Illinois Dem Prays for her robber.

[Dravur]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343090,00.html

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A 77-year-old Illinois state representative is happy to be alive after a man with a gun pushed his way into her home and robbed her of $7.

Wyvetter H. Younge was not injured in the robbery that occurred around noon Friday.

Younge said she thought her son had knocked on her door and opened it, but instead found an armed man. He told her to get on her hands and knees, then grabbed her purse and ran.

Younge, a Democrat, said she didn't recognize the man, who wore a red hat and red jacket and dark pants. She said she's going to pray for him.

"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."

Illinois State Police are investigating.

Ok, now the funny part is... She thinks he needs a job.... He has one, robbing people IS his job.

She is going to PRAY for him......<must stop laughing> Good thing he didn't shoot her. Well, at least she could have made her plea in person.

 

[sprithitler]

Reasonable to pray for someone. I am not a good enough person to pray for the bastard who assaulted me three and a half years ago, but i can definitively see the point of praying for someone once they are no longer an immediate danger to you or anyone else (though a possible danger to anyone while he remains at large unless he changes his ways). Praying for his finding the straight and narrow, praying for him to repent, praying for him not ending up physically harming anybody else. When he is out of your hands, you can only pray for the one whose hands he is in to straighten him out.

You fight with every reasonable weapon in your arsenal, in this ladies arsenal prayer is a potentially very strong weapon, yet one that everyone ought to employ.

 

[ShunZu]

Turning the other cheek is fine. But eventually ya run out of cheeks that haven't been hammered on. I live just a few miles from E. St. Louis. The local newspaper here is chock full of horror stories coming out of there.

And the IL legislators haven't figured out yet that you can't disarm the bad guys by passing more gun laws... you just guarantee the law abiders are victims.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Younge, a Democrat, said she didn't recognize the man, who wore a red hat and red jacket and dark pants. She said she's going to pray for him.

"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."

<gritting teeth> Must ... not ... be ... judgmental ... But it reminds me of a quote: "The meek shall inherit the earth - a six-foot plot above them."

 

[Henry Bowman]

She thinks he needs a job.... He has one, robbing people IS his job.

No, he's an independent businessman. The worst ememy of a leftist. She wants him to have a job that issues him a W-2.

We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that.

Would that system include locking up people like him, or just paying him not to rob people?

 

[fearless leader]

I wonder if she'll feel so kind to him after he uses her keys that were undoubtably in her purse to steal her car, identity and multiple bad checks, and last but not least, ambush her in her house with her own house keys.
I wonder what her credit card bill is going to look like next month.

 

[sacp81170a]

"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."

Well, at least she's not blaming the gun. At least she's aware of part of the true reason for the criminal choosing robbery as an occupation, but I'm not sure I agree with her proposed solutions. Praying for him and saying so publicly is one way to stir his conscience, if he has any. That's as good a direction to go as any.

 

[strambo]

Praying for him is generous and noble. Thinking he needs a job or mental health infrastructure paid for by tax dollars is silly. "Turning the other cheek" refers to insults, not assaults. A basic understanding of middle eastern culture clears up that (and other) oft mis-applied bible-isms.

People are free to allow themselves to be victimized by any rationale they choose. It is only sad when innocent people around them get harmed either directly (the children they refuse to defend) or indirectly (the future victims the criminal feels a high degree of confidence in victimizing based on prior success).

 

[jakeswensonmt]

a sweet little prayer

"Dear God, if I might be so bold as to beseech you, in all your Wisdom and Power, please make sure that the man who robbed me receives what he has earned. Let his pool of fire in Hell be one of the hotter and deeper ones, and please let the pitchfork-wielding demon who oversees him have a serious case of hemmorhoids which makes it extra cranky. Thank you God. Amen."

 

[Rachen]

"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."

Aaahh hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Cough!cough!cough! Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhahahahahaaaaa!!!
Damn damn DAMN!!! Where can I get some of that good opium that she is taking???!!! Oh my oh my oh my!!!

 

[Sage of Seattle]

"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."

So it's a lack of social support, no jobs, and mental illness which caused this crime to happen. I see.

As far as I'm concerned, she is doing us all a disservice by not allowing for free will and choice in life. Besides, she can pray all she wants, but who really knows if God is intervening in his life by having her call the cops and get him arrested? Maybe letting him get away with it is the worst thing for him, not to mention society in general. I just can't stand that. "It's God's will, so that absolves me from acting on anything that happens in my life."

 

[Robert Hairless]

That's awfully nice of her. Criminals need a good support system and deserve a superior class of victim.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

I thought this was going to be about Mosely-Braun. Of course, I could see how it would be easy to confuse female Illinois Democrats who've recently been robbed and assaulted.

 

[Rustynuts]

But praying cure diabetes, just ask that family in Wisconsin! Wait, that didn't work either.

 

[DougDubya]

Wow. A woman of faith shows forgiveness, and the bloodthirsty jackals call her a fool.

This belongs on the fast slippery slope to hell, not the High Road.

Self defense and forgiving those who committ aggression against you are not mutually exclusive. After wounding, crippling, or killing the predator who tried to attack me, I'd pray for forgiveness for his soul as well. It was a robbery, not the rape of another human being.

 

[hankdatank1362]

I'm a Christian, but I;m of the belief that God is more of a watcher, who has little to no direct intervention with any sort of day-to-day activities on Earth.

I do believe that it's God's Will for me to violently defend myself and my family against any sort of harm.

 

[DougDubya]

Oh wait, I looked back. It's Carol Mosely Braun. She's a thief extending professional courtesy to another thief.

So, who's she praying to? Loki? Malfeus?

 

[Geno]

Knock, knock, knock...pause to open doors...Yes?

Where are you going?! Wait! <<Screaming>> Why did you knock?! Did you want some money?! I'll praaaaaaaay fooooooor yoooooooou!

Snicker, snicker.

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[DougDubya]

Forgiveness is good. Not to say that you shouldn't put the guy trying to harm you on the ground spitting up blood to protect yourself and your loved ones. But forgiveness should be a part of it.

I forgive you...
- for trying to rob me
- for making a bloody mess on my carpet
- for getting my home defense firearm taken to the police evidence locker
- for making me expend ammunition
- for forcing me to hire a defense lawyer when you try to sue me for something you started.

And, let's not forget to thank our enemies:
- for providing validation to my self defense training
- for proving the wisdom of my choice of self defense platform and ammunition
- for keeping me from becoming complacent.

Ben Franklin told us to embrace our foes, for it is through adversity that we hone our strengths. That's deeply philosophical.

Isn't that the way we should all be?

 

[Seancass]

is it so wrong to pray that something sets him strait before he comes into one of your homes? Or pray that he stops before he uses the gun? Pray that he gets arrested, "corrected" and ends up a successful man who regrets his past and works hard to make ammends?

yeah, sure. Lets just shoot him. No one deserves second chances.

 

[ShunZu]

Doc2005,

Loved that pic. Even the wife had a hoot over it. A little levity among all this bad news about our idiotic legislators is most welcome. Thanks

 

[alaskanativeson]

"Lord, please watch over the soul I just sent to you. He was so disadvantaged in this life that he decided to spread suffering and misery to your other children. Help him to find the peace in your arms that he was denied in the world."

Nothing wrong with a prayer like that.

 

[DougDubya]

is it so wrong to pray that something sets him strait before he comes into one of your homes? Or pray that he stops before he uses the gun? Pray that he gets arrested, "corrected" and ends up a successful man who regrets his past and works hard to make ammends?

yeah, sure. Lets just shoot him. No one deserves second chances.

If he's only wounded, I'll pray he recovers and finds the right path.

Trouble is, a specific prayer feels to me more effective. I generally pray that folks do reform and seek the just path in life. However, if they squander it or take glee in their murderous nature, well, I can't really tell that until I've met them.

 

[Robert Hairless]

Wow. A woman of faith shows forgiveness, and the bloodthirsty jackals call her a fool.

This belongs on the fast slippery slope to hell, not the High Road.

DougDubya, can you spare a moment to make the waters part so I can drive from New York to London in a few weeks? I hate to ask that favor while you're busy sending people to hell, but it won't take you long and maybe you can put it on your to-do list.

 

[mustang 22]

Given the way she has reacted to this, she will likely be treated to a return engagement by the perp or one of his associates.