Where Is the Heterosexual Outrage Over Benjamin Balter's Suicide?

Where Is the Heterosexual Outrage Over Benjamin Balter's Suicide?

When 18 year old, aspiring violinist Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on September 10th, 2010 after discovering his roommate had videotaped and publicized his homosexual liaisons, Clementi’s death inspired widespread sincere tributes and outraged condemnation.




The outrage came from those who had known and from those who hadn’t known the Rutgers University freshman as well as from non-Rutgers students nationwide, from an empathetic mass media and, mainly, from the homosexual community.



The condemnation–of Clementi’s alleged murderers Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei–emanated from the same sources whose fury intensified when a New Jersey judge gave Ravi a slap-on-the wrist jail sentence of 30 days and Wei copped a plea.



Regardless of the merits of the Ravi-Wei case, the question has now arisen as to why college students, the mass media, and gays aren’t outraged by the 2009 suicide of Benjamin Balter who was driven to that ultimate resolution of his personal angst because of homosexual molestation at the elite, private Horace Mann School in Riverdale, the Bronx.



Horace Mann’s school anthem, “Great is the truth and it prevails; mighty the youth the morrow hails. Lives come and go; stars cease to glow; but great is the truth and it prevails”, is as much a joke as the idea the school is “prestigious.” Truth is a foreign concept at Mann especially when it’s ugly truth.



Last Wednesday, Ben Balter’s mother, Kathy Howard, currently a teacher at Horace Mann and now in fear of losing her position, finally went public with a letter written by her son 19 years ago.



In his 1993 letter, then 16 year old Ben wrote, “I am writing concerning the faculty member Johannes Somary, chairman of the arts department. Recently, Mr. Somary has made grossly inappropriate sexual advances towards me,” once on a school trip and also during music lessons. Ben added that Somary had “kissed him, French kissed him, put his tongue in his mouth and that he put his hands down his pants.”



After receiving her son’s claim of clearly homosexual child sexual abuse, Howard confronted Somary, indignantly demanding, “How dare you put your tongue in my son’s mouth!” to which the gay pedophile blithely responded, ”That’s how we Swiss kiss.”



Subsequently, Howard met with Horace Mann trustees who bullied her and told her “to forget it, that I would not have a case because it would always be Ben’s word against Somary’s word and I would’ve had to have had the abuse on tape.” (



Had Ben Balter’s experiences at Mann been exceptional or unusual we could dismiss his allegations . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26784.)

Explicating Pat Buchanan's "Suicide"

Explicating Pat Buchanan's "Suicide"

Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate, adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, prolific author, and paleoconservative political commentator, knows whereof he speaks and writes. He has written a new book, a book deeply-disturbing to anyone who loves the United States of America and fears for our future.

Titled, Suicide of a Superpower, its subtitle, the question, Will America Survive to 2025? is even more disconcerting.

Scheduled to be officially released by Macmillan on October 18th, Drudge.com obtained a pre-publication copy of Suicide and outlined its contents which are not for the fainthearted. Or, for those smugly confident that, since America is the only superpower now and since we are the richest, most potent force on the planet, we will always be.

To anyone who has closely followed international and national developments over the course of the past few decades and especially of the last three years or even to casual observers, what Buchanan coalesces in the 496 pages of Suicide will strike many chords.

All the chords lead to the inexorable conclusion that the days of America’s greatness, if not to our days of existence as a nation, are numbered with very few numbers.

The Muslim world, which at this juncture stands to inherit what remains of Western civilization, will love Buchanan’s book. So, too, will the Left, which has been working tirelessly for decades to destroy the foundations of that civilization.

A few of the points noted by Buchanan, with this writer’s bracketed observations:

. We have created an totally dependent underclass ”who cannot cope” and who rely on government to provide their daily necessities. [I would add that they also cannot think. Testimony to both is the burgeoning welfare and food stamp programs and the fact that over 40% of Americans still support President Barack Hussein Obama.]

. Successful efforts to “de-Christianize” America and Europe “will prove culturally and socially suicidal,” as will the disintegration of Catholic schools and the abandonment by Catholic colleges and universities of Catholic principles on such issues as abortion. [Buchanan, a Roman Catholic, is right on the mark, not because Christians or Catholics are flawless but because ours was a Christian nation from its inception and because Catholics have been the primary advocates for the central moral issue of our time, the sanctity of life.]

. “White America is an endangered species,” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5720.)

Jesse Dirkhising, 13, Tyler Clementi, 18, Matthew Shepard, 21

Jesse Dirkhising, 13, Tyler Clementi, 18, Matthew Shepard, 21

Every year around this time I like to commemorate the too brief life of Jesse William Dirkhising mainly because, outside of his family and friends, few remember Jesse who died at age 13. Fewer yet recall how he died, and a certain segment chooses not to remember.

Another death recently consumed the mass media as well as the blogosphere so that, by now, given that extensive local and national publicity, most people have heard of Tyler Clementi.

His abbreviated life and untimely death have been the subject of countless vigils and memorials and countless stories on every medium, stories that mourn the waste of a life and which attempt to imagine the unspeakable anguish Tyler must have felt, probably not so much at being discovered in homosexual assignations at New Jersey’s Rutgers University in late September but far more so at having been videotaped and knowing those videos were posted on the internet.

That realization drove Tyler to commit suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

Perhaps excessively so, after his body washed up days later in northern Manhattan and he was identified, Tyler became something of a mass media cause celebre’, an exemplar of what could happen to gays as a result of anti-homosexual bias and discrimination.

His suicide is now being widely exploited by gay websites as a figurative call to arms in protest of anti-gay bullying and mistreatment of homosexuals but, in all fairness, it should be pointed out that it was not bias and discrimination at the very progressive Rutgers U. that caused Tyler to take his own life. His own personal choices caused that tragedy.

Since he left no suicide note aside from a cryptic “Facebook” post–”Jumping off the the gw bridge sorry”–Tyler Clementi’s motivation will never be known with absolute certainty and it can only be assumed to have been mortification over the publicizing of his homosexual indiscretions that resulted in his suicide.

Tyler Clementi’s death at 18 inversely relates to the death of Jesse Dirkhising who died at age 13 on September 26, 1999. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2150)

Blame Phoebe, Blame the Victim!

Blame Phoebe, Blame the Victim!

Leave it to Slate.com, an arch-liberal website, to blame the death of 15 year old Phoebe Prince on 15 year old Phoebe Prince rather than on the predatorial atmosphere in Massachusetts’ South Hadley High School and on her sick, fellow students who drove her to go home last January 14th and hang herself.

Nine students have been indicted on various charges and some could face up to 10 years in prison; the schools superintendent has been pressured to resign.

It’s all too typical for liberals to exonerate the predators in society, whether they be the poor bastard who rapes children or the misunderstood psychopaths who murder innocents or the disenchanted morons who wreak havoc on city streets. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1798)

Smothered Teen Souls

Smothered Teen Souls

. . . “The Leaden-Eyed” was written in an entirely different context but fully applies to two young American girls whose lives were literally “smothered out” before they had a chance to reap the joys of life. Their souls were starved by their insensitive worlds, their dreams and gods did not save them.

They didn’t die like sheep, either. They died agonizing deaths by hanging themselves by the neck in their homes, the only places they could find succor and safety from the mean world and vicious people in their schools but places that couldn’t give them relief from their pain.

It’s simplistic to say that 15 year old Phoebe Prince and 17 year old Alexis Pilkington committed suicide. Both girls were the murdered victims of modern life, both suffered far more slings and arrows than they could withstand, both succumbed to sadness beyond redemption or salvation. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1600)

Another Sexting Suicide

Another Sexting Suicide

Nothing can compare with the excruciating physical pain and crushing emotional trauma of a parent losing a child. Worse is the needless and senseless loss of a young child to suicide.

Thirteen year old Hope Witsell of Sundance, Florida was just a normal kid at Beth Shields Middle School, normal by today’s standards for a girl just emerging from tweenie status into the burgeoning maturity of full-fledged teenage life.

Hope almost literally had her entire life ahead of her until she made a grave mistake not atypical in twentyfirst century American culture. She paid dearly for that error in judgement by hanging herself in her bedroom with one end of a pink scarf tied to her bed and the other to her neck.

It’s nearly impossible for any male, and moreso for an elder male, to understand the processes that take place in the female mind, and moreso in the inner workings of a young, female teenager.

I’ve dealt with two of those minds but that was in a previous generation when, as bad as it was in the sense of child raising and venomous threats and influences, in retrospect they now seem like halcyon days filled with all sweetness and light as contrasted with the dark temptations and influences of today.

Young girls have always been noted for their silly crushes, their wild indiscretions, their squeals of delight at the appearance of a Sinatra, the Beatles, or a Justin Bieber.

Before I’m accused of sexism I will say that so too did normal boys’ hearts pump faster at a vision of Marilyn Monroe, Brigette Bardot, and today of Beyonce, Taylor Swift, or Miley Cyrus.

However, from the perspective of an admitted amateur shrink, I think it’s fairly obvious that most teenie girls are far more emotional and much more sensitive than boys in that age category.

Some are even irrationally “boy crazy.”

Such may have been the case with pretty, little Hope Witsell . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1355)