This Video is Very Graphic. This is another story about a life, death, and Taser Guns. The name this time is Steven Hill, aka Steve Driver, porn star. Steven is accused of fatally “hacking” Herbert Wong to death. I understand all the extenuating circumstances of the scene in this video. However, there are two things that have me shaking my head. (1) Why point a gun at someone on a cliff, and shoot, especially since you think he is about to jump? (2) My second concern is the comments that people made under this video on YouTube. Lawlessness is scary. And so my prayers go out to the family of Herbert Wong, a life cut short, and the family of Steve Hill.
This Video is Very Graphic. This is another story about a life, death, and Taser Guns. It appears to me that when this young man got the cops off of him, and sat up, he was already in choke mode, so why taser him? There were three cops and the young man was unarmed. If the taser gun was taken out of both of these scenerios, would it have made a difference. It also looks like the police officer is not doing the Heimlich Maneuver correctly. Three lives lost…
I’ve posted this story because it just breaks my HEART. Here is a young man living his life, getting an education, being a team player, not a “thug,” as some would suspect, but doing the right thing. And once again, a black man is cut down, stabbed at a social gathering. I think of his parents, siblings, and I think of the success that he won’t make of his life. I think of the wife and children he won’t have. This is a terrible tragedy for his family, his friends, school community, and the black community as a whole.
The little girl in the photo to the right is the sister of Derrion Albert. Derrion was a 16-year-old Fenger High School, honor roll student formerly of the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Derrion was killed in a gang related beating on September 24, 2009. The reason that this incident became national news, is because the beating was televised. Derrion was “a good boy.” So I look at these pictures and wonder, how much pain can a people stand. And what do you say to the kids who are left, and are also “good kids?” How do you maintain hope in the face of such despair?
I think there are hyper citizens, of the United States of America, that are responding first to the ethnicity of the President of the United States, that is their first outrage. The second outrage is that this Black Man made it into the oval office. If this “movement” is purely about health care than why are they using images of an African witch doctor, and talking about communism, and socialism and other words like secession. This is clearly not about health care at all. This rhetoric sounds like a group of white people who are fearful of retrobution by the descendants of former slaves.
I will be honest with you. All of this has me very concerned. What this man had to say about our president is disturbing. Where are we headed as a democratic nation of people? If segments of our society incite fear along racial lines, while toting guns and calling for the death of our president; then we are setting this nation up to implode. We are now surrounded by countries that are nuclear capable, that hate America, and can infiltrate our borders and breach our securities at anytime apparently, and cause catastrophic devastation on our soil. We are now in a vulnerable situation with our economic recession, and inward turmoil will only make us easy prey for those who want to destroy this country. I read, that to overtake a strong man, you must first bind that strong man, and then spoil his goods. We are in tremendous debt, we have outsourced so many of our jobs, our unemployment rate is at an all time high, we have millions without health care, not to mention the increased need to feed our hungry and house our homeless. I simply feel that hysterics is not the way to go. We need to carefully assess the language of that health care plan, because taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for abortions, or any other agenda that might be hidden in the fine print. I am of the belief that if objections like that are not clearly articulated in the plan than tax dollars will fund abortions as a “ necessary” procedure. I don’t want the government making to many decisions about our lives either. But we don’t want to voluntarily make health care affordable. Those who want to make a lot of money and live the ultra rich lifestyle, should, but not to hurt and demise of others. Perhaps all of ” Corporate America” needs to take the hippocratic oath.
