College & Fraternity Life – Page 29

Virginia Tech in a Global Perspective

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Joe

As the United States continues to reel from the massacre at Virginia Tech, I think it’s worth looking at what happened here in a global perspective. What does that mean? Well, think about this…

In Iraq today alone, more than 180 people were killed. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY! And that was just today. Now, bear in mind that Iraq is a country of some 27 million people. In contrast, America has over 300 million people and the entire country is on its heels about the 32 dead at Virginia Tech.

And yes, I understand that Iraq is a rogue state because of the young government there and the quasi-civil war that is taking place. And I also understand that many more than 180 people were killed on MANY days under the Saddam Hussein regime. However, I think that as we, as a nation, mourn the innocent dead in Virginia it would do us some good, as a nation, to stop and think about why we are so shocked.

From my standpoint, we are shocked because we are used to a safe, secure homeland. We are used to sending our brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters away to college and knowing that they are as safe as could possibly be while they are there. We are used to a homeland that values life more than anything else. Think about that – life more than anything else.

When we see elements of the third world encroaching our beloved America, the question after “Why is this happening?” should be “How do we stop this from getting worse?” Folks – now is the time to stop the evil in our streets before we suffer more than 180 dead daily. Now is the time to look at your local, state, and national leaders and ask if they and their policies have the best AMERICAN interests at heart. This means that you may have to put your personal beliefs aside to support someone whose platform will allow you to continue living and breathing in these United States.

At the risk of sounding overly conservative – it’s time that we look at our country’s policies and stop doing whatever it is that we are doing that is allowing America to slowly denigrate into a place where this type of terror can take place on a college campus.

If we don’t do it today – in the name of the United States of America – then our children and grandchildren may have to suffer through talking about their own 180+ massacres…and on a daily basis. And if that happens – then we might as look at whether or not we’re being true to the founding ideals of this country.

How Does a Virginia Tech Tragedy Happen?

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Joe

All of the data coming out of the Virginia Tech tragedy tells us that this Cho Seung-Hui bastard was not just a loner and one of “those kids,” but that he also had a history of mental illness. So after 32 innocent people – including a heroic Holocaust survivor – are dead at this madman’s hands – who is to blame?

You know what? From what I can see, no one is to blame except the rotten bastard that was Cho Seung-Hui.

Sure, he shouldn’t have been allowed to live in the general public of Virginia Tech and we can see that using our hindsight as 20/20. But what do you do in a liberal, permissive society that doesn’t want to call a spade a spade? Fifty years ago in the United States of America, this scoundrel would have been marked as a mentally deranged individual and he would have been ostracized from the general public. Not today!

Not today. Not in the liberal, politically correct country that we live in today. There was a time when a guy could write evil plays in school, have his teachers tell their superiors that the kid was a threat to society, and the kid would be removed from society! But we can’t do that any more in America because we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings these days.

And no, the American country isn’t to blame. And despite what Rosie O’Donnell says, it’s not the fault that this kid was able to get a gun legally. The problem in this case was that our system in America has created situations where kids are allowed to fall through the cracks and then be left alone in the interest of diversity.

Seriously…32 dead at Virgina Tech less than a decade after more than a dozen dead at Columbine and our stupid scumbag leaders STILL won’t stand up and say, “What the fuck happened in this country?!?” Where is the leader who will say, “If you’re singled out time and time again as a person who is of great danger to your surroundings – we’re putting you in a padded room and getting you mental health!”???

What the fuck is so wrong about telling someone the truth these days? Damn it!

And what does our permissive society yield? Thirty-two completely innocent people who are shot and killed in a place that should be a sanctuary and a bastion of learning and improvement. As a staunch supporter of the college life and the college atmosphere, this tragedy shocks me to the bone. I have a younger brother who is college age and may decide to attend college one day. I advise hundreds of guys throughout New Jersey who – believe it or not – I think about and am concerned about every single day.

I remember going to high school the day after the Columbine massacre and making sure that the doors to all of the classrooms were closed and locked (if possible). It was frightening. Now I – and anyone else who has any connection to any college campus across America – have had that fear spread to the university level.

It’s sad and it’s sickening.

Some Lessons from the Duke Lacrosse Case

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Joe

By now you all should be aware that the three young men who were accused of raping a stripper down at Duke University have all been found innocent and had the charges against them dropped. This was the only course of action that the legal system in North Carolina could take because the boys were 100% completely innocent! I mean for Christ’s Sake, one of them was videotaped at an ATM at the time of the alleged attack!

With the recent fervor around the Don Imus situation, the Duke Lacrosse case has seemingly dropped off the radar screen. But this is a case that SHOULD be talked about. Let’s try to figure out what happened here…

A group of college guys hired two strippers to perform at one of their parties. The two girls came in and stripped. The next day one of them cried rape and a huge media circus ensued. Over a year later, it turns out that the boys were the victims of a greedy whore, a self-promoting district attorney, and an unjust media-supported legal system. Let’s have some further discussion…

If anyone gets mad or annoyed at the fact that I am among the many voices who are calling this stripper a whore, then you’re delusional. This girl admittedly fucked a number of men before going over to the Duke Lacrosse house (and her stained panties prove that). She had DNA on her and her clothing from a few guys – NONE of which were from the Duke Lacrosse team. Even if she was raped with a condom (which she obviously wasn’t), there would be DNA evidence all over the place. There was none.

Her family is now coming out and saying that they aren’t surprised the case is being dropped because they’re poor black people and the accused are rich white people. Oh bullshit on that! Your daughter is a whore who slept with a bunch of guys. She walked, intoxicated, into a house with a bunch of rich white kids and thought “payday!” Good Lord it’s the obvious truth. It is absolutely disgusting and shameful for this family to denigrate their entire race by saying these boys weren’t prosecuted because they were white. This family needs to get off of the black/white race thing because everyone under the age of 40 in this country who has a half-decent education is already over the whole stupid race baiting bullshit that old bullies like Al Sharpton love because it keeps them in business.

Whew! There’s a lot in that last paragraph – you may want to go back and re-read it!

But the other part of this story that just has me furious is the presumption of guilt laid on these boys until they were unequivocally proven innocent. It’s disgusting. Anyone who had ANY hand in prolonging the truth from coming out should be thrown in jail for a minimum 5 year term (and the truth is that this girl was out of her mind and these boys were unjustly accused and investigated). Why such a harsh term? Damn it! Has anyone out there read ANYTHING about American history? Does anyone remember the story of the founding of this fucking country?!?

People were thrown in jail all of the time by the British in the 1600 and 1700’s. They needed no warrants and you were guilty if they said so. Doesn’t that ring a bell to any of you out there?!? How can we, in the years 2006 and 2007, allow such a disgrace to take place in North Carolina? Why? Because the accuser is a poor black woman and the accused were rich white men? What the fuck does that matter? Where does innocence come into play, damn it?!?

And then you have the mob of locals in and around the Durham, North Carolina area. Having gone to school at Monmouth University, I know what it’s like to attend school in a neighborhood that absolutely hates your presence and to have neighbors that will go out of their way to literally stand on their property line to listen if they can hear a peep out of your house so they can call the police (that actually happened to me and my housemates). These Duke boys were the victims of a public witch hunt and the media is spending all of their time covering some 100 year old fossil who said a stupid race-based comment as opposed to three young men who have had the beginning of their adult lives ripped away from them. What is wrong with this picture?

Why is the media focusing on the wrong story? Who gives a shit what Al Sharpton – one of the most public racists of our time – has to say about some over the hill radio personality who should have been put out to pasture years ago? Where is the condemnation for this girl in Durham, North Carolina who falsely accused these boys of rape?

It really is mind-blowing. And now the word is that the three boys may go after former district attorney Mike Nifong. These boys and their families each spent over $1 million proving their innocence (think about that again in a few minutes when you digest all of this). Someone needs to pay. The accuser needs to pay. The city of Durham needs to pay. The state of North Carolina needs to pay.

And for Christ’s Sake, the fucking media need to cover this outrage with as much heat as they’re covering this loser Imus.

We Go After College Students…Until Real Life Hits!

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Joe

Any of you who have read me over at Joe’s Journal know that I have a nice, well-founded disgust of the way college kids are treated by local law enforcement. My personal experience (and the experience of most of my peers) is that of having our civil rights demolished by the Ocean Township Police Department as they walked into our house at all hours of the night “just to check.”

Imagine someone walking into your house at 2:00am when everyone was asleep…

Anyway, what gets me going is when the local papers crucify college students for all of the “bad” that they do to the communities. Focusing on Ocean Township for a moment, let me bring you three stories from a local paper in Northern Coastal Monmouth County from The Coaster.

First, we have the story of how a simple crash in a parking lot led to a major heroin arrest in Ocean Township. From the article:

After an investigation police learned that Jeffery J. Dale, 27, had thrown several bags of heroin and a hypodermic syringe into a nearby storm drain.

Police found Dale to be under the influence of drugs at the scene and he was taken into custody to the Ocean Township Police Station for processing.

Yeah…let’s make sure that our local police force is going up and down Roosevelt Avenue staring at a sorority house because there are Greek letters in their window and not keeping an eye on the creepy heroin guy over by Target. Ridiculous.

Now we go to one of the new economic development projects in Ocean Township – the Wegmans shopping complex! While the Ocean Township Police Department is directed to go and inspect those “unruly” college students miles away there’s a good old-fashioned bank robbery going on at the Bank of America in the new development!

Whew! Thank God there is extra surveillance over near the college houses and not by the bank! Those damn college students might have left their garbage out or parked too far from the curb!

And…right down the street from this place was yet another wonderful event in recent Ocean Township history: Ocean Man Charged in Robbery! How exciting?!?

But let me just say from the bottom of my heart, it’s great to know that the college student who is coming home from the bar on Saturday night has a huge calvary of police following him. Because seriously, what would happen if that bastard college student wasn’t be watched? He could be selling heroin, robbing a bank, or stealing from a gas station!