Kidnapping or Just a Nice Lady?

Decadence or Alternative Lifestyle?

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14 April 2023 (Sunday)

Kidnapping or Just a Nice Lady?

Decadence or Alternative Lifestyle?

By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德

TAIPEI - A few weeks ago, a 24-year-old woman befriended my sixth-grade son on a children’s gaming site and offered him a ride home from school—with her mysterious male companion.

My wife and I showed up to confront her. She immediately began lying about everything: her name, her reason for being there, her age, and more. I put on my tactical gloves and gave her a choice—hand over her ID or head to the emergency room.

Above ID was redacted of address and face as rules apply.

I understand decadence. And my response was the promise of violence. Call it what you want: an oath, a pledge, a vow.

Her theater performance was a weird Hello Kitty Kabuki and mine was Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

ABOVE: On the left the girl and on the right her mysterious boyfriend.

My wife was unsettled by the man who suddenly appeared to defend his friend. He wore a mask and deliberately displayed a photograph of someone else in a face mask, seemingly to intimidate us. The attempt failed—his presence only made them appear more suspicious.

ABOVE: The boyfriend pushed this photograph on his phone in our face as a form of intimidation.

When the girl returned home to Banqiao, she told her mother. Apparently, I had terrified her—that I would somehow find her, since I had both her phone number and a photo of her identification card (front and back).

Her mother was kind enough to call us with threats. How she obtained our number remains a mystery.

According to her, our 11-year-old son was to blame. She claimed he had tricked her 24-year-old daughter into coming to the elementary school, as part of a setup so we could later sue them.

But the daughter was not just 24. She had been studying digital art at a college in Banqiao for over five years and had yet to graduate. She came from a wealthy family. Maybe she was deeply invested in making movies—or maybe it was the disturbing kind of “art” found on the Dark Web, linked to illegal and immoral content. Whatever the case, she was more than old enough to be held accountable, to marry, have a family, build a career, and so on.

I know what you’re thinking: you shouldn’t hit a woman. And that’s precisely why women are often sent first. Men instinctively hesitate, unwilling to strike, which often gives them the advantage. In the Israeli special forces, there’s a saying: “Shoot the women first,” because they’re the ones who may be carrying the bomb (see: Vladlen Tatarsky).

I never intended to sue her. My plan was to see her—and her boyfriend—treated in the emergency room, not the courtroom.

Predictably, the police showed no interest. We were told that unless a crime had been committed, there was nothing they could do.

This is not the proactive approach I was used to in the United States. Instead, I’ve repeatedly seen the reactive mindset here in Taiwan’s military throughout my career. They wait until the fire burns the house down before doing anything, rather than preventing it in the first place.

After this incident, I lost all empathy for the so-called “Progressive Left-Wing Woke” ideology. I’m not angry or hurt—I’m too jaded to feel anything. But I am capable of violence.

As a military journalist, I already live in a strange world, constantly looking over my shoulder. Now, I have to do the same for my children.

Some religious figures call the Anti-Christ an inversion of God—a symbol of decadence portrayed as virtue, seen across modern media: boys as girls, girls as boys, love as hate, hate as love, holy as profane. Often protracted in horror moves as an upside cross nailed above the bed of child.

It’s a postmodern obsession with constant carnival. Once-a-year events like Mardi Gras, Halloween, or Purim are no longer enough. The “Woke” now want it every day, all year long.

If you read the Torah or other ancient texts, you’ll notice that child sacrifice has been rebranded today as abortion-on-demand. Now, with the rise of pro-transgender and pro-“child love” rhetoric, children are literally up for grabs—even here in Taiwan.

Perhaps Shakespeare’s Coriolanus was right.

That play is among the few Shakespearean works banned in democratic societies in modern times—likely because of its unapologetic embrace of masculine ideals.