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Locutisprime on Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:33:36 AM
Michael Brewer, 15, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., was intentionally set on fire and is hospitalized with burns over 65 percent of his body. Three juveniles have been arrested. (WFOR)
Five Charged With Setting Teen on Fire
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Where is my country?
As I look around? I find myself asking that question more and more.
Where is my country? What happened to my country? Who are these people
that inhabit my country today? Where did they come from? What happened
to the America that I grew up in? What happened to being American and
all that being an American once represented? What happened to humanity
and common decency?
I am so angered by seeing and reading the story of a young man set on
fire by teen aged thugs in Miami that I am absolutely incredulous. This
is a story of insidious viciousness and murderous intent IMO. And
against a defenseless young man and for what purpose? Shits and
giggles? Revenge? Pay back? Or Machismo?
Is that what this is about? Is that what inspired such a wanton and soul less act?
Was this attack inspired by the present generation's lack of morality
and their "Jackazz" mentality? I tend to think so. The youth of America
seems engrossed in the macabre and the idiocy of moronic stunts for
laughs and for anything that inflicts injury. That and their need to
prove that they are some how more of a man than the next guy.
How else can we as a society explain the actions of today's youth?
Except to say that we have allowed it to happen and that in doing so by
default, we condone it by our failure to put an end to it and punish
these criminals as they should be punished.
America has a zero tolerance for a little six year old boy that took
his camping utensils to school for show and tell. America has a zero
tolerance for an eagle scout that had the audacity to have a pen knife
in his survival kit locked in his car at high school. But where is the
outrage and the zero tolerance over an act of wanton violence like this?
A fifteen year old young man is fighting for his life and he will be
horribly scarred for the rest of his life. And for what? Because five
other kids thought that setting him on fire would be funny? Is that how
things are done in our video game world of today?
These thugs were apparently being led by a ring leader. A boy who was
angered because this young man supposedly owed him money for a video
game. So the first resolution was to steal the bicycle of the boy's
father. Then, having been arrested for that crime and released to his
parents? He organizes his crew and goes and finds this kid and sets him
on fire.
Where is the outrage America? Where is the zero tolerance now. I hope
this ring leader gets life in prison. Prison is where he belongs. He is
non-redeemable IMO and deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Why? Because that is the sentence he has imposed on this other young
man's life. He will be imprisoned in a horribly scarred body for the
rest of his life as a result of his burns. Shouldn't his attacker share
a similar fate?
I certainly thinks so. After all.....it's only fair. Right?