The Death of Jesse Dirkhising

[Ubermensch]

CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] "Jesse slowly suffocated and died."
A jury heard those chilling words this week in the opening statement of a little-noticed Arkansas trial. A mother heard those heartbreaking words spoken about her 13-year-old son, Jesse Dirkhising, whom prosecutors say died at the hands of two men who raped and murdered the boy during a marathon torture session. The trial raises grave questions about society's increasing tolerance of gay pedophilia. But in New York and Los Angeles, the national press hounds were more interested in covering the trial of rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs than in reporting on the tragic death of Jesse Dirkhising.

The details are sickening: On Sept. 26, 1999, Jesse was at the Rogers, Ark., home of a family friend, 39-year-old Davis Carpenter, and Carpenter's roommate and alleged gay lover, 23-year-old Joshua Brown. According to a local Associated Press account, prosecutor Bob Balfe told jurors Wednesday that "the boy had been given a strong sedative, then restrained while his own underwear was stuffed into his mouth and held in place with duct tape. Brown then folded Jesse into position atop a bed while supporting the boy's body with pillows."

"While Jesse was bound and helpless and naked in this position ... he was repeatedly raped ... over a period of hours," Balfe said. "Jesse slowly suffocated and died." The prosecution says Brown raped and sodomized Jesse with various objects, including food, while Carpenter stood in the bedroom doorway watching and masturbating. According to a police affidavit, Brown took a break from the assault to eat a sandwich. When he returned, prosecutors say, he discovered that Jesse was not breathing. Carpenter then called police, who found the boy naked and near death on a bedroom floor.

Police gathered evidence from the men's apartment that included lurid drawings showing a bound person, written descriptions of a homosexual assault, pieces of paper describing objects with which Jesse was sodomized, and a printed grocery receipt listing duct tape and other items found near Jesse's body. The defense will argue that Jesse -- outnumbered, overpowered, overdosed, and strapped helplessly to a mattress -- was a willing and consenting participant in this sexual torment.

This was a child. A 13-year-old child. A boy who should be riding a scooter and wrestling with his friends and watching cartoons and doing his algebra homework. That the defense could even dare make a public case for consensual sex between a 13-year-old boy and two adult men shows how far this country has sunk into the cesspool of moral apathy and cowardice. Public leaders are so worried about not offending gay political interest groups that they remain silent about the mainstreaming of homosexual predation.

The defense of gay pedophilia has metastasized deep and far into the national conscience. As Mary Eberstadt wrote in The Weekly Standard recently, "Today's pressures to normalize pedophilia are not the result of some omnipotent and unstoppable taboo-devouring social and moral juggernaut; they are occurring one bookstore, one magazine, one publisher and advertiser, one author and editor and consumer at a time."

One of the nation's leading gay magazines, "XY," is targeted to readers as young as 12. It features photo spreads of half-naked men and publishes profanity-laced articles supporting lowering the age of consent. Instead of universal condemnation, the North American Man-Boy Love Association (which advocates normalizing and decriminalizing sex between adult males and boys) receives praise and sympathy from liberal magazine writers and literary critics.

NAMBLA is the subject of late-night comedy monologues and the beneficiary of pro bono legal aid from the American Civil Liberties Union. Opponents of the group are smeared as right-wing homophobes; they and others who have criticized the media for ignoring Jesse Dirkhising's death are tarred as anti-gay propagandists.

Political correctness is slowly suffocating our sense of public outrage over behavior that is perverse, coercive, and wrong. This is why the brutal death of Jesse Dirkhising has been met with deaf ears and a cruel collective shrug.

COPYRIGHT 2001 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/20...dirkhising.htm

[Powerboss]

Yes, I do remember this.

I think this is a blatant example of media bias as they only report the causes of all types of minority groups.
And they also dont wnat to reveal the fact that the Noble ACLU defends sick perverts in NAMBLA, of course in the name of the constitution.

This is much sicker than the Mattew Shepard incident yet there isnt much outcry about it.
To do something like this to a child....

[buggy]

By Chris Crain
Originally appeared March 23, 2001, in Southern Voice (Atlanta) under the titles "Do we share blame for Jesse's murder?"



WHEN TWO STRAIGHT MEN in Laramie, Wyo., singled out for violence a young gay man in October 1998, the resulting murder made national headlines for weeks. The words "Matthew Shepard" became synonymous for "hate victim" and his murder the inevitable product of a homophobic culture.

When two gay men in Bentonville, Ark., singled out a 13-year-old in September 1999 for violent sex play, the resulting murder made local headlines and a glimmer of national coverage. But "Jesse Dirkhising" isn't synonymous for anything, except in conservative circles.

Among the right wing, "Jesse Dirkhising" stands for two battle cries: the double standard practiced within the "liberal media" and, at a more subtle level, deviant gay sexual culture and its violent consequence.

It's a little too easy to dismiss the media double standard by pointing out the obvious differences in the killing of Matthew Shepard and the killing of Jesse Dirkhising.

The national media fixated on the Shepard murder because the evidence suggested that the two perpetrators were motivated by anti-gay hate. Instead of stealing the pocket change in Shepard's wallet, they pummeled him with a pistol and left him to die, tied to a fence post.

Beyond the sheer brutality of the crime and the "group prejudice" that played a role in it, the resulting cries for hate crime legislation, in Wyoming and elsewhere, were legitimate news stories.

The Dirkhising killing no doubt matches the Shepard murder in brutality and ugliness. He was a teenager far too young to consent to any sort of sexual encounter; he was heavily drugged, his own underwear placed in his mouth and held in place by duct tape, and repeatedly sodomized.

When police arrived at the chaotic scene, his body was smeared in feces and he had only a faint pulse. The two gay men only called an ambulance after one took a break from the "sex play" to eat a sandwich and noticed the youth was not breathing, according to the police report.

But even taken at its worst, gay activists are right to point out, there was no "group prejudice" behind the Dirkhising killing. No one is alleging that the two gay men deliberately planned the teen's abduction to "get" a straight kid. In fact, the available evidence suggests that Jesse was gay, or at least questioning his sexuality.

Without the presence of prejudice based on sexual orientation, or any other sort of "ism" or "phobia," the Dirkhising story doesn't have the same public policy legs as the Shepard killing. To the mainstream press, it's just another brutal crime, this time committed by two gay men.

But are those distinctions, while important, enough to shrug our shoulders and file away Jesse's murder as the random act of twisted minds that just so happen to be gay?

Almost anytime a gay person is victimized these days, our activists are quick to call upon society to recognize its complicity in the crime. What messages are we communicating, they inevitably ask, that might have led those involved to lash out in this way?

In the case of Jesse Dirkhising, the only ones taking the time to look for larger lessons are social conservatives. And that's truly unfortunate.

For one thing, they've got an axe to grind. Social commentators from the right are snooping for evidence to make a broader social point: Gays are social deviants who engage in behavior that is repugnant to mainstream America. And just by publicizing the story, they purposefully feed the claim that gay adults are out to "recruit" wayward youths, with disastrous results.

Before you sniff at such morbid opportunism, admit to yourself that gay activists did much the same thing, though for a cause you support, after Matthew Shepard's death.

Decent conservatives would acknowledge that no gays would take matters so far as they went in Bentonville, Ark., but that wouldn't end the comparison for them — just as most reasonable gay activists allowed that few heterosexuals were waiting to tie us to fence posts.

Conservatives would argue, however, that the sex-drenched gay culture, and the value-less homosexual lifestyle, were bound to victimize someone like Jesse Dirkhising. And while most youths tricked and trapped by predatory gay men don't wind up dead, they do wind up sexually confused, robbed of their innocence, and torn from the values their parents worked hard to instill in them.

Before you dismiss that conservative diatribe, conjure in your head the mental image of Judy and Dennis Shepard, grieving the loss of their son. The sympathy you feel is likely to overwhelm the stubborn "gray zones" of Matthew's murder — especially the mixed motive of his killers and the extent society is really to blame.

Now imagine the parents of Jesse Dirkhising, sitting in court while prosecutors played tapes of his accused killer, telling police, "Jesse really didn't have anything to offer, except maybe sex now and then." Could you stand in front of them and disclaim any responsibility for gay culture in his killing?

As a minority group, we homosexuals have perfected the art of deconstructing mainstream society for its conscious and subconscious homophobia. Our "gay studies" scholars write treatise after treatise on the topic, and our civil rights groups wear out fax machines with press releases on the subject.

But when it comes to examining whether gay culture plays a role in societal ills, we are sometimes as willfully blind as our conservative foes. We are so defensive about "bad press" and passing judgment on anything sexual, we resist the question at a visceral level.

If the gruesome killing of a gay youth won't at least make us look harder at where our culture might bear some responsibility, what will?

http://www.indegayforum.org/articles/crain2.html

[Powerboss]

Come on...its societys fault?


I had nothing to do with either murder.
The killers, all of them, in both cases,were sick perverts.

Killing is killing. PERIOD.

To try to trumpet one murder, because its motivated by something different, as being more important or "having more legs" is complete

If we use that silly logic by the author of that article we could say theses two sicko's murdered Jesse on the basis he was a tender young innocent virgin. So which is worse, killing someone becaue they're gay, or because they're a young, innocent, virgin?

ITS ALL JUST SICKENING.

Why do we have to make one murder more important than another? Its ridiculous.

[buggy]

Weird, I must be tired, because I thought he agreed that the media was bias and the crime was sick and evil. I saw where he blamed the media not society?

He points out that activists are always quick to jump when gays are victimized but this story was cleanly tucked away.

The media is a tool for the victim mentality, it helps perpetuate the cycle of such mentalities. I do not deny that.

Ah well, guess I read the guy wrong.

[Powerboss]

OK, maybe I misunderstood. I glossed over it, Im sleepy.

I read it with more scrutiny tomorrow.

[Ubermensch]

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[buggy]

A stand? Like brutally beating someone that could be gay? That sort of puts you in the same category as the sodimizers that killed Jesse Dirkhising.

Being mentally ill can go both ways you know, your hatred and willingness to act upon it and their rapings... etc.

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[Geoffrey]

seems like you have a nice hatred for homosexuals.. I suggest you tone it down some. Debate the facts, make points, but don't single out groups and by calling them "freaks" and "disgusting"

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[Corporate Avenger]

Ooh did I "offend" you?

Thankfully, this is beginning to change in some parts of the world and will soon make its way here.

Keep on dreaming..

[QtrHrsmn]

CA, I actually dislike Uber... but I find some commonality in his posts. And I must agree, that the gaps between the "PC" crowd and conservatives is widening, to the detriment of all. I think it will lead to some really nasty political fights in the near future, and things are going to get much worse before they get better. I foresee a day when things come to a head, and my only hope is that I won't be around to see it. I honestly believe it will start on the west coast, also. For what it's worth, I fell very sorry for the normal people out there.... THEY will be the ones to get hurt the most.

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[hammegk]

Originally posted by QtrHrsmn
....I foresee a day when things come to a head, and my only hope is that I won't be around to see it. I honestly believe it will start on the west coast, also. For what it's worth, I feel very sorry for the normal people out there.... THEY will be the ones to get hurt the most.

Why do you predict non-deviants will be the ones to "get hurt the most"? Only because there are so many more of them?

And I kind of hope to be around to see it.

[Truth Teller]

Of course you fail to mention that Drikishing's kllers had written plans to do the same to a 13 year old girl afterward ,that hardly sounds "gay' to me.

And Powerboss speaks out of both ends of his mouth when he calls it "worse than Matthew Sheppard" then says "Killing is killing" [just be honest that you are hate people only because of the sexual preference Powerboss and I'll respect you for being honest].

The fact is if Matthew Shepard wasn't homosexual he wouldn't have been brutally murdered,Jessie Driksing wasn't killed because of who he was and the fact is rape/murders don't get reported by the national press too often because they're too common.

In fact ,many more murders of gays lesbians occir that don't get national press either,Matthew Shepard got press because he was "the kid next door" as opposed to a drag queen.

I think it's obvious why Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, was it just because her kidnapper was hertosexual?Should we equate all hetrosexuals with him?

You can go to www.matthewshepard.org in honor of Judy and Dennis Shepard,two people who have more class and decentcy than any of the homophobes[homophobia:irrational hatered or fear of homosexulaity] here have.

[Truth Teller]

You can alo go to www.pflag.org an organization I'm proud to be a meember of.

[hammegk]

Originally posted by Truth Teller
Of course you fail to mention that Drikishing's kllers had written plans to do the same to a 13 year old girl afterward ,that hardly sounds "gay' to me.

1. Is this "News" citable-source fact or just urban legend?

2. Is Bisex less deviant than homosex?

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