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Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28

Posted on | November 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28

Breaking news:

The gunman who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a bar holding a country night for students has been named as 29 year-old ex-Marine David Ian Long. Long, who went by his middle name, drove his mom’s car to Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California in the early hours of Thursday, where he shot a doorman and cashier before opening fire inside the bar room. Police raided the heavily-tattooed killer’s home Thursday morning, with neighbors describing him as a veteran who suffered from PTSD.

No information about the shooter’s motive is known yet.

UPDATE 10:30 a.m. ET: The sheriff just briefed the press:

“We are still working to identify the victims. We have identified the suspect. Ian David Long, [date of birth] March 27, 1990. 28-years-old and several contacts with him over the years. One of which was a traffic collision.
“Deputies were called to his house in April and he was somewhat irate, acting irrationally, they called out our crisis team and cleared him. He was left at the scene, last April.
“Officers are now seeking a warrant to search the property.
“He used a Glock 21 45 caliber handgun. Designed to hold 10 rounds. This weapon did have an extended magazine. We do not know how many rounds were in the weapon or how many it could hold.
“He shot the security guard, appears he turned to the right and shot several other security and other employees before opening fire inside the nightclub.
“We have no idea what the motive is. He was a veteran, he was in the US Marine Corps. Deputies thought he might be suffering with PTSD.
“We believe he shot himself. He was found inside an office, adjacent to the entrance. There is no indication that he targeted employees.”

While we still have nothing specific about the gunman’s motives, it seems clear that mental illness may have been a factor.

 

UPDATE 12:30 p.m. ET: Long’s background has become a focus:

The Marine Corps said that Long served in the military from August 4, 2008 through March 2, 2013 and earned the rank of corporal, according to journalist Cassie Carlisle.
Ian Long was a machine gunner who received numerous awards, including a Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon X2, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and NATO Medal – ISAF Afghanistan.
He was deployed to Afghanistan on November 16, 2010 through June 14, 2011. . . .
There were mental health troubles apparent in the shooter’s background that emerged on the radar of authorities last spring.
The sheriff said that there were “several contacts” with Ian Long over the years. In April, an incident occurred in which Ian David Long was described by a neighbor as screaming and banging on the walls in the home where he lived, NBC reported. The neighbor called 911 thinking that Long was violent and possibly trying to hurt himself. . . .
Although mental health professionals evaluated him, they did not take him into custody, the sheriff revealed in a news conference. . . .
The sheriff said those specialists “met with him, talked to him, cleared him. They didn’t feel he was qualified to be taken” into custody. “He was left at that scene last April.” He added, “The mental health experts cleared him that day.” . . .
Despite the disturbing April incident, his neighbor told NBC News that Long was a Dodgers baseball fan and had girlfriends over the years.
Long lived with his mother, according to multiple news reports.

The possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder as a factor may explain what happened, but it may be as simple as a young man frustrated by his personal problems. Having entered the Marines at age 18 and served more than four years before getting out of the service, Long may have had trouble adjusting to civilian life. Whatever the motive, it does not appear to be political, and thus this act was not terrorism, per se.

PREVIOUSLY: #Borderline Massacre: 12 Killed, Gunman Dead at Country Music Bar in California.

 

Category: Crime

‘No Borders! No Wall! No USA at All!’ #Antifa Mob Targets Tucker Carlson

Posted on | November 8, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘No Borders! No Wall! No USA at All!’ #Antifa Mob Targets Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson interviews Mike Isaacson of ‘Smash Racism DC,’ September 2017.

An Antifa group calling itself “Smash Racism DC” published Tucker Carlson’s address and sicced a mob on his home Wednesday night:

A left-wing mob showed up outside Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s house Wednesday evening, posted pictures of his address online and demanded that he flee the city of Washington, D.C.
Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller and host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” was at the Fox News studio when the angry crowd showed up outside of his house.
At least one of the protesters went all the way up to Carlson’s front door, where they left a sign with his family’s home address written on it and rang his doorbell.
Video the group, “Smash Racism DC,” posted to Twitter shows one of the mob’s ringleaders leading the crowd in chants of “racist scumbag, leave town!” and “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!”
“No borders! No walls! No USA at all!” the protesters chanted in another video posted to Twitter.
The group posted a picture of the sign with the Carlson family’s address on it to Twitter.
“Tucker Carlson, you cannot hide from the people you hurt with your rhetoric, your lies, and your hate,” the group wrote on Twitter, adding the hashtag “#KnockKnockTucker.”
Twitter removed the videos and tweet with Carlson’s address Wednesday night after an inquiry from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The left-wing group’s Twitter account was suspended shortly after midnight on Thursday.

Video shows the mob used a bullhorn in its terroristic intimidation:

 

One of the founders of “Smash Racism DC” is Mike Isaacson, a homosexual anarchist who has taught at City University of New York’s John Jay College, Long Island University, New York University and Howard University. Isaacson has advocated violence against police officers and other “fascists.” At meetings in January 2017 where radicals planned the violent riots against Trump’s inauguration, Isaacson was recorded on video saying “throat-punching is a good thing” and “we have a plan” for shutting down Metro trains. In September 2017, Isaacson was interviewed on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program:

 

Immediately after that interview, Isaacson lost his job:

The president of John Jay College said she was “shocked” to hear the “abhorrent” anti-cop statement spewed by a professor at her school and immediately suspended him.
“I am appalled that anyone associated with John Jay, with our proud history of supporting law enforcement authorities, would suggest that violence against police is ever acceptable,” John Jay president Karol Mason said about professor Michael Isaacson.
Mason said that threats were made to the members of the college in the wake of his comment — which caused her to take immediate action.
“Out of concern for the safety of our students, faculty and staff, we are immediately placing the adjunct on administrative leave as we continue to review this matter.”
Isaacson, who works in the economics department at the college, tweeted the anti-cop screed from the account @VulgarEconomics.
“Some of ya’ll might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops,” Isaacson tweeted on Aug. 23.

Obviously, Isaacson may bear a grudge against Carlson, and could be using terroristic intimidation as revenge. It should not be tolerated.

UPDATE: On Twitter, Isaacson says he was in New Jersey when the mob descended on Carlson’s home, and added: “I haven’t worked with Smash Racism DC in three years but support their actions.”



 

Category: Terrorism

#Borderline Massacre: 12 Killed, Gunman Dead at Country Music Bar in California

Posted on | November 8, 2018 | Comments Off on #Borderline Massacre: 12 Killed, Gunman Dead at Country Music Bar in California

 

At least 11 people were shot and there were “multiple fatalities” when a gunman opened fire at the Borderline, a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The shooting took place during a “college night” event at the bar. Some witnesses have claimed the gunman was a Middle Eastern man who threw smoke bombs to create confusion during the shooting. A Ventura County sheriff’s deputy is reportedly among those shot.

UPDATE 6 a.m. ET: In a press conference, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said 11 victims were killed inside the bar. The gunman was found dead, and a sheriff’s deputy, who was the first on the scene, was fatally wounded by the gunman. The gunman has not yet been identified, the sheriff said. Terrorism has not been ruled out as a motive, but the investigation is continuing.

UPDATE 6:20 a.m. ET: The Daily Mail reports:

A gunman has opened fire at a country music bar during a student night in the city of Thousand Oaks, California, killing 12 people and injuring several before turning the gun on himself.
The shooter stormed the Borderline Bar and Grill wearing a black trenchcoat armed with a pistol equipped with an extended magazine and smoke grenades and began targeting people as young as 18.
A Ventura County deputy sheriff was among the deceased. An additional ’10 to 15′ victims were injured during the mass shooting, including a doorman, a young female cashier and college students.
The perpetrator, dressed in all-black, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a mask covering the bottom part of his face, walked up to the entrance at 11.20pm and shot the doorman before making his way into the venue.
He then opened fire on a young female cashier before throwing smoke grenades onto the dancefloor and letting off rounds into the crowd.
First responders from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office and Highway Patrol arrived at 11.23pm and got into a gunfight with the suspect, during which a deputy sheriff was shot and later died from his injuries.
Several minutes later a SWAT team arrived and found 11 victims dead inside. The suspect was also found lifeless after apparently turning the gun on himself.

UPDATE 6:40 a.m. ET: NBC News reports:

A man fired a gun at a bar in a city in Ventura County on Wednesday night, leaving 11 college night revelers dead and fatally wounding a sheriff’s sergeant who responded to the emergency before the gunman was reported dead.
The incident happened during a college night at 11:15 p.m. at the Borderline Bar & Grill at 99 Rolling Oaks Drive in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles west of Los Angeles, said Capt. Garo Karedjian, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said his agency received multiple calls of shots being fired at the bar.
Minutes later, sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer went in to respond to the gunshots. Helus was a 29-year veteran and was looking to retire, Dean said.
“He went in to save lives,” Dean said, his voice cracking. “He went in to save other people.”

UPDATE 7:20 a.m. ET: The Los Angeles Times:

A gunman threw smoke bombs and rained bullets on a crowd of hundreds inside a Thousand Oaks bar that is popular with college students Wednesday night, leaving 12 dead including a Sheriff’s sergeant shot trying to stop the carnage.
The massacre occurred at the Borderline Bar & Grill, with the assailant firing wildly into the crowd.
In addition to the dead, 10 other people may have been injured, according to Sheriff Geoff Dean, who added that it’s too early to know if the shooter took his own life.
The gunman burst into the bar around 11:20 p.m., cloaked in all black.
Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Ron Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer entered the bar first and were met with gunfire from the suspect, whose identity was not immediately known. Helus was shot several times and died at an area hospital early Thursday morning, according to Dean.
Helus, a 29-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, was planning to retire next year. Dean said he died “a hero.”
He is survived by a son and his wife, whom he called before entering the bar, Dean said.
“It’s a horrific incident,” Dean said. “It’s part of the horrors that are happening in our country and everywhere, and I think it’s impossible to put any logic or sense to the senseless.
“This community in my 41 years had never experienced anything like this,” he added.
Witnesses reported a horrifying scene as gunfire echoed through the club and those inside ran for cover, in some cases using chairs to break windows to escape the building. Others hid in bathrooms and an attic as they frantically called loved ones who were hearing reports of the shooting.
The first 911 calls reporting the shooting were received around 11:20 p.m., according to Dean. Helus and the CHP officer arrived on scene and engaged the suspect by 11:26 p.m., he said.
A motive in the shooting was not immediately clear, but Dean said there was no evidence linking the attack to terrorism. Police believe the weapon used was a handgun.
Eleven victims and the shooter were found dead inside the bar by responding emergency personnel.
“It’s a horrific scene in there,” Dean said. “There’s blood everywhere.”

Until we know the identity of the gunman, we cannot know the motive. Although the sheriff said they have not ruled out terrorism, we have no substantial reason to believe that is the motive.

UPDATE 10:20 a.m. ET: Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28.



 

Category: California, Crime

Obscure Cable-TV Personality Becomes Disorderly at White House Briefing

Posted on | November 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Obscure Cable-TV Personality Becomes Disorderly at White House Briefing

 

CNN’s ratings are lower than the Hallmark Channel and Nickelodeon, which means more people watch Spongebob Squarepants than watch Jim Acosta, CNN’s prima donna “reporter” who threw a public temper tantrum during a presidential press conference today:

CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta was captured wrestling with an unidentified White House aide for possession of a microphone while he attempted to ask President Trump questions during Wednesday’s press conference.
Acosta and Trump got into a heated debate after the reporter asked him about the migrant caravan. Trump told Acosta to let him do his job.
“Honestly, I think you should let me run the country and you run CNN,” Trump told Acosta.
The reporter tried to ask him another question before a female White House aide walked over to him.
Trump then told him, “That’s enough!”
Acosta continued to try to talk as the aide was seen trying to take the microphone from his hand. She grabbed the microphone but Acosta wouldn’t give it up.
“Excuse me, ma’am,” he told the aide as he continued his question. The aide then kneeled next to Acosta to wait for him to finish speaking.
Acosta then continued to ask Trump about the Russian investigation, which the president called “a hoax.”
Trump again told Acosta to put down the microphone. The aide was then able to take the microphone from Acosta and give it to NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander.
However, Trump wasn’t finished and called Acosta “a very rude person.”
“I’ll tell you what. CNN should be ashamed of themselves having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN,” Trump told Acosta.
“You’re a very rude person. The way you treat [White House press secretary] Sarah Huckabee [Sanders] is horrible. And the way you treat other people is horrible. You shouldn’t treat people that way,” Trump continued.

Acosta is a disgrace and his network is a laughingstock.



 

Category: CNN

No ‘Wave’ for Democrats; GOP Gains in Senate; Some Races Still ‘Too Close to Call’

Posted on | November 7, 2018 | Comments Off on No ‘Wave’ for Democrats; GOP Gains in Senate; Some Races Still ‘Too Close to Call’

Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but their gains were not enough to called a “wave,” and Republicans managed to expand their Senate majority, while also winning key gubernatorial races. The anti-Trump backlash in the House was smaller than the anti-Obama backlash of 2010, when Republicans gained a whopping 63 House seats in the “Tea Party” election.

As my friend John Hoge points out, #MeToo was a loser — Democrat senators who voted against Justice Brett Kavanaugh were defeated in Indiana, where Mike Braun beat Joe Donnelly, and Missouri, where Josh Hawley beat Claire McCaskill. The only Democrat who voted for Kavanaugh, Joe Manchin, survived in West Virginia.

Three “rock star” candidates for Democrats — Beto O’Rourke in Texas, Andrew Gillum in Florida, and Stacey Abrams in Georgia — all went down to defeat, although Brian Kemp’s margin in the Georgia gubernatorial elections was close enough that some networks still considered the race “too close to call” as of Wednesday morning. In Florida, Republican Rick Scott’s victory over Sen. Bill Nelson was another slender win rated “too close to call” by the networks. Out west, Republicans lost the Nevada Senate seat of Dean Heller, but were leading in Arizona and Montana, both still rated “too close to call.”

UPDATE: Among Tuesday’s winners was Montana Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte who, uh, body-slammed his Democrat opponent by a margin of about 37,000 votes.

UPDATE II: One of the House races I had called attention to was Texas 23, where Democrats nominated a Filipino-American lesbian against Rep. Will Hurd, the only black member of the Texas Republican delegation. It appears Hurd survived that challenge by a margin of 700 votes. Democrats flipped two Texas House seats, defeating Pete Sessions in the 32nd District and John Culberson in the 7th District.

UPDATE III: Two of the early indicators that Tuesday would not be a “wave” election for Democrats came in Virginia 5 and Florida 18.

In the Virginia race, Democrats nominated far-left journalist Leslie Cockburn (her father-in-law was literally a Stalinist) in a largely rural district where the incumbent Republican had retired, citing personal problems with alcoholism. Cockburn’s daughter is actress Olivia Wilde, and the Democrat got a lot of Hollywood money. Unfortunately for the Hollywood Commies, Republicans nominated businessman Denver Riggelman, and he won by about 20,000 votes.

In Florida, incumbent Republican Rep. Brian Mast faced a challenge from former Obama administration staffer Lauren Baer, a lesbian who is married to a Federal Election Commission lawyer, Emily Meyers. Between them, Baer and Meyers have four Ivy League degrees (Harvard, Yale Law, Brown and Columbia Law). “It’s a breakthrough race for our community,” one Florida gay activist gushed in a September interview, calling Baer “one of the most exciting and qualified candidates running for Congress in Florida this year.” Democrats used to be the “party of the working man,” but now they’re the party of Ivy League lesbians. Florida voters said, “Hell, no.” Mast was re-elected by a 30,000-vote margin.

By the way, I wish to apologize to readers for the lack of blogging on Tuesday. What happened was this: In July, my 17-year-old son got a speeding ticket in southern Virginia, while he and a friend were coming back from a trip to North Carolina. He had originally been scheduled for an October court date, but that conflicted with one of his soccer games, so he rescheduled it for November, without noticing that the date was Election Day, and I had to accompany him to court.

So I thought, OK, we’re going to drive four hours for this early-morning court appearance, and then turn around drive back in time for me to blog the election. However, the plan was changed and I didn’t realize it until we were leaving out Tuesday morning with one of my older sons driving. The trip was extended so that we could drive down to Fort Bragg, hang out with my Army son and his wife, then bring back his wife and new baby for a visit. So it was about 7 p.m. before we got on the road, and past 2 a.m. before we got back home. Because I hadn’t anticipated this, I’d left my laptop at the house, and the only way I could follow the results Tuesday night was on my phone.

As to my teenage son’s ticket, the judge liked him, and agreed to continue the case for six months. If my son goes without any further driving infractions between now and May, the charges will be dropped. Otherwise, I’ll be the one going to prison, because I’ll strangle the boy. Make me miss an Election Day? That’s justifiable homicide!



 

Category: Congress, Election, Senate

Who Democrats Really Are

Posted on | November 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If you’re watching CNN — and I have no idea why you would, unless you’re trapped in an airport — you have no idea who Democrats actually are, and what they actually intend to do if they get elected. On a CNN panel last night (I watch CNN so you don’t have to), there was a lot of discussion about college-educated suburban white women as the anti-Trump “swing voters” Democrats are targeting in this midterm election.

In a column at CNN’s website last week, the network’s “senior political analyst” Ron Brownstein offered this assessment:

A CNN analysis of the demography of the most competitive districts in the House of Representatives, almost all of which are now held by Republicans, shows that the outcome in 2018 appears poised to reinforce the divides familiar from Trump’s election in 2016.
Democrats’ top opportunities to capture Republican-held seats are concentrated in well-educated, higher-income and preponderantly white districts. Most of these seats are centered on economically thriving suburbs around major metropolitan areas where Trump faces widespread resistance among white-collar voters, especially women, on cultural and personal grounds.
With only a few exceptions, Democrats face more uncertain prospects in Republican-held House seats centered on the blue-collar, exurban and rural communities where Trump remains popular, the analysis found.

You can read the rest of that, but my point is that the Democrats and their media allies know whose votes they need to win Tuesday, which is why their propaganda messages (both in the liberal media and in Democrat campaign ads) are stressing certain themes, and ignoring any facts that might tend to alienate their targeted audience. Unless you seek out alternative news sources on the right — Fox News, Breitbart, etc. — there are some facts you simply don’t know about Democrat candidates and their policy agenda. For example, in Florida:

The 2012 slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin ignited both the Black Lives Matter movement and the political career of Andrew Gillum, whose campaign against Florida’s “stand your ground” personal defense law was instrumental in elevating him to Tallahassee mayor.
Mr. Gillum is now on the cusp of winning Florida’s governorship — but BLM activism has been mostly disarmed as a political movement.
The demonstrations that dominated the 2016 election, cowing presidential contenders and dominating cable television shows, is missing in action in this year’s campaigns. . . .
Mr. Gillum, who would be Florida’s first black man elected to statewide office, invoked Martin’s name during a Democratic candidates debate before clinching the nomination in an upset. Since then he repeatedly accused his Republican opponent, Ron DeSantis, of racism.

Did you know that Gillum was part of #BlackLivesMatter and had made opposition to a homeowner’s right to self-defense a central focus of his 2014 campaign for mayor of Tallahassee? You probably didn’t, and I doubt most Florida voters have been reminded of this fact, nor have they been encouraged to think what this might mean for public safety in the Sunshine State if Gillum wins the gubernatorial election Tuesday.

Did you know the murder rate in Tallahassee is worse than Miami?

Sometimes I feel bad about having to constantly report unpleasant truth like this, almost as bad as I feel watching CNN to research how the “news” is being reported by the Democrat propaganda machinery.

UPDATE: Who’s campaigning for Democrats in Georgia?

Nothing to see here. Move along.



 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Election, Florida

Another ‘Incel’ Weirdo: Tallahassee Shooter Was Public School Teacher

Posted on | November 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Scott Beierle was weird. He was from upstate New York, graduated from SUNY-Binghamton in 2002 and later got a graduate degree at FSU:

Kristi Malone, who had a graduate class with Beierle, said in a Facebook message that she did not interact with him outside of the classroom because of “his odd leering, inappropriate comments and general demeanor.”
“I know that myself and several of my female colleagues made a point to never be alone with him even at school because of his odd behavior,” Malone said. . . .
Court records show that Beierle was charged by police with battery in 2016 after he slapped and grabbed a woman’s buttocks at an apartment complex pool. Records show that the charges were eventually dismissed after Beierle followed the conditions of a deferred prosecution agreement.
Beierle was also charged with battery in 2012 for grabbing women’s buttocks in a university campus dining hall. A FSU police report shows that Beierle told police he may have accidentally bumped into someone, but denied grabbing anyone.
In 2014, Beierle was charged with trespassing at FSU. He had been seen following an FSU volleyball coach near the campus gym and was told that he was banned from campus. A month later police found him at a campus restaurant.

Friday, Beierle walked into a yoga studio in Tallahassee and shot seven people, killing two women, before committing suicide. It turns out Beierle had been posting stuff online identifying as an “incel” (involuntary celibate), praising Santa Barbara killer Elliott Rodger, and recording punk rock songs with titles like “Homicidal Impulse” and “American Massacre.” He wrote lyrics like this:

If I cannot find a decent female to live with,
I will find many indecent females to die with.
Finally, I find that if I cannot make a living,
Then I will turn, to be successful, I will make a killing.

Did I mention he had been working as a substitute teacher?

At Deltona Middle, he earned a reputation among students for being lazy, detached and downright strange.
“He just gave off a psychopath vibe, like someone crazy,” said Samantha Mikolajczyk, 14, who had Beierle as a sub in her history class about a dozen times last year when she was in eighth grade. . . .
“He would never really smile, never gave off much except a really weird aura, I guess,” she said. “He would put you on edge if he was talking with you or you were alone with him. A lot of the students in my class used to make fun of him.” . . .
Mason Roberts, a 13-year-old eighth grader at Deltona and a friend of Samantha, said Beierle showed up as a substitute teacher in her language arts class once last year.
“He was very quiet,” she said. “He seemed just out of it, I guess. He seemed very lazy. And even when we asked him a question, he seemed not to care. He was really creepy. He didn’t do things like a substitute would normally do.” . . .
Mason’s mom, Allison Roberts, said she was shocked Beierle was ever allowed to teach. Beierle had a history of arrests, but not convictions, for grabbing young women around the campus of Florida State University, where he earned graduate degrees. She found out about Beierle on Saturday night, after her daughter mentioned it at dinner.
“I was very upset,” she said. “Someone with charges like that? How in the hell did he get in the classroom with my daughter? Anyone that’s got a history of being arrested for things such as that should absolutely not be around teenage girls or children period.”
Beierle also taught high school English and social studies in Anne Arundel County in Maryland from 2005 to 2007, according to WTOP of Washington, D.C. He resigned at the end of the 2006-2007 school year, district officials told the news station.

Left-wing sites describe Beierle as a “far-right misogynist”:

In one video called “Plight of the Adolescent Male,” Beierle named Elliot Rodger, who killed six people and injured 14 in a shooting in Isla Vista, California. Rodger is often seen as a hero for so-called incels, or those who consider themselves “involuntarily celibate.”
“I’d like to send a message now to the adolescent males … that are in the position, the situation, the disposition of Elliot Rodger, of not getting any, no love, no nothing. This endless wasteland that breeds this longing and this frustration. That was me, certainly, as an adolescent,” Beierle said. . . .
Unlike the YouTube videos, Beierle’s songs on Soundcloud were all uploaded in the last few months. Shortly before Friday’s shooting, he uploaded one song called “Fuck ’Em All,” with the lyrics: “To hell with the boss that won’t get off my back / To hell with the girl I can’t get in the sack.” . . .
In a punk song he made called “Don’t Shame,” Beierle sang of walking into a girl’s locker room and going on an “ass-grabbing rampage of underage girls.” He also spoke about grabbing women in the song “Handful of Bare Ass.” . . .
“I have no shame, but this is to blame. I would do anything. I just don’t care. I have no fear of any consequences,” he sang.

So, you’re a 40-year-old loser can’t get laid, who has been twice arrested for sexual battery against women and, in your twisted mind, this justifies shooting random strangers? Identifying this loser as “far right” might serve some political purpose for the Left, as a guilt-by-association smear, but it does nothing to help us understand the psychology of weirdos like Scott Beirle. “He was very quiet. . . . He seemed just out of it,” as one of his former students described him. His “demeanor” was unsettling, as a former FSU classmate said. He recalled his adolescence as an experience of “not getting any, no love, no nothing.” He complained he could not “find a decent female to live with.” Shouldn’t reporters ask why?

When I was in school, our teachers taught us that a journalist should seek answers to six questions: Who, what, when, where, why and how?

Not everything can be explained in terms of partisan politics or ideology. The fact that Beierle expressed some “far right” opinions is enough to cancel any journalistic curiosity on the part of liberal writers who only care about constructing a political narrative, but it doesn’t explain how someone like Beierle — a once promising young man who was an Eagle Scout and football player in high school — ended up as a sexual pervert full of frustration and rage: “He was very quiet.”

The introverted boy who fails to attract any girlfriends as a teenager can very easily end up as a permanently frustrated loser like Beierle and nobody seems to care about this kind of social failure unless and until the loser becomes a dangerous criminal. Why don’t educators care about the developmental problems that are so apparent in the lives of guys like Scott Beierle? Why did no one intervene in his life when he was a teenager “not getting any, no love, no nothing”?

The why and how questions here aren’t necessarily political, although it would be very easy to blame feminism’s influence, as our educational system nowadays seems to care only about “empowering” girls. Our schools do not merely ignore the problems of boys, but rather appear to be systematically causing male failure, as evidenced by the declining levels of scholastic achievement among male students. We must also wonder what’s going on with the parents of these boys.

If your teenage son has never had a girlfriend — a total loser — shouldn’t you become concerned? I’m certain I would, because I understand that adolescence is a sort of game of romantic musical chairs. Teenagers naturally start “pairing up” into couples in high school, and kids who aren’t part of a couple are regarded as social misfits. It may seem cruel and unfair to adults that, in high school, the boys without girlfriends and the girls without boyfriends are labeled “losers,” but this harsh verdict reflects an underlying reality. The teenage loser has failed a crucial test of adolescent development, i.e., the ability to attract and form a romantic relationship with a member the opposite sex, and adults are behaving irresponsibly if we fail to recognize this kind of teenage social failure as a sign of potential trouble in later life. Beware of rationalization:

In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation . . . is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable — or even admirable and superior — by plausible means. . . .
Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt or shame).

The rationalizations of teenage losers often take the form of disparaging the opposite sex, and casting aspersions on more successful rivals. The unpopular fat girl dismisses the romantic success of her more attractive classmates by blaming boys for being “superficial” in their pursuit of pretty girls she considers vapid, ditzy airheads. The nerdy boy disparages as “sluts” the girls who chase after popular jocks. All such blame-games are merely a rationalization of failure. The homely girl who can’t get a boyfriend engages in rationalization when she explains that she’s just “picky” and doesn’t want to “lower her standards” by dating any of the ordinary boys who might actually be interested in her. She thereby indulges an unrealistic fantasy that, at some future point, the good-looking popular boy will stop dating pretty girls and instead prefer her.

It is considered cruel — an assault on the precious “self-esteem” of these teenage losers — to point out the delusional nature of their rationalizations. How dare you tell the truth? How dare you identify the most obvious and realistic explanation of their adolescent failure? We are not supposed to throw cold water on the fantasies with which these losers comfort themselves, but there’s a sort of magical thinking involved in these rationalizations — “wishcasting” — and if they are never compelled to confront reality, they will never learn effective ways of coping with their problems. This avoidance of reality is dangerous.

By the time he was in his 30s, Scott Beierle had been failing with women for so long that he exuded the unmistakable vibe of creepiness (“odd leering, inappropriate comments and general demeanor”) which is so characteristic of the desperate loser. Perhaps if someone had intervened in his life when he was 15 or 16, Beierle could have corrected his problems, but like so many other introverted losers, he drifted along silently for years and, by the time the warning signs started to become evident — grabbing women’s butts on the FSU campus — it was probably too late for him to recover from his loser habits.

Most journalists don’t want to dig too deep into the how and why of this problem. It’s easier just to label Beierle a “far right misogynist” than to attempt to understand the social processes that produce these mass-murdering monsters. Also, the media’s liberal bias causes them to avert their eyes from a deeper exploration of such cases, because it can be argued that liberalism is itself implicated in the monster-making process. Our public schools are controlled by Democrats, a fact demonstrable by the campaign contributions of teachers unions, and classrooms are experimental laboratories where social-justice cult beliefs (“self-esteem,” “diversity,” “gender equality,” etc.) are the prevalent ideology. Parents shocked that someone like Beierle was hired as a teacher — “How in the hell did he get in the classroom with my daughter?” — should start paying closer attention to the education system more generally.



 

Category: Crime, Education

Don’t Mess With Feng Zhu Chen

Posted on | November 4, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

You probably never heard of Feng Zhu Chen, but she is a great American. She works in the restaurant business and was living in Gwinnett County, Georgia. In the wee hours of Sept. 16, 2016, her roommate heard noises and awakened Chen, who grabbed her 9mm pistol and confronted three armed intruders. She opened fire, fatally wounding one of bad guys — Antonio Leeks, 28 — and sending the other two running for their lives.

The whole thing was caught on surveillance video, and one of the criminals ran through a glass door in his haste to escape.

 

Earlier this year, Gwinnett police arrested another suspect:

Bernard Eugene Little, 35, was arrested on March 29 and charged with felony murder and armed robbery for the Sept. 16, 2016 home invasion on Spring Drive, which occurred near the DeKalb County line in unincorporated Gwinnett County.
Police said Wednesday that though Little did not pulled the trigger — a woman who was staying in the burglarized home shot 28-year-old Atlanta resident Antonio Leeks after he, Little and one other man entered her home with guns at around 4 a.m. — Georgia law states that “a person commits the offense of murder when, in the commission of a felony, he or she causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice.”
While the third suspect has yet to be identified, the arrest comes as a win for detectives, who previously deemed the suspects to be “armed and dangerous.”

Imagine that: You and buddies decide to do a home invasion, your buddy gets shot to death and you escape, but you’re charged with murder for being an accomplice in a crime that caused his death.

Don’t mess with Feng Zhu Chen.

 

Category: Crime
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