Evil

About 20 years ago, I responded as a paramedic to a 911 call. A man had called the emergency number because his wife had called to tell him she was going to kill herself and the kids. We responded and the entry team went into the house. Inside, it was discovered to be too late. The woman and all four kids were dead.

In January of 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy sent her husband out for takeout and medicine, and while he was gone, she strangled her three young children (Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months)) using exercise bands. She then called her husband to tell him he should come home right away, and as he arrived at the house, she jumped from a second-story window in an attempted suicide that left her paralyzed.

In Jacksonville, Florida police arrested a couple who had refused to let the woman’s children leave the cab of the truck for years. Investigators say the four children had been living in the cab of a semitruck driven by the woman’s boyfriend (who is a truck driver for a company operating between Atlanta, Georgia, and Miami, Florida) since December 2019. The children had been locked in the cab of the truck for so long, they could no longer walk. The man had been sexually abusing the children. The children told investigators that the mother was informed of the abuse but did not believe them and continued to leave them alone with him.

I wanted to post on this because it brought back a flood of memories for me. I don’t mention this often, because I don’t want sympathy. In fact, I’ve only mentioned this on my blog one other time. When I was a child, my mother used to burn my fingers with matches when my brother or I touched something that we weren’t supposed to. When we said something objectional, she would put hot peppers in our mouths. She used to tell me things like “I have to love you because I am your mother, but I don’t have to like you.” Later as an adult, I was homeless for a time. That’s when I called my parents for help, because even though we hadn’t been speaking for a couple of years, I had nowhere else to turn. They hung up on me. There were plenty of reasons for me to resent her. All of those reasons are probably why I have had so many failed relationships. It made me into a person that isn’t good at being vulnerable or sharing my feelings. It’s also probably why I am such an overachiever and why I try to be the righter of wrongs, even if it means tilting at windmills.

The relationship between a mother who abuses her children and the children she is abusing is a complex one from the viewpoint of the child. Children are born with an impression of their mother. She is supposed to be the one person they can count on and depend on. They are the one person that’s supposed to be the child’s safety, their protector. When that person becomes the one causing the child’s pain, it destroys their world, while even at the same time the child is drawn to that same person for love and safety.

So to the people who say the mothers above are sick or should have some sort of mercy given to them because of post partum depression, I have to tell you that there is true evil in this world. I was once one of the victims of that sort of abuse. I’ve also had to be there to see where that abuse often ends. It’s always a tragedy. When I see stories like this, I imagine the child standing there crying to its mother for protection as they watch her strangle their siblings to death, knowing and fearing that they are next, and wondering what they did wrong to deserve this. It’s overwhelming.

My son had a best friend growing up, let’s call him Brad. I knew the kid. The group of friends that my son was a part of and who grew up together eventually married and had kids. Brad was always there for them, good old friend Uncle Ben was being a good friend and watching the kids for them. It turns out he was molesting them and filming it. When he was eventually caught, my son agreed to testify against him. Instead of facing a Federal trial for distributing child porn and the 30 years he could have gotten if convicted, Brad pled guilty. His lawyer argued to the judge that he be given leniency, since he had confessed. The judge agreed and knocked six months off of sentence he could have given him. The kid is doing 29.5 years in Federal prison.

In a moment of complete honesty to my readers: Truly evil acts like this are what completely destroyed any positive religion in my very core. I just can’t understand how any god that can allow things like this to be done to children cannot be loving or good. I just can’t understand any being having the power to stop such evil, yet allowing it to happen. Please don’t think of this as an attack on your or your beliefs, this is just a statement of why I feel the way I do. I have seen far too much evil, suffering, and pain to understand how there can possibly be a good and loving deity running things.

For those of you who *ARE* religious, please explain to me how these two things can simultaneously be true-

  • An omnipotent, loving God
  • Evil existing that harms children too young to have committed no sin worthy of such pain

I struggle with this each and every time I see something like this with my own eyes. It hurts me to my core each and every time I see it or hear about it. Maybe that’s a me problem, I don’t know. All I do know is seeing things like this made me a bitter, withdrawn human for awhile. When people would tell me “I know how you must feel,” my answer used to be, “Have you ever held a dead baby? No? Ever seen a mother stab her child to death? No? Then you can’t possibly know how I feel.” Such things are an assault on a person’s very core. It changes you forever.

The best answer I have ever been able to come up with is this: Some people are just evil or broken. You can’t reason with them, you can’t fix them, you can’t predict which of them will be like this. You have to wait for them to commit one of these heinous acts in order to identify them. Once you know who they are, there is only one true way to make sure they never do it again.

Even though I don’t trust the government with that power, I still think it’s the only way to prevent a person from committing evil again.

OK,I Misspoke

I know I said no post today, but this begs for a comment. Watch this and take what lesson you can from it.

Racial tensions are as high as I can recall. This is an attack by a man upon two unsuspecting women, and purely based on race.

It’s also why I carry. Note this happened in Charlotte, NC, where they can legally carry guns. Why didn’t someone punch that asshole’s ticket? This is the 23rd time he’s been arrested in the past 14 years.

Hunt was in 2020 convicted of shooting into a building or a vehicle with a person inside, Charlotte-Observer news partner WSOC first reported. He has been arrested on charges of assault against women and government officials, trespassing and violating probation and domestic violence orders eight times in the last three years, jail records show.

How many times before he actually gets caged or shot? Are the residents of Charlotte waiting for him to kill someone?

Avoid feral negros. Cross the street. Go a different way. Be prepared to kill them, because they will certainly kill you.

Murderer

Last week, Devin Rice got into an argument with Frederick Lytton at the Nashville U-Haul center where they worked. They were arguing over whose drink was on the counter. Lytton walked away. As he did, Rice shot him several times in the back. Jeff Lockridge, U-Haul’s manager of media and public relations, released a statement saying team members are not permitted to be armed at work. Man, that guy is in real trouble for violating company policy. Let’s take a look:

What pisses me off about this, is the liberals are using this as an indictment of all gun owners by listing him on their website as being “lost to gun violence” instead of saying what we all are thinking: he was lost to a violent negro who has zero impulse control, a company policy that doesn’t address anything, a legal system that allows blacks to get arrested time after time, and a completely collapsed black culture of broken families, crime, drugs, violence, and a lack of any respect for others.

76 Years

Teshon Gardner (23) raped a woman in her home at gunpoint, but that wasn’t depraved enough for him. When he saw pictures of the woman and her children on the wall, he realized the woman’s 12 year old daughter was also in the home, so he stopped his ongoing rape of the woman, searched the home, and found the 12 year old little girl. He then proceeded to rape both women and used his cell phone to record himself doing so.

He pled guilty to two counts of child molestation and for that, he received 76 years in prison. As a person in prison on “Chester” charges, he will have an interesting 76 years ahead of him. You may think that’s an adequate punishment. I don’t.

That girl, and to a lesser extent, her mother, have decades of life ahead of them, decades of reliving what this animal did to them. They received far worse than this animal ever did.

This dumbass pulled a gun and raped a woman before leaving her unsupervised to go looking for the child. Even if he *had* gotten the drop on her, she would have had time to retrieve a weapon and stop the attack on her daughter. When the cops arrived, what they should have found was a dead man with a gun in one hand, and his wet penis in the other.

When people say “you are your own first responder,” this is what we mean. Everyone has a choice. Do you want to arm yourself/ with a firearm and the skills to use it, or do you want to be a victim and have police show up and take a report of the crime after it has happened with the hope that they catch him?

Jury Duty

What would you say, if you happened to get jury duty on this case:

On December 17, 2015, Ronald Exantus broke into a Kentucky home, stabbed four members of the Tipton family while they slept, with 6 year old Logan dying from his stab wounds. This fucking animal stabbed the child so forcefully the knife used was bent, the tip broken. Police quickly arrested him. A jury later found Exantus not guilty by reason of insanity on murder and burglary charges and guilty but mentally ill on assault charges involving the surviving family members.

Ronald Exantus served 11 years, nine months and 18 days before being ruled as “cured,” and while being rehabilitated, he earned enough credit to be released. He was released July 29. This is not the case I am asking about. No one deserves the blame, except that murderer.

However, the Father has some blame to assume of his own. As I have said many times, a man’s duty is to his immediate family. One of the core tenets to being a man is the protection of the lives of those who have been placed in your care. The father left the door to the house unlocked, no alarm, no real means of slowing or stopping his family’s attacker. The animal who stabbed him, his two daughters, and killed his son. There is only one clear path for that man, and I support him.

“The judge and jury gave this monster a slap on the wrist while handing down a life sentence to my family,” Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, wrote on Facebook after Exantus’ release.

I agree. As the man who should have protected his family, Mr. Tipton failed them because he took no steps whatsoever to ensure their safety. He has had to live with that for over a decade. So what has he decided to do? What he should have done more than a decade ago.

Exantus was briefly released on mandatory reentry supervision in October 2025 before moving to Florida, where authorities said he violated the conditions of his supervision by failing to register as a convicted felon.

“I’ve had my talks with God cause I’m not afraid to tell you all, I told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man. I will kill him where he stands,” he previously told WKYT.

Don’t talk about it- do it. This is the only path forward. Had he done so, his child would be driving and thinking about college by now. Instead, he is dead, and this murderer is walking around a free man. That isn’t justice. My children are grown adults. However, if someone were to attack my wife, there would only be one way to deal with this.

I wouldn’t just wait and hope to cross paths with him, I would hunt this animal down. I would find him. Knowing that, I would remember that if Mr. Tipton were to happen to catch up to this man, and I found myself on the jury. So what would I do? I would make sure he didn’t spend a day in prison. If I could (which I know I couldn’t in this scenario), I would vote to pay him a reward for ridding us of this scum. There is only one way to make sure he doesn’t happen to go crazy and kill another child.

I have alarms. I am armed nearly all of the time. If someone happened to do that to my family, and I found myself in the position of having to watch him become a free man after murdering my wife or 6 year old child, I know what I would do.

The law is there to prevent vigilante justice and ensure the guilty receive a fair trial. That no longer the case. Our legal system is a farce and is no longer concerned with justice.

Can’t Count

Isn’t it odd that EVERY time an election has some sort of problem counting votes, it’s the most socialist candidate that comes out on top?

It looks like November’s election is going to be “We don’t have any ideas you would like, but we aren’t Donald Trump, so you can feel safe in voting for us.”

The growing rift within the caucus has some mainstream Democrats fretting that progressives like El-Sayed will be tough sells to general election voters in November. Others argue that their “big tent” can include more differing opinions as long as there’s unity against President Trump.

Come to find out, Islam won the global war on terror by claiming to be communist and calling all criticism as “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

Not a Free Pass

For those who read here, you know that I remain opposed to the death penalty. Not because killers don’t deserve it, but because I don’t trust our legal system not to execute the innocent. Still, the left wing press (redundancy alert) is up in arms because today is the day that Florida executes an 80 year old man. The press is claiming that it’s cruel to execute a disabled 80 year old.

He wasn’t 80 when he was convicted and sentenced 50 years ago. The man has delayed his punishment with appeal after appeal for five decades. While I am opposed to the death penalty, what we have now is a farce, with inmates spending 30, 40, and even 50 years abusing the court system. The government can abuse the legal process, but so can criminals.

If you are going to have a death penalty, there should be a limit to the number of appeals. Put all of your appeals into one motion that must be considered and ruled upon at once. Five year limit.

Discuss

Watch the video below. This apparently happened in the Home Depot in Ocala Florida. It is right down the street from Silver Springs, which is why you hear them refer to that. Below the post and video is my opinion. Discuss.

I don’t think the people in this video are stupid at all. He kept tapping her phone with his, while causing the phone to chirp each time. Then he made various claims of “It’s charity” and “I need money” then later, he said “I only took a hundred”

In my mind, this creates the reasonable belief that he is somehow using his phone to steal money, or at the very least, some sort of information from her phone. He is intentionally creating that belief in an attempt to get content for his stupid social media post that he is obviously filming with smart glasses. Many people’s phones contain financial information or automatic payment apps. It’s completely reasonable to believe he is using his phone to steal money, and he even made statements to that fact.

Once that reasonable belief exists in my mind, I am holding him for police. This is at the very least a reasonable belief that theft is taking place. Florida statute 776.031:

A person is justified in using or threatening to use force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent or terminate the other’s trespass on, or other tortious or criminal interference with, either real property other than a dwelling or personal property, lawfully in his or her possession or in the possession of another who is a member of his or her immediate family or household or of a person whose property he or she has a legal duty to protect. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force.

I am tackling this guy’s bitch ass. If he offers ANY physical force to resist my apprehension of him, it is now reasonable for me to believe that his theft has now become robbery. I am drawing a gun on his stupid ass. Why? Because as soon as he uses force, that becomes a reasonable fear of imminent commission of a forcible felony, as in robbery.

All of this for cheap laughs. This video would have been much funnier if it had ended with the videographer getting his ass kicked, or proned out on the ground looking down the barrel of that old man’s handgun.

Once it turns out he was placing me in fear for Internet laughs, my lawyer would be instructed to sue this asshole for intentional infliction of emotional distress. That would be funny as well.

Legal Blood

Years ago, when I was still a paramedic with the fire department, we would occasionally draw blood from patients and turn it over to the police. More than once, I drew a resisting patient’s blood while a police officer held a taser to their neck.

Why would I do that, you ask?

Florida has long had a specific statute, § 316.1933, covering crashes involving death or serious bodily injury. It provides that when an officer has probable cause to believe an impaired driver caused a death or serious bodily injury, the officer shall require a blood test. The statute also expressly authorizes the officer to use reasonable force if necessary, and it authorizes physicians, nurses, paramedics, and other qualified personnel to draw the blood at the officer’s request. It also grants immunity to those assisting with the draw when acting under the statute at the direction of a law enforcement officer.

For many years, the prevailing view, based largely on the earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision in Schmerber v. California (1966), was that alcohol dissipating from the bloodstream created an exigency justifying a warrantless blood draw in many DUI cases. The person’s liver was literally destroying the evidence every minute, and the delay in obtaining a warrant was the difference between a DUI homicide and a drunk walking away.

I understood why the law was there, and I also disagreed with it. My favorite quote is “better 1,000 guilty go free than 1 innocent person be convicted.” The truth is that the DUI law changes have had no discernible effect on the rate of traffic fatalities. Of course, the fact that the government uses traffic offenses as a cash cow, with Florida making $100 million a year from traffic tickets has nothing to do with it. In California, it was discovered that 1,600 DUI checkpoints yielded only 3,200 DUI arrests (two per checkpoint), but resulted in $40 million in traffic tickets and 24,000 vehicle confiscations. Cops also won, being paid $30 million in overtime to staff the checkpoints.

That was the law when I retired from the fire department in 2011. Then in 2013, the Supreme Court decided Missouri v. McNeely. The Court held that the natural metabolization of alcohol by itself does not automatically create an exigency. Instead, officers generally need a warrant unless the facts of the particular case make obtaining one impractical.

After McNeely, Florida appellate courts repeatedly held that, despite § 316.1933, the State still had to show either:

  • a warrant,
  • valid consent,
  • or a recognized exception to the warrant requirement (such as genuine exigent circumstances).