Grand Theft Auto

I don’t mean to say that Jimmy Hawk
Was a thief or a gangster on the run.
Despite the attitude and hip-hop talk
He was a gamer who paid for his fun.

And when they found his sister broken,
Beaten and shot and raped in the night,
He cried for the cops and laid his grief open
Not so much different than you or I might.

And after the killer was caught and frisked
And the news put his picture right next to hers,
With a t-shirt that said “GTA Rocks”
In the section above the soap opera blurbs,
James Alan Hawk busted all his game discs,
And changed all his clothes,
And took a sledge hammer to his Xbox.

Grand Theft Auto

I don’t mean to say that Jimmy Hawk
Was a thief or a gangster on the run.
Despite the attitude and hip-hop talk
He was a gamer who paid for his fun.

And when they found his sister broken,
Beaten and shot and raped in the night,
He cried for the cops and laid his grief open
Not so much different than you or I might.

And after the killer was caught and frisked
And the news put his picture right next to hers,
With a t-shirt that said “GTA Rocks”
In the section above the soap opera blurbs,
James Alan Hawk busted all his game discs,
And changed all his clothes,
And took a sledge hammer to his Xbox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasermannen

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasermannen (In Swedish, unfortunatley I don’t of any swedish-english online translation engine; if someone does…)

Last year an excellent dramatization was filmed. It’s based on a book by Gellert Tamas, which I’ve been told is also excellent.

I always feel slightly perplex me as to why people always have to react to disturbing acts by individuals by fitting them in some confortably simple category like foreigners, racists, or video game players, when it is obvious that people Van Temsche and Ausonius did what they did because they were lone outsiders that really didn’t belong to any group in society.

or even this related complaint to the antiracism center in Belgium:
http://www.antisemitisme.be/site/event_detail.asp?language=FR&eventId=366&catId=26

Headline reads: Racism Increases in Belgium

A Paris-based Jewish group has called for a “complete investigation” into the activities of a Flemish extreme-right party’s in Belgium and its links to racist killings in Antwerp last week.

Is Europe facing up to its responsibilities in the Global War on Badgering? Are we, in fact, objectively pro-badger? How can we resist the threat of badgering undermining the Enlightenment values that underpin our society?

Find out more in our next provocative update on Little Green Brussels Nonbadgers..

Gun control, video games, TV, eventually they’ll start taking about cruelty and bullying at school and then the decline of traditional values and the abandonment of the Church, before finally coming to the conclusion that nothing is to be done about the lone nut. And lo, nothing will be done because it’s true, there isn’t much to be done about the lone nut.

Been there, done that; emigrated in part to get away from it.

A significant number of people, often but not always very young people, prefer to become famous by going out in a blaze of gore and glory rather than be nothing. In America, it started to become rather commonplace in the 80s and 90s. The question is why should people think that they are destined to be nothings? I don’t know of anybody trying to give an answer. The only literature on the subject that comes to mind is the film Heathers, and the French novel Allah Superstar.