I don’t
typically read The Washington Post because I prefer my news without the
annoying taint of liberal bias, but a while back I came across two unrelated
WaPo stories by chance, and in the process of reading I found myself repeatedly
struck by the glossed-over details that tell an important story of their own. Those details demonstrate how the Left’s
influence leads to destructive life choices and government policies that set
the stage for needless tragedy which – just taking a wild guess here – might be
the reason that the dedicated journalists at the WaPo choose to dig only so
deep.
The first
article, dated June 19, 2017, tells the story of a young Virginia man who,
according to police, used his car to harass and attempt to run down a group of
Muslim teenagers as they were on their way back from a 3 a.m. outing to
MacDonald’s:
From the
article it is unclear what led up to the altercation between Darwin Martinez
Torres, 22, and the group of teenagers who were either walking or on bicycles,
but readers are told that an altercation took place and that eventually
Martinez Torres got out of his car and attacked 17-year old Nabra Hassanen with
a baseball bat. He then forced her into
his car and took off. Later that
afternoon her body was found in a pond near Martinez Torres’ home. She had been beaten to death.
Per the
WaPo, the girl’s distraught father “said that he feels sure his daughter was
killed because of her religion.” Police,
however, seem to have information indicating that the attack was motivated by
road rage. From the article:
“Martinez
Torres spoke through a Spanish translator to answer a judge’s questions. He was
appointed a public defender… U.S.
immigration officials requested that a “detainer” be placed on him at the
county jail, meaning they are interested in possible future deportation
proceedings. Family members said the man
worked in construction. He is Salvadoran and has a 4-year-old son and a
girlfriend. He attended school briefly in the United States.”
That’s the
story, but here are the between-the-lines parts of the story that stuck out to
me:
1. Martinez Torres is an ILLEGAL ALIEN according
to coverage
of the story in The New York Times the
next day, surprise, surprise. One would think that with the fierce debate
currently taking place on the relationship between crime and illegal
immigration in this country, that newsworthy tidbit would warrant mention in a
news article, but apparently it is too much of a leap for WaPo to assume that a man who needs a Spanish interpreter
and has an immigration office detainer attached to him is an ILLEGAL ALIEN who
all but certainly strolled across our borders during the Obama administration
and was immediately and conveniently forgotten by Obama’s immigration
enforcement. Even the leftwing NYT found
that part of the story newsworthy, but being a liberal-run propaganda arm of
the Democrat Party they naturally used the Left’s politically-cleansed term,
“undocumented immigrant,” to describe this person who entered the U.S.
illegally and now appears to be responsible for a girl’s abduction and brutal
death (eight days after this article was posted Daily News reported
that Martinez Torres had been
previously accused in a sex assault case and had ties to the MS-13 gang). Surprised?
Me neither.
2. The double last name, Martinez Torres,
suggests to me that this man is likely the product of an unmarried couple, as
so many troublesome young men turn out to be thanks to the influence of
liberalism on attitudes about marriage. Similar background details emerge in
story after story of violent young adults, yet liberal journalists are
strangely lacking in curiosity about the coincidental connection between
violence and the disappearance of the traditional family.
3. Martinez Torres has a 4-year old son “with a
girlfriend.” That’s just great isn’t it?
Hope they started teaching him his letters early on, because he has
quite a long name to learn, but that’s the least of this poor child’s
problems. As the product of yet another
non-traditional union that liberals will tell us there’s nothing wrong with, he
already had one big strike against him, and now his father may be on his way to
prison.
4. There were approximately 15 Muslim teens
walking and biking to McDonald’s at 3:40 a.m. on the morning of the
altercation/abduction. According to reporters Justin Jouvenal and Julie
Zauzmer, this is what all teenagers do.
Apparently Jouvenal and Zauzmer grew up in very permissive households, because
I wasn’t allowed to roam the streets with my friends at 3:00 a.m when I was a
teen, nor did I allow my two sons to do so because it sounds like an invitation
for trouble. I understand their outing
had to do with the observance of Ramadan in preparation of the coming fast that
morning, but I also understand that parents anticipating hungry teens can make
food available so that there’s no need for a large group of teens to wander the
streets unsupervised at 3 a.m. If that
sounds a bit like blaming the victim please be aware that I am not one of these
people who subscribes to the belief that all victims are to be held 100%
blameless for their fate. My heart goes
out to this girl and her family and what happened was indisputably undeserved,
but it does us no good to pretend that a bit of common sense and parental
supervision might not have made the difference that day.
5. Without citing specific reasons the police
labeled this a road rage incident, which leads me to wonder if the teens were
blocking the road or were slow or uncooperative about moving out of the road
when Martinez Torres came upon them. That’s just speculation on my part, but
I’m guessing that this fairly large group of 15 teens wasn’t walking single
file on the sidewalk. They may not have
anticipated any cars to be on the road at that time. Police said there was a verbal altercation
that did not involve racial or religious slurs, so it’s hard to imagine what
else these strangers would be arguing about if not some dispute over the road. My thought:
don’t block the roads and whether you’re in a car or on foot, respect
the right of way.
In sum, here
is how I, as a conservative, wrote this story in my head:
An (most
likely) unmarried girl/woman gives birth to a male child in El Salvador,
because marriage is old fashioned and fathers are unnecessary. He grows up in poverty without a male role
model in the home and probably surrounded by violence, and he becomes the
“angry young man” that Elvis sang about in his haunting song, “In the Ghetto,”
likely to inflict violence and/or die by violence. This young male, with all his baggage and two
last names, is encouraged to make his way to the U.S. where he can simply walk
across the border because liberals believe a border wall is ugly and mean-spirited,
and besides they would rather spend that money nurturing the sheep’s addiction
to the welfare state (Oops – did I say that out loud?). Once inside he can disappear into the country
without fear of being hassled if he keeps his nose clean, because liberals in
the U.S. believe that it is better to subject American citizens to whatever
violence, diseases or poverty the illegals bring with them than to commit the
obscene offense of allowing police to identify illegals by – gasp –
profiling. God forbid any citizen should
ever be pulled over and asked to show their drivers’ license and then sent on
their way, because this would be a horrendous experience that might require
years of psychological counseling. As
far as keeping his nose clean, that didn’t happen with Martinez. Just a week prior to allegedly killing Miss
Hassanen, Martinez Torres was accused of sexually assaulting another woman as
well as punching and choking her in front of her child. According to the CPS report the woman said
she didn’t want to press any charges against Martinez Torres, telling
authorities in the hospital that she feared her attacker, “…who was in the
MS-13 gang.”
Why do you
suppose police did not detain this violent, dangerous illegal alien? Why not notify ICE and get him off the
streets? What kinds of policies and
influences might have led to such flawed decisions and abdication of duty? Instead Martinez Torres was left to continue
his trespassing upon this country and to beat and murder a 17-year old girl who
should have been safely tucked away in her home at 3:00 a.m. that fateful
morning. And based upon the surviving
teens’ claims that Martinez Torres attempted to run them down with his car, the
scope of the crime – ultimately committed by Martinez Torres but with every
step of the way paved by “well-meaning” liberals – could have been far, far
worse.
Reporters
Jouvenal and Zauzmer never mentioned the liberal policies and influences that
brought Darwin Torres and Nabra Hassanen together that fateful day. They preferred to cover the
was-it-road-rage-or-anti-Muslim-bigotry angle.
This is why some terrible crimes that are avoidable will inevitably go
on to happen, nonetheless; and it’s why you don’t read the Washington Post if
you want real news.
I think
we’ll leave that second story for another day.
~CW
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