Media Cheers on Vigilantes
Nov 22nd, 2007 by Mark
This is pathetic. The L.A. Times is cheering on hate, again.
First the fools pass a law that will not stand.
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. (AP) - City officials unanimously passed a measure Wednesday making online harassment a crime, days after learning that a 13-year-old girl killed herself last year after receiving cruel messages on the Internet.
Then they behave exactly like the people they say they feel have violated that same law. It’s surreal.
You have to wonder if some of this is not pent up frustration from other issues. Then again maybe they are just a bunch of idiots who buy into the liberal idealogy that no one is responsible for thier own behavior, it’s always someone elses fault? Funny how they never think that way when they go after someone.
This community’s patience has dried up. The furious neighbors — and in the wake of recent media reports, an outraged public — are taking matters into their own hands.
In an outburst of virtual vigilantism, readers of blogs such as RottenNeighbor.com and hitsusa.com have posted the Drews’ home address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and photographs.
or not:
Dozens of people allegedly have called local businesses that work with the family’s advertising booklet firm, and flooded the phone lines this week at the local Burlington Coat Factory, where Curt Drew reportedly works.
"I posted that, where Curt works. I’m not ashamed to admit that," said Trever Buckles, 40, a neighbor whose two teenage boys grew up with Megan. "Why? Because there’s never been any sense of remorse or public apology from the Drews, no ’maybe we made a mistake.’ "
Local teenagers and residents protest just steps from the Drews’ tiny porch. A fake 911 call, claiming a man had been shot inside the Drew home, sent law enforcement officers to surround the one-story, white-sided house. People drive through the neighborhood in the middle of the night, screaming, "Murderer!"
Wow, sounds like a great little town you got their. Bunch of kids run amok. Fake 911 calls, really nice. Can’t wait to hear the bitching about the arrests in that case. And Mayor do you plan on enforcing this law you just passed? or will you look the other way?
The four-page measure defines both harassment and cyber-harassment, essentially making it illegal to engage in a pattern of conduct that would cause a reasonable person to suffer "substantial emotional distress," or for an adult to contact a child under 18 in a communication causing a reasonable parent to fear for the child’s well-being.
The parents have been a joke. They refuse to take responsibility for their failure. They are also silent n the attacks of the accused.
After their daughter’s death, Tina and Ron Meier begged their other neighbors to keep the story private. Let the local authorities and the FBI conduct their investigations in privacy, they pleaded.
Maybe they just wanted their parental failure to be a secret. No doubt they did. You have to wonder what is going on in that house.
Tina Meier said she was thrilled that the city had passed the new measure.
Of course she is, now she feels relieved of the burden of being a parental failure.
This story directly points out why liberalism is a failure. The idea the government is going to do it for you, is ridiculous. We now have pent up frustration, that is boiling over and being fed by irresponsible media outlets.
Saying things like this:
Megan hanged herself within minutes of receiving the last messages on Oct. 16, 2006, and died the next day.
Her father said he found a message from Josh, which he said law enforcement authorities have not been able to retrieve. It told the girl she was a bad person and the world would be better without her, he has said.
Bullcrap! If he found it, any moderatley competant forensics computer person can find it.
Then again when you have a City Attorney this stupid …
City attorney John Young said constitutionally protected activity would be exempt. The measure would apply when one of the people communicating was in Dardenne Prairie.
… you really have some issues to work out. Sad place.
No proof, just accusations. Way to drive the hatred media.
What is sad is that the so-called adults are behaving in the manner they say they despise.
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what if it was your kid and the law failed you? we all feel for that kid and her parents…sometimes, the people just become one in their rejection of the reprehensible, but if there is no legal recourse, what do you think will happen? The media doesn’t need to whitewash this. It needs to tell it like it is, and this is how it is. Lori Drew deserves to be very scared and alone. Her husband should renounce her and her daughter should try to have her committed. They have not, so there is a consequence for that, too. Lori Drew’s life is over. So it should be. There is nowhere on earth she can run. The law failed. The community will not. She is unrepentant. That alone is reason enough to teach her a lesson.
BTW, republicanism is a failure because it destroys the economy and makes the beautiful USA hated the world over.
Anon (a gutless weenie) has confused Republicanism with liberalism. It’s liberalism that destroys the economy. Liberals never let the facts get in the way of an attack.
wtf does no legal recourse have to do with it? Have you heard of lawsuits? Oh but that requires that she actually caused her to kill herself. Since Daddy can’t prove anything he says; because the message he says he saw can’t be found. Not by the police, MySpace, or anyone. Hmmm.
What we have are parents who clearly failed their child and now want to blame someone else.
Beyond that, why is it ok for the scum to do what they say was done to the girl?
There is no excuse for this type of behavior. Being an adult means not acting like a child.
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