Thread: Madness in Canada

Wow, that is truly sick.

I have lived three blocks away from where BTK killed that entire family, for like 17 years and you never realize the kind of brutality people are capable of until it's in your vicinity. Wichitans were shocked to find out that he had been a state employee and used that position to gain his victims' trust.

There's no acceptable solution to this kind of action except life imprisonment or death.

Hopefully his family will be given some sort of closure.

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Wow, that is truly sick.

I have lived three blocks away from where BTK killed that entire family, for like 17 years and you never realize the kind of brutality people are capable of until it's in your vicinity. Wichitans were shocked to find out that he had been a state employee and used that position to gain his victims' trust.

There's no acceptable solution to this kind of action except life imprisonment or death.

Hopefully his family will be given some sort of closure.

Yup, I'd never really been worried about random violence until the DC sniper spree. I lived there at the time, and it was truly scary just to fill your gas tank or cross the parking lot to the go to the supermarket.

Jordan

Oh yeah, I have grandparents in the DC area that went through the same thing, I'd almost fogotten about those guys. Didn't the young one get a pretty lenient sentence?

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Oh yeah, I have grandparents in the DC area that went through the same thing, I'd almost fogotten about those guys. Didn't the young one get a pretty lenient sentence?

I think he got life without parole - he was a minor and somewhat "under the influence" of the older guy.

Jordan

I think someone once told me (*) about having shaken hands with Jim Jones. That was before the mass suicide obviously.
He told me that one thing he thought afterwards was that monsters don't look like it. At the time he though Jim was a friendly, helpful guy who you'd trust.
The real monsters don't have angry eyes, a limp and a speech impediment. They are friendly people like you and me, right up until the moment where they poke out your eye with a fork and eat it.

The really scary people don't look the part.
sometimes when I meet people who are over friendly, I can't help but think 'what's on the other side of those eyes'. Yes I am a cynic.

(*) I say told, but it could be that I read it, though I remember that I knew the guy who wrote or said it.

And as if the situation wasn't bad enough PETA tried to use the rime for shock value, comparing this poor young man's death to the processing of meat. Talk about a bunch of folks who have gone off the deep end...some of their spokepeople were even saying that an animal's life is more valuable than a human's, violence is justified in defending animals, etc. The funny thing is - PETA kills almost all the animals given to them for placement. They apparently want the world to be vegetarian and for there to not be any animals under human care - not even guide dogs! (I can see it now "Mom, that rhino is in the yard again!").

On top of all this, the flakes from the Westboro Baptist Church threatened to protest at the kid's funeral...claiming his death was God's judgement on Canada......they chickened out when the Canadian government blocked them from coming into Canada and explained that Canadian laws are not the same as US laws........that, and about 600 people from Winnepeg rallied to prevent them from getting close to the family....I'm sure there were some dicretely place hockey sticks nearby.....

What is wrong with people nowadays?

Originally Posted by WireBeard

What is wrong with people nowadays?

honestly? I can sum up all of the worlds' problems in one paragraph. no, really.

Person A: Hi, I believe X.
Person B: What?!? I believe Y!
Person A: Oh, that's cool. Agree to disagree.
Person B: *to self* he's wrong! He's wrong and it threatens my right-ness, somehow! I'll MAKE him believe Y!


Seriously, that's it. If everyone just learned to not care what everyone else was doing, when it was different, there wouldn't be any problems on the macro or micro scale. I'm guessing 99% or more of the worlds' problems are because people want to project their own beliefs and ideals onto others. The remaining 1% is people who are just broken.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.