GA JAN-07-2005-1241 Alleged Serial Killer Reveals More

[AmyStrange]

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=57127


What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons and the wrongly accuused deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers and miscarriages of justice are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[bunkerbuster1]

1. This isn't discussed nearly often enough

Oh, we get our backs up now and again when we decide we've had enough Laci Peterson to last us several lifetimes and we lash out at the SCLM for whoring themselves that way, but then it dies down again until the next criminal case featuring the appropriately telegenic victim and/or perp.

OTOH, I almost don't want to give these kinds of crimes more attention than they merit, because of the inevitable overreaction in the RW circles. For example, I blame a great number of problems on our seemingly endless fascination with child abductions.

Of course abductions of children by strangers is a horror to imagine, and as a parent I want to make sure my child is safe. But our society has become paralyzed with fear of such outlandishly unlikely events that we wind up hurting our children far more by not allowing them the independence to play on their own, and the healthful side-effects of walking or biking to school, because so many of us feel we have to have them supervised by adults every second of their lives.

[AmyStrange]

2. All good points...

and well said to boot. Thanx for your input,

d