What Is a Fellow to Do When His Parents Let Him Down the Way Mine Did?

My parents, you see, had choices that they ignored. They could have raised me to be a black punk. They could have raised me to be a Muslim killer. Either way, I would have lived a much freer existence.

The Halcyon Days of Punkhood

If I were a black punk growing up in Long Beach, last Halloween night, I could have been one of the 12 punks (mostly girls, of all things) who savagely beat three young women — because they were white.

At the end of the trial, when a jury found 9 of the first 10 punks guilty, the jelly-legged Juvenile Court judge in Long Beach, Gibson Lee, waffled and surrendered to intense heat from the black community.

This Won’t Hurt, Did It?

His performance — unsurprisingly praised by the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People — was an embarrassment for the judicial community.

For crippling one young woman and injuring the other two, Judge Lee frowned, slapped their hands with a frayed ruler and said, “Don’t do it again.”

This Is Discipline?

The apparently poorly raised punks merely drew probation and 250 hours of community service. At that rate of “punishment,” they could beat up people seven nights a week. They very well may.

The quiver-handed wrist slap administered by Judge Jelly scarcely would deter a good kid, let alone a punk.

Where Were Their Parents?

There is, of course, a logical explanation for the way these kids have turned out. Keep in mind these were mostly girls, just not the kind you would bring home to mama. Judging by the scary attestations of their parents, the punks grew up with only feather-fingered guidance from adults. An infamous picture after the sentencing caught one of the feather-fingered parents laughing at what had just been pulled off.

Must Be Quitting Time

Yesterday, Judge Jelly, shaking from the heat applied by organized sections of the black community, quit the case with the clock still running. The political heat obviously wilted his sense of fairness. Two more punks are to be tried next month in the same case.

Funny, isn’t it, how a long irrelevant organization such as the NAACP thumb twiddles until this kind of sad cause comes along?

Just Trying to Be Fair

The clownish president of the Long Beach branch of the still irrelevant NAACP — the loud-mouthed mother-in-law type who shows up as a buffoon on the comic pages — did the predictable. In a letter to the Press-Telegram this morning, she praised the nobility and wisdom of the caved-in judge. Now there is a woman who knows how to objectively evaluate character.

An Example for Others

Unlike Judge Don Knotts, the Press-Telegram performed heroically throughout the trial — as it does on all other days of the week. Look up the stories in their archives, dating back to Nov. 1. Their eminently fair coverage was a magnificent model of objectivity for every newspaper in the nation to study.

Look Who Is Being Dishonest Again?

Meanwhile, nervous larger newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, play their daily appeasement games. Both are scared as hell of the Muslim world, of Muslim retaliation.

Just like Judge Lee, they grovel in fear over what Muslims would do to them if the newspapers covered the many Muslim lunatics in this country as they typically cover other ethnic groups.

Your skin will grow far more wrinkled than it is this morning before you read a critical word about Muslim lunatics in the Timeses — and numerous other prestigious newspapers.

Courage, Courage — Where Is It?

Today I have in mind the 18-year-old Muslim immigrant — what a shock, another Muslim killer — in Salt Lake City. Last Monday evening, he drove to an off-the-path, lightly patronized shopping mall in Salt Lake and mowed down 5 people. Let’s see. What color were they? Oh, yes. Here it is. They were white. Another shock.

The Los Angeles Times did an office rewrite of the massacre for Tuesday’s edition. Then something quite predictable happened to our hopelessly intimidated friends at the city’s only newspaper. When they found out this punk was a Muslim, they dived for cover under their desks, Teddy Cooke-style.

How a Terrified Editor Responds

They dropped the story — after one edition — faster than Judge Lee scampered out of his courtroom, robes a-flying. If the reverse had happened, boys and girls, I guarantee the Times would have dispatched a fleet of reporters and photographers to the scene Salt Lake within the hour.

But Muslim leaders intimidated these chicken-hearted journalists a few years ago. Two-year-old girls have more courage than you could round up in the Times’ editorial department.

Where Is the Coverage?

This was a spectacular crime, as any child could see. Even sexier than the endless stories on Anna Nicole Jones — or is it Brown? This politically volatile crime normally would spring any breathing assignment editor out of his chair.

Not, however, with the politically-beholden chickens who lead The Times in New York and the Times in Los Angeles. They quake in fear that a fresh wave of Muslim lunatics will bomb their newspaper buildings.

5 Murders? Nah, Not a Story

Hence, both Timeses told their readers that the latest Muslim mass murders were no more serious than a wastebasket fire.

Over in Salt Lake City this morning, the hometown newspaper, the Deseret News, is just as intimidated as the big boys.

They are spotlighting the Muslim killer in today’s edition, empathizing with the kid and his mourning parents, who moved to Utah from Bosnia nine years ago.

A Time for Who to Grieve?

The lead headline in the Deseret News says, “Grief-stricken father wonders what provoked his son to kill.” The accompanying photo shows the killer’s mother standing in the doorway of the family home, crying. The story talks of the Muslim killer’s sterling qualities and how the massacre really was not his fault.

The 5 real victims are nowhere to be found.

The Good Boy Killer

The Muslim killer’s father said his son was of “good character,” that he was a “happy, normal” boy who loved to go fishing. Where have you read that before? Darkly, he suggested somebody else is to blame. Where have you read that before? Dad said that an evil person must have talked his boy into loading down his body with more guns than a U.S. battalion in Iraq, driving to a shopping mall out of the way of most people, and killing everyone in sight. He’s a Muslim. It couldn’t be his fault.

Sherlock Noonan?

I know who’s to blame. Neighbors said a Lutheran family lately moved onto the block.