Compare candidate Burge’s tender care towards his gimp with this.
 It’s disgusting.
And I mean that, seriously, all joking aside. Incredibly sick. The life of fuckin’ Riley.
More res ipsa loquitur.
This, I cannot bring myself to watch.
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That last bit is simply institutional inhumanity. It’s also a nice way to instill blinding societal hatred into a guy who has behaved himself and has just about finished paying for his crime, while depriving a little dying girl who hasn’t done anything to anybody.
I couldn’t be more disgusted.
Yeah. At least they let you choose a last meal before you’re executed.
Iowahawk is DA BOMB! (What was really hilarious was following a link to the KKKosKidz site, and reading the responses to a piece he did back in ’05. I’d never actually been to the Koz site before, although the posts were just the sort of lame drivel you’d expect from that bunch.)
As for that other story….words fail me…
I dunno. Really he shouldn’t have been dealing drugs. Dealing drugs fucks kids up a lot, or their parents. Same thing. Drugs really are bad, even if mostly it’s a lot invisible. I think people forget that it’s not just a matter of thinking that if they themselves did drugs it’s not that big a deal. Probably not. But drugs + stupid is very degrading to the human spirit and large segments of society really. At least in Los Angeles. It’s palpable.
hf, I don’t believe that you’d be so harsh if this little girl personally communicated her wish to you. Judgment and mercy must be balanced. My heart says mercy wins this round.
I’m not being harsh. I said I dunno is all. There’s a big mercy deficit out there, Dan. Drug dealer boy can get in line.
I’m not speaking of mercy for drug dealer boy. I am speaking of mercy for the dying girl.
I mean, this case a lot just has compelling visuals is all. I have no idea where this attitude is coming from, really. It’s not very Eastery.
Oh. I mean my attitude. But the little girl I think is being used to make a piece for AP video what people will click mostly. It feels a lot exploitative to me.
But you’re wrong a lot about the mercy. Drug dealer boy has to take responsibility for what he did to his kid. That really could be his salvation, and really could be the only thing what gives meaning to this kid’s senseless death.
And so it is. Nevertheless.
I really don’t react well to tv journalism about how I should feel is all I think. You’re right it would be different if these were real people.
I’m not particularly sympathetic to drug laws, so I have an equally jaundiced view of putting people in jail for selling them to other people willing to buy them….kids excluded, though. If this were a violent felon, I’d be in happyfeet’s corner, but seeing as even the feds don’t see this guy as a threat I say let his little girl give him a hug.
There’s a lot of the soft bigotry of low expectations that permeates drug legalization I think. But then I think people who watch daytime tv are pretty much same as smack addicts. They need to raise their game I think. Also, Obama supporters.
There should be a robust double standard I think. Smart, cool, funny, or creative people should be able to do drugs if they want, as long as they use their own best judgment and can afford it. Trashy losers should go to jail though. It’s totally a cry for help.
What about people who play slots, hf?
Isn’t that the system we have in place now, ‘feet?
I think that’s his point, Jefferson ;-P
I’m a little slow on the uptake.
I played slots a few weeks ago with my sister. I tried to take it seriously, but mostly I wanted someone to bring me a drink. They didn’t, and it really wasn’t all that fun cause mostly you just hit play 1 or play 3 is all, and you just sit there kind of wondering how often they wash those buttons and being really careful not to touch your lips with your fingers when you smoke until you can wash your hands.
Drug dealer boy didn’t do cancer to his kid. And given that he’s already scheduled to get kicked to a halfway house, I think we ought to be able to accelerate that process just a little so the kid can have her selfish little wish before she dies an ugly, horrible death.
Brain cancer. Did we mention that?
It’s very ugly, really. And little kids that get it are like some of the biggest heroes on the planet, right up until the part where they die. Trust me on that one.
No. Not cancer. I just meant he sold drugs and got busted so now his kid has to die without her daddy is all. It’s his own stupid drug-dealing fault. I’m not trying to make dogma out of it or anything.
I mean if it were up to me he wouldn’t even be in jail. Only jury duty I ever did was in Texas and there was this this illegal guy that didn’t even speak English and he was busted with 10 pounds of pot in his car and I nullified. There are really good reasons I’m not in charge I think. But the video was stupid cause the AP thought it was pushing my buttons but really it just made real live human people simply look like caricatures of pitiful I thought. Once people go on the tv on purpose they lose a good 60-70% of their humanity I think. At least.
That’s what that is, you realize right? It’s AP video what local newscasts subscribe to so they have cheap filler so they can run commercials about the low low low prices at Ford. Mostly it was lucky a lot cause the little brain cancer girl was blond and pretty, and her Dad looked just like the target A25-54 news demo.
I am a nice person.
To be honest, I haven’t watched the AP video, as I was already familiar with the story from here and then here after people from a couple of different circles I run in filled my inbox with this. While I know AP sucks, they’re irrelevant to me in this. I’m completely disgusted, but not with them.
I swear I’m not trying to be a dick. I don’t watch tv really, tv news especially, and a lot when I do it’s kind of startlingly crass I think.
Oh. He sold crystal.
I think I can go either way on this one really.
I don’t think you’re being a dick, ‘feets, I think you’re being cynical which is a good idea when you’re soaking in the AP. But this particular story hits very close to home for me and I’m tied up in the facts, not the coverage.
The government can always get its time out of this guy, but the kid has a very narrow window of opportunity. We ought not be fucking her out of it because, well, rules are rules. Because the thing is, the rules allow for bending in “extraordinary circumstances.” This qualifies.
Now we’ve got the guy seeking clemency, because he’s not getting the much simpler option which would allow him to do his time and be the Dad to his dying kid. Normally, I’d call bullshit, but he’s clearly looking for any viable option. Kicking him to the halfway house now would be a much more appropriate solution.
Well, for sure I wouldn’t protest if they let him out to be with his little girl. But maybe there’s some moms and dads or kids with moms and dads that this guy sold meth to that maybe could have a different sense of justice here. That’s my only reservation really now that I’ve read all that stuff.
I’d like to know what Darleen thinks.
Yeah. I saw the clemency thing but I tracked it the same way you did. Nothing wrong with that having exhausted everything else.
I’ve gotta wonder though, couldn’t the sentencing judge step in here?
Darleen would know I think.