Burglarized Twice In One Day

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Alfred Burdine stopped a burglar at 4:30 in the morning, at home he is renovating.

"When I came around, I could see more of him. So, I parked right there, and I got out the car, and he was happy with the generator, walking off that way, and then, I walked up behind him, and then, I circled around him after I got his attention," Burdine said.

When the burglar reached into his pockets, the homeowner shot said burglar in the leg. He then called police.

"The possibility of him going violent at that time was pretty high. It's 4:30 in the morning, nobody around. You're bold enough to break into my garage, my house, you're bold enough to do anything," Burdine said.

So then he had to deal with the police for a while.

Burdine said when he got back from being questioned at the police station, he was being burglarized a second time.

According to police records, a suspect in that case was arrested, too.

This is a sure sign that something is very wrong.

"I don't know what is going on. I think we just need more patrols because there are a lot of people with drug problems, and there is no treatment for them," Burdine said. "Since they closed Central State, where do these people have to go? You got people with mental problems; you got drug addicts. Where do you take these people, even if they wanted some help?"

But we closed the mental health facilities because of a movie, and we stopped fighting against drug addiction because that would be judgemental, and we stopped enforcing the law because that would be mean. Witness the result.

As these stories often do, this story has reminded me of the poem "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats. The entire text of the poem, it isn't long, can be found below (after the break). The part I always think of is...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

Indianapolis is pretty much a Blue City. So it is a bit of a surprise that Mr. Burdine was armed in his own defense. Leftist elites hate the idea of self-defense. You are supposed to rely on the State for such things, even though the State cannot provide them. It seems that the ordinary guy has determined that he has to provide his own security. (Actually this part reminds me of Hobbes, but we will stick with Yeats for today.)

Civilization was nice while it lasted.

 

The Second Coming
   — W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

It was written in 1919, after the First World War.