Gang Violence, young kids

Open season on the elderly

If its not, it sure seems like it is.

Chan-Ung Park was walking through a park in east Toronto last Wednesday when he was robbed at knifepoint by two teens. During the course of the robbery, he was knocked down and hit his head, resulting in swelling to his brain. He succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Chan-Ung Park was 79 years of age. An 18-year-old and 15-year-old have been charged. They are also charged with robbing a 35-year-old man the same evening.

Neither the robbery nor the age of the victim was particularly unusual. Since the beginning of May, the following incidents have occurred in Ontario:

• On May 13, a 15-year-old Brampton teen was charged with punching a 68-year-old man while robbing him;
• Another 15-year-old was arrested for robbing four elderly women on separate occasions. All of the women were in their 70s and two of them were violently thrown to the ground during the robberies;
• During the first week in May, a man was beaten and tied up during the course of an Ottawa home invasion. The victim was 91 years old.

Major Canadian cities have seen an increase in gang violence in recent years with Toronto setting a record of 52 gun related deaths in 2005. As bad as that carnage was, there is something more abhorrent about those young people who specifically seek out the elderly to beat and rob. These punks are professional criminals. What separates them from the others is that they have no pride in their profession.

The teenaged scum who walk the streets looking for vulnerable elderly people to rob or otherwise victimize lack even the basic amount of humanity that the gun toting gang bangers that wouldnt think twice about blowing away a rival dealer have.

Kids who walk the streets in search of old ladies to rob of their purses are a direct result of the past 40 plus years of liberalism. Its ironic but the main mantra is liberalism is that one of the most important things is that you have to show that you "care". So what causes these lowlifes to walk out of a school where they are taught to care about everything from the environment to the homeless to racial minorities, walk into a park, and then beat the hell out of 79-year-old man?

The reason is that these poor excuses for human beings are taught that they, not the old people that they are beating to a pulp, are the real victims. We live in a world where pride is taken in being a victim. These punks are constantly being told that they are the victims of an uncaring, racist, capitalist society where no matter what they do, they dont stand a chance. The victimizers of these sweet kids are of course those people who have worked hard all their lives, accumulated some assets and dare to walk in a park or on a street with a couple of bucks in their pockets or purses. Its not "fair" that they have everything while these punks have nothing.

What is really difficult to figure out are the people who spawn these lowlifes who walk the streets searching for a victim that is too old and too weak to put up a fight. Not bothering to impart even the basic tenets of civilized behaviour to their offspring is not something that can be simply written off as parents having to spend too much time working. No doubt these parents spend most of their days sitting around bemoaning the fact that they too, are the real victims of society. They should count themselves lucky that they are able to live in a society where they are not held accountable for the actions of their little darlings when they go out and knock down a 75-year-old woman.

With the population aging and society showing no signs of retreating from the "everyone is a victim" mentality, the situation is only going to get worse.

Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Toronto Free Press. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Men's News Daily, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant. Arthur can be reached at: Columns 2006 '05 '04 '03 '02 '01 '00 1999 Media 2006 '05 '04 '03 '02 Toronto 2006 '05 '04