Depp is an idiot liberal. Just mho.
Jacoby is pathetic. Bulger loved to kill. He loved strangling women. Let him move into your house Jeff....see how that works out for you.
And Himmler was kind to children and animals.
So what? Doesn’t excuse or negate the pain they deliberately caused.
Bulger did indeed have a choice - he could have been like millions of other men and chosen to commit NO murders, NO crimes. But he didn’t decline, did he? He deliberately chose to NOT follow the rules.
And there’s Hollywood, always ready to make a sympathetic movie about some creep who deliberately chooses to cause misery - no movies about the ordinary good people who lead honest, crime-free lives. Way to go again, Hollywood, keep glamorizing criminals.
And that is why prison used to be known as a penitentiary, where men who did wrong went to reflect on the price of their evil deeds. This is what bleeding hearts don’t understand: that society has an obligation to mete out this measure. Like Judge Smails said in Caddyshack... “I’ve had to send boys younger than you to the electric chair... didn’t want to do it; I felt I owed it to them.” It’s funny because of the basis in truth - to absolve the perpetrator by blaming external factors simultaneously denies the nature of man as a divine creation with free will.
Bulger was like all sociopaths, he used whatever technique necessary to get his way. When charm was required, he used charm; when violence, he used violence. And one gets the impression that he particularly enjoyed violence.
That doesn’t mean that he was unredeemable, because we always have to believe that people can be converted and live; but he was fundamentally someone who, both because of his choosing and because of a fundamental disposition, abandoned the moral universe and lived solely for himself and his own priorities and preferences - and would have been very hard to reach for conversion.
Johnny Depp did a great job at playing him, btw. The FBI agent (who had somehow been charmed and conned by Bulger into basically abandoning his own moral and even legal compass and adopting Bulger’s defense as the goal of his life) was also extremely well portrayed.
Some people seem to be hard wired to LIE!
There is no hard wiring. Stupid concept. Stems from a materialistic understanding of the human organism.
Someone needs to let the gays and pedophiles know...
When there is trauma during the early years of a child's development, due to parental failures,the child can have unresolved pain for years that leads to ambivalence toward his caretakers that can later be easily transferred to others in later life. This leads to oscillations between love and hate, dominance and submission, and good and bad behavior toward others.
I’m puzzled that people are disagreeing with Jacoby’s conclusions. If Mr. Bulger were “hard-wired,” then he had no personal agency in has actions, and he bears no personal guilt.
Good article!
Johnny Depp said derp derp derp. Hollywood’s so chock full of spoiled rotten fools.
If you read Howie Carr’s book, “The Brothers Bulger,” you’ll probably come to the conclusion that Whitey was a bad seed right from the start. Sure, things broke his way so he could increase his scale of operations, but after all, America has been the land of opportunity.
Nobody cares just as long as he’s hard wired to an electric chair.
it’s possible no one is all bad but for some people, all the good in them is well in the past.
Yep
Whitey could have been a RAPPER
What a shame
I saw the movie. Whitey invested a lot of time trying to help the FBI and in the end they tried to frame him for crimes he knew nothing about. It was shocking. It could happen to anyone.
Aww, my heart bleeds.
Not.
And yet there is Original Sin...
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
Maybe it was the CIA’s LSD experiments that he was part of in the 50’s that did it?