FOR WHOM SHOULD WE FEEL SORRY?

FOUR RECENT STORIES OF SYMPATHY OR CONTEMPT. DETAILS FOLLOW.

1. Joe Biden had a terrible week. The recording of his questioning by special

counsel, Robert Hur, reminded the rest of the world that the President of the United States was in serious cognitive decline. Hot on the heels came the announcement that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to the bone. Should we feel sorry for Joe Biden?

2. Israel continues its relentless, unwavering destruction of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

On May 8^th for example, strikes reportedly killed at least 92 women, children and journalists. (I guess all the men were out of town.) Although the Gaza Health Ministry is reliably unreliable to put it charitably, the deaths of tens of thousands are not in doubt. Should we feel sorry for the Gazan civilians?

3. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was detained by five Memphis police officers during a traffic stop. He was pulled from the car and ran from the police. When the police caught up with him, they tasered, pepper-

   

   sprayed, kicked and beat him with a police baton. He cried out for his mother as they handcuffed him just steps from his home. He must have loved his mother because her name was tattoo on his arm. The officers’ body cams recorded the police talking and laughing at the scene. One officer testified that Nichols was helpless as they pummeled him. Tyre Nichols died three days later.

   “I made his child fatherless,” one officer admitted. “I’m sorry.”

   The two officers who pled guilty, are out on bail and under house arrest. On May 8^th, three weeks ago, the other three officers were acquitted of second-degree murder. They were convicted on federal charges and still face years in jail. For whom do you feel sorry?

4. On May 12 at a high school track meet, seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf

   who is white, and seventeen-year-old Karmelo Anthony who is black, had a

   

disagreement about a seat at the meet. They had never met. No threats were made. No shouting or cursing ensued. No blows were struck. Anthony took out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the heart, killing him. Metcalf was a member of Memorial High School’s track and field team, a team MVP as a linebacker on the varsity football team, and a member of the National Honor Society.

Anthony is in police custody and has been charged with murder. His bond was set to $1 million, then reduced to $250,000. As of this writing, a Givegosend page has raised over $514,000 in support of Anthony.

For whom do you feel sorry?

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1 ) Joe Biden – I suppose the proper attitude should be to send him our thoughts and prayers and to wish the former president a speedy recovery and a peaceful retirement. That would be so ever so nice, but I’ll save my thoughts and prayers for the parents and friends of the thirteen U.S. service members and hundreds of Afghans who were blown to bits at the Kabul Airport during Biden’s hasty retreat from Afghanistan.

Often forgotten is the fact that Biden targeted September 11 for the final day of the withdrawal. Why September 11^th? Because he wanted a photo Op. He would love to have said, “We are finally out of Afghanistan. America’s longest war is over. I brought peace to the area.” Peace? No, only tragedy, military embarrassment and breathtaking incompetence.

I’ll save my heartfelt sympathy for Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal who bashed her head in with a rock. I’ll save my sympathy for 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungary, who was kidnapped from her home by Venezuelan illegals, stripped naked, raped and strangled to death. I’ll save my sympathy for so many children trafficked into sexual servitude, because of Biden’s open border.

It's hard to be sympathetic about the level of corruption surrounding the Biden crime family. His misdeeds and policy mistakes will follow him into the history books and on to posterity. So no, I do not feel sorry for Joe Biden, I feel contempt. He was the most destructive and corrupt president in American history. Of that I have no doubt.

Substack writer Gary Bolyer, wrote, “Cancer isn’t a stay out of jail card.” It isn’t a sympathy card either.

2) Should we feel sorry for innocent Gaza civilians? A qualified “yes” on that. Innocents are always collateral damage in war. Hamas hides weapons and command centers in schools and hospitals, cynically taking advantage of Israel and the West’s love of life. When Israel says “never again,” they mean it. Tens of thousand of innocents have been killed. From the Israeli perspective, killing Hamas’ civilians is a necessary evil to kill their sworn enemy’s civilians to save their own. Similarly, America killed around 214,000 people with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with tens of thousands of people dying later from radiation. Estimates for an invasion of Japan ran as high as one million Allied casualties. i.e We kill their civilians to save our soldiers and citizens. For President Truman it was a no brainer. For Israel it’s the same.

3. Should we feel sorry for Tyre Nichols or the five police officers? Or both? This is an easy call. Nichols fled the scene, which almost always leads to unnecessary conflict and often to death. Nevertheless, in this case the police officers were at fault by a wide margin. It’s all on the body cams. Nichols had no criminal record; he was beaten to death crying for “mom.” He tattooed his mom’s name on his arm.

Heartbreaking comes to mind. If the police officers had been white, Nichols’ death would have been another cause celeb, another martyr in the ongoing tragedy of race in America.

All five of the officers were black, complicating the reaction to the acquittals. The officers were part of the Memphis police’s “Scorpion Unit,” designed to focus on high crime hotspots. I assume that all the Scorpion officers were black because the powers that be thought they could better relate to people in black neighborhoods. The officers overreacted. They get no sympathy from me. The Scorpian Unit has been permanently disbanded. Tyre Nichols’ death is a tragedy and a disgrace.

4) In the aftermath of Austin Metcalf’s senseless murder, his father pleaded with the country to not make this racial, but racial divisiveness is inevitable and irresistible in a world of empowered victims. He said Austin, who died in his twin brother's arms, "was the light of my life."

People ask me, how can you forgive this other person? I said I forgive the other person because the forgiveness is not for him," he said. "The forgiveness is for me so I can have peace. His life is destroyed. My life is destroyed.

This conciliatory and poignant attitude was met with anger, cruelty, racial hatred and lots and lots of money.

The Givegosend website states:

We ask for your continued prayers, support, and solidarity. Your contribution not only helps protect and stabilize the [Carmelow Anthony] family, but also serves as a powerful message of community care and resistance in the face of injustice.

I must have stumbled into an Orwellian asylum. Injustice? Where’s the injustice? Once again in our topsy turvey world, the perpetrator becomes the victim.

Over 13,000 doners – many of them donating small amounts – had this to say:

· Anonymous donor of $100 - “Keep doing what you do, young man, you are an antibullying hero, a scholar, and a gentleman.”

Keep doing what you do? You mean stabbing strangers in the heart?

· Anonymous donor. “This is for justice and equity… This does not make up for

legacies of racism and white violence, but it is a small ripple in a larger fight

for justice,”

A black boy murdering a white boy is okay because it’s retribution for past

injustices. How many murders of whites are you recommending? What number

satisfies “equity?” That “small ripple” for justice ended a boy’s life and devastated his parents.

· Another $20 donor, alluding to the fact that the perpetrator is black and the victim white, wrote, “US AGAINST THEM! PERIOD!”

· Black Excellence - $100 dollar donation. USDA

…donating again…the more these hateful whites show their insecurities and fragilities of losing dominance. Sending love, light and justice to King Karmello! Speaking full exoneration in your name.

For the Metcalf family I feel nothing but heartache. For Karmelo Anthony, nothing less than the death penalty. (Why did he carry a knife to a high school track meet?)

The 13,000 + Anthony donors who have turned a murderer into a martyr, a killer into a victim, illustrate a blind, toxic, mindless, racial tribalism.

Justice is a concept predating even the Old Testament. An eye for an eye and all that. Justice is a natural ingredient for we social animals to establish a society of truth, order and security. It’s embedded in our DNA. Unfortunately, one man’s justice is another man’s inequity.