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Reason First: Second-Hand Crimes- The Ugly Soul of Charles Welch, Jr.

Why do some men live vicious lives through the eyes of others?

By Skyler SaundersPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Bernard Charles Welch, Jr. was the man who never was. Rather than applying himself to a trade or profession, he burglarized homes. As a criminal for the better portion of his adult life, Welch debased himself even more when he murdered heart doctor Dr. Michael Halberstam, 48.

Welch had attempted to make a clean break but the plot got jammed up and he botched the whole burglary.

Beforehand, he had escaped from prison while serving a stint at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. His activities during the time period that he had been out of the prison included collecting art, living in a million dollar estate, and of course, burglarizing.

Welch found a reprieve from the law in Washington, DC. He lived a life as a savage during the time from when he escaped to the time that he received capture.

The monster even became a member of the Aryan Brotherhood while he lived the rest of his life in prison. He died in 1998, twenty five years before the possibility for his parole.

In the end, everything that Welch stood for remained selflessness, irrationality, and tribalism. Additionally, and maybe most importantly, he was a second-hander. He lived on the range of the moment and burglarized because he wasn’t man enough to produce, create, and make.

For Welch, he lacked the intestinal fortitude to not just find a job but discover a career that would have contributed to the flourishing of his life. He had a break when he escaped from a witness protection program in 1985. The authorities found him in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His piss-poor morality led him to his death in 1998. By failing to live a life of happiness and to crawl around like some vulture picking off the goods of the innocent, Welch lived an empty life. Yes, he was a criminal, but his system of virtues and values marked him as a vicious asp.

The idea of Welch escaping from prison twice might show the weaknesses and corruption in the prison system. Welch was not an intelligent genius who functioned as a mastermind. He performed his role on the world stage as a knave.

Originally, Welch had the chance to be someone in this life. Instead, the ugliness of criminality infected his soul and made it malignant. Dr. Halberstam deserved better. His life as a productive physician far outweighed that of Welch’s.

Dr. Halberstam felt secure in his household until Welch violated it. The doctor had no chance against Welch’s malevolent hand. With a robbery that went completely left, Welch grew fearful and fatally wounded the doctor with a handgun.

Welch couldn’t deal with the fact that, especially in America, the goal is to have earned freedom once an individual serves his or her time. Welch wanted none of this. He wanted to keep on going on ideation. While he had little to no thoughts in his mind, he had ideas to destroy and disrupt the normal flow of life.

By killing Dr. Halberstam, Welch regressed from being a common thug, breaking in and stealing from folks, to a murderous nothing. In reality, Welch lived in a delusional world. It was the mucked-up motor that drove his mind.

This connection between ideation and action never integrated into something rational and positive.

From the point of convincing someone that living life as a second-hander without analyzing the selfishness is the crux of this issue, one ought to see that Welch committed spiritual suicide.

In all, Welch laid down a productive family man and deserved his time behind the wall.

The memory of Dr. Halberstam continues to burn ever brighter.

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