Smear the Victims

The work day began like any other at Hartford Distributors, a family-owned beer and wine wholesaler in Connecticut but ended in gunfire, tragedy, and death with the vile media carrying the water for the murderer by advancing the claim of today's ultimate sin- racism. Murder is no longer the worst of crimes but discrimination from the President to what Omar Thorton, the Hartford gunman supposedly faced. If Mr. Thorton indeed faced a racial bias, there existed numerous avenues to pursue to correct the situation. We have a black US Attorney General Eric Holder, who while he will not investigate race intimidation at the polls by the New Black Panther party in Philadelphia in the 2008 election cycle, will aggressively send Office of Civil Rights personnel against any private enterprise alleged to be treating blacks (and presumably other minorities) unfairly. Then there are the local black churches to rally to the cause of an aggrieved black employee, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Reverend Jackson's Rainbow-Push Coalition which surely would have stepped to the defense of any individual who was subjected to real prejudice (and purportedly some who were not but were merely profiting from the race grievance game). Not to mention the local and even national media who would have gladly exposed the powerful acting as if they wore Ku Klux Klan sheets. In this Hartford horror, it is highly unlikely that any racism against Omar Thorton was occurring. He was just a man who was evidently very angry that he had been caught with his hand in the proverbial till- he had been captured on video stealing beer from his employer, and rather than leaving with the grace the Hollander family which owns the business had granted him by not calling the police, Mr. Thorton sought the most primitive and barbaric vengeance.