No, nice try back at you...
He is CLEARLY not talking about this individual crime, but the ROOT
CAUSE of the crime problems we are facing in AP as a whole. You are
overtly taking two words from the entire text and inappropriately
spinning it to make it sound like something different than he clearly
both said and intended. In fact, the closest anything in the article
gets to making the statement you claim is not Jim's words (in quotes -
you should recognize these as an attorney) but the writer's words
preceeding his quote.
A lawyer should not be this sloppy with his facts.
The exact text from the article...
Earlier in the week City Councilman James Keady said the
shootings are not just a criminal problem but stem from social
issues. "The roots of the problem are not criminal, they're social,"
he said.
One of the underpinning issues is poverty as well as a sense of
hopelessness among young African-American men in the city. "It's
serious stuff," Keady said. "As a community, we've really got to
begin to address the roots of these issues."
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <asburycouple@>
> wrote:
>
> > Tom, I'm not a huge fan of Mr. Keady but based on your own post
> > below you are clearly and apparently intentionally taking his
> > statement and twisting it to suit your own agenda of attacking
> >him.
>
>
> Nice try again.
>
> JK can't escape (and neither can anyone else) that he said the
cause
> of the shootings was NOT CRIMINAL (nothing confusing about "not"
> or "criminal").
>
> This wasn't an offhand remark. To further emphasize his view that
> the cause here was NOT CRIMINAL, he offered what he thought was the
> cause it was caused by society.
>
> To further emphasize that he thought the cause was NOT CRIMINAL, he
> even gave a list of things society has done to this poor shooter,
to
> wit: Society has deprived him of "recreation" and a "youth job."
>
> That's what JK said. The cause of this shooting was NOT CRIMINAL,
> but of different causes. You take exception to my repeating that
JK
> said the shootings were "not criminal?" Suddenly he didn't say it
> just because I repeated it? That's your problem, not mine.
>
> [Not to pull rank as a lawyer, which I always avoid here, but if
the
> cause was not criminal, he couldn't be convicted of a crime. I
> won't hold JK or anyone else to knowing that technicality].
>
> Let's refute JK's premise:
>
> A lack of recreation and a youth job does not CAUSE someone to
shoot
> a teenager in the face. BEING A CRIMINAL causes someone to shoot a
> teenager in the face. Only a fool would buy into a causation theory
> between recreation and the cold-bloodedness of murder.
>
> This isn't a time for moral equivocation. Make a value judgment.
> Shooting a teenager in the face is evil and what causes one to have
> the capability to do that is the heart, mind and soul of a
> CRIMINAL. The CAUSE here is CRIMINAL, as opposed to NOT CRIMINAL,
> like JK said.
>
> Oh how fortunate the children are to have a shepherd such as he!
> What message do the teenagers take from JK? "Hey, a community
> leader gave a number of excuses why the shooter did it. We
> have "reasons" for doing it, straight from a councilman! JK will
> make excuses for "why" we did it!" Nothing like putting a little
> moral equivocation into the minds of children (no way he should
> lecture in the schools).
>
> The better message, from an unwavering voice of human morality
would
> have been, "This is a heinous act. Anyone who would shoot a
> teenager in the face is a criminal (as opposed to NOT CRIMINAL) and
> that person made the darkest of choices that should never, ever be
> made. Furious justice and a life in prison awaits him."
>
> Certainly not, "Poor boy lacked alternatives."
>
> Cry for JK all you want. It's nothing personal - his leadership
is
> dangerous, because he's been waiting his whole life to publicly
> recite nice sounding platitudes, and does so even when they can
> cause harm.
>
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