Crazy people are dangerous

London’s Daily Mail is a sensationalist tabloid, to be sure, but as I pointed out here, the Daily Mail was the only credentialed media source that I found which exposed the fact that the Pennbrook Middle School assailant was transgender, a boy claiming to be a girl. I’ve still seen no major credentialed media sources stating that, but I’ve also seen no credentialed media sources publishing anything which have claimed that the reports that ‘Melanie,’ the (alleged) Pennbrook assailant, is ‘transgender’ are false.

And now there’s this:

Middle schoolers study in FEAR after being forced back to class with ‘troubled’ trans kid who named 45 on ‘hit list’: Boston parent says ‘they know the school is not protecting them’

Scared parent blows whistle on woke teachers who put trans rights over safety

School officials ‘treated a troubled young person as some kind of cultural token’

READ MORE: Leaked emails show how a woke teachers bungled ‘hit list’ threat

By James Reinl | Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 11:38 AM EDT | Updated: 3:20 PM EDT

A whistleblower has come forward about the terror at a Massachusetts school after woke teachers let a troubled trans kid return to class after naming 45 fellow students on a menacing ‘hit list.’

The parent of a child at Watertown Middle School, in the west Boston suburbs, told DailyMail.com that students now fear for their lives, worried each day that they’ll be going home in a body bag.

Worse still, says the scared parent, school officials have silenced criticism of the trans 7th grader. Parents say they cannot talk about school safety without being accused of transphobic wrong-think.

‘The kid with a 40+ person hit list, who has faced minimal consequences and been favored at every turn, obviously has a lot of anger — and who knows what they will do,’ said the parent, on condition their name was not used.

The Toronto Sun reported:

School officials in Massachusetts reacted to a transgender student’s “hit list” of more than 40 classmates and staff by creating an LGBTQ+ affinity group and anti-bias training.

Fox affiliate WFXT in Boston reported in January that a school staff member discovered a “potentially concerning list” compiled by a student at Watertown Middle School.

At a school forum, Superintendent Deanne Galdston, who arranged for the reentry of the student, allegedly criticizes parents for “student shaming.” From Libs of TikTok.

“Following an investigation and in consultation with our school resource officer and the Watertown Police Department, it was determined that at no point was there a credible threat to anyone’s safety,” Watertown Public Schools Supt. Dede Galdston wrote in a statement to the station. “We are grateful to our staff for quickly assessing this situation.”

However, according to the correspondence obtained by PDE, parents had concerns about the “hit list” and were alarmed by the school district’s response to the apparent threat.

It also appears the school administrators didn’t want to disclose the gender identity of the student.

Following the meeting with the affected families, a school committee member said that “last night was incredibly painful and hard for many members of our community for a diverse set of reasons.”

Lily Rayman-Read suggested that an affinity group for “LGBTQIA+ families/community members” should be created so there would be “empathy for the creator” of the list.

“I think it would be helpful to provide that space for both students, staff and families as the kids are really not OK right now — both those on the list, and those who hold empathy for the creator (and those who have friends across all spectrums),” Rayman-Read said.

The principal’s response appeared to confirm the transgender identity of the student.

“I just spoke with our GSA (Genders and Sexualities Alliances) adviser, who is planning to support students around anti-trans and other biased behaviour. As we make our plan today, that will be included as some next steps.”

Casey Ryan, a researcher for PDE, called the actions of school officials “irresponsible” and “alarming” for not revealing the student’s gender.

Massachusetts state law might have made it difficult for school officials to respond in any other matter. Remember: Massachusetts sided with the ‘transgender’ athletes in the past, even after another male claiming to be a girl injured two female competitors in a basketball game:

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association handbook states that a student “shall not be excluded from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the student’s bona fide gender identity.”

The MIAA defers to the student and their school when it comes to specific gender classification; according to the handbook, a student’s eligibility to participate on a gender-specific sports team is based on either the gender listed on their birth certificate or their “bona fide gender identity.”

So, who knows? Perhaps the Watertown Middle School program will make everything sweetness and light, and the ‘transgender’ student will complete his[1]As noted in our Stylebook, in English, properly understood, the masculine subsumes the feminine. This means that, in cases in which the sex of the person to whom a pronoun refers is unknown, the … Continue reading time without any incidents. But I have yet to see where ‘hope’ is legally considered to be a viable safety program, and it seems that the Watertown schools are hoping that ‘educating’ middle school students that they shouldn’t mock or ostracize a ‘transgender’ student will actually work. Realistically, who can be more cruel than middle school students?

To me, the obvious question is: if this ‘transgender’ student acts on his so-called ‘hit list,’ and actually injures of even kills someone, who will be held responsible? Obviously the ‘transgender’ student himself, but what about the school administrators and teachers? We can easily see that a student who had a written ‘hit list’ of other kids would have been treated as a real threat if ‘transgenderism’ or possible homosexual orientation were not part of the mix, and the student removed from the regular schools. And we all know what happened when the Broward County schools chose not to refer Nikolas Cruz to law enforcement after he assaulted another student in school.

If a normal student somehow attacks the ‘transgender’ student, we all know what will happen: the assailant will be prosecuted, quite possibly with a ‘hate crime’ enhancement. But if the ‘transgender’ student attacks a normal person, it will probably be treated with kid gloves, and it shouldn’t be. If that does happen, I would hope that the injured student and his family would sue the school, the school district, and every teacher and administrator involved individually, sue them all into penury.

It’s really quite simple: crazy people are dangerous, and if someone is ‘transgendered,’ he is crazy.

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1 As noted in our Stylebook, in English, properly understood, the masculine subsumes the feminine. This means that, in cases in which the sex of the person to whom a pronoun refers is unknown, the masculine is properly used, and does not indicate that that person is male, nor is it biased in favor of such an assumption.

The Philadelphia Inquirer and their writers really hate it when the rule of law goes against their police-hating views

It is, of course, no surprise that most of the writers at The Philadelphia Inquirer hate the police. Columnist Helen Ubiñas, whose Twitter biography states that she is “a Latina columnist”, as though her ethnicity should make any difference, tweeted her great disappointment that former Philadelphia Police Officer Ryan Pownell should be reinstated, with back pay and restored seniority.

Fired Philly cop Ryan Pownall, whose murder case in controversial shooting was dismissed by judge, can get job back, arbitrator rules

The arbitrator also ruled that Pownall is also entitled to full back pay and seniority, the president of the police union said.

by Robert Moran | Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 8:56 PM EDT | Updated: 9:50 PM EDT

An arbitrator has ruled that the city must reinstate Ryan Pownall to his former job as a Philadelphia police officer — 1½ years after a judge dismissed criminal charges, including third-degree murder, that were filed against Pownall for the on-duty 2017 shooting death of David Jones. Continue reading

Green virtue signaling Too bad that they don't know what they are talking about

Every so often I can see the virtue signaling of the environmentalists that just makes me laugh. Former Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) may have been totally inept at actually running the city, but he sure was great at getting a ‘sugary beverage tax’ passed, to fight obesity, don’t you know, that’s none of the city’s business. And even though he was fully in support of ‘my body, my choice’ when it came to women killing their yet-to-be-born children, he was adamant and aggressive in fighting the unions to get city employees who wanted to exercise bodily autonomy when it came to taking an experimental vaccine.

Then, about six years ago, in his effort to fight global warming climate change, he pushed a project to get solar power for electricity for city-owned buildings. Continue reading

But, but, but, it’s just so unfair! Caitlin Clark's new endorsement deals are all about the Benjamins

Caitlin Clark was the top NCAA women’s basketball player this past season, and was the number one draft pick by the Indiana Fever. She was the major reason that the Iowa Hawkeyes’ women’s team got more coverage this year, and that the women’s tournament drew a lot more viewers than the norm. And, as her rookie season begins, the advance television schedule shows that the Indiana Fever will get a lot more national television coverage. Continue reading

Crazy people are dangerous #Transgender girl shows some toxic masculinity

Sometimes I worry that I am stepping on the toes of former Washington Times reporter and editor Robert Stacy McCain and his series entitled Crazy People Are Dangerous by using the title myself, but sometimes the crazy becomes too blatant to ignore. This site previously reported on the brutal assault by a 13-year-old boy claiming to be a girl on a 12-year-old girl at Pennbrook Middle School, and how the credentialed media are mostly keeping the fact that the alleged assailant is nuttier than a fruitcakesuffers from gender dysphoria. Continue reading

Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right Progressives are complaining that more conservative policies won’t work, when progressive policies have already failed

Albert Einstein supposedly said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Perhaps relying on a misunderstanding of Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, the progressive left can hold that if they just keep doing the same thing — albeit spending more of Other People’s Money while doing so — their oh-so-noble policies will work where they haven’t worked before. The progressive left are complaining that more conservative urban policies won’t work, but they are being implemented because liberal and progressive policies didn’t work! Continue reading

Crazy people are dangerous Always note what the media are telling you, and what they are not

The in-school assault was serious enough that several credentialed media sources reported on it, and how the school was warned, in advance, that the attack would occur, and did nothing.

But you know what all of the media sources I linked did not mention? It has been reported by the Daily Mail that the assailant was not a real girl, but a boy self-identifying as a girl: Continue reading

Why does The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won’t publish mugshots of real criminals, make deliberate exceptions for police officers convicted of crimes?

We have previously covered the death of 12-year-old Thomas “TJ” Siderio, sent to his eternal reward after he shot at police. Naturally, then-Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw suspended and then fired Police Officer Edsaul Mendoza, and, despite the Commissioner declining to publicly name the officer, for his safety, The Philadelphia Inquirer ferreted out his name and published it. Naturally, the George Soros-sponsored, police-hating, softer-than-Charmin-on-crime District Attorney Larry Krasner charged Officer Mendoza with among other things, first degree murder and third-degree murder. Now, two years later, Mr Mendoza has pleaded guilty of doing his job:

Former Philly cop who shot and killed 12-year-old T.J. Siderio pleads guilty to third-degree murder

Edsaul Mendoza was charged with murder two months after the shooting in March 2022.

by Rodrigo Torrejón and Ellie Rushing | Friday, April 19, 2024 | 12:36 PM EDT

Edsaul Mendoza, the former Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Thomas “T.J.” Siderio in South Philadelphia more than two years ago, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder on Friday — becoming the first city officer in recent history to face conviction for murder related to a fatal on-duty shooting.

Mendoza, 28, was charged with first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after prosecutors said he chased T.J., then shot him in the back at near point-blank range after the boy tossed away a gun he had been carrying. The March 2022 shooting made T.J. the youngest person ever killed by a city police officer.

Mendoza’s plea marked only the second time a Philadelphia police officer has been convicted of a fatal shooting in recent years, and the first to be convicted of murder. Former police officer Eric Ruch was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter for shooting Dennis Plowden Jr., who was unarmed, after a car chase in 2017 and was sentenced to 11 ½ to 23 months in prison.

I have noted dozens of times that the Inquirer does not publish mugshots of accused or even convicted criminals, and I frequently have to do further online searches to find the mugshots I do publish. But the photo above? The newspaper was certainly willing to ignore its previous policies and publish Mr Mendoza’s photo. I screen captured it from the Inky’s online story at 4:08 PM EDT today. The newspaper did the same thing in the case of former Officer Eric Ruch.

Under Title 18 §106(b)(2) a crime is a felony in the first degree if the sentence thereto can exceed ten years, and for third degree murder maxes out at 40 years. Though the story does not indicate that there was a plea deal in place, my guess is that there was, and Mr Mendoza will receive a far more lenient sentence., perhaps similar to Mr Ruch’s 11½-to-23-month sentence, and much of that might already have been served. I hope that he’s out of jail soon.

Crazy people are dangerous Whenever there is a truth that you cannot tell, that is a truth you must tell!

My very good friends on the left used to love, when presented with a fact which challenged their assertions, to use the expression, “The plural of anecdote is not data.” I, of course, pointed out that an ‘anecdote,’ if confirmed, actually is a datum. A few years ago, Barry Ritholtz writing in The Big Picture, reported:

Which brings us back to anecdotes: As it turns out, the original quote about anecdotes had a very different context, and a much more nuanced meaning. It is attributed to Ray Wolfinger, who was a political scientist at the University of California-Berkeley.

Wolfinger’s original statement was quite literally the very opposite of what we all have been using. He had actually said “the plural of anecdote is data.” This should affect the way we think about and use data.

Mr Ritholtz noted the problem of selection bias. Yes, he used as an example, shark attacks are dangerous, and frequently lethal, but the vast majority of interactions between humans and sharks do not result in sharks attacking humans. I am reminded of General ‘Buck’ Turgidson’s statement in Dr Strangelove, “I don’t think it’s fair to condemn the whole program due to a single slip-up.” And that leads me to the obvious question: just how many of these data points does it take to destroy the narrative? Continue reading