First and foremost, I had added Michelle Malkin's blog to my roll a bit ago. I realize many of you have been reading her - I'm jealous. She's incredible and I wish I'd have found her sooner.
So today I'm doing a run through and find this article. It's about a man pouring gasoline on himself, his girlfriend and their 3 small children, while driving in a car, and SETTING THEM ALL ON FIRE. The children were a 2 1/2 yr old girl, a 1 1/2 yr old boy and a 6 month old baby boy. Gone, all of them - including the mother. (I honestly don't give a rats ass what happened to the guy - he deserved to die, not once but several times).
I found myself sitting straighter and straighter in my chair as I read the details. But what really put my blood to the boiling point was this little part:
Laveda Allen ( the sister of the female victim) said she wasn't upset with Garcia, who she said was the father of her sister's three children.
"He was a good person," she said. "He was an illegal immigrant here, but he was a hard worker and tried to do what he had to do to make it.
"He just went over the deep end. He probably just loved her too much. He didn't want to see his kids being taken care of by another man."
Ok - this Ms Allen will be burying her sister and her niece and nephews on that same sister's 19th birthday. She's not upset with him?!?! This woman is either a saint or an idiot! A saint for managing to turn the other cheek, forgive as you wish to be forgiven - what ever! I'm doubting that. My money is on idiot. And yes, this is idiotic.
Let me just get this out folks. I don't give a rats ass what a person's background, work ethic or ability to tell a good joke is - abuse is abuse is abuse. Murder is murder is murder. Evil is evil is evil. Get the picture.
Some of the most horrific monsters are cleverly disguised as everyday men and woman of taste, refinement and sophistication. It's not what is on the outside or how they behave in public. It's what is in their souls (if they have one), what happens behind closed doors that defines the person. Trust me - I know of what I speak.
And we are not being kind or sweet or forgiving to not be upset, to hold demons such as this accountable for their actions - dead or alive. No Forgiveness. None at all.
Posted by Tammi at July 15, 2004 05:35 PMMy heart sank when I first heard about this the other day. I did not realize that the mother has since passed away. All I can say is that at least the mother and children are together.
It has nothing to do with "being a good man" and "not wanting to see his kids raised by another man". It has to do with being a selfish *insert favorite adjective here*! Thinking that you are the only person who could care enough? Could be the only one? That's just egotistic mania to the 10th degree.
As I've always said, "Karma is a bitch and she likes to balance the score." You reap in the after life what you do in this one. That is one karmic debt that I refuse to ever experience in any life.
Posted by: Lee Ann at July 15, 2004 08:53 PMHorrible.
I agree that this is complete and utter selfishness. "If I can't have them, no one will." It's actually too bad he died. He should have lived, burned beyond recognition, and lived in the pain a severe burn victim experiences until the end of his days.
Posted by: Bonfire7 at July 15, 2004 11:14 PMI think it's that people just don't want to believe that someone they know could do something like that.
In my area we have had quite a few priest charged with molestation. My priest when I was younger was one of them, I just knew something was wrong with this guy, always gave me the creeps. People at the church do not believe he did it, and the victim is lying.
Guess what, he's guilty. People still think he was set-up and innocent.
If you don't want to believe it you won't, know matter the evidence.
Posted by: Machelle at July 16, 2004 06:18 AMTo a degree, I agree with Bonfire's comment. However, I would not want to foot the bill for this selfish idiot to have lived. Quite frankly, I think he deserved to die. In the grand scheme, the children were the ones who did not deserve any of this and that is where the true injustice lies.
Posted by: Lee Ann at July 16, 2004 11:39 AM