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April 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 am
It’s a nice sentiment, and maybe it’s very Christian and all, but I doubt very many people were there “also for the 1 that has passed”. I don’t think anything would have been lost on the ceremony if it held no mention at all of the killer, quite frankly. But whatever makes them feel even a tiny bit better if fine, I guess.
Oh, and as an update on the intentions of the Krazy Klub, that is Phelp’s “baptist church” of gay-hating of attending the ceremonies of the VT victims, they have been tempted away by on conservative radio host. They are attention whores and he knows it, so just as he did for the Amish girls funerals, he’s offered them an hour of airtime in exchange for a written agreement to not go to the VT thing. Yes it sort of is giving in to terrorists, but if it saves the families pain, I’m for it.
April 23rd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Agreed, except I feel a bit more extreme about it. That last one was a pathetic waste of human spirit and flesh. His memory should be purged and his existence forgotten. I would have walked out of that remembrance at that point.
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:35 pm
That is almost as bad as the editorial in the Gannett Journal-News conflating the massacre and male pattern baldness as societally tolerated aspects of maleness.
chsw
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Marc:
I know you found it hard to wade through this sententious pabulum, but you neglected this little PC grace note.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Actually, there is something to be said for mourning the “one,” as well. Yes, he was a monster. But on the flip side, when you look at the background here, we can make a very, very serious case that the mental-health and legal systems failed him. Among other things, the mental-health system should have been strong enough to force the kid into a facility where he could get the help he needed … and the legal system should have prevented him from obtaining a firearm.
–|PW|–
April 24th, 2007 at 5:22 am
What Pennywit said. I think it’s very important to include the message of forgiveness (which benefits victims much more than hatred and vengefulness). And for those who can’t forgive yet (which is understandable), at the very least the community should express support for the killer’s family who must be going through hell right now.