Another Race Crime in D.C.?

Daron Wint and the family he murdered, including 10 y/o

The police have just identified a suspect in the horrific home invasion, murder, arson crime in Washngton, D.C., in which the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper were all murdered.

His name is Daron Wint and he's been charged with first degree murder and police have offered a bounty of up to $25,000 for information that leads to his arrest. His DNA was found on a Domino's Pizza that was ordered the night of the attacks.

Savvas Savopoulos, 46; Amy Savopoulos, 47; their 10-year-old son, Philip; and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57, were all found dead. It's been reported that, "Investigators have not revealed a motive in the killing, but believe that money could be a possible reason."

OK, "money" is a motive for robbery.

Hatred, rage, jealousy, are the most likely motives for murder.

Sorry, but as unsavory as this might seem, this has all the makings of a racial murder.

I am NOT a supporter of "hate crimes laws" because they amount to thought crimes, BUT I do acknowledge what few pro-hate crimes supporters seem to either understand or admit to...and that is, virtually ALL inter-racial violence is racially motivated.

AGAIN, I DO NOT believe in punishing people MORE for an alleged "hate crime" (especially given how unfairly applied those laws are) than for a run-of-the-mill violent crime.

For instance, James Byrd's murderes got the death penalty (which they deserved) for the MURDER of James Byrd, in Texas which had no "hate crimes" statutes on the books at the time.

Ironically enough, those murderes would've gotten life without parole max, in states like New York or California where "hate crimes" statutes have long been established.

Another thing that this sort of crime makes clear is the DYSGENICS of crime.\

WHY is violent crime so debilitatng to any society.

Simply put, because the victims are almost always far more productive and talented than their asailants.

Back in October of 2001, Investment banker Ted Ammon (a brilliant investor by all accounts) was murdered by a handyman named Danny Pelosi, who later married Ammon's widow Generosa.

The world lost an invaluable, irreplacable rsource in Ted Ammon and none of those involved in his death (certainly not the dull-normal Pelosi) could replace Ammon's contributions.

SAME here. It's not much of a guess to speculate that Mr. Wint is entirely unable (no matter how much money might be wasted on trying to educate this guy) to replace the incredibly productive gifts of Savvas Savopoulos, who was the CEO of American Iron Works, a supplier of metal to building projects across the region. Those two cases are merely instructive, they are NOT at all untypical of the dysgenic disposition of most violent crimes.

America's criminal justice system has failed on so many levels.

It's failed to properly deal with bias/hate crimes.

It's failed to prioritize violent crimes as seriosuly as warranted and it's failed to deliver the kind of draconian and public punishments that violent crimes cry out for, especially given how utterly any and all attempts at "rehabilitating" violent offenders has proven to be.

Update on The Knoxville Murders...and Other Things

It’s been nearly three months since the horrific Knoxville murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom and nearly a month since I brought it up here.

No topic has resulted in as many comments, many of them somewhat intemperate.

Such crimes tend to inflame racial passions, but that’s no reason for the MSM to ignore them. They say something about us (ALL of us), how such events are covered says something about us, too. It says a lot about the things we’ll put up with and the things we’re willing to ignore, for one, the dysgenic impact of violent crime.

I certainly don’t believe that such crimes prove anything about black/white relations and I certainly don’t believe they prove anything about the broader racial/ethnic group of the suspects.

In my view, the Newsom-Christian murders no more indicate that “blacks are prone to violence,” then does the James Byrd murder prove that of whites.

Saying that, I firmly believe that the mainstream media’s (MSM’s) virtually ignoring such black-on-white atrocities, while never failing to cover white-on-black ones tends to inflame a righteous indignation among many whites, as anyone can plainly see the media’s double standard.

The fact is that depravity is a part of the human condition, it’s an unpleasant fact, like the fact that dead bodies give off a horrible stench during decay, but unpleasant facts can only be ignored at our own peril.

In my view, there are very few, if any racial lessons to take from the Christian-Newsom, or the James Byrd murders, but many human lessons.

The fact is that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of other such predators out there right now. What we should all take away from the Christian-Newsom murders is that we must deal differently with violent crime. We must (1) seek out such potential predators at an early age, (2) seek to change them, if possible, at a very early age and (3) failing that institutionalize these people so that the danger they pose to society can be mitigated.

All of the above must be done in a race-neutral fashion, as there are predators from every race and ethnic background.

In a separate but related post I discussed the dysgenic effects of violent crime. In this case, like the James Byrd case the victims were more productive members of society than the perpetrators. That seems to hold true in almost every violent incident.

Even in the relatively recent and high-profile Ted Ammon murder, where the wealthy Long Island Investment Banker was bludgeoned to death in his own home, the two suspects handyman, Danny Pelosi and Ammon’s wife (Generosa) were both far less productive, socially valuable people than Ted Ammon was. Mrs. Ammon and Dan Pelosi both had skills that were, at best, quite common, while Ted Ammon’s skills were near irreplaceable – the dysgenic effects of such crimes impacts all of us, as they impact society in a very negative way.

I believe the Rockefeller Drug laws (that mandate mandatory sentences for drug offenses) should be scrapped, in favor of mandatory sentences for violent crimes.

We have never looked at the serious implications of violent crime correctly and still don’t take the scourge of violence as seriously as we ultimately must.