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Why didn't he go dig up some solid information on this marriage before vomiting his own 'issues' all over the page?
Perhaps he was at a loss for time after a multi-day binge on crystal meth or had his hands too full sodomizing puppies to do any research....Hmmm, I guess we'll just have to speculate.
LOL... Poor poor Terry. What a load of BS. There was no letter involved in this fire it is just a ploy to get sympathy from bleeding heart idiots, like the author of this article.
Blame the husband whom you don't know anything about, yeah, you moron!
Leni
I guess the stupid author can really unload on the husband now that we know the feds think poor, poor Terri set the fire on purpose!
By all means yes, let's absolve Ms. Barton of all responsibility for her actions. After all, it was that mean old John that REALLY caused this incident. From the moment Ms. Barton opened the letter, the wheels were set in motion, the result a foregone conclusion . . .
Someday, I might anger my wife. I guess I'd better shoot myself now, before things get out of hand . . .
Just because her incompetence was exaggerated by her hyper-emotional state does not mean that she does not deserve the jail time, fines, firing and public humiliation that she so richly deserves. Why do you need to pour hyperbolic mischaracterizations about her estranged husband (who you know nothing about)? What does that say about you?
(On a side note: maybe her husband finally realized what an unstable, self-centered, incompetent, hyper-emotional, and unsafe woman he married, and got away as quickly as possible... before he woke up on fire himself, possibly? How's THAT for making assumptions about someone we don't even know?)
Only Federal Fire Fighters Can Start Seriously Huge Raging Infernos, By Breaking The Same Laws They Enforce Against The Rest Of Us
As for this article, I was just waiting for some radical feminist to blame the whole thing on the husband. It's all man's fault. Everthing is men's fault.
The author simply cannot deal with the idea that this woman did a dumb thing and accidentally burned down a forest. It just has to be a man's fault. It has to be, or his whole reality will explode. This phenomenon would be more amusing if it did not have serious consequences. Over in another thread, people are discussing the court case surrounding two people who owned some very large and dangerous dogs that one day got away from the woman, attacked someone, and killed her. In this case, the jury had found the woman guilty of second-degree murder, and her husband -- who was out of town at the time -- guilty of manslaughter (he had participated in raising the dogs). The judge set aside the murder verdict against the woman, saying that, in his view the husband was more culpable than the wife. Remember now, this guy was out of town when this happened. This woman took these two big dogs that she could not control out for a walk, and a horrible thing happened. But the way this judge sees it, that's the husband's fault. That judge has plenty of company here on Free Republic, and indeed throughout our entire culture. I couldn't believe all the contortions people went through to blame Andrea Yates' husband for the fact that she murdered their children while he was at work. It's like people hit a brick wall in their minds when they encounter female evil-doing. It cannot be, and so it is not. A man did it. A man had to have done it. And we'll just bend reality until it is so. It's an interesting cultural phenomenon, but it leads to some really strange results when it gets mixed up with the criminal justice system. |
No matter what her state of "emotional distress" (oh boo hoo!) her professionalism (i.e. NOT starting fires!) should have over-ruled.
Instead of using a logical resolution like throwing the letter in a trashcan, she chose an emotional, firey little ceremony, (oh the drama of it all!!) to burn the letter.
And now half of Colorado gets to pay for her being an idiot!
Just like a woman...
This is an excellent example of how deeply ingrained in our culture is the idea that women can do no wrong. If caught doing something wrong, there is a man somewhere in the vicinity whose fault it is.