Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
By TODD LEWAN, AP National Writer Sun Apr 8, 7:20 PM ET
ORLANDO, Fla. - It was a balmy night, the sort that brings the homeless out from the shelters, when the police were summoned to America Street. On the driveway of a condo, just a few paces from the gutter, lay a man. A dying man.
He looked to be 50-ish, and a resident of Orlando's streets, judging by the moldy jacket. And he'd been bludgeoned — so badly bludgeoned that he could hardly move.
Before being rushed to the hospital, where he died of his head injuries, the man, August Felix, described his attackers. Young fellows did it, he whispered to the officers who got to him first. Kids. (More...)
The practice seems endemic
...stereotyped victims, offenders who act on latent prejudices, offenders who seek thrills or feel superior to their victims, and a mob mentality that sweeps away caution.
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...stereotyped victims, offenders who act on latent prejudices, offenders who seek thrills or feel superior to their victims, and a mob mentality that sweeps away caution.
Micro=macro. If I didn't know better, I'd think this writer was profiling modern America's anti-immigrant hysteria or our general post-9/11 foreign policy.
It's the lynchmob culture express, with service all the way from from barely-functioning democracy to full-blown reactionary authoritarianism with hardly a layover. All one has to do to join in the fun is agree that strength is the only virtue and *poof*, no more niggling moral questions. Instead, anything one can get away with is not only righteous, but also worthy of a respect that increases in direct relation to how many people one appalls. I mean, we Americans have slipped the bonds of PC mind-control, you understand, and what's more PC than being reluctant to beat up on the defenseless?
To think of all the time Socrates wasted arguing with folks. If Socrates was a modern American, he would've just hit Plato in the head with a bat and watched South Park afterwards, content in the knowledge he'd objectively proven himself right.
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