This is bugging me...
Did you hear about those boys in NYC who pushed a shopping cart off the 4th story of a parking garage and it landed on a lady and killed her? Fortunately, a doctor was right there and witnessed the whole thing and handed off their baby to his wife so he could do CPR. She was revived and taken to the hospital. The lady, Marion Hedges, had her 13 or 14 year old son with her, who was hysterical (understandably) so the wife of the doctor comforted him and helped him call his grandmother. Mrs. Hedges is still in critical condition according to the news reports I found in a Google search this morning.
A couple of things disturb me about this story. First of all, if these boys had no more sense to know that dropping a shopping cart four stories is a bad idea, they should have not been out in public without adult supervision. This has gotten a lot of media coverage and some sources describe the boys as good kids. I highly doubt that. Another source was surprised these kids hadn't been to juvie yet. That's more like it.
In spite of what happened to his wife at the hands of these little punks, Michael Hedges told the NY Daily News they would like to create a foundation to help kids like Jeovanni and Raymond, the "alleged perpetrators". My gut tells me tossing them off a four story building would be a good first step. However, they are just kids, and apparently they don't have a lot of supervision. Maybe we should chuck their parents off instead.
But wait...we have to find their parents first. Apparently these boys are growing up in the projects in Harlem and their daddies are long gone. One of the boys' moms spoke out and said she needs help, she's a single mom. Well, if she's living in the projects, chances are she's already getting some "help". Some Food Stamps, some Medicaid, some Welfare, some Section 8 housing. Could it be that all the "help" she's getting isn't really the kind of help she needs? Could it be that the kind of "help" the Feds have been doling out for over 40 years is hurting more people than it's helping?
I pray for everyone involved in this tragedy. The victim, her family, the kids who injured her, their families. The witnesses, the doctor and his wife who stopped to help. The older boy who tried to stop the boys from tossing a shopping cart to begin with and eventually turned them in when they ran away instead of taking responsibility for their actions.
So...how does this tie into property rights and building codes? And what does Agenda 21 have to do with any of it? Oh, oh, oh, I'm glad you asked!! I love it when I can tie it all together.
"The pedestrian walkway at East River Plaza was erected by a private developer, but if it had been owned by the city, builders would have been required to construct an 8-foot high fence over the wall, city officials said."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/tragic-error-city-loophole-led-cart-toss-horror-walkway-east-harlem-target-article-1.972201
The title of the article is "Tragic error: City loophole led to cart-toss horror on walkway at East Harlem Target."
Therefore, it's not the fault of the boys who threw the shopping cart. It's not the fault of the parents who were not supervising their children. It's the fault of the builder and the city. Really?
First of all, if you're going to have building codes at all, they should be consistent. Why should the city have to build thousands more into the budgets of their building projects for safety devices that privately-owned buildings are not required to have? Either it's needed or it's not, doesn't matter whether the government owns it or Donald Trump owns it! Second of all, you cannot legislate common sense. These boys had been in school for at least six or seven years, surely the schools there aren't so bad that they haven't touched on gravity and momentum in science classes. So I'm guessing they knew a shopping cart dropped from 40 feet was going to make a big bang. They'd already been dropping shushies and seen their cups exploding.
I guess technically if there had been an 8 foot tall one inch mesh barrier curved inward at the top, the boys would not have been able to toss a shopping cart over. OK I'm convinced. Totally not their fault they rolled a cart out from the store or parking garage, picked it up and chucked it over the 42 inch railing.
Since Bill Clinton had an office in Harlem, let's blame him. And Michael Bloomberg is mayor of New York, so it's his fault too. New York is in the United States, so let's not forget to blame President Obama while we're at it.
Agenda 21 proponents want us all in sustainable living zones. Big cities. Where you can go everywhere by foot, bicycle or train. Parts of New York are much like what Agenda 21 invisions...mass transit, high population density, tall buildings. But a tragedy like what happened at the East River Plaza could only happen in an Agenda 21 city. It couldn't happen in Ozark, Missouri. We aren't so crowded here that we have to build multi-level stores and parking garages. I'm safe from falling shopping carts here (I hope).
The UN and proponents of Agenda 21 (sustainable development) want all the people in human zones so the rest of the land can be used as appropriate to raise food. No family farms, no country life. No hunting and fishing for recreation and food. No raising a few chickens for the eggs and a couple of goats for the milk. No backyard garden for a few tomatoes and cucumbers.
Our Federal agencies are doing the best they can to burden farmers with so much regulation that they cannot survive. You have to know the rules to be able to play by them, and you can't understand all the bureaucracy and still have time to make a living. So you do the best you can until you get caught breaking one of their rules. Then they slap you with fines and put you out of business. A bigger operation buys up your land for the taxes and you move into one of the human zones.
Bureaucrats have taken what is supposed to protect our citizens and have turned it around to use it against them. Big commercial farming operations have lawyers to interpret and relationships with inspectors to make sure they stay out of trouble. I believe there have to be some rules in place to keep unsafe food off our tables. Unfortunately, food that may not have bacteria or bugs in it but has been filled with hormones, pesticides, antibiotics and other chemicals does make it to the store and there are no warning labels that say we don't know what this may do to you or your kids 20 or 50 years down the road. If I want to stay away from all this, I have to raise all my food myself. But I can't sell any of it to my neighbor because I have to play by all these rules. I can't band together with 50 other people and each raise something and trade with one another.
This is America! We have to wake up and defend the rights of people who may be doing things we don't agree with or would never do ourselves, but aren't hurting anyone else!
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