Eight Year Old Killers and Insane Leftists (Including Media): Hard Cases Make Bad Law

You know the case involving the eight year old who has admitted cold blooded murder.

What you may not realize from the media hype is that the case is not important, unless we make the mistake of making it important. As usual, the insane (I mean that literallly) reaction of some in the media, and some leftists, is more important than the actual case.

How many deliberate eight year old murderers (especially of adults) are there each year? Right. Not many. One is a large number (for any year). It is such an aberration as to prove the adage: Hard cases make bad law (and worse "journalism"). There is no reason to worry about how the juvenile justice system handles this kind of case. There is no way to adequately handle this kind of case. It is impossible. All you can do is the best you can to try to fit the case in some reasonable way into a juvenile justice system not designed--and which should not make the mistake of trying to be designed--to handle this kind of rare, extreme case.

Where is the leftist and media insanity? If you don't know, I probably can't help you. But I will explain it anyway. The leftist/media insanity here is to treat this case as a criminal case, where leftists and the media want all criminal defendants to "get off" (unless the "crime" is a crime that fits the leftist agenda, such as a "hate crime"). I don't apologize for this statement. All you have to do is listen to most leftists, and look at how the media covers most crimes (except those where the police can be criticized for failing to "solve" the crime). Leftists do not believe individual responsibility. They believe society is responsible for all criminals (again, absent those crimes that fit the leftist agenda). I dare anyone to argue this with me.

This is a case in point--more revealing than most. The media reaction was to immediately start criticizing the police for failing to give Miranda warnings, and "pushing' this child into a "confession". I could never make this stuff up. This exposes, more than anything else I have ever seen, the inanity of the media and the left (redundancy), where the criminal justice system is viewed as a "game", with the police being the bad guys in the game.

This is not a criminal defendant, or a criminal accused. This is an eight year old child.

Does it make any sense to talk about "suppressing" the "confession" of an eight year old child? Can an eight year old child really understand Miranda warnings, or even have competency to "waive" Miranda rights? Miranda warnings have no relevance to an eight year old child. You reveal yourself as insane--stark raving, straight jacket requiring nuts--if you think otherwise.

Yes, there are due process requirements in juvenile justice. But the cases are still not full fledged criminal proceedings.

Message to you leftist and media nuts out there--insane, stupid people that you are--who think you are making a point by "questioning" the validity of the "confession" here: Do you think the best thing to help this child is to "get the child off" from the murder "charge"? In what universe. You leftist and media types really are evil human beings, aren't you, to encourage an eight year old child to believe that he can "beat the rap". That is insanity on a level that makes me believe that you should all be locked lup--more than the eight year old should be locked up.

The worst thing for this eight year old child would be to evade all responsibility for his actions--to be found "innocent" because he is treated like an adult criminal defendant and can't be proven guilty. This child desperately needs help. Anyone who tries to invoke "Miranda" to help this child disclaim responsibility for his actions is more evil than even I had considered leftists and the media. This child needs to understand what he did, and to understand why it is wrong. Okay, you can talk about how this is done. But "beating the rap" is the absolute worst thing that could ever happen to this child. I feel sorry for any leftist who does not undersand this. From the media coverage, that is a lot of you. You are stark raving, dangerous people who should not be allowed around loose. No, it is not useful "news" coverage to start talking about the validity of the confession (Fox News, as usual, this means YOU--part of the mainstream media problem and not part of the solution). The media is making too much of this case in the first place. To try to treat it as a regular criminal case tried (insanely, and unjustifiably as is being done these days) in the media is beyond insanity. It convicts you, the media, of being evil people who have no understanding of what is happening.

I repeat: This is an eight year old boy. This is not a criminal defendant. Yet the AOL/AP (evil organizations both) headline today was about "questions" on the confession. The story proceeded to quote experts (lock they away, NOW, for the good of them and us) about how the police questioning should have stopped once it started concentrating on the eight year old boy as a "perp". Read the above, and realize again that these "experts" are talking about giving an eight year old boy Mrianda warnings--seriouslyl. Forget locking them (the experts) up. They should just be shot (a figurative remedy that should be applied to all of the despicable AP and equally despicable AOL "News").

P.S. This case should bring to your mind one of the scariest movies of all time: "The Bad Seed". Can a child be just plain bad, without being caused to be that way? "The Bad Seed" answers that question in the affirmative, which is the right answer, and the truly horrific answer. Nevertheless, I give the movie "only" a rating of 81. That is because the characters are so limited. The horror (and it is greater horror than any slasher movie ever made, with the possible exception of "Psycho") come entirely from the concept of an evil child, born that way, even though the movie is well done. As stated in the beginning of this entry: This case is NOT important, because it is so rare. That applies to "The Bad Seed", as well. The movie should scare you to death, but the characters are not complex, "real" human beings. Except this real life case could indicate, and I believe it to be true, that there are some children whose nature is evil from basically the beginning. Thankfully, those cases are so rare we can pretty much ignore them, except to scare us to death as a horror movie. That is how the media is treating this case: as a horror movie, for scary entertainment purposes, while falling additionally into the trap of trying to fit the case into the truly evil template of media "analysis" these days of crimes and criminal cases--also treated as an entertainment game of gossip and speculation).