Posted on 10/10/2002 9:08:59 AM PDT by GaryMontana
How in the world can they come to this conclusion? I'm able to read about stories of robbery. I cannot even make it through this story. This is a story of brutality if I've ever heard one.
OK, if they have a semen sample can't they ID the perps with DNA?
It seems as though it should be pretty open and shut. (Mind you they made her friends rape her, too...) And they have other physical evidence as well -- the engagement ring, an ATM card...
Why the State allows its time and money to be wasted on this trial is anyone's guess, but I guess they have a right to fight the charges.
I hope for the sakes of the survivor and the victims' families it's over soon. But with over 70 witnesses scheduled to appear, I think it might be a while.
Until the people of Kansas rethink whether the citizens or the criminals deserve to be protected, they should continue to expect crimes like this.
Unbelievable, right? It is truly one of the most horrific crimes I've heard about. The mainstream media in this country is an abomination.
From the frontpage.com article:
Once again, we can be certain that if the racial cast of characters were reversed, there would be no attempt to close the court, and the media coverage-virtually absent in this case-would be deafening. A white-on-black crime of this kind would be front-page news for days, and would probably prompt official condemnation from the President and Attorney General on down. As we know from the reaction to the murder of James Byrd, dragged to death behind a truck, a crime of this sort committed by whites against blacks would put the nation into an official state of near hysteria.
What if the cast had been all-white? It would still have been national news. In 1959, drifters Dick Hickock and Perry Smith murdered the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Like the Wichita case, it was a home invasion, apparently motivated by robbery. Even without spectacular sexual cruelty, the Clutter killings were front-page news and the story was immortalized in Truman Capote's novel, In Cold Blood. Had the Wichita case involved whites only, the heroics of H.G. alone would have ensured wide coverage. She would have become a national hero, part of the folklore of strong womanhood.
I found a radio and put it on, but he's talking about Robert Blake right now. (How'd he do on Moore?)
Jesse is too busy hiring convicted child molesters to be "youth counselors" for his "Rainbow Push-it-in-your-face Coalition".
That was one of the most asked questions on this forum when this story first appeared. 5 vs. only 2... But the 2 were the only two that were armed.
It is so incredibly sad, the story and our current situation... a nation where many rely on others for protection, who believe passivity is the best response. ("Panic Room")
Ditto.
If the poeple of Kansas believed in self defense, it would not be one of only 17 states that refuse to let its citizens carry the means of self defense. The people of Kansas continue to vote for legislatures and governors that share their feeling against self defense.
These young people (willingly. i.e. no resistance) left their apartment and went to a deserted park, where they were forced to commit various humiliating acts of sodomy on each other, before they were murdered. Just why did they think these guys were making them go to a deserted park anyway? Stupidity!!! as well as no common sense.
Hello????
FYI, evil people do NOT take you to isolated deserted places at night just to be "nicer" to you!!
Wake up Kansas.
I pity anyone who would try doing such a thing on me, and I will say in advance, may God have mercy on the souls of anyone in my state that tries such a thing.
If you had read the entire story before shooting your wad you'd have realized that they were led out ostensibly to be robbed, which is not all that uncommon.
All you're doing is blaming the victims. It's boorish, simplistic, condescending and just plain wrong. Go fling your feces somewhere else.
By the way, I'd bet my bottom dollar you'd fare no better in this situation, your blusterish self-aggrandizement notwithstanding.
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