They're depraved 'cause they was deprived
In its 2/17 Sunday Review, the New York Times ran "Trump Is Making MS-13 Stronger," an essay by online El Faro reporter Oscar Martinez.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/opinion/sunday/trump-ms-13-gang.html
The essayist pursued two ambitions, each as morally malignant as it was logically laughworthy: Delegitimize President Trump and American laws and sovereignty, and impute to MS-13 a legitimacy it does not possess.
Astoundingly, Martinez portrays those illegal immigrant, animalistic murderers as innocent lost souls daily victimized by an evil United States not properly attentive to their tender longings.
A scabrous tenor was established by the author's outset dismissal of duly elected Commander In Chief Trump as having "torpedoed" a proposed immigration scheme (that would not have served citizens' safety and sovereignty interests) in favor of his own "harsher plan."
"But one thing is clear: Any plan that purports to make America safer by making it harder for immigrants to obtain legal status and increasing deportations will actually do the opposite," claims the vicious gang's unofficial pressbox promoter.
So, to eradicate crime, apparently, societies must abolish applicable legal penalties? Falderol.
Cue sad violins.
In the PR-peddling author's fabulistic rendering, the blood-lusting savages of MS-13 are, in truth, vulnerable urchins deserving of empathy and comfort.
Martinez breezily recounts without criticism that two MS-13 members were charged for the 2016 beating deaths of Long Island girls. He apparently finds that atrocity neither objectionable nor even particularly interesting. Instead, he endeavors to inspire teary outpour for the gang members' benefit.
"The people accused of murdering those girls were not hardened murderers with tattoos, members of a 'cartel,' as Mr. Trump described the gang in 2017," Martinez assured. [Are the beating death victims somehow less dead because those accused were not inked?] They were teenagers. They were also part of the gang's hard core American ground forces; young immigrants, either with or without papers [read: illegal] lost and lonely in a new and violent world, where they have responded to the first institution that has lent them a hand -- MS-13, not the United States government.
"To say that the gangs 'win over' these young people is misleading, because it implies that the American government is doing something to compete with them, which it is not. The United States is not fighting for these boys."
Martinez never explains why America's government should "fight for" the loyalties of non-citizens, including those who've already violated this country's laws. No nation's government is obligated to "compete with" criminal gangs for anyone's affection.
Besides, what statement is made about someone's character that, for lack of respectable fraternity, they run through angry streets with beast men who abuse, torture, and even burn alive opponents?
In the bottom-over-top philosophizing of Martinez, legal and law-abiding American citizens and our president are demons to be despised. The lethal foot soldiers of terrorist gangs like MS-13, though, are otherwise good-natured "young people" driven into savagery's salvational arms by inclement circumstance.
To most reasonable observers, surely, criminal gangs are roach leagues meriting only society's shoe. But to the anti-Trump Oscar Martinez and the New York Times, they are neglected lads with trembly chins, struggling to keep their heads above hostile waters.
Sniff. Sniff.
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In its 2/17 Sunday Review, the New York Times ran "Trump Is Making MS-13 Stronger," an essay by online El Faro reporter Oscar Martinez.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/opinion/sunday/trump-ms-13-gang.html
The essayist pursued two ambitions, each as morally malignant as it was logically laughworthy: Delegitimize President Trump and American laws and sovereignty, and impute to MS-13 a legitimacy it does not possess.
Astoundingly, Martinez portrays those illegal immigrant, animalistic murderers as innocent lost souls daily victimized by an evil United States not properly attentive to their tender longings.
A scabrous tenor was established by the author's outset dismissal of duly elected Commander In Chief Trump as having "torpedoed" a proposed immigration scheme (that would not have served citizens' safety and sovereignty interests) in favor of his own "harsher plan."
"But one thing is clear: Any plan that purports to make America safer by making it harder for immigrants to obtain legal status and increasing deportations will actually do the opposite," claims the vicious gang's unofficial pressbox promoter.
So, to eradicate crime, apparently, societies must abolish applicable legal penalties? Falderol.
Cue sad violins.
In the PR-peddling author's fabulistic rendering, the blood-lusting savages of MS-13 are, in truth, vulnerable urchins deserving of empathy and comfort.
Martinez breezily recounts without criticism that two MS-13 members were charged for the 2016 beating deaths of Long Island girls. He apparently finds that atrocity neither objectionable nor even particularly interesting. Instead, he endeavors to inspire teary outpour for the gang members' benefit.
"The people accused of murdering those girls were not hardened murderers with tattoos, members of a 'cartel,' as Mr. Trump described the gang in 2017," Martinez assured. [Are the beating death victims somehow less dead because those accused were not inked?] They were teenagers. They were also part of the gang's hard core American ground forces; young immigrants, either with or without papers [read: illegal] lost and lonely in a new and violent world, where they have responded to the first institution that has lent them a hand -- MS-13, not the United States government.
"To say that the gangs 'win over' these young people is misleading, because it implies that the American government is doing something to compete with them, which it is not. The United States is not fighting for these boys."
Martinez never explains why America's government should "fight for" the loyalties of non-citizens, including those who've already violated this country's laws. No nation's government is obligated to "compete with" criminal gangs for anyone's affection.
Besides, what statement is made about someone's character that, for lack of respectable fraternity, they run through angry streets with beast men who abuse, torture, and even burn alive opponents?
In the bottom-over-top philosophizing of Martinez, legal and law-abiding American citizens and our president are demons to be despised. The lethal foot soldiers of terrorist gangs like MS-13, though, are otherwise good-natured "young people" driven into savagery's salvational arms by inclement circumstance.
To most reasonable observers, surely, criminal gangs are roach leagues meriting only society's shoe. But to the anti-Trump Oscar Martinez and the New York Times, they are neglected lads with trembly chins, struggling to keep their heads above hostile waters.
Sniff. Sniff.
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posted by DC Larson at
February 20, 2018
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