18 Yr-Old ROTC Member Murdered By 14 Year-Old Black Teen in Erie, PA

Jacob Pushinsky was a member of the Army Jr. ROTC program. On Saturday he refused to give his bike to 14 year-old Derry Sanders Jr. anad was shot dead.

Quiet, on-time, just a great young American, words used by teachers and school administrators who knew 18-year-old murder victim, Jacob Pushinsky. The rising senior at East High, was a committed member of the Army Jr. ROTC program at the school. Lt. Col. Joe Russell just retired as the Sr. Army Instructor at East High. “Jacob was a wonderful young man, never caused anybody any problems, this is a tremendous tragedy,” said Russell.

Jacob was known for riding his bicycle everywhere. The tragic shooting in what police say was a robbery over that very bicycle, claimed Jacob’s life. City councilman and East High teacher Bob Merski had Jacob in his homeroom. “Jacob was a very good kid, very quiet…always punctual, always the first one at the door for homeroom every morning. He loved ROTC. He would wear that military outfit and he was impeccably dressed every day, his shoes were shined, every button was buttoned, he was just a quiet kid and a good kid,” Merski said.

14 year old Derry Sanders Jr. was charged with criminal homicide, murder, recklessly endangering another person, robbery with inflict of serious bodily injury, possession of an instrument of a crime, firearms not to be carried without a license, and possession of a firearm by a minor all in connection to the homicide of Jacob Pushinsky.

I’m beginning to believe that most conservatives are stuck on the political cycle hoping for the !!!Return Of A Reagan!!!

Conservatives need to learn that elections won’t solve anything, anymore. But what do we do each and every lost election, each lost cause?

We just wait for the next failed election while moaning about “elections have consequence”.

I’m not sure if this means I agree with your assessment, I know that I am seething inside.

It was the seething that caused Free Republic to grow

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It was seething that caused a group of extremely dedicated FReepers to coalesce into the DC Chapter of the then forming FRee Republic NetWork of state and specialty chapters.

It was seething that caused the DC Chapter to get a permit from 10:00 until 2:00 every Saturday for assembly and protest on Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House

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It was seething that caused those same FReepers to gather every Friday evening rain or shine or cold or bluster to protest the Code Pinkos outrageous actions toward the wounded and maimed heros at Walter Reed Army Hospital

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It was seething that caused the formation of the Second Amendment Sisters as a FRee Republic Chapter

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It was seething that motivated several hundred FReepers to assemble twice in Fort Bragg NC to meet head on the Code Pinkos protesting the war

There is none of that now and what’s more, absolutely no apparent desire to do any thing, to react in any way beyond passively bitching and moaning.

There is virtually no trace remaining of all that.

I know they can't do much when they have to rely on the MSM for a platform and a megaphone, but the families of these white victims of black violence are going to have to take it upon themselves to make the case, as loudly and as often as they can, that their murdered loved one is worthy of all the attention, if not more, of the last black thug who was killed in the commission of a crime by LE or an armed citizen. Even more, because of the trend of the statistics of interracial crime, which is (unbelievably, to the uninformed or willfully blind) overwhelmingly black-on-white, and almost entirely in that direction when it comes to interracial rape. I am a Christian, and feel as obligated as the next Christian to proffer forgiveness-but forgiveness, on a societal level, must always be tempered by justice, and the balance is completely one-sided these days-even to the point of blaming the white victims for what amounts to, just being white (all the "if they hadn't done this, if they hadn't been there", and the even more disgusting attempts to mitigate the crime through some disingenuous concept of "white privilege"). God forbid that I, or more pertinently a member of my family, should ever be a victim in such a crime, but you can place your bets now that I won't be talking about forgiveness until justice has been served, and that dependent upon the circumstances of the crime and the conviction with which I feel I can believe in the murderer's remorse and regret. If it were a case like that of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome, I don't think that I could ever forgive. Those murderers, after raping and torturing the young couple, sat down and ate breakfast while Channon lay slowly dying in agony some feet away from them. A black female was involved in the crime. No, in a case like that, God would absolutely have to take over and out me on auto, because I don't think that I myself could ever forgive. But I wouldn't even be thinking of forgiveness until I'd fought tooth and nail to see justice served, and tried my level best to find a silver lining in informing others of the need for vigilance a la John Derbyshire, because of the facts when it comes to black-on-white crime, especially violent crime. If I could only get three pairs of eyes to open and acknowledge the truth, if only to themselves, their lives or the lives of their children might be saved one day. If they could only break through the chains of indoctrination just long enough to have a care for their own lives and those of their children, to the extent of acknowledging statistics regarding black-on-white violent crime and the necessary reaction thereto.

What infuriates me the most about this story is the response of the school superintendent: “It’s a huge loss of of two students in this particular case and that’s the horror of this rising violence; these were children, people with their whole lives ahead of them.” A family is having to bury their child, and the superintendent is trying to garner sympathy for the KILLER’S “loss?” If the races were reversed in this tragedy, I guarantee you the superintendent would have NEVER said that.

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