Posted on 11/18/2018 4:52:52 PM PST by Kaslin
So your defense of him is that he may have committed perjury in a criminal proceeding?
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Far too many take that route.
And as far as abusive spouses; I’d rather she hit me than what my in-process-of-becoming-ex wife did with the mental and, emotional hostage abuse she did. It got to the point after July 11, 2012, I couldn’t hold her hand while driving, watching TV, get/give a hug/kiss when leaving for or returning from work, and God forbid any other marital intimacy. I left 2 years ago, and those wounds are still hurting. I talked with a counselor for a few months, they put me on anti-depressants. I stopped taking them so I could actually feel something other than emotionally numb. I’m still a work in progress, but at least I recognize what happened between the in-process-ex and I.
He pled to a felony in order to get probation and no jail time, and not have to go through a ruiningly expensive court trial. A friend of mine did that years ago as a young man, when he got busted for drug possession. It's something that prosecutors like doing to keep their conviction rates high: offer probation in exchange for a guilty plea, to a man who can't really afford to put himself through trial.
Looking back, both this guy, and my friend, would have been better off going to trial, because in both cases having a conviction on their record ruined their future lives.
And then your "average man" gets passed up as being "boring" by women who find themselves excited by violent men.
So she found the courage to take steps to get a protective order but went back to live with him at his house?
I have no idea who the ex-girlfriend is, but I’m finding myself guessing that I know what she is and it isn’t nice.
And yet he did no prison time for this.
You would like to see him lose his job, his home, and most of what he owns in the melt-down.
If the offense had taken place in his workplace, I’d lean more favorably to your take on it. It didn’t.
His workplace ratings were high. He was a good professor and was conducting decent productive research.
People are multi-faceted. What the guy was working on could have helped all of society.
I don’t think we should jump up and down for joy because Leftists drove another person from their job.
They didn’t drive him from his job, they drove him to his death. They might as well have pulled the trigger themselves.
That’s a good point.
No; I am saying sometimes people plead guilty for reasons having nothing to do with whether or not they are guilty. Happens thousands of times every day across the country.
General Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI when the FBI didn’t believe he was lying, and was charged with a 150 year old crime that had never been prosecuted before and widely believed to be unconstitutional.
I went through chemo when I was 16 and we had a lot of kids die on the ward. It was a hard thing for any 16 year old to go through. I survived. I had survivors guilt and spent the next 25 years getting no more than 1/2 an hour sleep a night. I had terrible depression until last year. I was suicidal most days, but I held it together. I used any tool I could to survive. I refused to give in to my demons. When I was beaten down and abused by a court officer for daring to point out my ex-wife was literally breaking not only state but federal law, I nearly lost it.
I spent more than 30 years, with my brain, for 20-30 times (or more) a day telling me to end it all. One day, I walked in, with my son, to the hospital room where his mother, my ex-wife, lay trying to die (and failing, as she’s either too incompetent to have drank herself to death properly or the Devil was afraid she was going to take over), and realized I couldn’t let myself be there anymore. There was a loud snap in my brain. My kids needed me. I wasn’t going to ever give in. It has gone away, and things are much better now, but suicide was not a viable option even when my brain was doing everything it could to kill me.
Yes. I was abused in my first marriage, but unfortunately, in North Carolina, we’re not capable of accepting that men can be abused or even raped, and so there was no help whatsoever for me in this state.
[There was a loud snap in my brain. My kids needed me. I wasn’t going to ever give in. It has gone away, and things are much better now, but suicide was not a viable option even when my brain was doing everything it could to kill me.]
Plus, if you checked out prematurely, liberals would have you voting Democrat for eternity. :-) Conservatives need every vote we can get. And that’s no joke.
Read some of your posts, and I’m glad you’re still here kicking and screaming with the rest of us.
Take care...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.