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Sat Dec 5
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04/22/09
Can you explain how you, who are posting and up in arms about a private eye questioning your family and friends, would feel if someone held your father hostage for 5 days at machine-gunpoint for ransom?
I don't care if he's 15, 18, or 25. I don't care if he "only weighs 120 pounds" or if he's 200 pounds. I don't care if he's from Somalia or a well-off med student in Boston. He hijacked a ship, held an innocent man hostage at gunpoint for ransom for days, and is now in custody for his actions. How is that "wrong" or somehow deserving of our pity?
If a private eye poking around gets you angry and concerned, why not talk to Mariah Phillips in Vermont and see how SHE feels about things.
04/22/09
Seriously, if he was an 18-year-old Italian-American who hijacked a truck in New Jersey and had to take the driver hostage, who would be sympathetic for him?
04/22/09
This is one less pirate out there. He did the crime, he deals with the consequences. You round up hostages and point a loaded weapon at them and demand ransom - again, I don't give a @#$&*(@#$ where you're from - you get caught, you go to trial.
Combined with Hamilton's previous angry postings about a private eye knocking on his parents' door... and one wonders... what if that person hadn't asked questions, but banged down the door and then taken his folks' hostage? Would he be exhibiting the same sort of "the guy only weighs 120 pounds and is from a bad neighborhood" empathy? Or would he be thanking his lucky stars if his family got out OK and grateful that the perp got caught and was off the streets?
04/22/09
(Yes, really. She's quite gross. I have nothing more intelligible to say. Laughing and scoffing at a crying kid who has no idea what much of this means, even if rightfully accused. How adult you are, jerk.)
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Kind of reminds me of the Brit tabloid fiasco with the Slumdog Millionaire girl. More scummy media hacks exploiting brown people for ratings/pageviews/attention...
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The outfield of Bonds/Van Slyke/Bonilla should be put on trial for constantly choking against the Braves.
04/22/09
I still love sports, but that play crushed my ability to get truly emotionally involved. I spent all my sports-related anger, disappointment, rage, sadness that day.
Now I just direct those feelings inward, all the time.
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04/21/09
i'm from new orleans, so don't think i'm some upper class manhattanite asshole pitying the poors and being a blanket apologist while sitting on my own ass and benefiting from my immense priviledge. and certainly don't think that somehow i'm isolated from this kind of fucked up violence- some guy got shot in the face on my block over the weekend, i've been robbed, i've had friends shot, and all sorts of layers of shit. my city is fucked the hell up, and is basically a failed state with the same horrible nuances and too many people with shitty opinions as to what's the cause and what's to do. so i think about WHY this kind of shit happens a lot. and i didn't at all say we should let him go, i said that we should never think that imprisioning a person should be looked at as an opportunity for them, because it's not. prison in this country is not about reform, education, or enlightenment. so whatevs.