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Attention for assholes (Sikh Temple related)
13 years ago
I think, if there was just one thing we as a society could do to help prevent the spree killer phenomena, it would be to stop media blitzing the jerks who commit these atrocities.
It's a sick mind which kills for no good reason, but even sick minds have motives. The FBI is calling the Sikh temple shooting 'domestic terrorism', but it sounds like a bog-standard racist jerkoff was responsible.
Yet still, they're going to have a press conference at 10am for the jerk. He's dead, we as a people don't need his name, or his face. It serves no purpose unlike if he were say, on the loose. All it does is shows the next potential asshole that the media will give them lots of attention for committing horrid acts.
Instead of his name, I ask if you associate the news you hear of this to a different name; Satwant Kaleka. He was the president of said temple, and died, but reportedly did so while trying to unarm the attacker. That's courage most of us will never know, and the man is a hero who attempted to (and may have) saved lives.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/0.....#ixzz22kaYJb99
I also keep reading on of the officers responding, the one who took down the aggressor, was shot several times in the process. He was alive according to the last bit I read. That man is also a hero, and then some. You may say that's 'just his job', but he still put his life and limb on the line for strangers.
Sikhs are one of the few religions I honestly respect the hell out of. Civic duty, civic virtue really, is a core tenant of their faith. That's a striking rarity in monotheism sadly, were it's more often about converting people and systems to the faith than integrating and serving the secular. Not to say any people in peaceful prayer deserve to be attacked, but it saddens me especially to know it was Sikhs. The few I met are outstanding people.
A lot of blame is thrown around following these types of incidents, but nobody ever really calls the news media out on their need to disseminate information about dead or apprehended shooters like they're rattling off an athlete's stats. It's morbid, and while I do not think the 1st amendment should be breached, a gentleman's agreement to not do this might actually help prevent these crimes by pulling the major motive out of the mix: attention to self or to a 'cause'.
So far, the ONLY media source I've seen the voluntarily censored images of the Dark Night shooter was the Escapist's Moviebob, and while his thoughts on the role (or non-role rather) of violent games/movies influence on these jerks is worth the watch and then some...
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid.....ct-Of-Violence
I don't see why that's such an impossible task for the police departments and news media for the nation.
It's a sick mind which kills for no good reason, but even sick minds have motives. The FBI is calling the Sikh temple shooting 'domestic terrorism', but it sounds like a bog-standard racist jerkoff was responsible.
Yet still, they're going to have a press conference at 10am for the jerk. He's dead, we as a people don't need his name, or his face. It serves no purpose unlike if he were say, on the loose. All it does is shows the next potential asshole that the media will give them lots of attention for committing horrid acts.
Instead of his name, I ask if you associate the news you hear of this to a different name; Satwant Kaleka. He was the president of said temple, and died, but reportedly did so while trying to unarm the attacker. That's courage most of us will never know, and the man is a hero who attempted to (and may have) saved lives.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/0.....#ixzz22kaYJb99
I also keep reading on of the officers responding, the one who took down the aggressor, was shot several times in the process. He was alive according to the last bit I read. That man is also a hero, and then some. You may say that's 'just his job', but he still put his life and limb on the line for strangers.
Sikhs are one of the few religions I honestly respect the hell out of. Civic duty, civic virtue really, is a core tenant of their faith. That's a striking rarity in monotheism sadly, were it's more often about converting people and systems to the faith than integrating and serving the secular. Not to say any people in peaceful prayer deserve to be attacked, but it saddens me especially to know it was Sikhs. The few I met are outstanding people.
A lot of blame is thrown around following these types of incidents, but nobody ever really calls the news media out on their need to disseminate information about dead or apprehended shooters like they're rattling off an athlete's stats. It's morbid, and while I do not think the 1st amendment should be breached, a gentleman's agreement to not do this might actually help prevent these crimes by pulling the major motive out of the mix: attention to self or to a 'cause'.
So far, the ONLY media source I've seen the voluntarily censored images of the Dark Night shooter was the Escapist's Moviebob, and while his thoughts on the role (or non-role rather) of violent games/movies influence on these jerks is worth the watch and then some...
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid.....ct-Of-Violence
I don't see why that's such an impossible task for the police departments and news media for the nation.
I wish they would have just not mentioned it beyond mentioning the shotting and victims and then nothing else, nothing about him in the slightest. Give him absolutely nothing, that would be the worst punishment for him.
It's a pretty clear motivating factor and reward system for the psychos.