re: Jarvis Deberry Speaks on French Quarter Attackers

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Meh. Jarvis is generally an idiot, but I don't see anything wrong with this column. Seems like he's praising Covenant House for the work they do

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I've read the article twice and I still don't see this as anything other than a veiled attempt at making excuses for the little thugs by propping up The Covenant House.

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On Tuesday Kelly called Simmons "a follower" and said he made "a horrible mistake." Kelly also said, "The other two who committed the violence were troubled kids with mental health issues."

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When asking "why" a$$holes act like a$$holes before doing anything else, we are making a huge mistake.

#1 - deal with the stupid act. proper punishment.
#2 - if there is a "why", then we need to find out how to prevent next time. at the time of the illegal action, it is too late.

if there is a feasible solution, great. if there is not, you still must offer proper consequences for actions.

the reverse order leads to excuses, not solutions.

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theft is rampart in every military branch

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Define rampant. I didn't find it to be any worse than civilian settings and in some cases, better. For example, I've never known anyone who had their car broken into on post.

If the Marines want to set up a program like you want, go for it.

I would advise the Army to stay FAR AWAY from the idea of bringing juvenile delinquents on post for job training and rehabilitation. That's not the Army's mission. That's never been the Army's mission.

The Army doesn't have any place for people of questionable character. The Army doesn't even TRY to "re-hab" or "save" any basic trainee. If the Trainee is not motivated enough to complete basic training, the individual is discharged with an Uncharacterized classification. All the individual has to do is say, "I want out."

So the idea of sending juvenile delinquents into the custody of Active Duty NCOs on Active Duty military installations and then forcing the juveniles to stay there even if they want to quit is something that the Army simply no longer does.

Even qualified basic training recruits with stellar civilian records need only ask to be discharged for it to happen. The Army doesn't try to keep unwilling people in at all -- it is not worth the trouble AND they probably will be terrible at any job that the Army could offer them.

And as for all of the crimes that they would commit, trust me, they would. I know from experience these kinds of crimes would happen to our military families on post. I would not want to be a Commander tasked to explain to some grieving spouse why some juvenile delinquent Re-hab soldier/trainee was on post and had a chance to rape their child.

Jarvis Deberry is a flat out racist

Jim Kelly at Covenant House is a prince of a man.

Jarvis is a jackass.