So, this morning, all there is on the idiot box is stories and coverage of the morons flocking to support the “Jena 6”. Yes, I said morons. Why? Because, they are listening to the media who are the ones that are escalating this event so that there is a story (of their own making) to cover. Please, read on.
Ok, let me say this loud and clear, I am white and I am not a racist. So, why aren’t I supporting the “Jena 6”?
Let’s look at this in the short and simple version. Last year a group of kids (#1) sat under a tree where another group of kids (#2) usually hung out. The other group of kids (#2) didn’t like it so they hung up what many described as “hangman’s nooses”. The first group of kids (#1) didn’t like that so they beat the living crap out of another kid.
Do we see any disparity here?
Ok, let’s take it a step at a time;
Last year a group of kids sat under a tree where another group of kids usually hung out.
There is no crime here, even if they knew the first group (#2) hung out there, it’s public land. However, that being said, in this day and age and with territorial gang type activity, they would have known taking over that group’s “spot” would have caused to tension or worse.
The other group of kids didn’t like it so they hung up what many described as “hangman’s nooses”.
Now, here is where trouble starts. Is hanging up three nooses a crime? Not in and of itself, no. However, where it was in response to the group’s action of taking over “their spot”, it could be. It could be taken as “harassment” or even as a “death threat”. However, it is a non-violent reaction and display and it was only subjectively aimed at another. In other words, you have to assume it was aimed towards the group (#1), there were no direct ties. This makes it pretty much impossible to legally take action against as you cannot prove the two incidents were related. Never-the-less, the school where it happened suspended three kids for hanging up the nooses.
The first group of kids didn’t like that so they beat the living crap out of another kid.
Ok, this is pretty simple to understand here. Assault, battery and probably attempted murder since they beat the kid unconscious and then continued to beat him. Weapons were used to beat the kid, shoes. You laugh? My sister, back in the late 80’s was arrested for the exact same thing. There was a fight, her friend was in trouble and she took off her shoe and proceeded to beat on the guy beating up her friend. The guy pressed charges and she was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, a shoe.
Now we have a huge march saying the two groups of kids are being treated differently. Why, YES, THEY ARE. One group was definitely stupid and hung some nooses on trees basically raising tensions and begging for a fight. The problem with this is they didn’t break the law and didn’t bring violence into to equation. The other group however DID break the law and they DID bring violence into the equation. How hard is this to comprehend? Am I missing something here?
Face it people, the LAW is NOT treating these two groups of kids differently, they are treating them as they should be treated. BOTH groups were stupid. ONE group took it WAY TOO FAR! Stop listening to the media who is inciting the escalation of this matter for a news story and let the legal system do it’s job.
= Dave
