Submitted by Bert, Apr 22, 2007 10:03

I sent this short introductory essay along with Ms Haymowitz's article along with the front page story by Tamar Lewen that was published on the Front Page of Thursdays Times as a emali to many of my correspodents....most people still feel that they are helpless...

I am taking the opportunity of sending two articles concerning the massacre at Virginia Tech. The perpetrator was a mentally ill person. He was essentially neglected by a system that was more concerned with the personal rights of the individual and so never pursued the correct course that might have prevented this massacre. I am always most interested in the rights of the individual, but, over the last forty or so years, this has evolved into a cult of privacy rights, and then, it evolved on more step into the tyranny of the minority over the majority. This kind of thinking moves everyone to a certain paralysis, fearful of ‘offending' someone, hurting someone's feelings, entering a self righteous higher moral ground of political correctness. This kind of thinking has forced me into a rightward swing. As I see, with much empirical evidence, that our society is decaying, our collective rights eroding in favor of the fear of abusing someone individual rights. Does not the society have the right to defend itself against the criminal or the mentally ill. For a long time there were no public toilets on the streets of New York because the disabled said if we cannot use the toilets because of limited access, then YOU cannot have it. Most of the city's citizens are not confined to wheelchairs, and would this not be representative of the tyranny of the minority of the majority, and the lefty high moral ground, always self righteous, sanctimonious, takes the side of the alleged underdog. It seems that the liberal is always well off. It is the poor who suffer, who live with the criminal, or in the case of Virginia tech, the students are the victims. The murderer was, so, too, neglected, and the college system is caught in misguided laws, and becomes fearful, timid, and ultimately is unwilling to speak, because of that idiotic idea of political correctness. We cannot speak any kind of truth for fear of insulting someone. Would you eat as a guest in someone's home, or in a restaurant, a pile of feces that is served as a meal because you cannot bare to insult the host, or the chef. Have we come this far. I wonder. I know you all will be tempted say I am nuts, do so, but, truth told is that one day, perhaps you shall find yourself in such a heinous predicament. What will you think in those moments, and I do not wish to hear you say you are afraid of the abuse that might come if we protect ourselves. Nor do I wish to hear the lament, of what can we do....the whine is not good, and I hate the idea of anyone taking the role of victim. The killer was victim and he turned predator, and made more victims. Being the victim is not a romantic image, not one for sympathy, not one for weeping for....this is not, repeat not about the canard of gun control That is merely a retreat into passivity and timidity.

I hope that you think about this as your children will inherit this corrupt degenerate timid world and they will be your victims because you did not have the foresight to realize that you have the right to defend yourselves without guilt.

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