Headlines

I've been trying to slip back into some kind of routine here. But the headlines just keep rocking me back. How much is too much? Why is nobody stopping this?

Last night...

[En San Felipe] Encapuchados atracaron autobús con 50 niños de plan vacacional

Eight masked (hooded) men attacked a bus carrying 50 children from a vacation outing sponsored by the Lara State government. They stopped the bus, pointed guns at the children, beat them and stole everything in sight, including their backpacks.

Who does this? These children were obviously unarmed and not carrying anything very valuable. ?!?

Asesinan a abuela del empresario Nelson Belfort

The 93 year-old grandmother of the president of a Venezuelan radio circuit was beaten in her home by presumed robbers. Her neck was broken. 

Who does this? Who has to beat a 93 year-old woman to steal what little she might have in her apartment??!?

Gilberto Correa recibió golpiza en medio de un asalto

It was reported yesterday. although the attack occurred earlier, that a well-known TV personality, now 72 years old, was attacked and beaten in his car as he drove home. The attackers recognized him and commented "let's leave him or the same thing will happen to us as with Monica Spears"...with all that, he required 14 stitches in his face. (Monica Spears was a Venezuelan beauty queen who was murdered on the road with her husband. There was a national outcry, and the police were forced to hunt down those responsible. But ordinary people are attacked and killed daily with no outcry and no arrests.)

(12/08/2015) SAQUEADO CAMIÓN DE JABÓN,SAN CARLOS, COJEDES!!!

A truck transporting soap was pillaged and plundered by the good citizens of Cojedes State. (This is only today's looted truck. Drivers are afraid to carry cargos of price-controlled goods.)

The entire society is falling apart. The great majority seems to have no sense of right and wrong...if I want it, if I need it, then it's OK to take it any way I can. (As violently as possible, apparently)  I'm owed. This is one of Chavismos most devastating legacies. One which will take a generation or two to overcome.

OK. I'm done for today. Just had to get out from under the weight of all the bad headlines.