Crooked in Canada

I like to think of myself of at least being a rational and fair-minded individual from time-to-time, but when it comes to children who commit crimes, whether those crimes are heinous or not, I have little time and understanding for those children as for me I believe that a child is very aware of what the difference is between what is right and wrong beginning at a very young age.

Most importantly, I will never believe that an 8-year-old child didn’t know that shooting to death two people was wrong, but I will concede that that child might have a few screws loose.

The State of Arizona has gained international attention after a 29-year-old Vincent Romero and a boarder in his home; Timothy Romans were shot dead by Romero’s 8-year-old son just over a week ago 273 kilometres (about 170 miles) northeast of Phoenix in a little rural town named St. Johns.

As the entire world knows by now thanks to Fox News, CNN and every newswire service on the planet, the boy fired two shots into the men, and then had the presence of mind to run next door unarmed to tell neighbours that he believed his father was dead.

The neighbours by the way did what any responsible adult would do when confronted by a child claiming their father was dead next door, they let the kid use their phone to call 9-1-1 instead of calling 9-1-1 themselves.

Anyway the child has since been charged with premeditated murder thanks to a confession he made without an attorney and the presence of a social-worker worker or his mother when the police interviewed the killer kid.

I will give the police a pat on the back for the way in which the interviewer conducted her interview with the mini-murderer who has nonchalantly told his version of events that unfolded in his father’s home, though the kid did change his story halfway through the interview.

According to the opinion of others who have seen the videotaped version of the interview, the kid remained calm, cool and collected throughout the telling of his murderous escapade.

Can you say sociopath?

If all those years I have been watching courtroom drama series on TV are anything to go by (and I use the comparison lightly), I think it is pretty safe for me to assume that the boy’s confession will be tossed out of court. Not that it matters, given that the state attorney’s office has a lot of physical evidence to prosecute him, like his prints all over the gun and the shell-casings, not to mention he was the only other person in the house at the time of the double slaying, and then of course there are the neighbours he ran to.

The kid is going to go down for this crime, sociopath or not,

The kid deserves to be locked up somewhere for a very, very, long time or until such time he will no longer be a threat to the community without having to be sedated.

The kid is a nut job and shouldn’t see the light of day from beyond the confines of a mental institution and/or a correctional facility, unless of course lobotomies are legal in Arizona, in which case I’m all for cutting out a big chunk of the kid’s brain and then throwing him back into society where American taxpayer’s will pay for the cost of his welfare and upkeep for the rest of his life which could last for another 80 years.

Have you figured out by now that I have no sympathy for this kid, and that regardless of his state of mind at the time of killings or whether he is a sociopath or not, that I think the kid should spend the rest of his life paying for his heinous crime in a state run facility, starting with a juvenile detention facility until he is old enough to be placed into a more permanent facility like a state run mental or correctional facility?

Have you figured out by now that I don’t give a ‘flying f**k’ about what happens to this kid just as long as he isn’t allowed back into the community?

A couple of days ago on Fox News Bill O’Reilly seemed a little perplexed by the kid’s actions, and what should be done with the kid as far as justice goes, and being the helpful guy I have fired off an email offering my opinion of what should be done with the kid, including what I have already mentioned in today’s Crooked in Canada report.

Here are the thoughts I would have like to share on the O’Reilly Factor had I been the one he was interviewing when he featured this case on his show this past Tuesday:

• I think the boy’s mother should be held accountable for her son’s actions, that she should be arrested for the way she has allowed her son to grow up.
• I think any parent who buys their 8-year-old child a firearm and teaches them how to use it is just plain dumb, and that if that child shoots and kills them, it’s their own damn fault. They are the makers of their own fate whether their child is a nut job or not. And why wasn’t the weapon locked away out of reach of the child? Surely a responsible father would have ensured that the child only had access to the weapon in his presence that it would have been under lock and key otherwise, right?
• I think the boy should consider himself lucky that I am not judge, jury, and executioner because like a rabid or terminally ill pet, I would euthanize him.
• The kid gets no sympathy from me. He was methodical in what he did, and then of course there is the calm, cool and collectiveness in which he gave police his version of events. Sociopath or not, the kid will never show remorse for his actions, though others will try and force remorsefulness upon him in the hope of rehabilitating him. There is no rehabilitating this kid without a lobotomy or the use of mind or mood altering drugs, and at the end of the day there is no guarantee that if the kid is released back into society one day, that he will always self-medicate.
• I think that the United States needs to WAKE THE F**K UP when it comes to gun-control, that with more than 210 Americans over the age of 18, the legal age one is allowed to buy a shotgun or rifle in any state, is it any f**king wonder there are so many kids under the age of 18 are able to get their hands on a gun. Parents buying guns for their under-age kids aren’t helping either. U.S. Gun Laws

I could sit in front of my laptop all day long and fire this shit off the top of my head, but I have other things I would like to write about today.

On a positive note the 8-year-old boy will be allowed to spend Thanksgiving with his mother. Let’s keep our fingers crossed he doesn’t murder her too.