The View From The Ground

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It took about 24 hours to figure out that the tragic death of the young homosexual gentleman in Montana was being deliberately manipulated by "gay rights" forces and their oh-so-fashionable allies. Although I had the instant urge to vent my spleen about the corruption of law, media and politics in the service of a patently ridiculous agenda, I just didn't have the time to put thumbs to keyboard.

I'm glad I didn't. Sometimes we make the most sense when we unleash the fiery emotions burning within, but more often the chance to reflect slowly on the thing that is making you nuts allows you to see things you would have missed. For example....

The contention that we are seeing a veritable epidemic of "hate crimes" is belied by the coverage of this event. There is a direct relationship between the commonness of an event and the intensity of its coverage. The intensity of the coverage of this event - lead story not only on network but also on local newscasts every night - puts it up there with particularly violent hurricanes, wars and cult mass suicides. This is clearly not the sort of thing that happens on a regular basis. I cannot remember the last time the media carried a story about the violent murder of a young gay man by thugs. Can You? Why would this be? Perhaps because they have not been occurring? One gets the feeling that the progressive forces of goodness and light have been longing and hoping for this occur. That sounds awful, I know. But I can draw no other conclusion. This does not have the feeling of a spontaneous media event. It decidedly has the feel of a well planned media blitz prepared in advance and waiting for the right opportunity. A foolish young gay man and a couple of hoods provided the chance, and the gay rights crowd had the martyr they so badly wanted. Oh well, if you want to make an omellette.......

I have heard no comment about the fact that this kid willingly got up and left the bar with these guys. That strikes me as remarkably foolish behavior. I have seen the insides of an awful lot of bars in my day, but never, not one time, have I ever left the bar with two complete strangers, men or women. Never. I remember the shock and horror I felt the first time I saw "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", a 70's movie starring Diane Keaton about the perils of looking for love in single bars. Diane Keaton ends up getting horribly murdered by a psycho she picked up. It makes sense, bad things happen to people who get drunk and then cavort with strangers. Is this considered standard operating procedure nowadays? I doubt it very much. Is it SOP among gays? I think it may be. The two thugs figured that they could get the kid to leave with them if they said they were gay too. Apparently they were right. I make no excuses for the two worms who committed this crime, I hope they hang, but some responsibility must also lay with the young gay man. He did a very stupid thing, and the worst thing that could have happpened, did. "Now wait a minute there Shanahan!", I can hear you say, "are you saying her deserved what he got?" No. No I am not. But if you do enough stupid things eventually it will catch up with you. If all of us, gay or straight, want to avoid horrible things happening to us, a good place to start is by not leaving bars with strangers.

All in all a thoroughly depressing episode, wrapped up in violence, tawdriness and the irrepressible instinct of totalitarians to mold the world to their agenda. Makes one long for a good hurricane.