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Here is another one.
1 posted on 01/04/2007 7:49:27 AM PST by eastforker
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To: eastforker

The third one, right?

Why do parents let their children watch a hanging on TV?


2 posted on 01/04/2007 7:50:50 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
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To: eastforker

I just wonder with things like this, when the lawsuits will begin?


4 posted on 01/04/2007 7:51:51 AM PST by Lucky9teen (You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.)
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To: eastforker

This happened in Texas? This is all Bush's fault.
Or maybe not. Texas use hanging in the death sentence?


5 posted on 01/04/2007 7:52:13 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: eastforker
Gustavo said the family is trying to put together enough money to send Sergio's body to Guatemala for burial.
6 posted on 01/04/2007 7:53:09 AM PST by markomalley (Vivat Iesus!)
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To: eastforker

I wonder how many went unreported by the media before Saddam's hanging?


7 posted on 01/04/2007 7:53:58 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: eastforker
"I don't think he thought it was real," Gustavo said of Saddam's hanging. "They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything. Why show that on TV?"

They show it for ratings, which equal advertising dollars, Gustavo. Why did you let your nephew watch it?

8 posted on 01/04/2007 7:56:28 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
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To: eastforker

3 kids hang themselves since the execution. What is the fascination with hanging? Is it the simplicity of the method and the common availability of a length of rope? Fasination that something as simple as cord or line can kill you?

If they had shot Sadaam, or dropped him into a wood chipper, would kids be looking to shoot themselves, or jump into a chipper?


13 posted on 01/04/2007 8:02:24 AM PST by Sax
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To: eastforker; All

People don't kill people!!! Network newscasts kill people!

Ban TVs and rope!!!

.....and TV and rope trading shows.....

...and shows on TV about rope.....


18 posted on 01/04/2007 8:09:33 AM PST by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: eastforker

This is an epidemic! We've got to ban rope! For the children! /end liberal knee-jerk response


19 posted on 01/04/2007 8:09:39 AM PST by nhoward14
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To: eastforker

Moon Moon: Sergio! I thought you was hung?

Sergio: I am hung!


24 posted on 01/04/2007 8:14:20 AM PST by BigCinBigD
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To: eastforker

How many kids have done this after watching a western?


27 posted on 01/04/2007 8:18:48 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: eastforker

In the movie "the quick and the dead" they show a guy being hanged, although in the end his daughter shoots him dead before he is actually hung.

I don't remember THAT movie causing people to run out and hang themselves.

But I think there is a greater impact when you understand you are watching reality. I won't even watch the hanging myself, there's no way I'd let my 10-year-old watch it, or even my 13-year-old.

Funny thing is, kids are seeing all sorts of stuff on the internet and TV, and acting out, and mostly everybody says we shouldn't worry, it doesn't really effect them, but it does, and we should.


58 posted on 01/04/2007 9:49:41 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: eastforker

Media never blamed any jumpers on those who saw the people "jumping" from the WTC on 9-11.


61 posted on 01/04/2007 11:04:56 AM PST by weegee ("Vote Obama - For More Ears!")
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Houston PING


62 posted on 01/04/2007 11:05:40 AM PST by weegee ("Vote Obama - For More Ears!")
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To: eastforker

evolution in action. A clean cull to thin the herd.


66 posted on 01/04/2007 12:07:46 PM PST by zeugma (If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.)
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To: eastforker

Sad story.


71 posted on 01/04/2007 1:10:17 PM PST by FourPeas (The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. Calvin Coolidge)
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