Posted on Sunday, 26th April 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
There was an outstanding opinion piece from James E. Causey. he took a look at the three big stories of teenagers claiming to be bored and using that as an excuse for their illegal activity.
When I was bored as a child, I read comic books, played Atari, rode my bike or shot hoops at the playground around the corner from my house.
That was then.
News items: Teens beat an elderly man so badly April 17 that he lost an eye; on April 18, cruisers clogged traffic while dancing atop vehicles; and that same night other youngsters on the south side caused more than $100,000 worth of damage to cars after breaking into a local dealership. The youngest kid in these incidents was 8.
In the beating and vandalism cases, investigators said the youngsters cited peer pressure and boredom. You can bet it’s the same excuse for cruising as well.
Bored? No.
Bad? Yes.
Lacking home training? You better believe it.
Go read it all, it gets better.
h/t: This Just In
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April 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
A mind unused to any adaptive or creative thinking becomes easily bored. The problem for these kids isn’t so much that their dads are absent (meaning in prison, or unknown or dead), but that even if in these kids’ lives they have nothing to offer. It’s the culture, stupid. We’re now on the fourth generation or so of absentee dads, and let’s be honest about it, not one of the females spreading her legs and letting these ‘bad boys’ inject their sperm into them has any expectations or desire to participate in a nuclear family. And what’s with these names?? Most of the inner city boys have names that sound like one you’d give a transsexual dancer in a Parisian night club…
April 26th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Diamond Jim should deploy the National Guard to neighborhoods with high rates of criminal activity! If the little gangstas want a real fight, they’ve got one. Additionally, deploy humvees along Teutonia to control crusing. Golly, I’d bring the family with some lawn chairs to witness the spectacle then!!!!!! I feel sorry for the police officers who have to patrol, and for the good people who live alongside the above-ground abyss these monsters inhabit.
April 27th, 2009 at 8:25 am
They are just different.
They judge others actions and find their actions judged.
They steal from their neighbors and find themselves robbed.
They vote to tax their neighbors and so find themselves taxed.
They complain that the schools are not effective in teaching their children, yet even though the bus comes to the front door, they don’t get their kids to school with lunch in hand.
They are not content with food and shelter, envious of their neighbors, they demand to be entitled to more.
They believe rich liberals, who need their votes, when promised they deserve and will get more. When they don’t they make excuses, but are even more impoverished.
They defraud the government of money that was supposed to be used to help their neighbors.
They don’t care, and who can blame their kids for not caring either. They do not make nice neighbors.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I have been reading Causey’s stuff for a while and frankly he has been a bit confusing. On one hand he’ll write some goofy “Quick Hit” opinion page item that comes from far left field, then turn around and write something like the article cited above.
Here’s the other thing… even when he writes from the left hemisphere he doesn’t seem to harbor the angst one can perceive in the writings of the usual leftist columnists. (see: Kane)
Perhaps it is because he, at 40, is younger than the old guard. But whatever the reason, it’s interesting.
Of course, the REAL BURNING question is, is that JS head shot of Mr. Causey the most recent picture or is this one?…
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1966&category=MediaMakers&occupation=Newspaper%20Reporter&name=James%20E.%20Causey