Spokane police said Mr. Belton made the two teens angry when he tried to fight them, and that’s when they started to hit him on his head with “big, heavy flashlights,” Breitbart reported.Sounds like the Spokane police want to blame the victim. In other news, Spokane police say rape could be completely eradicated if women would quit resisting sexual assaults. Just roll with it, ladies.
I don't know how reliable this story is since it is the Washington Times taking a report from Breitbart. Still, it doesn't surprise me at all that a man like Mr. Belton would have resisted an attack. (And by the way, Times, for crying out loud, get this hero's name right in the title. I have an excuse. I don't have an editor.) I tend, though, to think that the thugs are trying to make themselves sound less brutal and vicious by saying they wouldn't have been beaten him so badly if he had just gone down.
It's not really working for me.
Delbert Belton had every right to fight back, just as he had fought for the freedom and prosperity that fed, clothed, housed, and educated these two worthless, state-raised punks.
And so do we all ...
... by whatever means are at hand.
Of course, I am not advocating carrying or using anything illegal, or doing anything to provoke violence.
I am particularly saddened because this incident, along with the murder of Christopher Lane and numerous other incidents are coming to the forefront as black-on-white, racially-tinged crimes. It is not about the skin color of the perpetrators or the victims. It is about an attitude among far too many in our society who seem to think they have a right to do whatever they can get away with doing. Until good people, like Delbert Belton, stand up and resist evil, evil will triumph.
God bless you, Mr. Belton, and may He comfort your loved ones with the knowledge that you at 89 were still too much of a man to lay down for a bully.
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