By Tina Trent -- BombThrowers —— Bio and Archives September 1, 2017
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Before high winds and heavy rain began to lash this city overnight, Roy Joe Cox tucked into the spot under the freeway that he calls home and assessed his hurricane supplies.And thus was to begin the bathetic tale of a forgotten man, a man so poor that his only hope was to steal a blanket to protect himself from a hurricane:
He began his day Saturday in that Walmart parking lot, [sic, and note to the Times: hire your copy editors back] in search of a blanket that he hoped would protect him from the storm. With just a few coins in his pocket, he said he had planned to steal one.To anyone other than a Times reporter (or, say, a Guardian stringer professionally lying about our social safety net for eager European audiences), it should have been clear that Mr. Cox knew perfectly well that a blanket wouldn’t protect him from a hurricane. He was just hitting up intrepid reporter Julie Turkewitz for a dime. Drinking and panhandling are apparently what Mr. Cox spends his days doing when he isn’t otherwise making a public nuisance of himself. Despite Miss Turkewitz’s best efforts to stage a scene from Les Misérables under a Houston overpass, such facts keep intruding on her report, and what emerges (to any reader other than readers of the Times) is a picture of a man who only has his own behavior to blame for ending up under a bridge:
Mr. Cox lives on a slip of cement between traffic lanes under the Southwest Freeway, across from an adult accessories shop called Katz Boutique and a taquería called Tepatitlán, and not far from a Shell station where he uses the bathroom. He said he liked the spot because he can sit between a thick column and a large metal electrical box. This allows him some privacy. He sleeps on a brown sofa cushion and makes occasional trips on foot to a Walmart about a mile away. To eat, he “flies,” which is his term for panhandling.
On Friday two police officers came by to offer him shelter, he said. He said no to both. His reasons are varied. “You can’t smoke there, you can’t drink there,” he said. He didn’t want to leave his stuff, he added. He was afraid that afterward he won’t [sic] be able to find his way back. “I’m familiar with this place. I can make a few dollars here, take care of myself here.”Here is the story the Times will not tell: because some homeless guy wants to keep drinking, police and rescue workers in Houston will have to risk their lives throughout the storm to keep trying to coax him to safety, and if they do not, the ACLU or some other nonprofit legal parasite will soon sue the City of Houston and FEMA, making Parisians clutching their Guardian newspapers swoon in ecstasy at the thought of Donald Trump murdering this poor, forgotten Jean Valjean. This is poverty porn. As Julia Turkewitz scoured underpasses searching for victims of American greed, decent Americans like the “Cajun Navy” and the “Waco Navy” headed to Houston to rescue storm victims, while police and other first responders geared up for weeks of hard, dangerous, around-the-clock labor to rescue and protect the Roy Joe Coxes and Julia Turkewitzes and everyone in between. These are the sorts of stories being told in the conservative media.
He’s back! Be still my beating heart! This guy just can’t be stopped! Identified as a Houston SWAT team member who is carrying women and babies out of danger. With muscles bulging (and probably blinding feminists with his toxic maleness) superman Daryl Hudeck has now been spotted rescuing puppies … I give you the men of Texas.
And this Twitchy article features heart-warming dog rescuers, hard-working guys rescuing grannies on jet-skis, and more of the now-ubiquitous Mr. Hudeck.A rescue worker carries two dogs to safety after evacuating their family from floodwaters in Houston, Texas. pic.twitter.com/dhoi5P7Ukq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 27, 2017
Tina Trent writes about crime and policing, political radicals, social service programs, and academia. She has published several reports for America’s Survival and helped the late Larry Grathwohl release a new edition of his 1976 memoir, “Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen,” an account of his time infiltrating the Weather Underground.
Dr. Trent received a doctorate from the Institute for Women’s Studies of Emory University, where she wrote about the devastating impact of social justice movements on criminal law under the tutelage of conservative, pro-life scholar Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Dr. Trent spent more than a decade working in Atlanta’s worst neighborhoods, providing social services to refugees, troubled families, and crime victims. There, she witnessed the destruction of families by the poverty industry, an experience she describes as: “the reason I’m now a practicing Catholic and social conservative.”
Tina lives with her husband on a farm in North Georgia. She blogs about crime and politics at tinatrent.com.