Santa Barbara Man Suffers Brain Injury in Attack Outside City Hall

» goletadaughter on 02.10.12 @ 07:50 AM

Overtaxed taxpayer: you are making an assumption based upon his name? I recognize him as someone that went to high school with my son and played football.  While I don’t condone what he allegedly did to this victim, I also don’t condone assumptions being made with no facts such as you have done.

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» socaljay on 02.10.12 @ 10:22 AM

goletadaughter, Overtaxed has every right to be pissed, though InTheMiddle’s more measured response is pretty close to the target.  Though we don’t know the details of the incident, we do have enough information to formulate some reasonable theories.

You have an individual who was ID’d by a witness as to having beat a man senseless on public property and put him in the hospital.  He was apprehended with others who had been drinking, had drugs and a weapon in the car with them.  Honestly, I could care less what he looked like with all of that information.  It just spells bad, and there is no excuse for it.

I’m sick and tired of this permissive mentality that protects malcontents in our society.  As if somehow their actions are not their own fault.  I have two sons who never had these kinds of problems, nor behaved in a way that would bring shame on their family or their community.

Until we come to terms with the fact that many parts of the country have been taken over by citizens, residents, visitors or undocumented transients, who have no intention and apparently no obligation to assimilate themselves with our culture, we will never even begin to fix the problem.

I spent over 11 years living and traveling south of the border and I can say without reservation that there are segments of our population who have no respect for our laws, rules, or courtesies.  In fact, some go out of their way to abuse them and give us the big finger. 

Then we have those apologists who continue to protect them and make excuses for them.  Please don’t be apologetic.  There is no excuse for this kind of behavior.  And under no uncertain terms should we be a sanctuary city, unless of course, it is our intent to harbor and assist these individuals, to the detriment of all.

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» publius on 02.10.12 @ 04:21 PM

Rather than wave their prejudices like flags on a windy day, can’t we just wait for
the victim to recover, and for the Police to complete their investigation about what
happened, and why?

All this harsh rhetoric, based on tiny fragments of information and a single witness
on a 1AM incident, and people are already rushing to their ethnic/gang diatribes?

Is this about safe streets and a victim’s speedy recovery, or something uglier?

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