By Laura Armstrong Monica
I finally sat down and watched some of the trial of the Athens murderer, a low I.Q. psychopath who killed Laken Riley last February 22nd as she took her morning jog at the University of Georgia intramural field complex. I don’t know what they call the area now, it wasn’t there when I was a student, but I’ll probably have nightmares about it for weeks after learning more facts about her tragic, tragic death at the hands of an illegal Biden alien.
It was difficult for me, a mother of four, to watch parts of the trial on YouTube. My son’s a freshman there this year and my youngest daughter, who heads to college next fall, will travel to Auburn this weekend to check it out and watch football with good friends. We made the decision last week, after really struggling with it, to allow her to go without us. She’ll be 18 quite soon, we think she has great judgment, and we’d like her to experience some independence.
This trial in Athens, however, and Laken’s recent loss, is a jolt to every caring parent. And a reminder that this isn’t the world we grew up in.
It also brings to mind some similarities to another horrific loss from 2008 at Auburn University. Lauren Burk, a Walton High graduate and another beautiful young soul, was kidnapped on campus, forced into her vehicle by yet another low I.Q. murderer, this one an American, and killed off campus. My son in law was a student there at the time and talked this week about the panic and pain felt by friends who knew and loved her.
In both cases, the perpetrators had committed previous, serious crimes and had gotten away with them, avoiding jail. They were literally LET OUT by public officials who utterly failed in their main jobs, which is to keep their constituents safe. In both cases, their subsequent crimes grew more heinous and more bold. In Alabama, Lauren’s killer is on death row, still waiting. And now the guilty verdict in Athens which looks like a life sentence without parole at taxpayer expense.
I’m so sorry to be writing about this, no one wants to add to any family’s painful loss. People everywhere are so very sad and our hearts are hurting for everyone involved.
What I told my kids after watching the trial:
– When your parents encourage you to rent a place on the second floor or higher, listen to them. In Athens, this slimebag hung around outside a first floor apartment in full view of a busy school bus stop, trying the door boldly at least twice and likely peeping into the windows around the side of the building. He did this while holding a coffee cup starting in the 6:00 a.m. hour for well over two hours. Rapist immigrants, it appears, have no place they need to be when we’re supporting them at their fancy hotels and subsidized apartments. This location was where he only began his hunt, it was not Laken’s place. He also lurked in the dark exterior stairwell of the apartment building, captured on camera the entire time and just feet away from students heading to class.
– Apparently frustrated and angry, he then walked off into the woods, looking for another victim.
– If you want to look honest, don’t wear your hood up, especially in all black with gloves. The killer was dressed…. like that, like ANTIFA, like a killer.
– Get your noses out of your phones. If the young adults at the UGA bus stop had been situationally aware, they might’ve noticed this guy and called the cops. In fact, if the liberal attitude towards “migrants” had been different, he’d have been stopped many times by then and Laken would still be with us.
– Girls, for the millionth time, don’t run alone in a remote place. I’m guilty of this one, but that was pre-invasion. I’ll add, don’t bike alone in a remote place either (like the Silver Comet Trail).
The takeaways are so few and the losses so great.
And the political implications are many. We all know who’s responsible and who’s funding this stuff. We are, involuntarily. And after years we’re only just beginning to hold our politicians accountable. Politicians on both sides of the aisle.
They heard our voices on November 5, and will certainly hear them again if they don’t act quickly (now that the adults will control two branches) to fix what they’ve broken with their terrible policies and cowardly refusal to do the right thing. Yes, I’m talking about illegal immigrants and whole countries emptying their prisons into our communities.
It’s got to stop.
For those of you who know me, you’ll recognize this isn’t my best writing. It’s because I’m angry, really angry, at the senselessness and the evil. It’s long past time to make everyone accountable, starting with “officials” – local to national to the globalist “elite” – who enable it all.
Enough is enough.
Laura Monica is a 36-year resident of Cobb County and holds an ABJ from the Grady School of Journalism at UGA. She loves freedom and her family. Contact her here
