If a Christian is one who turns his slapped cheek to the
slapper for more roughhouse, the American male is no Christian. We are more
like Lafcadio Wluiki, the hero of Andree Gide’s novel, “Lafcadio’s
Adventures.” Lafcadio keeps a small
knife handy, and whenever he is insulted, he stabs himself in the thigh to
memorialize the insult. Forgetting is forgiving. We are not braggarts. An
Ahmadinejad here would be laughed to scorn. But we know how to nourish
scorpions in our hearts. That we do well. And when the time is ripe, BANG goes
the stinger.
Casey and her mother Wendy "I just started grief counseling. I'm always sad. I'm sad and in pain and I miss her." Wendy Hartling Hartling is the mother of Casey Chadwick, murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques , an illegal Haitian immigrant. Jacques was convicted of the murder of Chadwick in a New London Superior Court jury trial and sentenced by Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed to a 60 year term in prison. Since Jacques is 44 years of age, the sentence was, in effect, a life sentence. Connecticut Commentary coverage of the Chadwick murder may be found here , and here and here . Jacques could not have been sentenced to death because Connecticut’s Democrat dominated General Assembly, under pressure from the state Supreme Court, had abolished Connecticut’s death penalty law in 2012 . The slaughter of Chadwick was particularly brutal. Her body had been found by a friend who, opening a door to a closet, discovered Chadwick stuffed in a dark corner drenched in blo...
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