Posted on 10/02/2010 6:52:58 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Rutgers University paid a public tribute Saturday at a football game to a student who committed suicide last week after his sexual encounter was secretly streamed online.
Most in the crowd bowed their heads after a public address announcer requested a moment of silence for 18-year-old freshman Tyler Clementi before the start of Rutgers' homecoming game against Tulane.
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Clementi's death was one of a string of suicides last month involving teens believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying. On Friday, more than 500 people attended a memorial service for Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old central California boy who hanged himself after enduring taunts from classmates about being gay.
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Honoring him for what? Being a big loser? Pathetic. I feel sorry for the pranksters. People in college these days pull stunts. Deal with it. Now they’re gonna get jail time. Not fair. I’d let em walk.
They didn’t cause Clementi’s suicide. However they did break the law by taking video of him without his permission.
On the face of it, the Rutgers situation initially seemed deplorable but, if the stories about the young man appearing semi-nude online are true, then there might be another reason for his suicide. Nonetheless, the two sleazebags who secretly videoed him should both be expelled and face punishment under the law.
Taking sex videos of someone and sticking them online is just plain wrong. I hope the guy who did it gets some very long jail time as someone’s girlfriend.
Why? What did he do that was honorable? It’s one thing to express sympathy to his loved ones, but this lessens the concept of “honor”. If this were my family’s burden, a quiet investigation would be preferred.
This situation is so beyond sad. No one should have been subject this kind of ‘national’ slash ‘international’ invasion of privacy. Straight or otherwise - what happened in this case was wrong - wrong - wrong. Prayers to his family.
IMO a moment of silence is appropriate.
His privacy was violated. He killed himself.
A pox on all New Jersey.
Yeah yeah, I know. I’m just saying. In college, kids pull pranks, and nowadays, embarrassing video is part of it. College students break all kinds of laws. I don’t think they had any reason to expect the guy would kill himself. I just think they’re going to be in a lot more trouble than they deserve because the dead homo is a political tool.
FU buddy.
What they did was illegal. However Clementi streamed sexual video of himself. Apparently he wasn’t shy.
You do realize that it has been discovered that Clementi streamed sexual video of himself.
I simply can't find any sympathy for this kid or anything more than mild annoyance at the ones who filmed him.
They are thinking of charging them with a bias crime which is crap. It has been stated in another article that he was with an older man. My theory is the older man found out he was also streamed and it didn’t go well and that’s why young Clementi committed suicide.
That makes it okay?
Do you have a link?
Did he stream it publicly?
His privacy was violated. He killed himself
I agree. tragic indeed.
But the storyline being pushed is that this is another hate crime against gays, when that is clearly not the case here. .
Makes what ok? If you mean the two students streaming the video, I did not say that. They broke the law. However this young man was not what he seemed at first.
Something tells me that they wouldn't have had a "moment of silence" for me during the PSU/Alabama game back in 1982 had I decided to off myself after a bad Econ grade.
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