"Former Marine Kills Pregnant Robber"

And The Beat Goes On...


I seriously believe that I should rename this blog "Bashing The Military."

Or maybe I'll just start another blog with that name, because it would basically write itself each day.

The media would do all of the work and I'd just provide links to things like this story published yesterday in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution with the original headline "Former Marine Kills Pregnant Robber.

Isn't that just lovely..."Former Marine Kills Pregnant Robber" screams the headline of both the print edition and the online edition of Tuesday Morning's paper.

I saw the online headline with my own eyes after radio talk show host Neal Boortz pointed it out on the air yesterday morning.

I should have cached the story on my computer because between about 10:30 AM Tuesday and now the AJC has taken the story and headline off of their web page

Why?

I think that it is because the key word in their headline, the word designed to raise your eyebrows, was the word "Pregnant."

Well, it turns out that the headline was at least PARTIALLY true.

The potential robbery victim was a "former marine."

And, there was an attempted robbery.

So good, so far, RIGHT?

The only problem was, that the dead woman wasn't pregnant.

Son of a gun...

I'm sure that they were crushed in the AJC newsroom, so much so that the cowards took the story down off their website and republished it with a different headline. The revised story also includes a statement that the woman wasn't actually pregnant.

Thus far I can't find a retraction or any other admission of their initial error, just a revised story slipped into the ether of the internet. All of those dead tree print editions of the Tuesday morning paper were still laying on doorsteps and coffee tables at the end of the day while Atlanta's and the world's attention turned to other matters; but their brains have already filed the fact that "a former Marine killed a pregnant girl in Atlanta Monday night."

If you read the headline, isn't that what you believed?

Let me ask you a couple of questions...

Why not use the headline "Citizen Kills Stupid Bitch Robber"?

Why not use the headline "Useless Sperm Sponge Erased In Robbery Attempt"?

Of course half my readers are now offended at my reference and most of Atlanta would have stormed the AJC offices and set the building ablaze and tarred and feathered the writers and management if they had chosen those words as a headline.

But the words "Former Marine" are perfectly acceptable to 100% of the liberals and 75% of the pansy assed conservatives out there because bashing MEN and "FORMER MARINES" is common sport in the media and the polite liberal cocktail parties of Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco, and LA.

And why the focus on the "former marine" status of the potential robbery victim?

Perhaps because he was actually able to successfully defend himself as a result of his prior training?

What kind of training would that be?

"Army Training...Sir" (Thanks to Bill Murray's character John Winger in the movie "Stripes" for that line...)

OK...Actually MARINE training, but I digress...

My guess is that as a former Marine Corporal and Desert Storm veteran, that 36 year old Thomas Autry had experience with things like hand to hand combat, and when accosted by not one but FIVE little hard headed black punks on the streets of Midtown Atlanta, and after calling for help and attempting to run away--disengagement as it is known in the military--that when cornered by the little black bitch lovely young African American woman and stupid black punk bastard misguided young African American man wielding a SHOTGUN and a PISTOL his "former marine training" took over.

Corporal Autry managed to kick the guns out of the little black bitch lovely young African American woman and stupid black punk bastard's misguided young African American man's hands, but then fatally stabbed the little black bitch lovely young African American woman and seriously wounded the stupid black bastard misguided young African American man in hand to hand combat armed only with a small pocket knife.

Not a buck knife or a switch blade or a sword or a chef's knife...but a street legal pocket knife--something like you use to clean your fingernails or whittle on a stick with.

Buy the way, I suspect that Corporal Autry could have killed you or me with his bare hands or a with something as simple as a toothpick if the need had arisen.

Good for him.

And while I'm at it--pissing everybody off--let me point out that nowhere in the published news articles does any of the lamestream media bother to mention the race of the victim or the robbers.

What's up with that?

I had to go to the WSB TV website and watch online video of interviews with the victim and the dead girl's mother to find out that this was yet another example of "black on black crime."

So let me get this straight. The media is all over the story from the angle of the guy doing the "killing" being a "Former Marine," but the concept of addressing the deeper black African American cultural and social issues are overridden by their desire to continue to defame the US military.

I don't know about you, but I've had it right up to HERE, pointing to the top of my every greying, ever balding head...