"I'm SO happy Scott Peterson got the death penalty."

[trof]

"This sends a message to America that it's not OK to kill a mother and unborn child."
- An unidentified woman in Modesto on CNN just now.

Nice looking woman. Thirty-something. Nicely groomed and dressed. Intelligent sounding, unless you heard what she just said.

Never mind that she's "happy" about this whole sad turn of events.
Or maybe she's happy about the "message this sends".
Is this a new message?
Was the old one "It's OK to kill a mother and unborn child."?
I don't remember getting that one.
Anyway...if you're out there I hope you're paying attention and got the message.
Now it's NOT OK to kill a mother and unborn child.
Just though you'd want to know.
Have a nice day.
:-)

[LiberalVoice]

1. Thank god you let me in...

I was just about to walk out the door with my meat clever.

[bluestateguy]

2. Sounds like somebody needs to get a life, maybe find a hobby

Wonder how she feels about all the mothers and unborn children being killed in Iraq every day.

[Name removed]

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[bluestateguy]

8. When did I say keep him on the streets?

He's probably guilty. Fine. Put him away, but people commit murders every day, and the saturation coverage of this case is completely unwarranted. Poeple who obsess over this case need to find something better to do.

[Amaya]

9. I don't think that was implied.

Try again?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. *cough* head's up everybody

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=94970#95832

[Bridget Burke]

14. Somebody's mad a Scott....

Because he didn't use a Gun! That's the American way, after all.

[trof]

17. I think this may be a first.

Somebody tombstoned on my thread.
At last I have arrived to the innermost circle of DU.
I have the POWER!
;-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Enjoy your very very short stay

But I hear somebody got banned with only two posts earlier today. Hard to beat THAT.

[Guarionex]

29. oh...

that's just fine...JUST fine.....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Yes..killing Scott will end killing mothers and unborn children

unless that poor mother happens to live on a continent where we are bombing or hiring mercenaries to aid us in stealing their natural resources..then that mother and unborn child are terrorists who deserve to die and that will send a message too!

[lastliberalintexas]

26. Or unless that mother and child

happen to be poor, brown or black and live in urban America. Or poor, white or black and live in rural America. When was the last time the "news" focused so intensely on the murder of a person of color and/or one with no money? :hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. James Byrd I guess...once every 8 years a black man's death is an issue

and even then public figures don't get the facts straight (remember George's lame answer in the debates with Gore?)

[ComerPerro]

4. Is it still OK to kill other people?

[Verve]

6. I'll agree with the first part of her statement:

"I'm SO happy Scott Peterson got the death penalty".

Idiots like her who follow this crap, are now going to have to get a life! Maybe they'll focus on more important things such as the Iraq war, vote fraud, etc. Yet, I doubt it.

[LibDemAlways]

10. Nah, that woman

is gearing up for the Michael Jackson case. Then, if nothing better comes along, she'll follow the Robert Blake trial. Vote fraud? War in Iraq? Boring.

[LibDemAlways]

7. She should have amended that to:

"It's not OK to kill a mother and unborn child unless they are Iraqis or citizens of any other country the chimp decides to invade and occupy; in which case it's not only OK, it's our patriotic duty."

[OneBlueSky]

11. "Why is it that the human race prefers necrophilia to biophilia?" . . .

this question was asked by psychologist Erich Fromm on his death bed . . .

considering the question, theologian Matthew Fox responded . . .

"A significant question, this. Why do we prefer love of death to love of life? Missiles to celebration? Power-over to power-with? Greed to letting go?

"I am sure that a question as poignant as this one can yield many rich answers, but I would like to offer just one answer from my own perspective as a theologian. It is this: Western civilization has referred love of death to love of life to the very extent that its religious traditions have preferred redemption to creation, sin to ecstasy, and individual introspection to cosmic awareness and appreciation. Religion has failed people in the West as often as it has been silent abut pleasure or about the cosmic creation, about the ongoing power of the flowing energy of the Creator, about original blessing."
from his book Original Blessing

[GiovanniC]

13. I Was THIS CLOSE to Killing a Mother and Her Unborn Child

Until I found out Scott Peterson is gonna get the death penalty. Now I am definitely reconsidering my previous stance.

[Name removed]

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. What are you talking about?

No law can be applied to crimes commited before it went into effect.

[demwing]

16. What we should do is this -

Put Peterson in a uniform, and send him to Iraq. If he is a proficient killer, then send him to where we praise killers.

When (if) he returns, America can chew on the gristle of these question. Is Peterson a villian or a hero? Does putting on a uniform protect you from responsibility for all acts? Why do we love to see the deaths of those who kill innocents for their own reasons, and yet make heroes of those who cloak the killing of innocents in the darkening fabric of freedom?

[trof]

18. Breaking: Scott pleads for mercy

because he is a widower.
You saw it here first.

[Swamp Rat]

19. "What would Jesus do?"

That's the ONLY thing that brings the cognitive dissonance to the boiling point with people like this woman.

I will beat fundies on the head with this, forever.

[barb162]

20. good point, especially as these nutcases are just about salivating

to string 'em up

[barb162]

21. good point, especially as some of these people are salivating to

string'em up. That line will stop them dead in their tracks

[Swamp Rat]

22. Only for a minute. Then, expect to hear some Leviticus, but

you can always remind them that's not at all the philosophy of Jesus. One must be very tenacious with these lobotomy candidates.

[barb162]

28. Well, I will use that line "What would Jesus do" and if they

start up on some other obscure or Old Testament or whatever citation, I will gently or not-so-gently remind them of the essential kindness, forgiveness, etc., aspects of Jesus. At which point they will probably string me up!

[JohnnyRingo]

23. If they're gonna start executing people for that....

...I'm gonna have to rethink my schedule.