Jewish Odysseus: December 2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

ONE-BOY ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAVE BUTCHERS HOMEOWNER WHILE LAW ENFORCEMENT SNORES

BLOODTHIRSTY LITTLE F@CKING HOODLUM

WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEPORTED WHEN HE WAS 13

Well-meaning free-marketers have a dangerous blind-spot when it comes to illegal immigration. Stories like this happen every single day in these United States, and while the media tries to downplay them, they are horribly corrosive to faith in our political authorities and sworn law-enforcement officials:

LAKELAND | Through nine arrests, no one questioned whether 14-year-old Noel Cruz-Diego was in the U.S. legally until he was charged with burglary, robbery and stabbing a Lakeland man 43 times last month.

Juvenile arrest reports obtained by The Ledger this week detail charges against him during 2 1/2 years and show that law enforcement knew for at least two years the teen was born in Mexico.

But an immigration detainer wasn't placed on the teenager until recently by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, when the agency was notified of Cruz-Diego's questionable status by the Polk County Sheriff's Office, according to DHS officials.

Although a minor, Cruz-Diego faces adult charges in the most recent case, in which he is accused of breaking into Daniel Granton's home Nov. 18 and stabbing him.

Let's just run the numbers in this ghastly story:

14 tender years of age.

9 arrests...

...in 30 months.

2 burglaries in 1 hour, the 2d of which resulted in...

43 stab wounds.

"Trailing blood, [the victim, Daniel Granton] crossed the street to Jeanette Garro’s house and knocked on the door for help. But Garro and her husband were asleep.

Garro said Granton left pools of blood on her front door and sidewalk, then collapsed underneath her carport on his way to the back door."

No, no, NOOO, this is not what Emma Lazarus had in mind. It's long past time libertarian-oriented stopped averting their eyes to it, and started contributing to a remedy to this eminently remediable problem. Even if we didn't apply a "zero-tolerance" policy for illegal aliens, why not a "two-strikes and you're out" policy?

It would have saved Daniel Granton a few quarts of blood.

Friday, December 11, 2009

THE NO-LONGER-RELIABLE WALL STREET JOURNAL (II)

WE'RE DROWNING IN TAQQIYAH, YET THE JOURNAL GIVES US MORE!

Wow, so soon after making the point about their news-section creeps, and now the usually stalwart op-ed page pulls this sh!t...Giving space to the oh-so-predictable taqqiyish cooings of this MPAC clown, Marayati...Robert Spencer expertly dissects them here.

If only Rupert Murdoch was still running this paper...

Friday, December 4, 2009

THE NO-LONGER-RELIABLE WALL STREET JOURNAL (I.)

Islam in grisly, cannibalistic action...And not a kaffir in sight.

I've been reading the Wall Street Journal for many years, and their editorial page is usually brilliant. But a few years ago I started noticing sentences...paragraphs...even whole articles in the news sections that could just as easily have been published by, you should excuse the expression, the New York Times. Strangely, a lot of them seem to involve a perspective on the world that is, if not actively pro-jihadi, certainly internalizes a lot of the pathological "grievances" and sick mythologies of the "Muslim world."

Take this story from today's WSJ frontpage. A nasty jihadi bomb went off in a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a number of graduating medical students (a rare commodity in that thoroughly Islamicized hell-hole) were murdered, along with government ministers. The story recounts a little of the history of Somalia, including US involvement there:

A blundered U.S. invasion in 1993 left 18 Americans and as many as 500 Somali civilians dead. The image of the bodies of American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu -- later revisited in the movie "Black Hawk Down" -- became a cautionary tale in U.S. foreign policy. After that, the country descended into chaos.

Uhhhh, that's one way to look at it. Did I walk through a parallel universe where the The Nation calls itself the Wall Street Journal? Huuhhhh?

Does Journal owner Rupert Murdoch even read his own news pages anymore?

The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.