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jonesy
from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-21 12:26 [#00358584]
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2206805.stm
Not the people charged (that goes without saying), but the people who line the streets to jeer. What do they hope to achieve? It was the same with the Bulger trial.
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DJ Buzz
from Odessa (Ukraine) on 2002-08-21 12:40 [#00358592]
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That's actually just socializing - people want to feel themselves in a crowd, be protected by their own massive amount. That's why they gather an piss on some charged fucker's head...
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B3n
from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-08-21 13:14 [#00358610]
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and who says they are even guilty? they've only been charged
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DJ Buzz
from Odessa (Ukraine) on 2002-08-21 13:21 [#00358614]
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It's absolotely not required - you just got to have a target for your shit-machine-gun... That's sometimes disgusting.
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outside_ninja
from ninjaland (I touch no-one and on 2002-08-21 13:25 [#00358617]
Points: 462 Status: Addict | Followup to jonesy: #00358584
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I saw that on the news this morning, and was thinking "what happened to Innocent until proven otherwise"
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heptanary
from the place where nobody whants (Spain) on 2002-08-21 13:26 [#00358619]
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Ask Osama
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outside_ninja
from ninjaland (I touch no-one and on 2002-08-21 13:44 [#00358632]
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That can be taken two ways that I know:
01) You think Usama set up the 9/11 incidents
02) You think Usama is being judged before being proved innocent.
If it's the 2nd one then i agree with you.
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flea
from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-21 13:44 [#00358633]
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yeah I have always wondered where these people always magically appear from..they are like these ghoulish tragedy groupies...
they always remind of that Bill Bailey skit about the eye witnesses being the dumbest most verbally challenged twits..
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manicminer
from Paris (France) on 2002-08-21 13:49 [#00358638]
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Just a bunch of sick fuckers who want to feel important and useful I suppose. Fucking idiots.
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jonesy
from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-21 13:55 [#00358642]
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Its like some kind of emotional pornography. People's lives are so banal that they seek to fill it with trying to be part of something that is fuck all to do with them. Its like those people who flooded to 'pay their respects' when Sarah Payne died (for non-UK peeps, she was a girl also murdered). If it was my son/daughter who'd been murdered I'd be outraged at these people. It was tragic but they never knew her so couldn't feel the loss. This kind of behaviour is nurtured by the tabloids and the media and it stinks.
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phiz
from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2002-08-21 14:00 [#00358644]
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i know what you mean jonesy, the Bulger case was particulaly bad, i'm from Liverpool and saw and felt alot of emotion at the time.
But to brick a bus thats taking them to and from court is just plain silly, i know people have to vent there anger some way but to throw a brick at a bus which holds 2 kids going to court was just rediculous.
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manicminer
from Paris (France) on 2002-08-21 14:04 [#00358646]
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I agree Jonesy.
I also think that the whole thing's ridiculous in a number of other ways. Motor vehicles are by far the biggest killer of children in the UK, but very little is done about that.
Economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the US and Britain have killed 500,000 children in a decade, yet there isn't a huge tabloid uproar about it.
Fucking stupid, man.
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jonesy
from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-21 15:05 [#00358660]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker | Followup to manicminer: #00358646
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Bang on my man, bang on. As bad as it was, two white girls from middle England in Man Utd shirts are deemed victims (quite rightly), yet children in Iraq, Afghanistan or Israel are not as deserving as our sympathy.
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Quernstone
from Padova (Italy) on 2002-08-21 15:12 [#00358664]
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You are talking fen tigers here. The rabble are probably all related somehow. Something like a family reunion.
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jonesy
from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-21 15:13 [#00358665]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker | Followup to phiz: #00358644
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Yeah, the reaction surrounding the Bulger trial was particularly depressing. Just because they were kids the reaction was more hostile. It offended people's assumptions that children are innocent and their response was disproportionate. There are some really dumb people in this country.
There was an article in the Guardian some time ago about a near-identical case somewhere near the Netherlands or Sweden or somewhere. Anyway, the reaction was muted and the media kept their noses out. The whole thing was dealt with in a much more productive and healthier way and boy's problems are being dealt with.
Fuck theSun, News of the World, the mail and the rest of the bigoted press.
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