No, not the TV show (although it’s a brilliant one). I’m talking here about the old (and untrue) “Texas defense to murder” known as “he needed killing”.
Now I’m also not talking about scumbags I’d like to see dangling at the end of a rope (George Soros, the Clintons, Fatboi Pritzker etc.).
No, I’m talking about your common-or-garden type of asshole such as this dirtbag:
Click on the link above, and feel free to explain to me why someone like this deserves to share the air with us.
You see, in the old days scumbags like this would be handled by brothers, uncles, cousins and so on, who would take this little bully to one side, and after inflicting considerable pain upon him, would caution him against any further kind of aggro against their girl. And usually, this would be sufficient to end the situation. But nowadays, of course, these good-hearted protectors would be in trouble, with all the Usual Suspects telling them to let the police / justice system take care of the problem.
Which more often than not leads to this kind of outcome:
A thug jumped for joy as he avoided a prison sentence for shaving his girlfriend’s head and vandalising her home and car during a jealous rage.
Owen James Tysoe, 32, ‘lost his temper’ and screamed ‘you’re a wh**e, you don’t deserve to live’ at his partner of three years on January 29 earlier this year.
The unnamed woman woke up at 7am to find him standing over her, before he started shaving chunks out of her hair.
Of course, it was all “justified”:
Nathalie Carter, representing Tysoe, had earlier said in mitigation that the event was ‘very out-of-character’ and he had ‘lost his very good job as a result’.
The barrister added: ‘Because he was incarcerated they couldn’t hold out that long for him.’
She said the incident caused Tysoe to lose his job, where he is said to have been in charge of more than 400 people.
Ms Carter continued: ‘He knew the man she was having an affair with. They flaunted it in his face while his father was dying.’
Regardless of provocation, this kind of bullshit needs to be stopped — by the Brothers and Cousins Brigade, preferably. Assuming that all her actions were as represented, all he had to do was leave the woman, but he didn’t. Instead, he went all 7-year-old on her.
And in a just world, he would receive a sound thrashing instead of what he got at the hands of the court.
Bah.
isn’t the neck tattoo on the perp enough of a red flag?
He should definitely have received a longer stay in prison courtesy of HM King Charles III. The courts handle the legal process and very rarely does that include justice. See Tony Martin.
JQ
Take a good look at her. He is the type that is attracted to her. Her next “baby daddy” will be just like the last one. You can’t help some people. And yes, that perp could stand a serious ass beating too, including broken bones, concussions and contusions produced by blunt metal like objects.
I’ll share a story about some trailer people I used to know. Girlfriend gets all up in her boyfriend’s face, both drunk, big argument leads to be fight. He ties her to the bed and spends the rest of the weekend screwing her senseless. Come Monday, he unties her and goes to work. She waits till mid-morning, crosses the street to the other trailer park and goes to his mom’s trailer. Starts bitching about how horrible her son is, what all he did, how he beat her, etc. On and on for several hours, while the guy’s mother patiently listens.
When the girl finally winds down, the mother quietly says “Well dear, he’s been at work for hours now. What are you still doing here? You could’ve packed all your stuff, burnt the trailer down and left by now. Looks like you’re going stay and get more of the same treatment when he gets back home, which apparently is what you want. So, bye-bye.”
Some people you just can’t help. Learnt that a long time ago.
That can be true in some cases, not quite as simple as that in others. I was once in the “if she stays with him, that’s a ‘her’ problem'” camp until I got involved (not romantically/sexually) with a woman in an ugly situation. There was a level of… brokenness that her cocksucking boyfriend was all too willing to exploit, and that she couldn’t break through without help from me and a couple of others. Help that included teaching her to shoot & purchase her first gun: 9×18 Makarov. They were a great deal back in the 90s when the Russkies were hard up for cash & flooded the market with them. I still have mine, purchased about the same time.
Re: brilliant tv: loved me some Justified. Boyd Crowder & Robert Quarles are right up there with Gustavo Fring in the pantheon of tv villains.
As a young man I was in the white knight camp and provided friendly assistance to several women in distress. However, every single woman ended up going back to the asshole I helped her leave. Every. Single. One. Had a gun in my face several times. Finally learned. Unless it’s family I don’t get involved. And if it’s family, depends on who in the family.
I ain’t here to die helping someone else’s emotional disorder.
Re: tying her to the bed – I am of the opinion that rape should be a capital crime.
One, lots of women like being tied to the bed.
Two, lots of women are willing to lie about being raped. With zero repercussions. This includes the waking up with regret the next morning after clearly giving consent the night before. This also includes making up rape stories from 20-30 years ago against prominent conservative politicians.
Three, lots of cases end up being he-said/she-said, which to me ain’t enough proof for capital punishment.
Four, outside of those exceptions above, I can see capital punishment as a fit punishment. We just need a better way to weed out all the false charges first because in many cases the process is the punishment.
“Little has a lengthy record of 17 previous convictions for 34 offences, including for violence.”
In a sane world, no society would have let it go this far.
Amen.
In my younger days way back in the 50s, there was a family in our blue-collar neighborhood who were having a hard time. Daddy was a drinker who got mean when he drank. one Friday night, he came home from the corner tavern and started taking all his problems out on his wife and five kids, one of which was a recent newborn. Police were called and he was sent elsewhere to cool down and sober up.
Phones began to ring throughout the parish, and Saturday afternoon a “delegation” from the Knights of Columbus found him back at the tavern, fueling up for that evening’s family beat-down. He was “invited” to the back room, where a “discussion” about his continued bad manners was held, and he was “instructed” as to how he should change his ways.
Sunday morning, the first pew was reserved for a family returning to weekly Mass. Wife was beaming with babe in arms, the other children were scrubbed and well dressed, and husband was bruised and battered but, in a suit, and tie, and looking very contrite.
Soon, the Ladies League began to find useable second-hand clothes for the children, extra groceries for the family, and husband found himself with a better, steady factory job. I don’t think he quit drinking, but he cut way back, and every Sunday he made sure his family made it to church.
That’s how things used to work.
Back when the KoC carried swords – sharpened swords – for a variety of reasons.
Unfortunately, now the Knights of Columbus are an organization dedicated to the oppression of the liver.
For one, my daughters were brought up to not find themselves in such a situation.
And two, his body would never be found. Maybe a piece here or there.
And three, my girl’s boyfriends realized this on date one or two.
I’ve thought for a while there should be a “he had it coming” defense. It would be an affirmative defense, requiring a defendant to acknowledge he committed the crime. Thus, if the Defendant could not convince a jury that the victim of the crime truly “had it coming,” he would be found guilty as a given; that’s the nature of affirmative defenses. And the burden of proof would be on the defendant to provide evidence that the victim “had it coming.”
Frankly, if a defendant can convince 12 properly chosen, as unbiased as we can make them jurors that the victim had it coming, he had it coming. Very much along the lines of “he needed killing.”
Some people are only alive because it is too much hassle if you kill them.