What chance do any of the kids and teenagers in this family have, when their not-so-much-older "elders" are setting examples like this? Why are we surprised when entire families turn out to be antisocial criminal discards?
The Charles County Police Department said officers patrolling in Waldorf, Maryland, at about 1 p.m. on May 16 saw two Hyundai vehicles in front of a business. A computer check revealed they were reported stolen.
When the officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the drivers of the two vehicles sped off.
At the same time, a dispatcher took a 911 call about a group of suspects that entered a business and stole merchandise before fleeing in two vehicles that matched the cars the officers were attempting to stop.
The suspects got out of the vehicles at a Park and Ride lot and attempted to hide, though the officers were ultimately able to apprehend them without any further incident.
From the two vehicles, police arrested 18-year-old Deshaun Deamonte Whitaker and 21-year-old Vincent Lee Alston, both of Washington, D.C., who were both charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and rogue and vagabond.
Whitaker was released on $2,000 bond and Alston was held without bond in the Charles County Detention Center.
Four juveniles were also arrested and charged with theft and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Police said a female guardian was set to pick up the four juveniles, but the guardian and two other females arrived in what appeared to be another stolen vehicle, which left after the three women were dropped off at the police station.
Officers located the vehicle on a nearby street, which reportedly had a broken back window and steering column damage. When the officer ordered everyone out of the vehicle, the driver fled, nearly hitting one of the officers.
All the occupants got out of the vehicle after the driver drove a short distance, and it was determined the vehicle was stolen from another jurisdiction.
Anthony Matthew Stewart, 19, of Washington, D.C., was driving the vehicle and arrested after a brief chase on foot. He was charged with first- and second-degree assault, unauthorized use of a vehicle and providing a false name to police. Stewart also reportedly had active warrants for his arrest.
Also in the vehicle were three juveniles who were apprehended. One of the juveniles, a 16-year-old boy, had active arrest warrants, and a 13-year-old girl was reported missing from another county. All three juveniles were charged with theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
The three women who picked up the four juveniles earlier that day – Carlisa Monnae Blackeney, 18, of Washington, D.C., and Mahkiyh McQuinn-Woodly, 18, of Hagerstown, Maryland – were charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, providing a false name, and rogue and vagabond.
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If I'd begun to behave like that - heck, if I'd even begun to think about behaving like that - my parents would have straightened me up good and proper. There'd have been no nonsense about it, including a thorough beating and even handing me over to the police if necessary.
Here's an example. Shortly after I began to notice that girls were different from boys, my father called me into his study and told me, "Son, I notice you're making eyes at the girls these days. I just want you to know that if you ever make any of them pregnant, I'll pay their medical bills."
I was startled, and said something inane like, "Gee, Dad, that's nice of you - but why?"
His answer shook me back on my heels. "Well, you won't be able to take responsibility for them, because by then I will have killed you."
He wasn't joking. That man had come through years of combat in World War II, and hadn't forgotten a thing he'd learned. Neither had his fellow veterans, whom I knew would be more than willing to help him carry out his threat if necessary. Talk about a "straighten up and fly right" warning! (I did.)
I daresay the kids in the above report never had that. It's almost certainly too late to save them from a life of crime and increasing desperation - barring divine intervention, that is. They were probably never raised right (almost certainly didn't have a strong nuclear family at all to teach them right from wrong), and it's too late to reverse that process now. They've gone feral. I wonder how many previous encounters with law enforcement each of them had? I daresay the list would be quite long, if it weren't politically incorrect to draw it up in the first place.
These are the critters inhabiting our cities these days. You don't want to live among them, unless you really want to experience Heinlein's "crazy years". (I don't, but I suspect we won't have much choice, because our society has let this sort of trash go on too long. Absent some very serious, wholesale, ruthlessly enforced house- and neighborhood-cleaning, it's probably too late to stop the rot by now.) If you haven't already left big cities, it's high time you began the process.
Peter
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"Deshaun Deamonte Whitaker." Shocker.
If you listen to moonbat prosecutors, Hyundai is responsible for the stolen cars.
You are right on the money. My dad did much the same to me. When I was about ten, my Royal Ambassadors group went to the PD to have a tour of the juvenile division. My dad was in that division. He talked about all the things that happen when you go there as a kid. They even had a four person holding cell there. He asked for volunteers, and I just walked in it. He closed the door and it sounded like it was eternal. I spun around and he opened the little sliding door where the food was delivered. I could hear him still talking about meals and then about lights out. He turned off the lights, and I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. I suddenly realized if there were three other guys in there, anything could happen and no one would know until the lights came back on. He snapped on the light and opened the door. As I walked out, he leaned down and said, "If you ever find your self in here, I'm not helping you get out. You know better than to get in trouble. If you get in here, you have to get out on your own." Scared a lot of piss and vinegar out of me. Only had one brush up with the law since, and that was my naive stupidity.
Certainly the people stealing the cars, and their parents, are criminals. These people can be saved from a life of crime and increasing desperation by putting them in prison.
But golly, by what nearly-magical and beyond human understanding technology are the carjacking victims prevented from defending themselves? Perhaps extraterrestrial aliens in round silver spaceships physically restrained the victims with their telekinetic tractor beams? How ever can we figure this out?
Additional criminals include the government employees and their voter-accomplices who have created a wildlife preserve and conservation catch/tag/release program for the car-stealing criminals. The term "our society" obscures the guilt of these other criminals by mixing them in with the victims. Instead, I think all the criminal accomplices and accessories should be named: this set of government employees, that set of voters.
GU
This is no defense of the criminal conduct reported. It may be useful, though, to comprehend how they view the world they live in.
From their point of view, the world is corrupt and rigged against them from day one. Everyone in positions of authority are either crooked or incompetent or both. Dog eat dog is the daily experience in their world.Mad Max world. Survival means being part of a predatory pack of sorts.
We may pat ourselves on the back for our morals and hard work but that has largely been trained out of them. When we imagine a SHTF world, do we think we won't resort to primal behavior to survive and protect our own? My guess is these people are the beta testers for that world and it's not pretty.
they view themselves as apex predators and view us as prey
no holds barred
have no mercy, no matter how sorry you feel for their raising
And all this brings us back to your statement about sexual predators and not being able to kill our way out of this. Predators are predators. You can't have it both ways, Peter. Either we acknowledge that violence is the answer to protecting ourselves and our children, or we stand around and wring our hands and cry, "Oh, dear, oh dear," while our children are molested and we are stripped bare of what we have worked for.
Violent predators are a small minority in every society, and not numerous enough for them to have won a vote for soft-on-crime policies. Given that, who did vote for policies which advantage violent criminals over their victims? If knowingly hiring a murderer also makes you a murderer, then likewise it's also a crime when there are a larger number of people in the chain (legislator, prosecutor, judge, police chief).
If ten men forcibly take property from a victim on the street, it's robbery. Why do you feel it isn't robbery if 10,000 men do it; why is there a number in your moral calculus? What is the minimum headcount of the organized crime gang before you feel it is "legitimate"?
Vigilance is always the answer when the world moves in this direction. It has been throughout history and will continue to be the answer when folks who are just trying to build their homes and their lives are pressed by men who whish only to take the fruits of their labor.
Be Vigilant. Perhaps form committees among your trusted friends.
My dad said to teenaged me, "If the cops ever pick you up, don't call home. You'll be safer in jail."
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