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A good point. BUT I think that sometimes threads like this are a process. It's easy to emotionally say "What?" at first. I certainly did, even though I knew there must be more to the story, even in my initial reaction.

For me, stories like this are an opportunity to really examine my own behavior. You know...look for the log in my own eye before I pick at the splinter in someone else's.

That said, the bottom line is to be wary of people trading on "victimhood." And the press is a master at presenting the perfectly contrived "bad guy/victim" storyline. And in a way, that makes every story, a story about the writer of the story.

As far as Freepers go—it will be interesting to see if the general consensus...after hashing it about for a bit...is the same one that built initially. Sometimes the conclusions at the end of a thread are shockingly different from those at the beginning.