NYT: "Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists"

There's much in the news these days to opine upon, but the New York Times op-ed editors have discovered the biggest breaking story imaginable:

Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists 

By AMANDA FILIPACCHI 

Published: April 24, 2013

... I belong to an e-mail group of published female writers called WOM (it stands for Word of Mouth). Some of the members are extremely well known. On Tuesday morning, when I made my discovery of this sexism on Wikipedia, I sent them an e-mail about it. I have since then been deluged with scandalized responses from these female authors. Word is spreading at a phenomenal rate, on Facebook and elsewhere. 

What's going on?

... It appears that gradually, over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. So far, female authors whose last names begin with A or B have been most affected, although many others have, too.

I would presume the motivation for this would be for the convenience of English / Womyn's Studies majors and the like. (I could look it up on the Talk page, if I were interested enough.) It sounds like a bad idea, but one that my sources at Sexism Central tell me was not on their radar for implementation in the 2013 Protocols of the Elders of Patriarchy.

But this published female writer is sure it's a male plot to exclude women from American literary history:

The intention appears to be to create a list of “American Novelists” on Wikipedia that is made up almost entirely of men.

Or, then again, this op-ed could be a parody.

The Avar Bomb Mom & the pro-Islamist logic of mixed-marriages

HBD Chick has been pointing out that the Bomb Brothers' parents are a mixed marriage: Dad is a Chechen born in internal exile in Central Asia (due to Stalin expelling the Chechens for fighting for Hitler), while Mom is an Avar from Chechnya's neighbor Dagestan. They are all North Caucasus Muslims, but this is a Modern Family, at least by the standards of the North Caucasus.

Similarly, Tamerlan's widow, the mother of his child, is an American girl, daughter of a doctor, who converted to Islam.

To answer the late Rodney King's question: See, we can all get along.

So, I went to Wikipedia to find out who Mom's Avar people are. Wikipedia offered a wealth of information, such as:

During the Khazar wars against the Caliphate in the 7th century, the Avars sided with Khazaria. Surakat is mentioned as their Khagan around 729-30 AD, followed by Andunik-Nutsal at the time of Abu Muslima, then Dugry-Nutsal. Sarir suffered a partial eclipse after the Arabs gained the upper hand, but managed to reassert its influence in the region in the 9th century. It confronted the weakened Khazars and conducted a friendly policy towards the neighbouring Christian states of Georgia and Alania. 

In the early 12th century, Sarir disintegrated, to be succeeded by the Avar Khanate, a predominantly Muslim polity. The only extant monument of Sarir architecture is a 10th-century church at the village of Datuna. 

Of the fourteen names which figured in the geographical part, we only recognized three - Khorasan, Armenia, Erzerum - interpolated in the text in an ambiguous way. Of the historical names, only one: the impostor magician Smerdis, invoked more as a metaphor. The note seemed to fix the boundaries of Uqbar, but its nebulous reference points were rivers and craters and mountain ranges of that same region. We read, for example, that the lowlands of Tsai Khaldun and the Axa Delta marked the southern frontier and that on the islands of the delta wild horses procreate. ... as a result of the religious persecutions of the thirteenth century, the orthodox believers sought refuge on these islands, where to this day their obelisks remain and where it is not uncommon to unearth their stone mirrors. 

Oh, wait, sorry, that third paragraph is from Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" about a hoax article inserted into an encyclopedia about a nonexistent nation. Sorry. My mistake. Won't happen again.

Fortunately, hbd chick's summary is more comprehensible:

there are only ca. three million people in dagestan and yet there are several dozen ethnic groups there, one of which is the avars. and then the avars, in turn, are further subdivded in 15+ sub-ethnic groups (who knows which one mrs. tsarnaev comes from), which are further subdivided into tribes (tukkhums), clans (teips), extended families and so on. THIS is a clannish society. 

from The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (2008) 

“The Chechens are now considered exemplary of the mountaineers’ historic resistance to Russian rule, but that reputation is only partly deserved. ... The real engine of the highlander uprisings of the nineteenth century lay farther to the east, in Dagestan. The very name of the region — literally ‘the mountainous land’ — is evidence of its central geographical feature: mountains and plateaus cut by fast-flowing rivers. A congeries of distinct languages and customs has long been characteristic of the area, with social ties formed along lines of clans, extended families, and village groupings. The major ethnic groups — the Avars, Dargins, Kumyks, and Lezgins, among others, with none accounting for more than 30 percent of the population — today represent the dominant factions in Dagestan’s precarious balance of regional, ethnic, and clan interests.”
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we hear a similar message about the dagestanis (and also learn some more about the chechens) in The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad (2010): 

“Research on the *wirds* and *teips* (clans and families) of the Chechens is difficult to collect and the findings generally frustrate the Western desire for order and clarity. But what this research has demonstrated by its inability to draw straight lines is that *there aren’t straight lines* and the Chechen and Dagestani (or Ingush, Kabard, and Balkarian among others) cultures are not vertical structures, or ‘power verticals’ to use the current Russian vernacular. The Muslim faith is a relatively flat hierarchy to begin with, but by looking at the mountaineer culture and its imposition of yet another layer of clan hierarchy on top of the religious one, it is easy to understand why the Caucasians have so much success at insurgent warfare. North Caucasus social structures are perfect for conducting guerilla and terrorist activity because their societies are already a culture of ‘cells,’ and as we’ve seen, cellular organizations with a high degree of loyalty are paramount to insurgencies. Because familial loyalty sometimes trumps religious authority, and because those same clan are often competing among themselves for status and hegemony, those societal ‘fractures’ were — and still are — exploited by the Russians…. 

“This particular characteristic of Caucasus culture is what gives it strength as an insurgency and yet ultimately keeps it weak when it comes time to make the final move toward independence.[24]“ 

“[24] Although Chechnya has been the primary focus of this book thus far, the Dagestanis have been as much a part of this conflict as anyone else. As of this writing, there are more attacks taking place in Dagestan than in Chechnya. The internal dynamics of Dagestan are even more fractured than Chechnya. Aside from the religious and family aspects, Dagestan is made up of more than 13 different ethnic groups — of which the Avars, Dargins, and Lezgins still comprise less than 60 percent of the population. In addition, there are Laks, Tabasarans, Rutuls, Aguls, Tsakhurs, Kumyks, Nogais, Azeris, Chechens, and Russians, and another 40 or so tiny groups numbering only about 200 total — and they all speak their own language — making Chechnya and its Vainakh cousin Ingushetia look downright homogenous.“ 

clannishness is a strength. and at the same time, clannishness is a weakness.

Here's my guess on the internal family dynamics that, over the last half dozen years led Mom and Tamerlan, followed to a lesser extent by Django, into fervent piety (leaving the secular Chechen Dad behind), and in turn leading Tamerlan and Djohar into pan-Islamist terrorism.

Tamerlan was a high testosterone guy, a boxer, maybe a wise guy. (Similarly, younger brother Djoker was captain of the high school wrestling team.) Like most young men, Tamerlan was looking for a team to lead in the fight against other teams. (A continuing theme here at iSteve is that much of what we think of as politics and war is just male team-oriented aggression, which some groups bleed off more into sports while others go more for good old-fashioned bloodshed.)

As a half-Chechen, Tamerlan inherited a world-famous tradition of national rebellion. His younger brother bore the name of the first President of the breakaway Chechen republic in the early 1990s, a secularized Muslim who had risen up to be a general in the Soviet air force. 

However, a general pattern in Chechen history going back to the 19th Century is that when rebellions get serious, Chechens tend to turn to Islam to patch over tribal divisions and reach out for help from other Muslims beyond their own small population. In the 1990s, for example, rich Saudi Wahhabi fanatics flooded Chechnya with money, helping convert what had been more or less a nationalist rebellion against Russia into an Islamist one.

Likewise, Islamism is also a logical endpoint for diverse mixed-marriage families like the Tsarnaevs. Dad is a Chechen but Mom is an Avar. But they all have, at least via inheritance, Islam in common. Similarly, Tamerlan's wife is a ferengi, but she converted to Islam. 

Therefore from Tamerlan's and Dzokhar's perspective, Islam was the most logical team for them to choose to fight for in their post-athletic lives. (They already like fighting, so the question was just which team to pick now that they were washed up as boxer and a wrestler.)

Thus, anything done by Americans to Iraqis or Afghans was an attack on their team, the Muslims of the world, thus justifying, in their own minds, attacking Americans.

Daily Mail has Tavon White's picture

Tavon, Tavon likes his money
He makes a lot they say

The World's Most Interesting Newspaper, the Daily Mail, comes through again, posting a picture of Tavon White. 

As I mentioned yesterday, Tavon is the head of the Black Guerilla Family prison gang inside a Baltimore jail, where he fathered five babies by four lady prison guards.

I'm not sure why the Washington Post and other American outlets hadn't posted Tavon's picture. Perhaps they were trying to battle racial stereotypes. After all, without pictorial evidence, how could anyone have guessed that Tavon White is black? Or maybe they couldn't find a picture of Tavon at age 12 like they found of Trayvon?

France: Same sex marriage v. vive la différence

Many American liberals have been baffled why the French, whom they admire for being so European, have not been terribly fashion-forward about gay marriage. In fact, the strongest public resistance to gay marriage (e.g., mass marches) has come in France.

Why?

Here's my theory. The French, especially the Provencal troubadors, led a revolution in world culture a thousand years ago in elevating to the highest cultural prestige male-female romance. This started out as largely an idealization of heterosexual romance between bachelors and women who had to marry somebody else for dynastic reasons (e.g., Lancelot and Guinevere), but soon evolved into an overwhelming cultural endorsement of the love marriage, which is perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Western Civilization of which the French have always been in the forefront. It's not a coincidence that Paris has always been the dream capital of the feminine imagination.

In contrast, in the preceding Greek and (to a lesser extent) Roman ancient world, marriage was more functional and less emotion-laden, while romance was culturally constructed to be mostly pederastic homosexuality. This is not to say that husbands and wives weren't often deeply in love in the Ancient World, just that the the most prestigious high culture tended to endorse homosexual pederasty over heterosexuality as the most favored medium of romance.

See Plato's Symposium for some jaw-dropping stuff on what erotic love meant to the Dead White European Males in classical Athens: basically, bedding boys. Their view: A strong, aristocratic man should not waste his deepest feelings on some mere woman when he could be mentoring a beardless youth in exchange for sex.

We are constantly told that homosexuality has always been oppressed and forced into a life in the shadows (as Sen. Graham might say on a different topic). Except, that's not true. In the institutional memory of both Judaism and Christianity (and perhaps Islam), which goes back to Persian and Greco-Roman times, homosexuality was what strong men did to weaker males with the full approval of society.

So, it's not terribly surprising that the French should feel more deeply than the rest of us about defending from the current fashion for same sex marriage their greatest contribution to humanity: the celebration at the highest levels of art and of cultural prestige of vive la différence.

Did Tamerlan cut 3 throats in Waltham to celebrate 9/11's tenth anniversary?

From The Jewish Press:

Gravestone of one of three acquaintances of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who had
their throats slashed in the Brandeis U.-area on 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Tsarnaev-Connected Waltham Murders Occurred on 9/11 

The fact that three men were brutally murdered on September 11, in murders which remain unsolved but in which the victims have now been connected to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, cannot be ignored. 

By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus 

Published: April 24th, 2013

One aspect of the unsolved brutal throat-slashing murders of three men in a Waltham apartment in 2011, all three of whom knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings, has been overlooked. 

It may be pure coincidence, but it turns out that Erik Weissman, 31 of Waltham, Raphael Terek, 37, of Waltham and Brendan Mess, 25, of Waltham were murdered on September 11, 2011. Terek and Weissman were Jewish. 

That Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew the three men who were murdered became known recently, and the fact that Tamerlan was very close with at least one of them but never showed up for the funeral or memorial services, was considered odd at the time, but memory faded. 

The exact date of the murders  – September 11 – and its significance, had not yet been recognized.

There hasn't seemed to be too much progress on this case since it resurfaced this week, so no proof yet. But think about the negative case: if Tamerlan didn't do it, who did? And are they still on the loose? 

How do we know whole Tsarnaev family isn't mafia?

Why was the Tsarnaev family given asylum in the U.S.? VDARE has lots of good investigations. So far, though, the feds have stayed clammed up about the Bush Administration's motivations.

In that part of the world, when you try to unravel why something happened, it often turns out to be appropriately byzantine.

Both Ma and Pa Bomb moved back to Russian Dagestan awhile ago, so it's not like the government of Russia had sworn to hunt them down. 

We know dad Anzor Tsarnaev isn't some "bearded fanatic" -- he's a secular guy, who got upset that his wife and kid were turning Islamic in exile. He's maybe some kind of lawyer, maybe associated with the old Soviet government, maybe with the successor Russian government. It's murky. 

Were fanatic Muslims out to get him? What side was he on in the Russia vs. secular Chechen nationalist dispute of the early 1990s before all the Islamic crazies arrived.

Was asylum a high-level decision by Washington owing to dad Anzor Tsarnaev doing something for America? Perhaps, although if so, that would be just about the only time during the Bush years that immigration decisions were made in the national interest. 

Maybe Anzor got in on the anti-Osama gravy train after 9/11? Bin Laden had contacts with Chechen Islamists from the 1990s onward, so maybe Anzor, who had seems to have had some sort of shadowy prosecutorial experience, positioned himself as a resource for American national security area experts on the North Caucasus at Harvard or MIT would want to consult with? [Note: sheer speculation.]

Or was it all just another mess-up on the Bush Administration's part? Perhaps nobody was trying to kill Anzor, he just wanted to get out of his own part of the world. 

Or then again maybe, he had, uh, business associates who were no longer congenial. Chechens have a lot of business associates, not all of whom are congenial.

Looking up "Chechen Mafia" on Wikipedia, we find lots of interesting stuff about the blurry line between freedom fighters, gangsters, and terrorists:

The Chechen mafia (Russian: Чеченская мафия Chechenskaya mafia) is one of the largest organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union, ... which originally consisted of criminals of Chechen ethnicity who later also tried to recruit former Russian special military forces, police and army officers. 

It has substantially decreased its presence in Moscow by 1994 after Slavic mafia groups united against their Chechen counterpart, with assistance from Russian police and the FSB (the former KGB). As it happened most of Chechen gang members returned to Chechnya and joined the rising Chechen separatist movement.

Mistaken for the Russian mafia 

The Chechen mafia is often incorrectly referred to as the generic "Russian mafia" in Europe, because most people of Chechen ethnicity speak Russian and many emigrated from the Russian Federation during the wars. 

According to the documentary The making of a new empire directed by Jos de Putter, the group originated in 1974 after a Chechen student at Moscow State University named Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev founded an underground opposition movement, which later became known as the widely feared Obshina.[1] 

To many Chechens it was regarded as the cradle of the liberation movement, with Noukhaev embodying a persistent Chechen tradition of the bandit-warrior. By 1987 Chechen criminals had developed into a well-organized community under Nukhayev and Nikolay Suleimanov, the group forced the most influential local OC gangs (the Lyubertsy, Solntsevo, and Balashikha) out of Moscow which allowed the Chechens to occupy the dominant position.[2] 

Activities 

Recent reports estimated that the group's sphere of influence extends from Vladivostok to Vienna, with members involved in various areas of criminal activity ranging from automobile theft, money laundering, trafficking Chinese illegal immigrants to Japan, narcotics smuggling, and the illegal sale of plutonium. Unlike other Russian OC groups, the Obshina was considered a hybrid criminal-political entity, which used illegal proceeds to finance and arm separatists fighters during the Chechen Wars.[3] 

This unique characteristic has resulted in a trend towards blurring the distinction between organized crime and terrorists groups and has confused many observers as to the Obshina's overall motivations. It is still not entirely clear whether they are more interested in creating an independent nation-state or in perpetuating regional instability so that they might continue to profit from the drug trade and other criminal activities. ...

The Chechen Mafia was also described in the book "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the looting of Russia" by Paul Klebnikov, a famous Russian-American journalist who was killed in Moscow in 2004. 

Drug trafficking 

Chechen criminal groups and guerrilla factions reportedly play a significant part in the narcotics trade in Central Asia, Russia and the Caucasus region. In the First Chechen War guerrillas used funding from a variety of rackets as well as the sale of oil. However in the Second Chechen War the fighters received huge financial backing from Saudi Arabian militant Ibn Al-Khattab, who joined with guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev and became a prominent figure in the war. This marginalized some figures such as Ruslan Gelayev, who turned to the drugs trade full time. 

The Chechen mafia appears to dominate the traditional Russian mafia organizations in the drugs trade. One Tajik drug trafficker stated he preferred to sell his product to Chechen gangs rather than Russians, because of the Chechen's high-reaching contacts in both the underworld and police force. The Chechen influence runs even so far as to Murmansk, where starting from 1997 the head of the province's Internal Affairs Administration was actually a puppet for a Chechen named Vaskha Askhabov, who brought with him large-scale heroin trafficking that dominated the local underworld. Eventually Askhabov was arrested but freed in Moscow shortly afterwards, apparently thanks to his connections in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.[5] 

Connections to Islamic Fundamentalism 

The Chechen independence movement has gained widespread attention and support in the Islamic world and throughout the conflict foreign charity organizations and fighters from many Arab countries have volunteered their services. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, the Putin administration has made several attempts to link Chechen insurgents to Al-Qaeda. Allegations of Al-Qaeda and Taliban links to the Chechen mafia have recently appeared and well-known Chechen leaders have been at different times referred to in the media as Islamists, terrorists, and mafia bosses. ...

The use of narcotics profits to finance the Chechen separatist movement and its links to Islamists groups has been suggested by various intelligence agencies. 

The Chechen mafia presence in Argentina has been linked primarily to the use of Argentina as a transit country for Andean cocaine shipments to Europe in fishing treaters and cargo ships, arms trafficking to Brazil and Colombia, and money laundering. In the so-called "tri-border" area between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay - which is home to a sizable Arab Muslim population[citation needed] - Argentine intelligence sources have detected contacts between Chechen separatist groups and "Islamic terrorists" and suspect Chechen use of these networks for arms smuggling purposes.[6]

As you'll recall, immediately after 9/11, the Bush Administration's #3 man in the Pentagon, Douglas Feith, formally recommended to the President that America respond to the destruction of the Twin Towers by bombing Paraguay.

On the other side of the globe, to finance their separatist movement, Islamist leader Shamil Basayev and his Chechen followers transported Afghan heroin through Abkhazia to the Black Sea or through Turkey to Cyprus and then on to Europe.[7] 

In 1998 it was reported by Riyad 'Alam-al-Din in Nicosia and an unidentified Al-Watan al-'Arabi correspondent in Moscow that Osama bin Ladin dispatched a delegation to the Chechen Republic made up of his group and representatives of the Taliban. Secret meetings were held in the outskirts of Grozny with some members of the Chechen Mafia to put the final touches on "the nuclear warheads deal." Allegedly the deal cost $30 million in cash from Osama bin Ladin's treasury and a grant of two tons of Afghan heroin donated by the Taliban. It was claimed that bin Ladin resorted to the services of the Chechen Mafia after many of his aides, some specializing in nuclear physics, failed in their attempts to acquire nuclear technology and equipment.[8] However, these reports have yet to be confirmed by outside sources.

Yeah, I haven't heard of anything like that in a long time. On the other hand, Chechen fighters provided the rear guard that allowed bin Laden to escape the American trap at Tora Bora. So, there was some contact.

In summary, there's plenty of material here for just about any conspiracy theory you want to dream up about the Tsarnaevs. 

So, what's my bet?

The smart money, no matter what the question, is always on: The Bush Administration screwed up.

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Tavon White of Black Guerilla Family prison gang "fathered five children with four of the corrections officers"

"In Obama America, girls guard you!"

"Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore [men's] jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said."

From the Washington Post, a Wire-worthy story with something for everybody:

13 corrections officers indicted in Md., accused of aiding gang’s drug scheme 

By Ann E. Marimow and John Wagner

More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. 

Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering indictment. 

The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmate’s first name, Tavon — one on her neck, the other on a wrist. 

The guards allegedly helped leaders of the Black Guerilla Family run their criminal enterprise in jail by smuggling cellphones, prescription pills and other contraband in their underwear, shoes and hair. One gang leader allegedly used proceeds to buy luxury cars, including a Mercedes-Benz and a BMW, which he allowed some of the officers to drive. ...

The Black Guerilla Family was founded in California in the 1960s but now operates nationwide in prisons and on the streets of major U.S. cities, including Baltimore. ... 

Have you ever noticed that white prison gangs are always described as "white supremacist," but black prison gangs and Mexican prison gangs are never described as "black supremacist" and "Mexican supremacist?"

In a statement Tuesday, [Gov.] O’Malley said the indictment arose in part from the efforts of a Maryland prison task force that includes state and federal officials. 

It comes at a sensitive time for the Democrat, who is weighing a 2016 presidential bid. Aides have said that part of O’Malley’s political pitch would be his record as a “performance-driven” manager of state government.  

Tavon White (Daily Mail)

At the center of the investigation was an alleged leader of the Black Guerilla Family, Tavon White, who prosecutors said fathered five children with four of the corrections officers — Jennifer Owens, 31, of Randallstown; Katera Stevenson, 24, of Baltimore; Chania Brooks, 27, of Baltimore; and Tiffany Linder, 27, of Baltimore — since his incarceration on attempted murder charges in 2009. 

Five kids fathered by an attempted murderer in prison. Anybody want to bet whether these five will turn out to be, on the whole, net taxpayers or tax consumers?

In one wiretapped cellphone call in January, White, 36, of Baltimore, told an acquaintance: “This is my jail. You understand that? I’m dead serious. I make every final call in this jail.” 

Four years ago, federal authorities in Baltimore targeted the BGF gang at the state prison in Baltimore, sending its reputed leader to prison for 12 years.

I'm not totally clear on the concept here. You're sending him to prison, where he already is, for the crime of living luxuriously in prison? (It does seem like it would make a good paradox in logic class.)

“Correctional officers were in bed with BGF inmates,” he said. “We need to be able to rely on people within law enforcement — to make sure they are on our side.” ...

According to an affidavit for search warrants for the homes of the prison guards, who were arrested Tuesday, gang leaders strategically recruited female officers who they thought had “low self-esteem and insecurities.” 

Gang leaders also relied on other inmates, known as “working men,” whose jobs throughout the prison gave them greater flexibility to pick up and deliver contraband. Inmates then paid for the drugs and cellphones using 14-digit numbers from prepaid debit cards that had also been smuggled into the prisons.

George Gilder wrote a book, Visible Man, about a charming young inner city black man who idled his days away in low brow stupidity, except for when he was in prison. Suddenly, he would turn into a King Rat-style business mastermind, only to relapse into a layabout sponge as soon as he was freed to return to the company of women he could exploit with his looks and personality. (Of course, they didn't have gender-integrated prison guard staffs back in the 1970s, so we're more advanced now.)

... In one instance, prosecutors described Officer Jasmin Jones allegedly standing guard outside a closet while Officer Kimberly Dennis had sex with inmate Derius Duncan.

Maynard said department policy prohibits such relationships between inmates and correctional officers ...

Sen. Lisa A. Gladden (D-Baltimore), who works as a public defender in Baltimore when the legislature is not in session, said the large percentage of female corrections at the detention center contributed to the problem. “A lot of times, they become smitten with the inmates. [The inmates] talk really sweet and say really nice things, and the CO’s fall for them. You need to have a bunch of rough, ugly men.” 

But Maynard, the state prison chief, said that the sex of the officers was not the issue. It is not uncommon, he said, for detention centers across the country to employ women. The issue, he said, was this particular group of “bad actors,” who were strategically targeted and were willing to break the law.

Peter Hermann contributed to this report.

In another account, Jane Miller of WBAL-TV in Baltimore reports that none of the 13 female guards named in the indictment has been fired: see the 2:15 point of this video. The text story says:

Officers can be fired for associating with inmates, but the women in this case are suspended and still employed.

More from WBAL:

According to the indictment, White allegedly had a sexual relationship with four correctional officers -- Jennifer Owens, Katera Stevenson, Chania Brooks and Tiffany Linder -- impregnating all of them at least once. Owens and Stevenson got "Tavon" tattoos, the indictment states. ... 

On Oct. 24, 2012, Owens is heard saying, "I understand you stressed out cuz you locked up, OK? But I am, too. You locked up and I'm (expletive) pregnant again. Who the (expletive) does that?"

From the Baltimore Sun:

An indictment unsealed Tuesday names 25 people — including 13 women working as corrections officers — who face racketeering and drug charges. ...

It alleges that Tavon White, an inmate known as "Bulldog," took control of the prison gang soon after his arrival in 2009 on an attempted-murder charge. He is accused of building a network of corruption inside of the jail that both enabled a smuggling operation and allowed White to manage gang activity on the city streets.

... "Once a violent offender is sent to jail, law enforcement's hardest work should be behind it," said. "This is not the case in Baltimore City." 

By this spring, White was confident of his supremacy in the jail, according to summaries of intercepted calls included in the affidavit. 

"I hold the highest seat you can get," he told another alleged member of the gang. "So regardless of what anybody say, whatever I say is law. Like, I am the law. My word is law." 

... "These sexual relations cemented the business ties and the association of the corrections officers with the enterprise," prosecutors wrote in the indictment.

A spokesman for the department said 13 correctional officers have been suspended without pay. The department is recommending that they be dismissed, the spokesman said. ...

Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell, a Baltimore Democrat, said she is supportive of "anything that would eliminate the transport of contraband … into the prisons."
"We have to make sure appropriate training takes place and we are paying our corrections officers to make sure they are not engaging in negative behavior so they don't feel they need to take risks to help them out financially," she said. 

Archer Blackwell, a senior staff representative with the union that represents the jail's officers, said the management of the detention center should do more to screen and prepare workers. 

"The administration really doesn't do a good job of hiring quality people," he said. "They need to do more psychological examination, they need to do more in the academy to actually train and discipline people." 

P.S. I knew a guy once who had a job as head of a maintenance department at one of the huge prisons outside of Chicago. He said that lots of the guards were paid off by prison gangs to smuggle stuff in. He suggested that small rural towns that imagine that having a prison built there would be a great employment opportunity for their young men and women should think twice about what being a prison guard and being around prisoners all day does to a normal person's morals. He told me this while we were sitting in his lovely and quite lavish house. Hey, wait a minute ...

P.P.S., But this whole affair will be worth it since it can server as a learning moment to undermine our culture's stereotype of women prison guards as lesbians.

My wife says, "But I thought all women prison guards were lesbians?"

"Apparently, just the women guards in the women's prisons."

P.P.P.S. Speaking of the Black Guerilla Family, I strongly suspect that the primate prison gang scenes in 2011's clever Rise of the Planet of the Apes were inspired in part by this phrase "Black Guerilla Family." It's not the kind of thing the screenwriters can admit in public ("We got the idea for the prison gang led by a black gorilla from the Black Guerilla Family prison gang founded by Angela Davis's boyfriend"). But the more I read up on the once-famous history of the Black Guerilla Family, the more it sounds like one of the inspirations for the movie (along with the movie's brilliant "AIDS Patient Zero" ending).

Rise, like many of the original Planet of the Apes movies, is in part a Black Power allegory. The Black Guerilla Family was the most intellectual of the prison gangs, founded in Northern California by George Jackson in 1966 as a Marxist revolutionary movement.

Jackson went on to be the prison boyfriend of Professor Angela Davis -- they first met on visiting days, but exchanged passionate love letters. (Chicks dig guys on Death Row.) After the Jackson Brothers killed some guards in various escapes with guns she had bought, Professor Davis was put on trial for first degree murder. She was famously acquitted.

The whole story of George Jackson is just insane and massively publicized 40 years ago, but I don't recall anybody else noticing any connections between Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Black Guerilla Family. (David Horowitz knew most of these folks so I wonder what he would think of Rise.)

"In Obama America, girls guard you!"

P.P.P.P.S. Imagine that you are a Chechen Mafia vor sitting around in the rubble of your Grozny strip club, and a Yakov Smirnoff-type underling rushes in to announce, "TV say black vor in American prison had five babies with four lady guardettes! In Obama America, girls guard you!"

Being a rational mafioso, you would have to conclude that you owe it to your crime family descendants to get out of the Chechnya-Dagestan-Russia rackets rat race and come to America, so rich and so stupid, today.

As Neil Diamond tried to warn us:

Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Every time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, today, today, today, today

Sailer in Taki's: "Chechens Coming Here to Roost"

My new column in Taki's is a rather ambitious attempt to pull together a number of themes raised over the last week.

Over the last few days, as I watched both the homicidal antics of the Boston Bomb Brothers and the characteristically competent Tom Cruise science-fiction movie Oblivion, I was reminded that one of the least expected developments of my lifetime has been how the vast majority of the world’s population is no longer expected or even encouraged to be liberal. At least they are not asked to be “liberal” in the mid-1960s Star Trek sense, meaning obeying a universalist ethic that values all individuals equally. 

Instead, the world’s six billion or so nonwhites are now told to be as conservative as possible. I’m using “conservative” in the sense of being naturally ethnocentric, of having loyalties emanating in a concentric pattern, radiating outward from self and nuclear family to extended family, clan, tribe, nation, religion, or race. 

... Consider the immense marketing campaign for amnesty that was proceeding so smoothly until those Chechen immigrants started acting so Checheny. Almost the entire Establishment has been inciting racialism among Mexican-American voters. The press has been demanding that Mexicans get angry if any American dares stand up for laws against illegal immigration. Why? Because keeping Mexican nationals out of America is an insult to their race. 

The notion that a Republican politician could stand up and ask Mexican-American voters to demonstrate their loyalty to America by voting against illegal immigration because it is, on the whole, bad for their fellow American citizens is simply unthinkable today. Asking Mexicans to think in sophisticated legal terms such as “citizen” instead of crude biological terms such as “race” has become too advanced for today’s advanced thinkers. 

The Tsarnaev Brothers lived in the absolute heart of liberal intellectual America—in Cambridge, Massachusetts, less than two miles from both Harvard and MIT. Therefore, you can be confident that they were never instructed that they owe anything to the country that let them in.

Additional topics brought to bear on this thesis include Macaulay, Tolstoy, Oblivion, and Untouchables. Read the whole thing there.

Tamerlan was on welfare

 The Boston Herald reports:

Tamerlan Tsarnaev got Mass. welfare benefits

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  

By: Chris Cassidy 

Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. 

State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. 

Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam — was working up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tsarnaev stayed at home.

My upcoming Taki's Magazine column has a quote about Chechen men being supported by their wives' hard work by a certain observer of Chechens.

In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state.

The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money.

Well, that wouldn't be the first time that ever happened. That's a stereotype about Muslim terrorists in Europe. They sit around on the dole fiddling with their prayers and their bombs waiting for the welfare check.

... Their taxpayer-funded status came to light last night after repeated calls and emails to welfare officials from the Herald. They refused to comment throughout the day, but pressure mounted last night when the Herald started asking lawmakers whether the Department of Transitional Assistance should release the info.

Ben Franklin pointed out that you don't make people like you by doing them favors. It just makes them resent you. Instead, ask them to do you favors.

The week The Narrative went off track

As you've probably noticed, I've been posting a lot. 

A major reason is that public discourse in America has become so constrained by the dictates of The Narrative (e.g., Immigration Reform) that only when some maniacs like the Bomb Brothers intrude upon the smooth flow of agreed-upon marketing campaign news that we get to see the conventional wisdom stress-tested. 

The results of these unexpected ordeals for pundits and media organizations are proving enlightening.

Kathleen Parker is as wise and funny as The Onion

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker writes something like the piece on Chechen stereotypes in the new, unfunny Onion:

Parker: Boston bombers defy stereotypes
The terror of not knowing

By Kathleen Parker, Tuesday, April 23, 5:13 PM 

As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn’t . . . fill in the blank: 

● a white Christian from the South;
● a dark-skinned Muslim foreigner;
●an illegal Latino immigrant. 

Thank goodness. 

The marathon bombers, officials say, are of Chechen background. Huh? Is that, like, in Czechoslovakia or something? 

If many Americans had forgotten or never known where Chechnya is — or that Czechoslovakia is now the Czech Republic — they were not confused when it came to the Muslim connection. The mere fact that the brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were connected to Islam was sufficient for some to justify holding all Muslims in suspicion. 

The relief, meanwhile, was that “our” demographic group wouldn’t this time be blamed. Even darker-skinned Muslims, familiar with group demonization following 9/11, reportedly were relieved. 

... Alas, this is not a comparative religion seminar but an examination of the difficulties ahead as we wrestle acquired biases into submission and resist the urge to demonize groups of people. Discrimination is a life-saving tool in the jungle — steer clear of the hyenas — but it has no place in American jurisprudence. A U.S. citizen gets the full slate of equal rights and responsibilities, including a presumption of innocence, no matter which God he invokes. ...

Once we begin to discriminate in the assignment of rights to citizens and legal residents based on their thoughts, religious affiliation, assemblage — or our own assumptions — we risk becoming our own worst enemy. 

At this juncture, the light-skinned, foreign-born, Muslim-leaning brothers who are suspected of inflicting terror on Boston fit neatly into no category we can define with certainty other than evil, which is, sadly, the unique provenance of the human race. Rooting it out will require more than tighter security or better immigration laws.

Elvis Impersonator / Usual Suspect freed after false flag Obama-poisoning terrorist frame-up

Back on April 17th, I wrote in response to the arrest of an Elvis impersonator (who is big into dismembered body parts awareness) on charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama and a Republican Senator:

So, either this is good, prompt police work or an example of "Round up the usual suspects!"

Now:

Man Is Freed as U.S. Questions Another Over Poisoned Mail 

By ROBBIE BROWN 

Criminal charges were dropped Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Obama and two other officials. 

One day after the F.B.I. said it could find no evidence that the man, Paul Kevin Curtis, was behind the plot, a federal judge released him from jail and federal authorities shifted focus to another person of interest in the case. 

Lawyers for Mr. Curtis, 45, a celebrity impersonator, said he had been framed by a longtime personal enemy, XYZ, a martial arts instructor from Tupelo, Miss. F.B.I. agents raided Mr. XYZ’s house but did not immediately bring charges against him. Mr. XYZ, reached by phone, denied involvement but did not elaborate. [I redacted the new suspect's name: I feel sorry for Mr. Curtis, but who knows how many other archenemies he might have than Mr. XYZ?]

At a news conference after his release ... he said he had never even heard of ricin. “I thought they said rice,” he said. “I said I don’t even eat rice.” 

... Mr. Curtis thanked God and his lawyer for his release. A father of four, he has a long history of mental illness, including bipolar disorder, his friends and family have said. Last week, as he faced 15 years in jail, friends stood by him. 

“He’s definitely been framed,” said Carol Scott, a longtime friend who is a nurse in Brisbane, Australia. “All I can tell you about him is he’s a well-respected man. He would not be guilty of anything.”

So, to help poor Mr. Curtis out, he're a link to his Elvis impersonation videos. I like his singing voice. As a commenter says, he's good enough to be performing at a lounge in an Indian casino, so let's hope he gets a break. (Of course, he's still not quite right in the head, but, then he's an Elvis impersonator, so, really ...)

(Perhaps Amanda Palmer could write him a poem?)

Taxpayers spend $25,737 per pupil on Bomb Brothers' public school

From Boston Magazine:

Boston’s Best Schools 2012: Top of the Class 

By Patrick Doyle (ed) | Boston Magazine | September 2012

Highest Per-Pupil Spending (by District) 

1. Minuteman High School $28,962
2. Cambridge Rindge & Latin School $25,737
3. Blue Hills Regional Technical School $20,948
4. Norfolk County Agricultural High School $20,380
5. Waltham High School     $18,960 

Bold is my emphasis.

The old educational equation was simple: Spend more money—on teacher salaries, technology, administration, sports, clubs—and students will perform better. But after reviewing the data from Massachusetts high schools, our statistician, George Recck, found no significant correlation between a school’s level of spending and its final ranking. In other words, it seems likely that higher spending doesn’t automatically equal better results.

Highest Percentage of Students Achieving Proficiency (Scoring 3-5) on AP Exams 

1. Concord-Carlisle Regional High School 98.7%
2. Acton-Boxborough Regional High School 97.4%
3. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School 95.8%
4. Lexington High School 95.2%
4. Newton South High School 95.2% 

... Still, when students ace AP tests, it shows that the teachers are strong and the kids are motivated—great indicators of a high-performing school.

By the way, it's easy to confuse Cambridge Ridnge & Latin School with Boston Latin, the famous entrance exam-only school. In reality, despite its imposing name, Cambridge Ridnge & Latin is just Cambridge's regular high school, open to all students who happen to live in Cambridge.

Lowest Student-Teacher Ratio 

1. North Shore Technical High School 8.7 : 1
1. Minuteman High School 8.7 : 1
1. Salem Academy Charter School 8.7 : 1
4. Greater Lawrence Technical High School 9.1 : 1
5. Cambridge Rindge & Latin School 9.4 : 1

Thanks, suckers! See you in Hell.

Dzokhar Tsarnaev, Class of '11

Saletan in Slate: Blame the Tsarnaev Parents

A more sensible commentary from Slate than Katie Roiphe's piece, but still missing the point somewhat:

The Pathetic Lies and Excuses of the Boston Bombers’ Parents 

By William Saletan | Posted Monday, April 22, 2013, at 7:52 PM 

The Boston Bombers’ Awful Parents 

They ignored the warnings, they deny the crime, and they’re slinging false accusations.

Three years ago, al-Qaida’s magazine, Inspire, published an article titled, “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom.” The article explained how to build a pressure-cooker device like the ones that blew up last week at the Boston marathon. But the recipe left out the most important ingredient. To make a bomb in your mom’s kitchen, the first thing you need is an inattentive mom. 

That’s what Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had. We don’t yet know where or when they made the bombs they’re accused of planting at the marathon. But we do know that their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, and their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, had plenty of warnings that Tamerlan was becoming dangerous. Tamerlan was a human pressure cooker loaded with zeal, violence, and destructive ideology. His parents, blinded by adoration and excuses, refused to see it. ...

Most people who met or knew Tamerlan, including family members, say he was a jerk. His dad, however, insists Tamerlan was “kind” and “very nice.” He thinks the elder brother has been keeping the younger one away from bad influences. ...

Tamerlan’s mother is just as deluded. She swears Tamerlan and Dzhokhar couldn’t be involved in a bomb plot because “my sons would never keep a secret.” Instead of correcting Tamerlan’s conspiracy theories, she swallowed them. According to one of her spa clients, Zubeidat recently called the 9/11 attacks a U.S. plot to stoke hatred of Muslims. “My son knows all about it,” she allegedly told the client. Zubeidat also says the FBI has been watching her family constantly for years, which the FBI denies. Last year, she was arrested, but apparently never prosecuted, for shoplifting $1,600 worth of clothes. 

Anzor and Zubeidat were given several warnings that Tamerlan was headed for trouble. Sometime between 2007 and 2009, Tamerlan and Zubeidat turned to religion. Zubeidat became observant, but Tamerlan became intolerant and hostile. He pushed his strict views on the rest of the family, causing tensions. ...

When his sister married a non-Muslim, Tamerlan didn’t accept the man. ...

So the warnings passed. When the marathon bombs exploded, and videos implicated Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, the uncles acknowledged the evidence, but the parents didn’t. They didn’t just stammer, as many parents would, that their sons couldn’t have done it. They declared that the young men had been “set up,” and they hurled conspiracy theories at the authorities. “The police are to blame,” said Anzor. “Being cowards, they shot the boy dead. There are cops like this.” He denounced the pursuit of his sons by law enforcement as “a provocation of the special services who went after them because my sons are Muslims and don’t have anyone in America to protect them.” Zubeidat said the authorities “wanted to eliminate [Tamerlan] as a threat because he was in love with Islam.” 

Anzor’s sister, Maret Tsarnaeva, echoed these self-deceptions. ... She concluded that “our boys were framed.”  

Neighbors and congregants at Tamerlan’s mosque had warnings, too. In November 2012, he angrily rebuked a merchant in Cambridge for advertising Thanksgiving turkeys, which Tamerlan viewed as an affront to Islamic law. At Friday prayers, he disrupted and criticized a sermon that defended the celebration of Thanksgiving and July 4. Two months later, he interrupted an imam who suggested that Martin Luther King Jr., like the Prophet Mohammed, was worthy of emulation. Tamerlan protested that King was “not a Muslim,” and he called the imam a “Kafir,” or non-believer. Some of the congregants threatened to expel Tamerlan, but apparently, none of them reported him to the authorities, since, as far as they knew, he hadn’t preached or committed any violence.

This story is probably more plausible than it sounds: I would imagine that a mosque in Cambridge, MA would be fairly liberal and MLK-worshipping.

You can’t expect witnesses to report every fanatical outburst to the FBI. But when family members are repeatedly exposed to signs that a loved one is drifting into the vortex of violent extremism, they have a duty to intervene, or at least to alert someone. If they don’t, and the fanatic becomes a killer, they bear an awful responsibility. If they deny that responsibility by accusing the police and the government of anti-Islamic conspiracies, they forfeit our sympathy, our respect, and our trust. Police your family. Police your congregation. Police your community. If you don’t, the rest of us will do it for you.

Slate commenters are enraged by Saletan's piece.

My take, however, is that the Tsarnaevs' parenting was less deficient than effective at reproducing Chechen ethnicity under distracting circumstances. The more I read about all the brave psycho Chechens down through history, such as the suicide rearguard of Chechen volunteers that saved Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the more the Bomb Brothers sound like an example of what Chechens value the most in their sons.

From a policy standpoint, the question is what's the most plausible and cost effective option:

- Let Chechens into America and hope they police themselves?

- Let Chechens into America and become a Surveillance State?

- Keep Chechens out of America?

Chechen courage responsible for the strategically worst defeat American military suffered in this century?

From Reuters, December 15, 2001:

Al Qaeda Chechens fight to death in Tora Bora  

By Sebastian Alison and Jeremy Page

Saturday December 15, 7:39 PM  

TORA BORA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Chechen fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden fought to the death on Saturday in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan in battles with U.S. special forces and their Afghan tribal allies.  

But an Afghan commander returning from the front among the caves, tunnels and valleys near Tora Bora said that while the Chechens fought on, 50 other members of bin Laden's al Qaeda network had surrendered.  

The whereabouts of bin Laden himself, the man Washington accuses of masterminding the bloody September 11 suicide attacks on the United States, remained a mystery -- with U.S. officials saying he could still be with his cornered fighters.  

Said Mohammad Pahlawan, an Afghan tribal commander returning from the front line in the rugged White Mountains around Tora Bora, said that the ground battle there was continuing.  

"All those who surrendered had guns, but the Chechens don't want to surrender," he told Reuters, adding that 20 Chechens had been killed in the latest fighting.  

Maybe we know more about what actually happened a dozen years ago at Tora Bora, but this was the perception at the time: the Chechen warriors' suicidal self-sacrifice allowed bin Laden to escape. (In other words, bin Laden's catastrophic escape from Tora Bora is a story of BRAVERY of Chechens.)

If bin Laden had been captured at Tora Bora, perhaps there would have been no Iraq War?

This just points out that the U.S. government ought to have known a lot about the culture of Chechens before the Tsarnaevs were let into America the following year.

Why did we let these Chechens in?

How many Death Row marriage proposals will Djohar Enchained receive?

The poem extruded by Dresden Doll singer Amanda Palmer about the younger bomber reminds me that a recurring topic in Tracey Ullman's sketch comedy is women who fall in love with killers on Death Row. Above, Tracey plays the current Mrs. Wet Wipe Killer and the future Mrs. Tastee-Freez Rapist.

And here's an earlier Tracey Takes On in which fierce lawyeress Sydney Kross convinces meek bank teller Kay Clark (both played by Ullman) to marry her Death Row penpal so Sydney can make an appeal for leniency.

"a poem for dzhokhar"

Amanda Palmer and husband
(author Neil Gaiman)

Somebody named Amanda Palmer writes:

a poem for dzhokhar 

April 21st

warning: hateful commenters trying to hack the blog by mimicking regular benevloent users’ names. please proceed with caution and respect. 

given the amount of controversy surrounding this blog, i wrote about the act of writing of the poem HERE if you’d like to read it. 

you don’t know how it felt to be in the womb but it must have been at least a little warmer than this. 

you don’t know how intimately they’re recording your every move on closed-circuit cameras until you see your face reflected back at you through through the pulp. 

you don’t know how to stop picking at your fingers. ...

you don’t know how orgasmic the act of taking in a lungful of oxygen is until they hold your head under the water. 

you don’t know how many vietnamese soft rolls to order. 

you don’t know how convinced your parents were that having children would be, absolutely, without question, the correct thing to do. 

you don’t know how precious your iphone battery time was until you’re hiding in the bottom of the boat. ...

you don’t know how it’s possible to feel total compassion in one moment and total disconnection in the next moment. 

you don’t know how things could change so incredibly fast. 

you don’t know how to make something, but the instructions are on the internet. 

you don’t know how to make sense of this massive parade. 

you don’t know how to believe anyone anymore. 

you don’t know how to tell the girl in the chair next to you that you’ve been peeking at her dissertation draft and there’s a grammatical typo in the actual file name. 

you don’t know how to explain yourself. 

you don’t want two percent but it’s all they have. 

you don’t know how claustrophobic your house is until you can’t leave it. 

you don’t know why you let that guy go without shooting him dead and stuffing him in some bushes between cambridge and watertown. 

you don’t know where your friends went. 

you don’t know how to dance but you give it a shot anyway.... 

you don’t know how to mourn your dead brother.

Think how much more peaceful and sensible the human race would be by now if psycho killers didn't make so many women want to have their babies.

Of course, contra Whiskey, it's the pretty boy younger brother, not the thuggish older brother, who has the poetess emitting poetry.

P.S. From the comments on the site of Ms. Palmer, who is in some kind of band:

A Poem For Martin Richard

by Willie Feo 

Martin wrote a project about World Peace while you were getting stoned and making bombs to kill him. 

Martin will never grow up and have a cool shaggy rockstar haircut like you. 

Martin won't have a misguided legion of foolish groupies mooning over how badly he was treated. 

Martin died with braces on his teeth. 

Martin's skinny little eight year old body was studded with nails and BBs that you stuck into him. 

Martin was blown apart in front of his mother and father who loved him. 

Martin's little sister lost her leg. 

Fuck you, Dzokhar and everyone who feels sympathy for you.