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All and Nothing
June 2nd, 2012 Kansas City - Lets do the walk |
Okay, it's that time of the month again. The time to write an article about something, that made me wonder, upset me, or confused me. Whatever, I find in the news.
However, I admit, this month, I feel at a loss. It's not, that there are no news article ... but ... oh well!, lets just have a look.
There is the ongoing story of George Zimmerman. The very special special prosecutor Angela Corey disappeared in the back office after detials about her professional history were discussed publicly and published evidence supported Zimmerman's side of the story. So it was inevitable time to strike back. Ther bond is retracted. Why? Because George Zimmerman allegedly lied about his finiancial situaion to the judge. In fact, he only said, he didn't know how much money would be donated via his website for his legal defense. He couldn't know. The website was new then, the money wasn't in at that time. He would have lied if he would have said this or that dollar amount. Nobody knew. Zimmerman said the truth about what he had at the time, the judge asked him. But then, that's what depserate prosecutors do, they turn and twist the facts. To a degree they have to, defense attorneys play the system the same way. The victim is justice, as usual. And the new man in lead, Prosecutor Bernie De la Rionda will not care one bit about justice, he needs to bring through a case that is heated up by irresponsible media articles, race baiting on every corner and a not very smart choice of a special prosecutor.
But then, all of this was inevitable, and therefore predictable. So it doesn't warrant a complete article anymore.
Politics! Well, politics is always good, one should think. But seeing the last few weeks in the news, it's mainly the start of the real presidential campiagning after Mitt Romnay finally came out of the primaries as winner. And now the time of mudslinging, character assassination, the time to strike fear into the hearts of the mentally weak has come on both sides of the aisle.
Amusing, inevitable, predictable. We all knew since at least a year, the presidential campaign would be the most expensive, dirtiest and disgusting mud-battle ever. So, some politicans go dirty doesn't warrrant a full article either.
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So, how about crime? I admit, I love the subject. But take a look. Luka Magnotta got, with some days delay, his media nickname. His official label is now "Canadian Psycho"
 Luka Magnotta, another garden variety psychopath.
Makes one think, how stupid some journalists are to fuel the fantasys of a psychopath/narcissist with such a nickname. But then, so-called journalists do that every time, a new serial killer pops up somewhere and in all seriousity, Magnotta is rather garden variety. Or as out old friend Hannibal would say, a bottom feeder. He is just not unique enough to warrant a full article.
What else on the crime front? Oh yes, the Long Island Serial Killer is still free. If he stays to his timeline, he is back on the East Coast looking for a new victims. Of course, he is certain, police won't get him and since the Suffolk County Police Deprtment ignores all input from the outside and has no ideas how to catch that guy on it's own, the LISK is probably right not to waste to much thoughts about Spota and his boys. So, nothing new on the East Coast and that doesn't warrant an article either.
Mubarack got the life sentence and the Islamic Fundamentalists are strongest politcal power in Egypt. Oh well, it was February when I predicted that outcome first on Yahoo. So really not news except for those who didn't see th signs on the wall. Unfortunately, this included President Obama, who appeared also surprised when he saw, he had played another country into the hands of the fundamentalists. But then, after Iraq and Afghanistan, three is a charm, right? So, nothing new there.
The unemployment numbers increased again. Well, that surprised some people, but mathematics made it clear since at least twelve weeks, this would come. And it wasn't that much,
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but then so were the decreases in the past few months not really that much. Business as usual in Washington DC and politicians will fight over peanuts. No surprise there.
Too a degree, we could be happy to live in such boring times. No new wars (except for Syria, but that's old in the meantime too), no disasters (some earthquakes, but who cares about earthquakes in far away countries?), no big plane crashes (even that means statistically, there will be other times when three go down one short after the other).
Admittedly, boring times are good times. Normally. At least that is, how boring times appeared in history. However, I like to take that wisdom with a grain of salt. As often in history, boring times were preludes to real nasty storms. And we can see those already at the horizon, The dirtiest political campaign ever comes up and there is no way to dodge it. The Trayvon Martin case has become a travesty of the justice system and it will go even deeper down that road because it has also become a case of media fed frenzy who called the race baiting just to make news in the case. And the serial killers go on to kill because usage-disabled PDs allow them to instead of using all means at their disposal to end this spook. So, in this special situation, we know, this is only a prelude to the next storms to come. So, I guess, I will just enjoy the fact, that there is this month not one extraorbitant example of stupidity standing out above all others, not that one piece of tragic disaster, not that one fresh filled mass grave in a case of genocide, that normally would warrant an article. Just enjoy the break, because if my hunches are right, it will be a short one.
PB
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