Woodward and Bernstein got nothin' in this boy
Sometimes it pays to be a blogger at Open Salon. After all, who else could browbeat their way in to interview the perpetrators of a sensational murder reported around the world? Naturally there was resistance at first, but after flashing my carefully crafted press badge from bbd and name dropping OS the doors literally flew open for me. Take that, Drudge Report!
The story in a nutshell is three teens were "bored with gun" and decided to off some guy jogging by. The victim was from Australia so there was some whining from the Outback but it got the usual American shrug here. A lazy Tuesday afternoon going nowhere with nothing in sight, got to liven it up somehow! A local moralist on the scene claimed when he gets bored he "goes to the movies". How did these kids go wrong with a shining example such as that to guide them??
The three filed into the room cocky as all get out but were duly awed after I informed them of my doing 12 years dead time at hard labor. Prison is for pansies. Try a homeless shelter for real hell. These boys wanted no part of that - smart move, kid.
I went right to the heart of the matter:
ME: C'mon guys, what's up with the gang banging business?
THEM: Life is shit, man! Take it or leave it.
ME: It's shit for everybody. That guy you see driving the big black Escalade has got someone on his back just like everybody else. Nobody gets a free ride.
THEM: We was feeling left out, not gettin' our share. Can't let life pass you by.
ME: Gonna live it up in prison, eh?
THEM: When ya already dead don't matter what you do. Peeps know our names now. That what counts.
ME: Most people would say you had your whole life ahead of you.
THEM: Most people is dicks! They just wanna knock on your head every chance they get. Live it like they says or get knocked down. We ain't standin' for that.
ME: You showed them! Gotta live your dreams!
THEM: Exactly!
ME: But you got frustrated and shot your wad. Do you think society should have done more for you?
THEM: Society is about power. Money power, war power, gun power. Either you the man or you the bitch. We ain't bitches.
ME: You haven't met your cell mates yet. But most people say the world doesn't owe you anything.
THEM: Bet that dude's family done wished the world had paid us up! [Fist bumps and laughs]
ME: Point taken. Is that why you did a "little dance" when you got booked?
THEM: Hells yeah! We made the world pay and now everyone knows it. No one can take that away from us. Time to give back a little of what they handin' out.
ME: Have you really been so put upon?
THEM: Fuckin' A. Why do you think the USA is out shooting people all over the world? Peeps is fed up and lookin' to pop somebody's ass! Idiots out there want to believe that's making them safe then, hell, we just made the world safe for boredom.
ME: What's really eating at you guys?
THEM [Snarling]: Fuck you. You ever been a nobody? You ever look on the TV and wonder what the fuck that asshole is doin' there? Why is that motherfucker makin' out when he got a big bag of nothin'? This ain't no country.
ME: Ever have a broom shoved up your ass and told all your good for is sweeping with it?
THEM: How'd that make you feel?
ME: Like I wanted to shoot somebody.
THEM: Then why didn't ya??
ME: Not enough bullets to kill all of 'em.
THEM: So you see: no way out.
ME: So there's nothing to believe in?
THEM: Nothing but your Glock and a stash of cash! [Fist bumps]
ME: Your President said: "There is an extra measure of evil in an act of violence that cuts a young life short." So clearly he believes there's something more.
THEM [laughing]: You're a funny guy! That dude the biggest thrill killer of us all only he don't know it. We do.
ME: You guys are celebrities but there's really not a huge outcry over your thrill kill. Why do you think that is?
THEM: They know somewhere deep in their head they ain't any better than us. They all killers! What can they say? Where you been, man? They get you with the lead or they get you with the dollar but they gonna get you!
ME: But you can't go around just shooting people willy-nilly!
THEM: Shit, peeps get fucked up random every day, don't matter who they are if they's a little guy. That's the law of the land and we here to enforce it!
ME: But this was outrageous killing for no reason.
THEM: We had our reasons just like they say they got theirs. And anyways, it not like we did somethin' really awful like dance half naked at the VMA getting people really riled up! [Laughter]
ME: Would you have still shot the guy if you could put your dick in Miley Cyrus?
THEM [Pause]: Probably not...life sure is shit when you can't never have nothing you want.
ME: OK, I got just one final question for ya. I'm no defender of the system. Capitalism is the mafia with a pen, the people who are supposed to be protecting us are selling us out with a smile (Hi, Mr. President!) and that the vast majority of people suffering have no say or voice in what is going on. I get all that and I wish those people straight into hell. But, really, did you have to kill the guy?
THEM [For the first time the room got serious. Someone was actually listening. No one had listened to them before. And no one for damn sure wanted to listen to them now. What ugly truths might these boys reveal? Nope, time to shut them up for good in the name of "justice" - all so that the machinery of the greater injustice can march forward.
After a long look in my eyes]: It had to come out. It had to. Wasn't no keeping it in.
ME: I understand. [I got up from the chair and headed out]
THEM: Hey, man! Don't think you getting out of it. It coming out of everyone. We ain't the only killers. No time for holdin' back. The day is coming. Tell them, the day is coming!
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