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Thread ID: 4602 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-01-24
2003-01-24 20:02 | User Profile
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Strangers among hundreds attending wake for Faheem
Friday, January 24, 2003
BY NIKITA STEWART, RUSSELL BEN-ALI AND MARK MUELLER Star-Ledger Staff
Arrayed before a child-size casket, they bowed their heads in prayer for a boy most of them didn't know.
More than 600 people crowded into a Newark church last night for the wake of Faheem Williams, the 7-year-old boy discovered dead in a city basement three weeks ago. Once a statistic, he has clearly become a symbol.
The Newark mayor, Sharpe James, spoke of new anti-abuse and family monitoring laws .............................
2003-01-24 21:19 | User Profile
he has clearly become a symbol
He sure has, though probably not of what the author intends.
The clergymen spoke of protecting children, calling the slain boy a "hero."
To quote Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it means." Some 7-year-old Perpetrator In Training is neglected to death by not one but two she-Congoids is a hero?
2003-01-26 13:32 | User Profile
Whoa!
Calling a dead 7-year-old boy - who died like a dog shouldn't die - a 'perpetrator in training' is pretty f*cking inhuman.
I don't want blacks or their lifestyle forced upon me, nor do I want my wallet drained on their behalf. But hooting at a tiny coffin in triumph? C'mon, man, get a grip.
2003-01-27 16:24 | User Profile
Well, maybe I shouldn't have used that bit of cop slang. If a dog had died like that, it would have been a sad thing. But neither would anyone have called the dog a "hero."
2003-01-27 16:38 | User Profile
Amending my former reply to shoehorn this bit of delusion into the ongoing conversation. Hereward, when I chided you for your comments, I agreed with your larger point....but I couldn't and can't smirk over the suffering of a small child. I'm a racist, not a sadist.
But I remember some of the tv coverage of this story - replete with the 'anguished relatives' (looked like crackhead apples fallen off the same publicly-funded tree as the 'mother') loudly blaming some agency, or policy, or caseworker for the benefit of the cameras and I thought:
What kind of people [color=blue]don't [/color]raise their kids? What kind of degraded pseudosimians could possibly be so comfortable with their own inability to handle something as instinctual in human beings as making sure not to starve, beat, burn, pimp and kill their own [color=blue]children? [/color]; to the point where the kneejerk reflex is to blame [color=blue]a total stranger sent by the government to ensure you don't eat your young [/color] rather than your own miserable guilty self??
Had Dr Moreau come up with people like this after his experiments on animals, he'd've renounced science and taken up rose gardening, and his conscience still wouldn't let him sleep nights!
The only [color=blue]hero [/color]in this story will be the first white man to stand up and say this boy was raised and murdered by subhumans; and every black accusing any agency of 'complicity' is a similar subhuman; and every white inclined to agree is not a race traitor but a traitor to humanity. [color=blue]Every warm-blooded mammalian species on Earth reflexively nurture and protect their offspring except one. And Jews have trained them to blame YOU for this catastrophic, almost-unimaginable absence of any kind of innate character or common sense or human feeling. [/color]
Honestly, if blacks in this country ever looked into a mirror and saw, without blinders and with their own eyes, what they have become, [color=blue]of their own free will[/color], they'd commit suicide en masse. I don't know how you can require regular visits by a disinterested caseworker to make sure you haven't disfigured or maimed your own kids in a crack idyll and ever, ever live with yourself afterwards. Assuming there's any sort of a redemptive 'afterwards' to look back from.
Yet this story - an icy-cold indictment of the unfitness of blacks to live in human society - will magically become a 'victim' story; maybe there'll be an Oprah booking for the 'family' out of it! Free plane fare, four-star hotel accomodations, a little foldin' money to hit the Windy City nightspots with..... and don't bother to pre-rehearse your answer to the question, "what kind of a rank jungle animal would require the State to feed, clothe, house, raise and protect its children - otherwise the child will die of neglect and abuse?". Because nobody will dare to ask it. You home free, dawg!
[url=http://www.demsonline.net/dubya_and_faheem.htm]http://www.demsonline.net/dubya_and_faheem.htm[/url]
Dubya and Faheem: Did Tax Cuts Short a Child's Life?
BY BRUCE S. TICKER,
Philadelphia
Brucetic@aol.com
George W. Bush was on the mark when he declared, ââ¬ÅWe must spend money more wisely. We must spend money on what works.ââ¬Â
He was referring to education funding, one of a half-dozen issues which arose this past week with the return of Congress to Washington, D. C. With many of these issues, Bush and some of his legislative hit men in Congress exposed their hypocrisy hour by hour as a fatal child-abuse scandal 200 miles to the north played itself out elsewhere on the front pages.
They proclaimed their concern for the American people, yet their actual actions will only make life more miserable for the most vulnerable people in our society if their measures become a reality. As a preppie future Republican might put it, I would submit that we can draw a straight line between Bush-style policies and societyââ¬â¢s neglect of Faheem Williams and the two brothers who survived him.
The powers that be in Washington last week swiftly became locked into a raging political war over a series of domestic issues which amounted to acting responsibly or recklessly ââ¬â a struggle over whether the other Faheem Williamsââ¬â¢ of our nation would have a chance for a life. Literally.
Bush targeted a number of proposals that would only dig a deeper hole for America while benefiting the wealthiest, and the more responsible political figures pressed for steps that would help all Americans, mostly in incremental ways.
Under the circumstances, senators like Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Lincoln Chafee displayed class as they resisted Bushââ¬â¢s crusade to slice taxes by $674 billion, half of which would comprise $364 billion for the elimination of income taxes on stock dividends. Most Democrats, independents and some Republicans took a principled stand.
ââ¬ÅThis isnââ¬â¢t a jobs program, it isnââ¬â¢t stimulus,ââ¬Â Corzine was quoted in The New York Times as saying. ââ¬ÅIt is what it is, a restructuring of the tax system with a high proportion of the advantage going to people who are already doing well.ââ¬Â
That advantage would go to people like Corzine, who virtually bought his job two years ago with no political experience. But Corzine stood up less for his own children than for Faheem Williams.
Corzine returns home on weekends to a suburban New Jersey home a short drive from the Newark home where Faheemââ¬â¢s body was found on Sunday. His twin brother and a younger second brother were found inside a darkened basement of the home the night before.
To deny that Republican tax-cut policies of the last two decades has anything to do with Faheemââ¬â¢s death is to be in, well, a state of denial. As the rich get richer thanks to the firm of Bush, Lott and DeLay, Inc., most parents of abused children canââ¬â¢t find real work in big cities which are being starved to death by our leaders. Certainly, the politicians won't spend money to sufficiently operate child-welfare agencies which must confront higher caseloads of child abuse.
When you consider that this president seeks to present Iraq with the gift of democracy, he has proceeded to dilute his own country of democracy in spirit, flouted federal laws and drawn accusations of violating our civil rights. If he wonââ¬â¢t make a serious effort to rebuild America, how can he possibly rebuild Iraq?
If this doesnââ¬â¢t make you ill, consider what House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said of the proposed tax cuts: ââ¬ÅI look at the Bush plan as a floor, not a ceiling.ââ¬Â
Anything like the kind of floor near which Faheemââ¬â¢s body was found?