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We need more real men like Daniel Penny around

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We need more real men like Daniel Penny around

Penny was recently acquitted of homicide charges in a move touted by some conservatives as a “watershed moment for common sense”. Vice President-elect JD Vance even invited Penny to the Army-Navy football game last weekend. 

remnant christmas shop ad narrowTo unhinged leftists and Soros-funded progressives like Alvin Bragg intent on castigating the “patriarchy” and “toxic masculinity”, Daniel Penny is probably anything but a hero. 

When Penny tried to restrain miscreant and drug user Jordan Neely from hurting others in a New York City train, by placing him in a chokehold, leftists falsely accused Penny for being a “racist murderer” and a “white oppressor” when Neely eventually died. 

Such leftist allegations persisted despite Texas-based forensic pathologist Dr. Satish Chundru’s testimony that Neely’s autopsy records and video did not reveal signs typical of known chokehold deaths.

“In your opinion, did Mr. Penny choke Mr. Neely to death?” Penny’s attorney Steven Raiser questioned Chundru. 

“No,” responded Chundru, “the chokehold did not cause death.”

Undoubtedly, Penny is a much-maligned hero, and a very masculine one at that. After all, he risked his own safety when he stepped up at the adrenalin-pumped scene to defend others from Neely’s threats and actions. Bear in mind that Neely had screamed and threatened to harm those around him, and indicated that he did not care if he ended up in prison. 

In an age when right is regarded as wrong, and wrong is praised as right, Penny was treated as an egregious criminal and had to endure years of condemnations and race-baiting epithets from the Left. 

Yet in an age when right is regarded as wrong, and wrong is praised as right, (such as in crime-laden, Democrat-ruled New York City), Penny was treated as an egregious criminal and had to endure years of condemnations and race-baiting epithets from the Left. 

Some armchair “experts” who would have recoiled in panic if faced with a similar situation attempted to opine on how Penny could have acted otherwise. 

Hence, it was a huge relief when Penny was recently acquitted of homicide charges in a move touted by some conservatives as a “watershed moment for common sense”. Vice President-elect JD Vance even invited Penny to the Army-Navy football game last weekend. 

Despite recently obtaining more positive media attention, Penny remained grounded and humble, telling Judge Jeanine Pirro on “The Five” that he did not regret his actions back in 2023 with regard to Nelly. 

Furthermore, Penny added that he would be willing to undergo a “million court appearances and the hatred and name-calling that comes with them” if it meant protecting one person from harm’s way. 

“This type of thing is very uncomfortable. All this attention and limelight is very uncomfortable. I would prefer without it. I didn’t want any type of attention or praise … and I still don’t. The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself,” Penny told Pirro, in remarks cited by The Daily Signal. 

Penny is the kind of man we need in our post-truth society today (when people claim to be members of the opposite “sex” just because they “feel” so or just because they experienced “transgender treatments”). 

Indeed, Penny is the kind of man we need in our post-truth society today (when people claim to be members of the opposite “sex” just because they “feel” so or just because they experienced “transgender treatments”). 

In our age of effeminate morals, we need men who are courageous to step up to defend the weak from threats.

In our age of egoism and narcissism, we need men who have a heart to serve others. 

In our age of hedonism and immorality, we need men who hold themselves accountable for their actions. 

In short, we need men who are striving to imitate St. Joseph, the most chaste spouse of the Mother of God. 

St. Joseph was not afraid to take the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus and flee to Egypt after King Herod was intent on killing the Child Jesus. 

Together with the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph was not afraid to search for Jesus when Jesus went missing for three days in Jerusalem at age 12. 

Despite his poverty, St. Joseph was a valiant and industrious man, who sought to provide for the Blessed Virgin Mary and Our Lord. 

Still, for many people who are living lives without Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Joseph as models, violence as a means-to-an-end unfortunately seems to be the order of the day. 

Sadly, certain attention-seeking leftists such as Taylor Lorenz and Columbia professor Anthony Zenkus, appear to be amused by other types of men, namely, men like “hot” murderer Luigi Mangione who  brutally killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, in broad daylight.

For instance, on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show, Lorenz revealed her true colors, stating that she was elated after news of Thompson’s death. When Morgan probed Lorenz about her joy, Lorenz replied that she was feeling “maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.” 

Lorenz gave an excuse for her stance, saying: 

“Tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, died because greedy healthcare executives like this one pushed policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people.”

A few days earlier, Lorenz penned “And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” after the news that another large health-insurance firm would no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.  

Zenkus, a social work professor at Columbia and Adelphi University, and “an activist on issues of racial justice, income inequality and climate justice” hinted people should not mourn Thompson's death, The Daily Mail reported

“Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down.... wait, I'm sorry - today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires,” Zenkus said.

In comments quoted by The Daily Mail, an unnamed person slammed Zenkus’ remarks:

“The idea that Brian Thompson deserved to die because he was a rich healthcare executive appears to be... a disturbingly popular sentiment.” 

“You cannot claim to be the movement of compassion & tolerance while gleefully celebrating a dad of two getting shot to death. So vile.” 

Perhaps the aforementioned cases of Lorenz and Zenkus reflect the adage that birds of a feather flock together? After all, when one espouses the use of violence to solve problems, one may likely be attracted to someone else who does so as well. 

In response to Thompson’s killing, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, proclaimed: 

“We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice.” 

Likewise, Alex Goldenberg, a senior adviser at the NCRI, commented that online leftist reactions to Thompson’s shooting were “a catalyst for the normalisation of political violence that was once confined to extremists on the fringes”. 

(Additionally, Goldenberg should remember that such political violence has been underway already, such as how President-elect Donald Trump faced multiple threats to his life while on the election campaign trail.) 

Still, for many people who are living lives without Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Joseph as models, violence as a means-to-an-end unfortunately seems to be the order of the day. 

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Angeline Tan | Remnant Columnist, Singapore

Angeline Tan is a Catholic writer who relishes history (Church history, East Asian history, war history), fiction writing (Jane Austen, GK Chesterton's Father Brown series, Quo Vadis by Henryk Siekiewicz, among others),Baroque architecture and art (Nicholas Poussin, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, etc.), and the Japanese art of tea.

Having lived in Asia, Europe, and North America, Angeline appreciates the universal nature of the one, true, Catholic Faith across various continents and cultures. If she does "go missing" in a church crowd, her family and close friends usually know where to find her -i.e. the church bookstore, where she is happily engrossed in browsing the latest additions or sieving through long-forgotten second-hand books that nevertheless reveal timeless realities.

Her favorite saints include Saint Joseph, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Saint Philomena, Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Saint Theophane Venard, Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of all Saints.

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