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Ok, now I'm pissed. There is far too much hate in the world.
People are flying airplanes into buildings
A nut in the Washington DC area is shooting random victims (including a boy outside school)
People are setting off bombs in paradise tourist areas
.... and *THIS* is what upsets you???!
Not that it shouldn't (it should), it just seems that it should have happened a *LONG* time ago.
I'm aware of everything else that's happening, but I don't normally pay attention to the news. 9/11 pissed me off tremendously. The sniper needs to be shot himself, but this 2-week-ago murder just added the final explosive charge to my growing degree of anger.
Of course there is too much hate in the world, and many things that have happened throughout history are far more serious than the murder of one person, but this is a longhair board, where we ask questions and try to give support to longhairs, whatever their orientation, race or religion. That makes this victim 'one of us', and we should all donate a moment of our lives to pause and reflect.
BAD news...SAD news...
Makes me sick. Throughout history the "excentric," or better yet the people that were just being themselves, (but considered so many times OUTCASTS by a narrow-minded society because they didn't "seem" to fit-in) have so often fallen to ridicule. But murder???? This young person very may well have had something positive to offer to the world which was unique, and now we will never know. So, he was "different." What, just what if had it been Thomas Edison? HE was certainly "different!" The Composer George Frederick Handel (apparently Gay) and yet his famous work "MESSIAH" still rings-out to this very day almost 300 years later and hailed as one of the greatest masterpieces of all times! Mozart couldn't function in society. Oh.......he was so different just being himself. Even Albert Einstein? Should murder have been their plight? ( And the list can go on and on.) I would be inclined to guess modestly that at least 85% of ALL that we have left to us today from the past to marvel at and have benefited by is due to a "non-follower" of the crowd society. The average person apparently has no conception. (Really not their fault I suppose, for they know nothing else than that to be followers of ea. other, (the masses) and dare not act anything but "normal" and like everybody else.) Hmmmmmm.......has "Normal" ever really been defined anyway?
AMEN!
What is "normal", you ask? "Normal" is looking, acting, and thinking the way society wants you to.
Uh oh!... I'M in big trouble then!
Makes me sick, too, and there is no excuse for discrimination against people who wish to be themselves - with murder as the ultimate form of discrimination.
There will always be a large section of any society which sees anybody who is in any way free thinking or 'different' as a threat. When we challenge the 'norm' ourselves, we have to be aware of this, and understand that there may be increased dangers for us.
It's not right, but it's there.
...that anyone should be targeted at all. it is ucute inflammatory ignorance that would motivate people to do such an act- the 3 youth's probably didnt have the brass balls to commit this atrocity solo- they needed a support group to express their evil passion towards someone who just happened to be 'different'.
compare the disturbingly deep hatred apparent in that act to the cold passionless game being randomly played by a sniper (or snipers) near washington, d.c. one is a deed of extreme prejudice, the other appears to be largely a random act.
ultimately it is evil- whether it is personally hog-tying & dragging a black man to his death or piloting a jetliner into a building filled with thousands of people never seen by the murderer... it's all evil... whether the victim(s) is(are) longhair or skinhead.