I can't believe that

Discussion in 'Science & Society' started by arauca, Mar 12, 2013.

  1. arauca Banned Banned

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    A terrible incident, which could be used as a script for a horror film, has recently occurred in the U.S. city of Joliet, Illinois. Four white teens - two girls and two boys - killed two young black men to give the "sophisticated" girls an opportunity to experience the joy of sex with dead bodies. One of the performers of the touching female dream was the son of a local police officer.

    American reality today looks worse than darkest Hollywood movies. Eighteen-year-old Alisa Massaro, whose passion is defined as "necrophiliac fetish," allegedly mentioned that she wanted to try sex with corpses. This was promptly recalled by one of the would-be assassins, Joshua Miner. He suggested they should try and bring the woman's fantasy to real life. The woman initially refused, but changed her mind in a few days.

    Miner's accomplice was Adam Landerman, 19, the son of a police officer. The two teen boys decided to kill two black men. To implement the idea, they wanted to lure victims into a trap with the help of a woman, Bethany McKee. She was supposed to promise sex with white girls to the victims. She did not lie: the black men, who followed her to their death, received what they wanted, although they were dead at that time.

    As soon as two black friends - Eric Glover and Terrence Rankins - entered the house in an anticipation of fun, Miner and Landerman attacked them. The victims were tied up and strangled. After that, Alisa Massaro and Bethany McKee engaged in sexual activities with the corpses.

    The parents of the victims were not particularly worried about their children for two days.

    America is America: the police are looking for racist motives in the murder of two black men. The photos of the murderers that were published in the media do not leave any doubt about the fact that they are the people with obvious signs of severe psychopathy. Another very similar "good-looking" guy Adam Lanza shot kids at school a few months ago...

    Something wrong has been happening in the U.S. during the recent years. Children in schools are massively fed with a drug that has been used in psychiatric hospitals and is classified as amphetamine. At least 6 million U.S. students take Ritalin and a similar drug, Dexedrine. The drugs are used against the so-called hyper-activity.

    http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/11-03-2013/124026-necrophilia-0/
     
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  3. Saturnine Pariah Hell is other people Valued Senior Member

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    Seems we got a generation of deranged sadistic psychopaths popping up, or this is a completely isolated incident that will be blown out of proportion by the rabid media for self-gratification and put pressure or put blame on the wrong areas. (Sighs) Guess I’ll guest watch the ensuing shit-storm and see who or what gets put up as the focal point of the blame for this “tragedy” and how a delayed trial will remediate and console the victims of this crime. Warm up the presses I guess this shit is not going to sell itself you know! So yeah our justice system will clear this right up! Isn't that right Zimmerman! Your trial isn’t going to start until June!
     
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  5. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    And America being America, the media is looking for something sensational to blame for the murder - Ritalin.
     
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  7. KitemanSA Registered Senior Member

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    It does seem to be a consistent factor in all the mass shootings and similar horrific acts.
     
  8. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    So are guns and video games, and TV and violent movies. If blame is your game there's always something to blame it on.
     
  9. KitemanSA Registered Senior Member

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    Yup, but guns, TV and violent movies were around before Ritalin. So I guess it would be instructive to see if there is a correlation between such acts and the entertainments mentioned. Maybe it is related to an interaction among them.
     
  10. Rita Registered Member

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    Considering the discussions on the internet about morality, I am not one bit surprised. The United States had education for good moral judgment, and ended in 1958, in favor of Germany's model of education for technology and leaving moral to the church. There are a few problems with that. Amoral education for technology, has people basing decisions on their feeling at the moment. The result is social break down and unacceptable behaviors.

    There are two ways to have social order, culture or authority over the people. We stopped transmitting our culture, and that leaves anarchy which becomes a police state. If you want to argue, but you are a nice person, good for you. You were lucky to good influences in your life. Not everyone is so lucky.
     
  11. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    Interesting "concept salad" there. Perhaps season with some notes about communism, Islamic terrorism and GMO's.
     
  12. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    This sort of crime is not limited to today or America.
     
  13. arauca Banned Banned

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    STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Two high school football players accused of raping a girl will face trial in Steubenville, Ohio, on Wednesday in a case that has become a national example of social media's powerful influence in modern society.

    Quarterback Trent Mays and wide receiver Ma'Lik Richmond, both 16, are charged with raping their classmate, whose name has been withheld by Reuters, at a teammate's house after a night of drinking on August 11.

    Prosecutors say Richmond and Mays sexually assaulted their classmate as she lay naked on the basement floor, too drunk to move or speak. The girl told police she did not remember what happened, but reported the incident the next day once she heard about it from her friends.

    The case might have never been known outside the local area, like thousands of sexual assault cases in the United States each year. But after the party, a photograph began circulating on Twitter of two people carrying a passed-out girl by her arms and legs. Along with the photo, graphic banter on social media among people who had attended the party suggested that a rape had occurred and that more than two players were involved.

    Local prosecutors charged the two players on August 22.

    The case went viral on social media, and the town was accused of wrapping a cone of silence around the team to shield other players from prosecution.

    The global computer hacking network Anonymous got involved. It obtained and publicized a video that it said showed several Steubenville players joking about a rape, and organized protests on the steps of the county courthouse in Steubenville which drew people from out of state.

    A women's rights group presented a petition to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine demanding prosecution of more players.

    The pressure from outside Steubenville shows how social media are transforming society, said Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University's chief digital officer, who teaches social media.

    "Things which used to happen in private settings now happen publicly and have much longer legs than they've had in the past," he said. "In this case, social media has been integral to both the legal case and how the story has affected the community, for better and for worse."

    The criticism has stunned this economically depressed steel town of 19,000 which reveres its perennial powerhouse "Big Red" football team and legendary coach Reno Saccoccia.

    Saccoccia, 63, has coached at Steubenville for 35 years, winning three state titles through a regime of hard work and tough discipline. He was inducted into the Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame in 2007, and the school's stadium bears his name.

    Even though Mays and Richmond did not play last year, the team posted a record of nine wins and three losses.

    "In a depressed area, the public seems to rally around something that's been good and successful, something that puts the city out in a positive way," said Jerry Barilla, who owns a furniture store in Steubenville, where he was born and raised.

    With football so ingrained in the town, a trial of its players proved difficult. The county prosecutor and the juvenile judge both removed themselves from the case because they had ties to the team. A judge from a neighboring county was brought in and Attorney General DeWine's office took over the probe.

    In October, the new prosecutors sent letters to three more football players - Evan Westlake, Anthony Craig and Mark Cole - promising they would not be charged for their actions on the night of the rape, according to copies of the letter given to Reuters by people directly involved. Days later, they testified at a preliminary hearing against their teammates.

    Defense lawyers call the exchange an immunity deal, but prosecutors deny making any commitments.

    The three were the only people who attended the party to come forward, and their accounts gave prosecutors enough evidence to proceed to trial. Prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to charge other players.

    Mays and Richmond will be tried as juveniles. The proceedings could last through Friday.

    Attorneys for the players say that there is more to the story than social media have said and that there has been a rush to judgment that the two are guilty.

    The sex with the girl was "consensual," according to a court filing provided to Reuters outlining the case defense lawyers plan to pursue in the trial. The girl also told friends before the incident that she wanted to have sex with players, the filing says.

    Prosecutors declined to comment until the trial begins.

    Richmond's grandmother, Linda Wheat, said she received a telephone threat as a result of the attention focused on the case.

    "I thought these guys were innocent until proven guilty, but they're not," she told Reuters. "These people online have made them guilty. Why have they ruined them?"
     
  14. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Again, not limited to today, rapes were common in the past, so were serial killers, and they were not limited to the USA.
     
  15. arauca Banned Banned

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    If you like I can mention about the querterback in the state of Montana rape ... No you would not like to hear about that .
     
  16. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I'm sure you can find a couple crimes, I'm sure you could mention thousands, that doesn't prove your point, you realize that, right? Shall I start naming historical crimes?
     

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