The victims of crime are most often people who had limited complicity in the situation beyond voting for pro-crime politicians, but generally did not realize that is what they were doing. Some wake up after being mugged, but then again there are the hard-core believers who walk away from an attack still believing in their own moral inferiority and the moral superiority of criminals. And some never walk away at all. This is one of those cases.
Jen Angel, a beloved local bakery owner and social justice community activist, died on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a violent robbery, according to her close friends. She was 48…
Angel was well known in the Bay Area as a champion of social justice. She was born in 1975 and raised in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.
She established a social justice event production organization called Aid and Abet. She was also the publisher of Clamor Magazine, a bi-monthly alternative magazine. She was “deeply involved in organizing work for media justice and building a better world,” her friends wrote.
The overriding emphasis here is on this woman’s role as a leftist activist. And even so much so that her family insists that the criminal justice system shouldn’t arrest or prosecute the killer.
Her friends wrote that Angel would want “alternatives to traditional prosecution, such as restorative justice. Jen’s family and close friends ask that the media respect this request and carry forward the story of her life with celebration and clarity about the world she aimed to build. Do not use her legacy of care and community to further inflame narratives of fear, hatred, and vengeance, nor to advance putting public resources into policing, incarceration, or other state violence that perpetuates the cycles of violence that resulted in this tragedy.”
Whatever she might or might not have wanted, we don’t just arrest murderers for the sake of the victim or the victim’s family. This isn’t a Muslim country where the family of the killer can pay some blood money to the victim’s family and everything is squared. Society has a compelling interest in putting away killers for the sake of their future victims.
But I have to wonder if Jen would really have been on board with giving her killer a pass. Let’s see how she died.
On Monday, Angel was sitting inside her car behind a bank on Webster Street in Oakland when a thief broke into the car and grabbed her purse. The robber darted into a getaway vehicle that was waiting nearby, police said.
“The victim exited their vehicle and attempted to retrieve their stolen belongings from the individual. While the victim struggled for their belongings, they were knocked to the ground and sustained injuries,” the Oakland Police Department told KRON4.
Angel was dragged by the getaway car. The entire incident happened in broad daylight.
After all the socjus garbage, she refused to give up her stuff to the robber and fought back.
Somehow I’m skeptical that if she were alive, she would be any more willing to give him a pass.
Most people don’t know what they’ll do in that kind of situation until it happens. Personality and even politics can be poor predictors. Unlikely people freeze up and unlikely people fight back. She fought back. And while she may have spent her life pushing destructive ideas, in her last moments she did something courageous.
Her family’s spokesperson would like to forget all that and hug criminals. And that’s a shame because she may have lived like a leftist, but she didn’t die like a leftist.
This is the woke logic taken to a logically absurd and indeed masochistic conclusion
Yes, she was only 48. Shit, I’m 58 and I never seem to die. That poor woman. I’m friends with a lot of leftists. Almost everybody in my Church is a leftist. They’re not all bad people. Just the extremists.
You’re more streetwise than she was 🙂
Yeah, that’s for sure. I always look behind my back. You never know what’s coming, right?
I miss my ex girlfriend, though. She could sneak up on me anytime. I wish she would. “Sigh.”
But she chased them trying to get her stuff back. She wanted her stuff.
Most criminals are career criminals. The sooner they are locked up and the longer they are locked up, the safer the people will be.
That’s the whole truth and the facts.
Yeah, street scum are worthless. Throw them away and lose the key. Fuck, I hate them.
They should put a statue of her where she died as a leftist martyr.
Martyrs have died for their unchanging belief in their religion. Many were tortured severely but wouldn’t change their belief.
The left wing fanatics have major cause a religious cause…. Next will be self flagellation where they’ll bleed in the streets for their ridiculous thinking against nature’s law. .
Dealing with a religious cult with no god man at the center with purple hair And Satan tattoos
You are right. It IS a religion. It is an evil and terrible religion.
You can murder me, but I won’t support the criminal justice system.
Long history of these white liberal martyrs actually.
Yes, I’ve been a victim of the criminal justice system. My ex wife used to have me arrested every time the wind blew a stray hair up her hootchie, Fucking Nebraska, man. I’ll never go back.
One thing I can say about California is that men have rights here and I can walk the streets without being arrested for nothing.
This is so typical of Berkeley/Oakland area craziness.
Good point about this lady fighting for her belongings. You’d think she would have happily given her personal items to the attacker.
But, liberals never care or think about crime, AA, etc, and are all in favor of lenient sentences, equity, etc, until it happens to them. This liberal family doesn’t want the criminal prosecuted. How wonderful. This way he’s back on the street to rob and possibly kill another unsuspecting victim.
This is what “the road to hell is paved with good intentions means.” Yea, let’s allow another black criminal to roam the streets because it makes us feel virtuous. Ooops….. You mean he killed someone else?
And it’s only feeble minded whites with this mindset. You think a black family would have the same sentiment if the roles were reversed?
Minorities don’t have a head full of white guilt mush. It’s white liberals who feel that they have to atone. But when it came down to it, she didn’t want to actually give up her stuff.
Her family chose to give up her life though.
Thanks for the input, Daniel.
That is shocking. Family should be a place of safety and protection. But you are right. They gave her up, and probably began that process before her death.
Human sacrifice makes them feel very noble.
Yes. they sacrificed her. Why, I don’t know.
Put signs in front of their homes – “Gun and crime free zones”
And if she had used a gun to defend herself, she would have been made into a public example and persecuted.
You are correct. The woke religion requires whites to render obeisance. Crime is the privilege of blacks. Whites may not commit crime or defend themselves against duskier criminals.
Jen Angel died as a martyr to this religion, marred only by her feeble resistance to being robbed. Had she successfully defended herself, she would be attacked. If she had eliminated the threat, she would spend the rest of her life in prison.
Kayla Mueller died a Christian martyr to save Muslims. Mother Teresa sacrificed her whole life for the poor of Calcutta. Altruism and self-sacrifice are the central moral core of every religion.
It’s just that some religious individuals take altruism more seriously and practice self-sacrifice more seriously and consistently and others don’t take it so seriously and cheat on it with selfish self-preservation.
Do you have any other modus operandi? You’re like a broken record, to date myself. Yeah, I’m old.
“… she would have spent the rest of her life in prison.”
Maybe, but probably not. The law has not quite devolved to that point yet.
There would have been howls of “Karen” who “murdered a black child” as a legacy of white supremacy.
It’s a pity that she didn’t use a gun to defend herself. Whatever the outcome, she would have been alive today and with luck, her attacker would not have been.
True. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
That’ an old saying but a good one.
Hence one of the myriad of reasons why I moved out of California.
Where I live my Sheriff and I have an agreement – I won’t bother him with criminals. Instead I have the County Coroner on speed dial and if he is late, well I have my own backhoe
You’re a tough guy, aren’t you?
Chief is a great guy.
So tell me. How would this “restorative justice” work here? How can she be “restored?” She can’t. She is dead. Gone. Her life has been extinguished forever more. Should her killers just say, “Sorry. Won’t do it again,” and be done with it? I don’t know who is more depraved – her killers or her family and friends.
Her family will forgive the killer on her behalf. They’ll open a foundation and employ him. Then he’ll kill them.
https://7news.com.au/news/crime/travis-lewis-killed-martha-mckay-23-years-after-she-forgave-him-for-killing-her-mum-c-1240605
I can’t even begin to feel sorry for anyone this morally deranged
Lol
This is so true. Hollywood couldn’t make this up.
Yes, neither can I. They deserve to burn in Hell and they will.
The criminal’s who did this should get the Death Penalty and without all those years of idiotic appeals no plea bargains either
That’s how it used to be. But then again back in the old days witnesses, especially male witnesses, wouldn’t have stood around doing nothing. They would have jumped in and acted to save her. There was a time when no man would have allowed a woman to be endangered without coming to her aid.
Yeah tell me about it. What kind of guy would stand around and watch that?
JR is all we have. JR against the Cliff Barnes that is the conservative movement which equates to Trump. Obviously she doesn’t she doesn’t want to prosecute. What does that get you? This?
You’re becoming increasingly incoherent. Please lay off the drugs and liquor when you post anything. Remember, drugs and alcohol don’t mix with writing.
I can attest to the fact that alcohol doesn’t attribute to a conversation. I don’t know about drugs though, because I don’t use them. Booze is bad enough.
I don’t know if I’ve ever read a coherent post from you. You write as if you’ve had too much to drink.
You can’t fix stupid.
I can – but it will hurt them
“The overriding emphasis here is on this woman’s role as a leftist activist.”
The overriding emphasis here is altruism and self-sacrifice for others.
“And while she may have spent her life pushing destructive ideas, in her last moments she did something courageous.”
She spent her life pushing altruism, self-sacrifice, unearned guilt, and the unearned forgiveness called mercy. In her last moments she rejected all that religious unreason and nonsense and embraced rational selfishness, self-esteem, healthy pride, and self-preservation.
Damn right RATIONAL SELFISHNESS takes a lot of guts, most of all the courage to love your self and your life in a rational and healthy way!
I’ve erased your various attacks on Christianity in this post.
If you want to use every story to pitch your belief system and attack those of others, please confine that to one comment rather than spamming it in multiple comments.
Everyone is familiar with your views already.
We believe in free speech, but we also believe in standards on behavior.
Really? So why is it that you allow “Intrepid” and “Tortoise Herder” and other religious conservatives to attack me with personal insults all the time? I don’t see you deleting their comments or reprimanding them. Double standard?
I’m a free speech guy. I rarely delete your comments either. The last time I did it you were mocking some other dead woman.
People who insist on spamming dozens of repetitive comments all over a post are being deleted.
Another notable example is Una.
If you have nothing more to say than “everything in this story is caused by altruism” then say it once, don’t leave the same comment twenty times in response to other people’s comments..
This is common sense and not something I should really need to take time to explain.
Your reasonable point is well taken. Thank you.
Thank you.
On some other websites I go to, we have to ban certain users. Not because we are against free speech. But we have a moderator who is a really good judge of who needs to be banned.
That’s a good reply. He writes normal stuff when he isn’t on his Ayn Rand rants but otherwise he’s a one trick pony and needs to STFU.
You need to give that selfish attitude up, man. It feels good to help people because it IS good. I don’t know about you but I feel better helping others than myself.
There is a fundamental difference between rational charity, helping others in a rational, non-sacrificial way, and altruism and self-sacrifice.
Rational selfishness does not prohibit anyone from helping others in a non-sacrificial way. In fact only the rationally selfish person can rationally discriminate and analyze when, how, and to what degree helping some one is beneficial to them and when it is not. Indiscriminate charity is harmful and destructive, it is even deadly. Throwing money at problems does not solve problems. Giving money to Palestinians funds evil terrorism.
Give it a rest. Shit.
Good article, Daniel. It reminds me of David Horwitz’s piece on Fay Stender, in his book “Destructive Generation.” My first book by him that made me a fan.
David is an inspiration to all of us.
Otherwise all we have is lies. Like that Trump moron going for broke to be prez. Like he wasn’t already prez. He’s not going to do anything, He was a moron before he got and he’ll be same moron elected.
Are you serious? 🙁
You’re tired buddy, it’s been a long week. Come back when you’re feeling a bit more rested and have some new stuff.
Small minded liberals thin hardned crinimals can be rehibilated and so take them into their home and get murdered because Liberals a re so foolish as to think Counceling works
Who’s that dirty hippy in the photo? He looks lie a member of the Grateful Dead,or something.
I really have to wonder if the murderer was a white ”Far Right” junkie if the family of the woman would want him arrested but as we know he was a black lazy thug and so we must not hurt his wee feeelings by arresting him for the murder of a white woman.
Methinks Planet Earth has shifted slightly off its Axis.
It’s not very clear what this comment is in reference to.