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Kathryn Narcisi (a/k/a ‘KC Hill’) Wins Injunction in Bogus Defamation Case

Posted on | July 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Kathryn Narcisi (a/k/a ‘KC Hill’) Wins Injunction in Bogus Defamation Case

Kathryn Cahill Narcisi is allegedly a singer, who seems to have spent years trying to Be Somebody on the Internet, with such a lack of success that the blogger Turtleboy has dubbed her “Failure Swift.” She evidently has a pattern of marrying and divorcing men, and also of claiming to be sick to get attention and money. Her current husband, jazz saxophonist Medoro “Metro” Narcisi III, was a high school music teacher until February 2018, when he was apparently forced to resign not long after Kathryn filed a domestic violence complaint against him. A couple of months later, a GoFundMe page claimed that Kathryn was suffering from lupus and scleroderma and that doctors had found tumors in her breasts and liver. She posted a video accusing doctors at a local hospital of mistreating her after she claimed to have had a stroke, and this was the video that drew Turtleboy’s attention to her. Well, she didn’t like what Turtleboy wrote about her — shabby grifters don’t like being called shabby grifters — and so she sued him (a total shabby grifter move).

The Rhode Island ACLU came to Turtleboy’s defense:

Aidan Kearney, whose business is based in Worcester, Massachusetts, runs a website and blog on www.turtleboysports.com. In February, he re-posted a video and numerous Facebook comments originally posted to the web by Hopkinton resident Kathryn Narcisi. He did so after Narcisi’s Facebook postings requested media coverage of an incident at Kent County Hospital, where she claimed the hospital refused to treat her for autoimmune disease. . . .
Last month, Narcisi filed a libel lawsuit claiming the blog post “defamed and discredited” her, and that it led to her receiving unwanted messages “from followers of the defendant’s website.” At a court hearing held before Kearney was ever notified, RI Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirl issued a temporary restraining order requiring the removal of any and all references to Narcisi from Kearney’s website and all other “associated” sites. . . .
ACLU executive director Steven Brown added: “The court’s order requiring the removal of items from a website is a classic prior restraint that the First Amendment simply does not countenance. In order to avoid a chilling effect on Internet speech, we are hopeful that this suit will be dismissed promptly.”

Click here to read Kathryn Narcisi’s bogus defamation claim. Whether or not she is suffering from any physical illness, she seems to exhibit symptoms of a sociopathic personality disorder. As the ACLU points out, she “requested media coverage” of her claim that the hospital mistreated her, and she has sought publicity in various other ways, which means that she is arguably a public figure, which has legal consequences. People who seek publicity can’t claim “harassment” just because some of the publicity they get is negative. Like, if Madonna goes on tour, she can’t file “harassment” complaints against critics who call her a flabby old skank. Shabby grifters like Kathryn Narcisi never seem to understand that when they seek publicity — through a GoFundMe account or a YouTube video — they thereby forfeit the expectation of privacy. Particularly in this case, where Kathryn Narcisi claimed that she had suffered medical mistreatment and sought media coverage for her story, it is absurd to argue that Turtleboy was engaged in harassment or defamation simply because he mocked her and expressed doubt about her claims.

My podcasting partner (and former co-defendant) John Hoge called my attention to this story, which resembles in many ways the legal entanglements we had with Brett Kimberlin years ago. For a court to have granted an injunction in this case is just wrong, and suggests that Rhode Island judges don’t know crap about the First Amendment.



 

Category: Journalism

Why Hilllary’s 2016 Overconfidence Bothered Me

Posted on | July 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

I grasp that political leaders tend to be mediocre people who do the networking thing well. It’s hard to build those ‘people skills’ while also honing, say, guitar chops.

However, the media is going to tell you that an otherwise pedestrian figure whom they fancy is somehow brilliant. Yet whatever brilliance they display, whatever articulate use of English, or grasp of a subject is likely to be provided by a staff.

So why did Her Majesty’s staff blow it so badly in 2016? For a modicum of effort in a handful or Rust Belt states, Stacy and I could be sporting coveralls in a re-education camp in North Dakota.

An explanation that I haven’t heard previously might be called “To Build a Firewall“. We know that the Clinton campaign failed utterly to secure electoral votes around the Great Lakes that tipped the election to Trump.

But why? Why did she let Trump deliver an Arkanicide to her ambition? Was she just as overconfident about those blue states as she was her email server security?

The idea that the Left considered the Tea Parties a dead issue occurred to me today. After the 2009 demonstrations on the Mall, which was the high point of the whole blogoshpere experience, there was pretty much nothing. ObamaCare happened anyway; Breitbart died; Obama was re-elected: the country seemed pacified.

The 2016 election came. A Trump Administration was simply beyond the imagination of most of the conservative blogosphere. Important exceptions included Surber, Hoft and my buddy M. Joseph Sheppard, who was very patient with my skepticism about Trump. I just knew that Her Majesty was going to hang Trump out to dry after the nomination.

Except she didn’t.

And this invites the question: why do people who should know better somehow not know better? Lack of imagination.

People who think that the government ‘solves’ problems (hint: government occasionally maintains problems passably well) seemed to have thought the Tea Party problem solved.

Trump’s close reading of Sun Tzu has been celebrated. But Her Majesty’s sudden lack of paranoia about those Blue States, her complacent willingness to go ahead and lose an election instead of putting in the effort to retire all risks, even the unimaginable ones, underscores why she deserved the loss. Don’t tell me how qualified you are: prove it.

Trump’s willingness to take calculated risks–run an understaffed, shoestring, actually chaotic campaign, continue to pay dividends as he colors outside the lines of accepted diplomacy.

Hillary’s overconfidence in 2016 is related to the horror of the Foreign Policy ‘experts’ at Trump’s non-approach to diplomacy: the creative, one-man show is both:

  • a blast to watch, and
  • impossible to duplicate.

Unless Trump can magically nail everything before his term ends, we could be in a situation where a traditional politician, e.g. a Pence, just can’t even try to get his Trump on.

Which is what happened when Bush 41 failed to keep the Reagan going.

Our system is engineered against black swan figures like Trump.

Enjoy the Donald show while here.

Category: Uncategorized

Ask And Ye Shall Receive

Posted on | July 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

And here it is:

The original:

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Happy Fourth of July, You Fascists!

Posted on | July 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

The Democrats are now a party of paranoid conspiracy theorists:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a new interview that she believes the United States is heading in a fascist direction under President Trump.
“Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question,” Ocasio-Cortez told Yahoo News earlier this week after she visited migrant detention facilities managed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.”

They define fascism as “whenever Democrats lose elections,” and therefore when Ocasio-Cortez says we are “headed to fascism,” what she means is that Trump will be re-elected. After all, Democrats believe the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of “white supremacy,” so we shouldn’t be surprised that they consider patriotism a synonym for “hate.”

Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, where Republicans and journalists are brutally attacked by left-wing mobs in open daylight, liberals are becoming so paranoid, they’ve started gun clubs:

Liberals are notoriously loath to take their own side in a fight. But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won’t stand for his removal from office. Increasingly, the antifa left is arguing — and training — in response. They are worried not only about an armed reckoning following a contested election, but also about rising violence from the paramilitaries loyal to President Donald Trump. . . .
As a result, many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about firearms, joining a loose amalgamation of gun groups, from John Brown Gun Clubs (which take their name from the abolitionist) to the Pink Pistols (an LGBTQ group), Liberal Gun Club, and Socialist Rifle Association. Some of these organizations are moderate and traditionalist, others radical and revolutionary. . . . Some of their members hope such efforts will at least make Republicans think twice before attempting a massacre. . . .
A third of the Socialist Rifle Association’s 2,000 members identify as LGBTQ, and 8 percent are transgender.

What is happening here? What explains the hysterical rhetoric coming from Democrats and their media allies this Fourth of July?

They’re living inside an imaginary universe where CNN is “mainstream” journalism, instead of an obscure cable TV channel with fewer viewers than HGTV and Nickelodeon, where Oberlin College is a reputable institution, where transgenderism is more acceptable than patriotism:

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s victory in 2016 has escalated into something quite beyond mere hysteria. Now the leftists are well and truly dangerous. Antifa, the fascist organization that protests anything and everything with which it disagrees, is violent, very violent. These people show up with weapons, wearing masks, and attack anyone they perceive to be in opposition to their own warped ideology.
CNN has long defended the group as good guys, social justice warriors. That is how off the rails CNN is. Like Antifa, CNN is officially and openly anti-American.

In a nation with a two-party politicial system, where each party has roughly equal levels of core support, but where one party’s strength is concentrated in urban enclaves, we should expect this kind of derangement whenever the urban party loses elections. If you live in New York, San Francisco, or Portland, Oregon, you are immersed in a community where 80% of people vote Democrat, and where Republican voters aren’t likely to speak up about their political beliefs, since doing so would make them targets of hatred. This echo-chamber effect is compounded by the fact that most of the people who produce media — not just journalism, but also entertainment — are members of the same urban Democrat community. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, whose father was the Democrat governor of New York and whose brother is New York’s current Democrat governor, doesn’t socialize with the kind of people who vote Republican. Nobody that Chris Cuomo considers a friend has ever served in the U.S. military, and he views members of the military as scum, unworthy of respect from elite people like himself.

Why do you think Democrats are freaking out because President Trump wanted some tanks in the Fourth of July parade? Because the U.S. military symbolizes everything they hate about America. They hate to be reminded that what happened on July 4, 1776, was the publication of our Declaration of Independence, but it was not the words on parchment which made America free. No, we are free because of the service and sacrifice of men whose names are not famous, who marched barefoot through the snow to Trenton, who suffered at Valley Forge, who died in battle against the “elite” troops of the British Empire. America is independent not because of the Declaration, but because courageous men were willing to fight and die for their freedom. When we celebrate the heroism of these brave patriots, it makes cowardly liberals like Chris Cuomo feel ashamed of themselves (as well they should).

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Today I’ll be working in a West Virginia fireworks store, where military members and veterans are eligible for a special discount. And I know what you’re thinking: I’m gonna get paid in fireworks. Unfortunately, however, my wife has insisted that I be paid in cash, so the only way I’ll be able to afford to buy any fireworks is if readers remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance, and God bless America!



 

Category: Fireworks, History, Media Bias, Military

In The Mailbox: 07.03.19

Posted on | July 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There might be an Independence Day post tomorrow. There might not. Tune in tomorrow and find out.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #670
357 Magnum: The So-called Affordable Care Act and 911 Calls
EBL: Lee Iacocca, RIP
Twitchy: Blue-Checked Garbage Person Brags About Her Cameo In Video Of Antifa Assaulting Andy Ngo
Louder With Crowder: Ricky Gervais Scolds Violent Leftists Like Antifa And Their Milkshake-Throwing Ways, also, NATIONAL HEROES – CVT Ice Cream Charges Social Media “Influencers” Double

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There Is No Judeo-Western Anything
American Greatness: The Real “Toxic Masculinity”
American Power: “Mini-AOC” Gets Doxxed, Receives Death Threats
American Thinker: The Left’s Endgame Is Not Chaos – It’s Worse
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Two More Cubans Defect From National Team In New Jersey, also, To Celebrate The 4th, Nike Chooses Colin Kaepernick Over Betsy Ross
BattleSwarm: Still More On The NRA’s Troubles
Camp of the Saints: @RealDonaldTrump Gets His Roman Triumph
CDR Salamander: LCS 2.0
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE 2019 – The Big Finish
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Schemer Exposed
The Geller Report: ABC/CBS/NBC Announce They Won’t Televise July 4th “Salute To America”, also, Iran Threatens To Wipe Out Israel If U.S. Attacks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Punching Back Legally (Part One) (Part Two)
Hollywood In Toto: Why Hollywood Can’t Quit The Mueller Report
JustOneMinute: Ebb & Flow
Legal Insurrection: Charlottesville Decides To Stop Celebrating Jefferson’s Birthday, also, MSNBC’s Joy Reid Raves That Trump’s “Salute To America” Meant As Threat To Americans
Michelle Malkin: America Takes An Antifa Beating
The PanAm Post: The Vicious Legacy Of Argentina’s Left-Wing Terrorism
Power Line: The Democrats’ Wrong-Way Bus, also, Two Cheers For Trump’s Nork Policy
Shot In The Dark: #Resistance Is Feudal
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Guessing At Trends
The Political Hat: Hong Kong Protests With A Stiff Upper Lip
This Ain’t Hell: New Sniper Rifles For Airborne Units, also, Censoring & Suppressing Conservative Speech On Social Media
Victory Girls: Chief Gallagher Not Guilty – And The Liberal Media Spin Begins
Volokh Conspiracy: Prominent Porn Researcher Frames Defamation As Sexual Harassment
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Threatens To Enact “Gun Safety” By Executive Order If Elected, also, Video Montage – Obama’s History Of Politicizing Independence Day
Mark Steyn: Steyn Wins Again

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Category: Linkagery

Was Ayoola Ajayi a Scammer?

Posted on | July 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

Does the name Osei Kwadwo Boakye ring a bell? No, you’ve never heard of the guy, and if someone by that name sent you an email asking for money, you’d never do it. Osei Kwadwo Boakye is an Internet scammer from Ghana whose online aliases include “Brandon Smith,” a fake U.S. Army officer who is part of a variation of the Nigerian email scam. Using fabricated military profiles, these scammers target older women. Such scams are a billion-dollar industry, according to tech executive Yaacov Apelbaum, who used a fake profile (“Olga Schmatova”) to lure Boakye into a trap: Yaacov’s replies as “Olga” included spy software that mapped the network of Boakye’s scammer ring and you can read Yaacov’s report “Military Romantic Scams — The Theory and Practice” for the rest.

An alert reader tipped me to Yaacov’s article after I’d blogged about the murder of Mackenzie Lueck by Nigerian immigrant Ayoola Ajayi. Since his arrest last week, we’ve learned a lot about Ajayi. For instance, he had been reported to ICE in 2012, when federal officials said he’d overstayed his visa, and was apparently in the country illegally. We also know that he was married to a woman who lives in Texas:

Ajayi’s ex-wife, Tenisha Ajayi, told KUTV for a story that aired Monday that she hasn’t spoken to her estranged husband in years. Though she was shocked by the most recent accusations, she said there were also signs of violence in their relationship.
“I just stopped talking to him because I was fearing for my life,” Tenisha Ajayi told KUTV’s Ginna Roe.
The ex-wife lives in Texas, and said she first met Ajayi through a family friend. The two never lived together, KUTV reports — he was in Utah, while she was in Dallas. She said he would send her money for her two children, but she stopped speaking with him when he began threatening her.
“If I wouldn’t do what he told me to do, he got real aggressive,” Tenisha Ajayi told KUTV. “He was like, I’ll have someone come kidnap you and kill you.”

Doesn’t it seem weird that Ajayi and his “wife” never lived together? Shouldn’t we suspect that this “marriage” was a fraud arranged to prevent Ajayi from being deported? What was Ajayi doing when he was caught at Utah State University with a stolen iPad in 2012?

An officer searched the iPad’s web history and found that, though Ajayi was married, he accessed dating sites, listed himself as single and was pursuing “a female as a prospect to marry to keep from being deported.”

Seven years ago, then, Ajayi was running scams on dating sites, and given what we know about about the Mackenzie Lueck case, isn’t it possible she was lured to her death by some other scam he was running?

Watch this report by Inside Edition:

 

The owner of a model and talent agency in Salt Lake City is opening up about her close encounter with murder suspect Ayoola Ajayi. Evie Keener said Ajayi, an avid bodybuilder and wannabe model, first approached her at a networking event for models and their agents last summer. She said he wanted to sign with her agency, but there was something about him that she found off-putting. After going to several networking parties, Ajayi began reaching out to Keener on social media, she said.
“Once the surface, he seemed perfect. He seemed very smart, very good looking. . . . He wanted to sign on with my agency and I did not feel comfortable having him in the same room with my young models. So I just listened to my gut and I didn’t have anything further to do with him.”

She listened to her gut — there was something “off” about this guy. We still don’t know how Ajayi convinced Mackenzie Lueck to meet him at a park at 3 a.m., but it seems likely that Ajayi must have used some kind of deception to get her to do something so stupid.



 

Category: Utah, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 07.02.19

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.02.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: John Wayne Movies With Mustaches
357 Magnum: Defend Yourself In Australia, Get Charged With Murder
EBL: Stephanie Grishman, The New WH Press Secretary
Twitchy: Dem Rep Frederica Wilson Says People Mocking Congresscritters Online “Should Be Prosecuted”
Louder With Crowder: AZ Governor Pulls Nike Tax Break Over Recalled Amrican Flag Sneakers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #113 – The Consistency Episode
American Greatness: Andy Ngo Was Beaten By Antifa Just A Stone’s Throw Away From Portland Police Precinct, Sheriff’s Office
American Power: Niall Ferguson Becomes An American
American Thinker: Democrats Circling The Electoral Drain
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Random Notes News
Babalu Blog: Photo Of The Day – How Food Is Transported In Socialist Cuba
BattleSwarm: City Of Austin Votes To Let Addicts Poop In The Streets
Camp of the Saints: Coming Soon? Thought Transformation Camps
CDR Salamander: Double-Pumping Truman – I Thought We Weren’t Doing This Any More?
Da Tech Guy: Tanks & Independence, also, Kamala & The San Francisco Machine
Don Surber: Proof That Liberalism Is Hazardous To Your Health
Dustbury: Doesn’t Sound Krafty To Me
The Geller Report: Antifa Plans Acid Attacks For July 6 Free Speech Rally, also, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher Found Not Guilty
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Dust Biting
Hollywood In Toto: Spiderman: Far From Home – Trouble In MCU-Ville
Legal Insurrection: Census Going To Print Without Citizenship Question, also, Leftist Media, Activists Blame Andy Ngo For “Provoking” Antifa Attack
The PanAm Post: Top FARC Leader, Wanted For Drug Trafficking, Flees To Venezuela
Power Line: The Screaming Of AOC, also, Anti-Americanism Working For Nike
Shark Tank: Trump Campaign Hauls In $150 Million
Shot In The Dark: The Divine Right Of Ward Heelers
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – SALT Cap Zero! Great New Taste!
The Political Hat: Pre-Teen Drag Queen’s Mom Shocked That Her Son Is Seen As Sex Object
This Ain’t Hell: Retired AF Combat Vet Harassed By Security Guard, also, NOT GUILTY!
Victory Girls: Advice Columnist Apologizes & Promptly Steps On Her Wiener Again
Volokh Conspiracy: Want To Donate Your Papers To A University? Choose A Private, Not Public, School
Weasel Zippers: Hispanic Pastors Contradict AOC On Conditions At Detention Center, also, Facebook Allows Racist Louis Farrakhan’s Page To Reopen
Megan McArdle: The Democrats Are In Disunity – How Long Can Pelosi Hold Them Together?
Mark Steyn: I’ll Be Seeing You, also, Portlantifa

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Category: Linkagery

Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’

Ayoola Ajayi (left) is accused of murdering Mackenzie Lueck (right).

Last Wednesday, while Mackenzie Lueck was still considered “missing” and before Ayoola Ajayi had been named as a “person of interest” in the University of Utah senior’s disappearance, the Daily Mail broke an important exclusive: The 23-year-old sorority girl had been using social media and dating apps to seek out “sugar baby” arrangements with older men, boasting about it as “NovaBaby96” in private Facebook messages.

Given the circumstances surrounding her disappearance (e.g., arranging to meet a guy at 3 a.m. in a park) this struck me as ominous, and led me to a strongly-worded declaration of unfortunate truth:

Let’s be blunt: Mackenzie Lueck was a whore. Also notice my use of the past-tense verb “was” — they won’t find her alive. And her parents will have to ask themselves how they failed so badly: Why did their daughter turn into a whore?

We should not pretend that “seeking arrangements” as a “sugar baby” is anything other than prostitution, and if participants in such “arrangements” don’t enjoy being told the truth, that’s not my fault. No one should blame a college girl for preferring the companionship of an older, successful man to the typical “date” with a college boy. What girl wouldn’t rather be wined and dined by a guy with a good job than to engage in a makeout session in a dorm room with a drunk fratboy? But the “arrangements” being brokered via “sugar baby” sites (or Tinder) are more of a fee-for-service transaction, and not sophisticated romantic adventures. Where do we draw the line? At what point does such behavior cease to be “dating” and begin to be prostitution? What is the difference between a girlfriend and a common whore?

My suggestion (and I think most parents would agree) is that a woman who doesn’t want to be treated like a whore should scrupulously avoid any situation that might put her in such a light. We don’t yet know exactly how Mackenzie Lueck was lured to her death, but the 2+2 deduction is that Ayoola Ajayi was a prospective “sugar daddy” client, and her sorority sisters are angry that people are making that deduction:

“There’s a lot of people that say she deserved this because she put herself in this situation and we don’t officially know that,” Kennedy Stoner, a sorority sister and friend of Lueck’s, told Fox News in an exclusive interview on Sunday.
Two other friends, Ashley Fine and Katie Kvam, speaking to Fox News, called out people on social media who were blaming Lueck for her own death.
“No person regardless of their gender or dating life deserves to die,” Fine said. “Mackenzie is not responsible for the death and murder of Mackenzie. There’s only one person responsible for that, and we’re here to hold him responsible and we’re going to keep holding him responsible.”
“If Kenzie knew what was gonna happen she would not have met that individual at the park,” Kvam said. “Her death is not her fault… and for people to say things other than that is hurtful. It’s hurtful to us. It’s hurtful to her family. It’s hurtful to other victims out there. It just doesn’t make sense.”

Well, critical comments are less “hurtful” than being strangled to death and having your dismembered corpse burned beyond recognition, but you see that the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega are in denial about the predictable risks of using the Internet to arrange sex with strangers. One suspects that such behavior is not rare at AXO, and that by defending Mackenie’s behavior, these sorority girls are defending their own promiscuity. And there’s more sorority girl philosophizing:

“All of her friends and her family can see what a huge light of our lives is,” Fine said, “and this man stole our friend away from us and she’s gone way too soon. And, it’s just not fair.”
Lueck’s friends said people closely following this case have speculated that Ajayi’s heritage as an African man who “survived a tyrannical dictatorship, escaped a real-life crime, traveled internationally,” according to an author page on Amazon, somehow played a role in his alleged crime, but the girls said his race was irrelevant.
“Evil comes in every color, every gender. Just because you know Mackenzie was white and he is African-American, the suspect, it doesn’t matter to me,” Fine said. “It doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t play a part in this story, it never played a part in this story. Mackenzie’s death and murder did not have anything to do with race. It had to do with an evil person with bad intentions who is a danger to society.”
“I’d feel [a] strong amount of hate for not just him because of his color, that shouldn’t matter. Her color doesn’t matter. It was just an evil, sick person,” Kvam said.

An entirely random coincidence, you see. There is no pattern to evil, according to these AXO philosophers, and it is “hurtful” to suggest that their deceased friend probably should have avoided meeting a Nigerian immigrant at a park on the north side of town at 3 a.m. Yes, of course, her error is apparent in hindsight, the sorority girls are willing to admit, but that doesn’t mean there are any lessons to be learned in terms of future hookups with exotic strangers arranged via dating apps: “YOLO!”

What makes Internet dating so dangerous is the lack of social context. Like, if a guy from work or school asks a girl on a date, she can evaluate him by his appearance and demeanor: Does he seem like a potential serial killer? Or she can ask around among her friends to get their feedback: What is this guy’s reputation? But if all she’s got to judge him by is his profile on a dating site, or maybe his Instagram account, how can she evaluate whether he poses a safety risk?

Only a fool would meet a total stranger at 3 a.m. in a public park. No matter how committed to the YOLO creed a sorority girl might be, a basic concern for her personal safety would suggest that the first meeting should occur during daylight hours — coffee at Starbucks — rather than at night. And while it is nowadays considered unacceptable to criticize anyone’s sexual preferences (“De gustibus non est disputandum”), are we really required to suppose that it was just random coincidence that the blonde Mormon girl fell prey to a Nigerian immigrant? These white college girls are understandably defensive about saying anything that might be deemed “racist,” but the facts are the facts, and random evil is an inadequate answer to the question of how and why this happened. Stipulating that we don’t yet know exactly how this tryst was arranged, or whether Ajayi used some sort of subterfuge to lure Mackenzie to her death, wouldn’t it make more sense to suspect that race was a factor in how these two met? “Opposites attract,” or whatever?

Our fear of being accused of racism, like our reluctance to engage in “slut-shaming,” serves to inhibit the kind of common-sense discussion that might be helpful to young women seeking to avoid certain risks, like getting murdered and dismembered by your next Tinder hookup.

“It’s just not fair,” as Mackenzie’s friend says, but I can hear my late father’s voice: “Son, who ever told you life was supposed to be fair?”

UPDATE: More developments in the story:

Utah State University barred Ayoola Ajayi, who is in jail on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering MacKenzie Lueck, from its campus after a theft investigation, according to documents from the school.
Campus police reports also describe Ajayi, a Nigerian immigrant, as overstaying his visa and perhaps using a stolen iPad to find a wife to reduce his chances of being deported. When USU police booked Ajayi into the Cache County jail in 2012 on suspicion of misdemeanor theft, officers notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a Nigerian consulate. . . .
“This letter is to inform you that if you feel you need to visit our campus,” Eric R. Olsen, the associate vice president for student services, wrote to Ajayi on Aug. 2, 2012, “you must first contact the Utah State University Police Department and have them escort you on and off campus. If you violate this mandate, you will be cited for trespassing and will face additional legal consequences.” . . .
USU said Ajayi attended classes off and on between 2009 and 2016, with a break in attendance between 2011 and 2015. He did not obtain a degree. . . .
The first report is from May 18, 2012. Officers on patrol found Ajayi sleeping in the lounge at San Juan Hall apartments. Ajayi told officers he was waiting on his girlfriend, who lived in another campus housing complex, Aggie Village. The officers told Ajayi he was not allowed to sleep in a building where he didn’t live.
Officers later went to Aggie Village to find the girlfriend and check out Ajayi’s story. The report says a woman told police she knew Ajayi but neither he nor any girlfriend lived in Aggie Village. Reports written over May 20 and 21, 2012, describe officers reaching Ajayi by phone and then in person, accusing him of being “deceitful” and warning him that he would be charged with trespassing if he was found on campus again.
The final sentence of the report says USU police contacted ICE. The federal agency informed officers Ajayi had overstayed his visa and ICE needed to be contacted if he was arrested.
Then, on July 22, 2012, campus police investigated the theft of an iPad. The next day, campus technology staff found that someone was using the tablet to access the internet. Police found Ajayi using the iPad in the iconic academic building known as Old Main, a report says.
An officer searched the iPad’s web history and found that, though Ajayi was married, he accessed dating sites, listed himself as single and was pursuing “a female as a prospect to marry to keep from being deported.”

So here was a guy with a history of immigration fraud, theft and using the Internet for illicit purposes, and how did he manage to convince Mackenzie Lueck to meet him at a park at 3 a.m.?



 

Category: Immigration, Utah, Violence Against Women
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