Another Brick In The Wall?

This is interesting:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill making Texas the first state in the union to give law enforcement officers the authority to arrest migrants who illegally enter the state.

I hope we have enough prison space, is all.

Or perhaps we could concentrate all these lawbreakers in, I dunno, camps of some sort?

Just thinking aloud here, Boss.

The “interesting” part is how the FedGov will react to this.

What Was The Middle Bit, Again?

Several people sent me reports on a stolen car being re-stolen while the first set of thieves was preparing to rob a business… I think I got that right.

That’s all funny and such, but this isn’t:

The suspects in custody are teenagers aged 14 and 15, according to a spokesperson for the department. Police retrieved a shotgun and a handgun from them, both of which were loaded.

14 and 15 years old?

WTF happened to baseball trading cards, smuggled Playboy magazines, fishing in some farmer’s river without permission, riding their bicycles at breakneck speed through the neighborhood, trying to peek up girls’ skirts, sneaking into a movie house without paying, and all the other naughty stuff boys of that age used to do?

They’ve gone from infancy to adulthood* without bothering with adolescence, FFS.

Anyway, the only charges they’ll likely face is car theft and underage weapons carry because it doesn’t seem that they ever got round to robbing the store.

Ordinarily, I’d say just give them a good spanking and send them home to Momma, but these little shits would probably end up firebombing the judge’s house in revenge.

I dunno.  Back in the eighteenth century a kid (of any age) would get hanged for stealing a sheep or a horse, but even I think that’s a little harsh.

Unless the eighteenth-century kid was carrying a knife and stabbed the shepherd to death first — in which case I’d be the one applauding while the feral little shit was dancing his mid-air jig.

And that’s kind of how I feel about this modern scenario.  If kids are seemingly prepared to dish out death to get what they want — and yes, the guns were loaded — it seems quite fitting for society to nip these little murderers’ careers in the bud, with extreme prejudice.

No doubt someone is going to have a problem with this argument.


Adolescence:  the period between infancy and adultery.

Too Lenient

Nothing like a little pupil-teacher interaction, is there?

Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison in June after he ambushed the teacher – identified only as Sade – by asking if he could speak about his grades at El Dorado High School in April 2022.

During his June 2023 sentencing, it was revealed that the deranged student knocked the teacher unconscious. She later woke up with her pants and underwear down before the student threatened to burn her alive, prosecutors said. At one point in the attack, Martinez-Garcia told her: ‘Can’t you die already?’

The teacher was strangled from behind with cord during the attack and had her wrists cut, she now suffers from chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, needing a walker to move around.

The teenager sickeningly smirked in court while his victim was recounting her terrifying experience. He later made the same expression when the was sentenced.

I’m thinking that the little shit needs at least 50 years, minimum, before parole is offered — with weekly whippings of, say, 50 strokes. See how much he smirks then.

But no doubt someone will have a problem with this quite reasonable suggestion.