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Malvo art indicates 'Matrix' obsession. Using the film ...gained insanity verdicts....
Sunspot News ^ | December 5, 2003 | By Stephen Kiehl

Posted on 12/05/2003 10:34:41 AM PST by .cnI redruM

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Consumed with righting racial inequality and injustice, sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo became yesterday the latest young defendant to use the film The Matrix as part of an insanity defense to explain killings that seem to have no clear explanation.

The 1999 film has been used, with some success, in at least three other murder cases in which young defendants attempted to justify their crimes with allusions to the movie's philosophy that the world people live in is only a dream sequence controlled by a computer. Violence is condoned as a way to get out of the fake, oppressive world of The Matrix.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dcsniper; islam; leeboydmalvo; malvo; malvotrial; matrixmurders; religionofpeace; terror; terrorist; thematrix
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To: spodefly
It sounds more Hollywood. It may just sell to a jury...
21 posted on 12/05/2003 10:49:03 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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To: 50sDad; mylife
Hey, I am a serious Trekkie. Can I get a plea bargain if I strangle with the Vulcan Death Grip?

No, but you'll be pleased to discover that most people are indeed acquitted of strangling Trekkies by the "they were freakin' ANNOYING" insanity defense! ;)
22 posted on 12/05/2003 10:50:20 AM PST by beezdotcom
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To: beezdotcom
Phasers on Microwave!!!!!!
23 posted on 12/05/2003 10:53:27 AM PST by 50sDad ("You used ALL THE GLUE on PURPOSE! It's a MAJOR AWARD!")
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To: .cnI redruM
Am I the only one who suspects the KORAN had more to do with these killings than did 'The Matrix'.
24 posted on 12/05/2003 10:59:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (Socialism is Slavery)
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To: 50sDad
C'mon, Kirk, put your shirt back on...
25 posted on 12/05/2003 11:00:15 AM PST by beezdotcom
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To: .cnI redruM
If he'd only gotten Nookie instead of Wookie?

Hey you! Ya owe me a soda after that. LOL, funniest thing I've read today. :)

26 posted on 12/05/2003 11:03:53 AM PST by zx2dragon (I could never again be an angel... Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.)
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To: BenLurkin
Am I the only one who suspects the KORAN had more to do with these killings than did 'The Matrix'.

No, you're not. It is disgusting the way the media is avoiding the obvious connection of Islam to the killings

27 posted on 12/05/2003 11:06:56 AM PST by WackyKat
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To: .cnI redruM
>the movie's philosophy that the world people live in is only a dream sequence controlled by a computer.<

Judge: Tell you what Malvo, if we put you in the electric chair and fry you for 10 minutes and it doesn't really kill you, then you can walk out of here free as a bird.
28 posted on 12/05/2003 11:07:14 AM PST by highnoon (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: .cnI redruM
Anyone who voluntarily watches that much Keanu Reaves must clearly be insane.
29 posted on 12/05/2003 11:10:36 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: .cnI redruM
He's in the rabbit's hole now!
30 posted on 12/05/2003 11:11:16 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: highnoon
It would free us of his mind.
31 posted on 12/05/2003 11:12:04 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
For that defense to work, his mom would have had to have strapped him down and forced him to watch 'The Replacements' or the barf-inducer co-starring Charlize Theron.
32 posted on 12/05/2003 11:13:52 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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To: .cnI redruM
Weren't the Columbine kids obsessed with the Matrix too?
33 posted on 12/05/2003 11:14:41 AM PST by wizardoz (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: wizardoz
yes, they were.
34 posted on 12/05/2003 11:15:56 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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To: wizardoz
Now the question that The Oracle would ask is, 'Were they losers because of their Matrix exception or did they Matrix-obsess because they were losers?'
35 posted on 12/05/2003 11:17:09 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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To: .cnI redruM
I've got a Matrix obsession too...


36 posted on 12/05/2003 11:18:27 AM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Anyone who voluntarily watches that much Keanu Reaves must clearly be insane.

Say what you will about him, but he never over-acts and he keeps his mouth shut about Iraq. That's two in his favor, IMHO.

37 posted on 12/05/2003 11:19:38 AM PST by wizardoz (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: .cnI redruM
Oh, they were definitely losers before the movie came along. These are the types who got obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons back in the 1980s.
38 posted on 12/05/2003 11:21:36 AM PST by wizardoz (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: pgkdan
BUMPING for reference.
39 posted on 12/05/2003 11:21:39 AM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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To: wizardoz
Lamester is as lamester does.
40 posted on 12/05/2003 11:32:25 AM PST by .cnI redruM ( l = w + w. Two wrongs equal a left.)
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