate family, live in Texas, wholesome, everything you would want and expect in an American family. Over there.
"Over here, you have 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who looks like one of the Three Stooges, and of course who walked into a church and shot nine people dead. Two twenty-one year olds. What's the difference? How do you explain one and the other? Now the answer... I was thinking about this myself. It isn't simple. A lot of people think the answer to that is very simple, but it isn't.
You come up with off-the-cuff, immediate, reactive answers and they would be right but they don't go nearly deep enough. You could say, "Well, take a look at the various families." Yeah. Okay. Fine. Then take a look at the different economic circumstances. Yeah, fine. But you see, the problem with that is that a lot of great people have come from the same circumstances that Dylann Roof came from.
A lot of great people were born to poverty and had lousy parents or no parents, and they overcame it and they rose up and they became successful. The names are famous, too. I don't have them at the top of my head, here, but that argument has already been vetted in the abortion argument. You know, when the abortion argument was at its peak back in the '80s and '90s, one of the arguments made by the pro-choice crowd was:
"We don't want to bring children into that world! Look at the poverty and pestilence and disease!" So poor people having abortions was considered a good thing, because it was just criminal practically. We wouldn't want to bring a child into those circumstances Yet that caused people like me to go look at all of the great people who were born into less than ideal circumstances.
A bunch of scientists, a bunch of great people. Not everybody is born wealthy and the rich, obviously. It is a dilemma. And then I'm still struck by, ladies and gentlemen, it's not that long ago -- what, 8 or ten years ago -- that the subject of... Maybe not even 8 or 10. Gay marriage, transgenderism, transnationalism, transracism, all of that was considered so outside the mainstream and so fringe.
Nobody ever thought it was going to matter to anything. Now here it has become mainstream. In fact in many people's view, it has become dominant in American politics. So a lot of people are scratching their heads. How did this seemily happen overnight?
There is nothing at all about Dylann Roof that is out of character or surprising for a methamphetamine addict.
Drug induced paranoia focuses on something and seeks an outlet.
Just as with Timothy McVeigh.
Dylan Roof was not impoverished. His parents were divorced (probably over disputes of how to deal with a child who clearly had adolescent onset schizophrenia) and did not get along, but they both seem to have had some connection with him, since he lived with his mother but his father bought him the gun (basically, as a straw buyer, although the father may not have known this). Roof’s grandfather is a well-off, important attorney in upstate SC.
I bet you’ll find that one set of parents were Christians and one set were just your basic modern neo-pagan folk.
BTW, the little lunatic clearly needed professional intervention, but at least one of his parents was in denial - even though he turned 21 living in his mom’s backroom, never going out, never working after having dropped out of school in the 9th grade...exactly like Adam Lanza. You’d think after the Lanza massacre, his parents might have wondered about him and their non-parenting style.
Mostly good men said and did nothing. And the few that tried were publicly castigated and often had their careers ruined.
Now what is needed is many times greater than would have been 10 years ago. If the "leaders" on our side didn't have the guts then, where does that put us now?
But, let’s face it, Roof didn’t kill those people, the Confederate flag did.
The people that rooted for Speith only did so because it makes Tiger (God’s gift to Golf) Woods’ accomplishments fade. he’s Black ya’ know.... They probably laughed when he fell on his ass too.
A poor question and not even worth thinking about.
Agreed.
You ARE kidding, right?
{ wonder if he was on Ritalin since early.
That was my first thought before I knew anything about this crime except that the perp was a young white male.
For males, the prime years for onset of schizophrenia are roughly 17-22.
Yes. It was that da*ned Confederate flag. Get rid of that horrid thing & all will be OK. (Twinkie’s great, great grandfather fought on the Confederate side at Shiloh.)It’s always the old man’s war, and the young man’s FIGHT. I say, “Maranatha!” I’m sick of war. My dad was a soldier during WWII. I’m sick of war.
Different teachers each listened to. One became a golf pro the other a jock strap.
Not.
To be honest, I keep hearing conflicting reports on the gun and its history.
WHAT??
Under Roof’s pic, there should be the caption: This is your mind on drugs.
Maybe that would persuade some of the kids that taking drugs is not cool.
Speith believes in God. Roof is an atheist.
Uh That was Jason Day that had the balance issues and fell this weekend. He was tied for the lead after Saturday.
If Speith fell I didn’t hear about it.
BTW Jordan Speith looks like Danny from Caddyshack.
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