When there is virtually no law enforcement available to handle terrible situations, people have no other option but to protect themselves.
When one witnesses, not just a city, but an entire state gripped by authoritarian rule with little regard for serious crimes perpetrated by the worst and sometimes most notorious members of human society, we get what we got in New York City last week.
Welcome to New York State and to the big city whose criminals never sleep.
Thank God, thank the heavens, thank your dog, thank anybody and anything except New York's damned near criminal "leadership" for the fortunate presence of former Marine Daniel Penny on a subway car held hostage by yet another criminal/mental case/bullying thug by now all too obvious in the NY City landscape. That Penny intended purposefully to kill Neely appears inconceivable, but what seems evident here is a concerted wish to make the denizens from hell that occupy New York's subways cease attacking innocent people wishing only safe transportation. Safety must be imperative, but the city's obviously agenda-infested leftist leadership sees things differently.
Shall we have a big shout-out for elected followers of Rules for Radicals?
If allegations are true, Penny and a couple of other subway riders took the now deceased Jordan Neely down in response to what appeared a serious threat, and unfortunately amidst the struggle and Penny's choke hold Neely died. Was Neely impaired by drugs as well? That will be determined. But when one looks at his criminal history -- having been arrested some 40 times -- the fact that this perp was even on the streets, free to intimidate people, is an outrage.
Reportedly, among Neely's long history of crimes is the beating of women, and in one case an elderly (67) female was beaten so severely in the bones around her eye that she almost lost vision.
Yet, the obliging TV networks will show endless scenes of Neely performing and dressed as Michael Jackson -- from years ago -- as if to make his future bad deeds go away.
Manhattan prosecutor and official Donald Trump hater Alvin Bragg, his campaign paid for in no small fashion by a George Soros contribution, apparently intends for this case to go to a grand jury. Bragg doesn't much care about certain levels of crime. However, as is customary, black opportunists and other ever-available NY street protesters came out right away to condemn Daniel Penny, 24, especially because he is a former (and white) Marine, a "trained killer" one of the enraged leftist pod people asserted.
The crowd seems to ignore the fact that one of the other two men assisting Penny was himself black like the deceased. There is talk that Penny's military training may come into play during grand jury proceedings. Of course it would. These are the same people who would squeal like pigs and cry tears for military assistance of any race or color if a foreign enemy ever threatened their lives.
Congressional rep A.O.C. chimed in immediately to call the incident a "murder," she also being the same brilliant representative whose financial ignorance shortly after her election probably lost a lot of Amazon jobs which would have enlightened her district greatly.
If Bragg were true to his profession and position, he would condemn the crowds for any intended violence they might do, as indeed they might get together and set fires, perform smash-and-grab and all the usual activities ignorant street scum are prone to do, given any opportunity. Yes, if Neely were white would any of this make news at eleven, let alone conversation on the streets of NY and other big cities?
As an aside, we note that there were at least a couple of national reports last week of black-on-white crimes (these are statistically a huge majority) leading to homicide, but you would be hard-pressed to read or know about them. Race is everything in the media and, with selective reporting, stories can be doctored according to one's agenda. Those among us who didn't learn that lesson from the Covid-Twitter-mainstream media censorship and manipulation of facts don't care or know nothing about truth.
We would love to see NY governor Kathy Hochul, state attorney general Letitia James and Bragg chuck their security and take a few days to ride the city subways at all hours to see what they would encounter. Chances are, it won't be pretty. These, by the way, are the same gun-protected folk who don't want the rest of us to have that prophylactic option in our lives, constitutional protections be damned.
Some in the national and blue-state governments have lapsed into mistrust and even hatred of veterans in the current era, the very people who challenge their power by taking an initiative and doing the right thing when terrible events happen. We wish the best for Daniel Penny, who is now held more or less captive to Manhattan's Democrat socialist swamp.
Were there justice in her state, the NY governor prominent only for the opportunity to use disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo as a stepping-stone to her current position as governing mistress of hell would already be in legal trouble for her absurd blanket decision to end the use of natural gas and propane in New York. By doing so, she has not only knocked on the doors of every New Yorker in the state, she has broken down those doors and entered with neither warrant nor permission, now making it personal as she threatens to deprive and basically steal from every resident the energy options of their choice. My body, my choice has become my every decision, my everything you think is yours is mine with Hochul. Unless NY goes nuclear quickly, there may indeed come a day when hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers freeze to death during a particularly harsh winter, as solar panels and wind turbines will be irrelevant and way under-productive. Should a governing body's representatives not be charged with criminal intent as the very real possibility of criminally negligent homicide approaches in a few short years? There's a real job for Alvin Bragg to tackle.
Daniel Penny currently finds himself in New York's judicial "Twilight Zone" and we hope a grand jury will do the right thing and acknowledge Penny and at least two others on that fateful subway ride as heroes worthy of receiving an official key to the city award, and to hell with the vocal uneducated or miseducated street protesters who know nothing about anything except how to shout inane phrases and destroy other people's property.
The streets of big cities like New York are flush with lies and politically cultivated anger which feed and drug the clueless masses. City streets desperately need common sense and minority heroes to respect, individuals clad in rock-solid reputations. Unfortunately, and sadly for those craving hope and truth, such candidates do not include the likes of Michael Brown, Trevon Martin or George Floyd, and certainly not Jordan Neely.
