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When I clicked that link, I saw that one of the stories they link to on the side is about the cancer kid mentioned earlier. Apparently, he and his mother have fled from the authorities.
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When I linked to the cancer story, the have-your-say column was a lady who's mum "beat" cancer by meditation and reiki instead of drugs, and is now some sort of guru.
Well love, I'm sure you're mum's very happy, but I doubt that this kid will get better if he praises God and stops eating.
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This wonderful piece of humanity and his two pals did a home invasion in Iraq, shot a 14 year old girl's parents in front of her, gang raped her and then this gem shot her. In the face.
His defense team does not even try to dispute what happened, they claim that stress of being in combat affected his judgment.
As we would be, the Iraqis are irate:
quote: Haidar Kadom, 31, a Shiite teacher in Baghdad, called the sentence "a mockery of Iraqi rights."
"If an Iraqi did the same to an American female soldier, he would be regarded as a terrorist and would be sentenced to death," he said.
Steven Dale Green's father was relieved at the verdict and said "At least this way he can some kind of life".
Unlike that 14 year old girl. the one who's parents he murdered. and gang raped. and shot in the face.
Oh, and he was a U.S. soldier at the time- shaming everyone wearing a uniform and, really, the entire United States.
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It's amazing that the movie "In the valley of Elah" doesn't come close to this tragedy. The pathology is the same, though. A momentary (sociopathic) and total absence of inhibitions. But in "Elah", both perpetrator and victim were shitfaced drunk and flew off the handle. In the case of Pfc. Steven Green and his Merry Men, they'd planned the whole thing well ahead.
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Yeah, the whole "planned the whole thing ahead" bit contradicts the "momentary (sociopathic- shell-shock)" defense- this was certainly not some recent psychotic break for these soldiers.
It always strikes me as strange how, in places with no death penalty, the same sentence is given for one murder or multiple murders, the same sentence for a single crime of passion as for some atrocity like this.
They could at least sentence him to some prison in Death Valley or to a cell with no furniture or something.
Best of all! His two accomplices will one day be elegible for parole! Fuck's Sake! I'd hope some journalist drags this story into the spotlight whenever these people come up for parole and get people outraged enough to quash it. But they're elegible for parole in as little as TEN YEARS. People go away for longer for stealing fucking money! Bernie Madoff? That "menace" will die in a cell while these monsters are enjoying freedom. The same freedom you and I enjoy.
Shit like this makes me lose faith in a better humanity- one that survives far into the future. One that I'd not feel ashamed belonging to.
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The whole balloon boy crap has been in the news lately. With pretty much the day after being considered a hoax. Ft Collins is only an hour north of me in Denver. So I've heard more about it than most people. It doesn't surprise me really. These parents called the local news channels before the police.
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*grins* Well, everyone knows, that stupid people arn't always evil people. i'm certain they didn't mean things to go so... funny. well, the fines they'll pay shoul teach them enough...
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I wonder how many children really went missing during all this though- kids in real danger that might have been halped by the publicity.
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