By Tim Inwood
1 Aug. 2007
Most frustrating has been watching police officers or former police officers coming on these news programs advising if attacked to submit. Do what the criminals demand, do not make eye contact, show no resistance. They advised that if you do this you will survive. I was stunned. This very behavior is pretty much what got the Petit women killed. I keep seeing so called professionals repeating the very advice that gets people killed over and over again, and it infuriates me. The Culture of Sheep strikes again.
As those of you who have been following this subject know, I have been exploring the dangers of our “indoctrination” to be passive, something I have referred to as the “Culture of Sheep”.
As to the specific case at hand, in the wee hours of July 23rd two career criminals out on parole broke into the home of Dr. William Petit Jr. and his family. The time was roughly 3AM and the family was asleep. The thugs Joshua Komisarjevsky, age 26, and Steven Hayes, age 44, then pummeled the good doctor into obedience and tied him up. For the next six hours the doctor, his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, age 48, and their daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, were terrorized by these animals as they demanded money. At some point the daughters were sexually assaulted. One drove Jennifer to their bank around 9:30AM so she could withdraw the family savings. The thug stayed in the family car waiting so as to not arouse suspicion. I am sure he reminded her of his partner holding the rest of the family, so not to try anything.
Nevertheless while in the bank Jennifer did the right thing and told the tellers so they could call the police. Upon getting back to the house, the thugs strangled Jennifer to death and set fire to the house to cover their tracks. At this time, the police were arriving and caught the criminals as they tried to ram through their barricade with the Petit family SUV. Sadly, Dr. Petit was the sole survivor of this savage crime, with his wife strangled and his molested daughters dead of smoke inhalation.
In all the stories covering this sad event I noted no mention of a home security system or a firearm in the house. I am left with the question, why? Did the Petit family feel that in this “safe” community there was no need for any precautions? Safe communities are a myth, my friends. Awful crimes take place just about everywhere. I am tired of reading stories about how horrible things like this don’t happen in quiet good communities like this one; they do all too often.
Did the difficult gun laws of Connecticut play a role? Connecticut, despite being the home of great gun manufacturers like Colt, has some of the worst guns laws in the United States. The Brady Campaign grades Connecticut gun laws at an A- , which speaks volumes to how restrictive things are.
Did the hassle of all the additional required paperwork and permit requirements keep Dr. Petit from owning a gun? I don’t know, but I do know that for many the additional requirements and headaches involved would be a hurdle many would rather not go through, hence they do not bother.
Dr. Petit is a 50 year-old man, while I will grant this is not young it certainly does not suggest one is too feeble to put up a defense.
Take for instance this interesting case in contrast.
In El Dorado Arkansas, 93 year old Willie Lee Hill was attacked in his home by a criminal who beat him in the head with a soda can. Taking at least 50 blows to the head, Hill was knocked unconscious. When he awoke, his assailant Douglas Williams Jr. attacked again; this time Hill drew his .38 caliber revolver and shot Williams through his throat, dropping him. Police now have Williams, who survived, albeit paralyzed, in custody.
The firearm is always the great equalizer, as that story of a 93 year-old man putting down a strapping 24 year-old miscreant illustrates. Did Willie Hill submit, as the police would advise? No. Is he alive because he fought back? YES!
I continue to be amazed to see the so-called “experts” come out and continue to tell us to submit and all will be fine. Rubbish. Two months ago I told you the story of Jeff May.
The Jeff May story got little attention until “The Talkmaster” Neal Boortz brought it to national attention with his radio show. Jeff May fought off a school shooter who had killed several people using only a number 2 pencil. His actions saved lives. I am compelled to say submission frequently equals death. The experts are clearly wrong. Look at all the students who followed the commands of Cho Seung-Hui in the Virginia Tech Massacre. He ordered them to line up against the wall and walked down the line shooting them in the head. They did not fight back, and with that incident we saw the worst school massacre in American history.
I blame the cultural indoctrination to be sheep. To submit to criminals can, and frequently will, get you killed. I urge all reading this to do the responsible thing for you and your family. Purchase a firearm, if you have not done so already, and get the proper training. It might well be that you will find yourself the victim of a crime. So be prepared and survive the ordeal.
We at BFA offer our prayers and sympathy to Dr. William Petit Jr. and his family at this difficult time.
Post Script:
On a side note, a friend argued that perhaps I should use the term “Eloi” instead of sheep when dealing with this subject.
For those of you who have not read the H.G.Wells classic “The Time Machine”, the Eloi were people who were provided food and clothing by the subterranean dwelling Morlocks who fed upon them. The Eloi were conditioned to seek the underground shelters when they heard the blast of ancient air raid sirens. When the Morlocks took enough Eloi underground for the slaughter, the doors shut. The Eloi who went underground submitted to their fate without a fight. The rest were left to breed until the next Morlock feeding frenzy.
My friend’s analogy does apply if you look at it this way. We have been conditioned to be passive, and like good obedient Eloi when commanded by the Morlocks to do as we are told, we obey. What am I talking about? I am talking about how we have been conditioned to passively allow the Government to take our rights, restrict our freedoms like free speech and the right to bear arms for self-defense. Also appalling is how more than half our earnings are taken via heavy taxation so they, the bureaucrat elite, can be generous with our money for their purposes. Every April they blast the siren and we send in our money…unlike the Morlocks though, the Government’s appetite seems insatiable.
Considering we are descendent of people who revolted for minor taxes on stamps and tea, we have certainly devolved into something much more docile when it comes to these issues that would have sparked revolt by our ancestors. So I will concede the term Eloi or sheep is equally acceptable when speaking on this issue, however while everyone knows what sheep are, only those who are familiar with “The Time Machine” will have any idea what Eloi represent.