Posted on 07/12/2003 9:41:53 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
But heaven forbid that someone mention that maybe, just perhaps maybe, alternative morals and the questionable choices found in nearly every sentence of this piece might have been a factor. Yet let a love triangle murder-suicide involve a church-goer(yes, it happens in every side of society, though not in equal proportions), and there will be a thousand articles speculating on how the 'repressive', 'yuppie', 'suburban', 'conservative' environment may have played a role.
Everyone makes their own choices, and each person is ultimately responsible for themselves. But damn to hell all those evil Sirens, peddlers, liars, cons, snakes, and their protectors, who seek to entice Eve to bite every single fruit hanging from the tree. We are free in America to make our choices(as it should be), but we are also free to shout out warning of where the pied pipers lead.
No doubt the Chronicle doesn't feel the least bit of guilt about their loud and unceasing promotion of the sewers of temptations and moral deconstruction.
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The rest of them showed by their actions just how screwed up they were.
Saulter: I am sure he was nicknamed "Stonie" for a reason.
Maxwell: pregnant, overbearing, controlling, and a freak show.
Armantrout: not even divorced before he is moving in with a different girl.
The parents should be slapped around a little too. How can you let a 14-year-old get so out of control that by 17 she is in drug rehab?
Indeed, I got the distinct impression the Chronicle expects us to take these people, their lifestyle choices and their self-inflicted problems seriously.
It's not like Buttafly and Stonie were fools or anything. Y'know?
Every day and every night, in every medium, they just downplay or leave out the consequences and hype the indulgence.
. . .this article/obit is truly a 'silk purse' in the making.
and then there's
"A slide show with pictures of Maxwell taken throughout her life put together by her brother-in-law, HPD officer Clay Steele, was set to music...As the pictures flashed across a screen, folk singer Iris DeMent [sang] "Infamous Angel"
HELLO Texas, we in the mostly blue states count on you folks to keep our values true. This story is a sad commentary on our country.
Mr. Maxwell, and family, I am truly sad to learn that one LOSER lover of your daughter killed her, her unborn child, and her other loser lover, but CUTE should never have been a word that came to mind when your "Macy's baby" became a LOSER.
You see, you all blame NYC and LA for our nation's ills, but look at what is considered "normal" in the rest of the country. The attitude seems to be: They were just cute kids, let's remember them fondly, we never questioned their self-mutilating life-styles, and, well, now they are all gone, so we'll shed a tear and move on.
This story makes me sick on so many levels.
Sorry Texas, you dissed the Chicks, but if you find these dysfunctional, adulterous, murderous people acceptable, I'm sure Bush is ashamed to be from there.
This story is a tragic example of what happens when one goes through life making irresponsible choices. Quite sad...
This girl made a lot of bad choices and the consequences caught up with her. It is sad...tragic I am sure for the parents and family...but it is a result of those things she chose along the way irrespective of how the Chronicle or others wants to paint it. She chose to hang with the wrong crowd...and it contributed (greatly IMHO ) to her death and the death of her unborn.
People all want to be happy (at least all of the sane ones I know)...but sin never was and never will be happiness...just a cheap imitation that accumlates consequebces that sooner or later come to the fore.
Best regards. That was an excellent analysis you gave.
Too many writers today spend most of their time laboring away on the biographies of social misfits and then they inflict them on the public. They could save the ink, most of us are not biting.
Leni
Any pictures of the three individuals who comprised the "Love Triangle" in this story? Thanks.
~ Blue Jays ~
Robert "Stonie" Saulter
"Buttafly" (Justine) Maxwell
Danny Armantrout
Another picture of Danny (left)
The truth will become a lie, and a lie the truth. Never were such truer words spoken in the Bible and in George Orwell's 1984.
Boyfriend #1:
Boyfriend #2 (someone else's husband):
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