Scott Peterson - Does anyone really give a F***?

It's just another murder trial. Hey, I get OJ because he was a celebrity. Scott Peterson? He was a guy whoring around who may or may not have killed his wife. Who cares?

Kids dying in Fallujah, Balad, Baghdad, Mosul . . .

. . . and a million other newsworthy items abound.

But the bourgeoise news organizations cover this?

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And they don't have to pay the actors or report on people really dying in war.

And agree with others that being able to push the baby angle helps the Right.

What will it matter one way or another to anyone not directly involved. It's just entertainment and gossip to everyone else.

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what was so special about this case?

is there anything out of the ordinary?

nothing more than a non-story elevated to default headline status for no other reason that entertainment value. Just a sort of pornography cluttering the electromagnetic spectrum which is owned by the people.

Oh, wait. That explains it all.

society elevates the worthiness of women... that baby was the holy grail.. once it was born, it would have been ok to cut his medical insurance and make it financially harder for his parents to make the co-payment.

This can't be the only case ever of a man accused of murdering his pregnant wife. Not by a long shot.

It would be just another domestic violence story, and some people would even say she must have had it coming.

if only a verdict would mean it would all just fade away. more likely they'll dissect it for another year day in and day out - unless we get nuked, then it'll get second story status.....

...is because the media gives a fuck. And they give a fuck not because of Laci, but because of the fetus. The fetus has a name, right, is it "Connor?" The media would like us to keep thinking of the fetus as being a person. As in "Laci and her baby Connor were killed..." So, in fact, this is just another example of the "liberal" media trumpeting the beliefs of the right.

First: The prosecution did a lousy job. However, if he were black,it would be good enough. The prosecution is counting on him being convicted on a "BAD HUSBAND" rap. It will be interesting to see if the jury falls for this one.

If he were black and poor, he would already be on death row. They don't need evidence to convict poor blacks.

we'd never have heard a gotdamn thing about this story.

But nothing on the national news. I remember this story of a black woman who's boyfriend had ordered someone to beat her in order to cause a miscarriage. I don't remember if she died, but the baby did. Not a blip on the media. Who says racism doesn't exist. :eyes:

I'm also somewhat interested in whether or not they killed off the Venture Bros. or if it was just a parody of Easyrider.

That said. I've noticed they're covering the Peterson verdict, literally, like it was the season finale of American Idol. Which is horrible. In the sort of multiple fatality accident on the side of the highway on your commute sort of horrible.

;-) *turn off your tv*

You don't understand. Young, fairly attractive white guy and girls, throw in some sex and, of course it's important.

Alot of real news can go under the wire now that all the sheeple are waiting for the verdict.

I just said the same thing, its like a national reality show
it is ridiculous

Just no.

I went off in the break room the other day about this very subject. I flat out said to someone who commented on it (and a avent bush supporter) that I don't think anyone actaully gives a fuck about Scott Peterson, because shit like that happens everyday. Then I asked if she knew about the 10 marines that died that very morning in Iraq.


Blank stare of ignorance, don't you love it? I know I do :evilgrin:

Women running around all excited saying "They found Scott Peterson guilty," blah, blah, blah... I pity people who have no lives of their own that they have to get so engrossed in this shit. Oy.

The women were all into it. I found out about it because someone wanted me to help them with an online stream of the verdict.

We got the flyers when Laci disappeared, so I'm sort of interested. But I agree that it's been overblown and should have remained a local issue.

Geez, what is it with Modesto anyway? That whole Gary Condit thing...then Cary Staynor dropped his wallet in Modesto and drove the bodies UP HERE to dispose of them. Now Scott Peterson.

When California secedes, let's move Modesto into Nevada, OK? Please annex Tuolumne County and make all the scary fundies go away. We have to save the redwoods and Yosemite.

But now that the verdict is out, there is plenty to discuss.

I'm tired of the "Laci Madonna" routine, myself.

...that I think this would be your garden-variety, open-and-shut domestic violence case, as far as the press was concerned, were it not for the Holy State of Pregnancy and the Almighty Fetuth involved. :eyes:

Woman marries creep. Woman wants kids and SAHMommy lifestyle. Creep doesn't really want kids because they interfere with his scamming and boating time, but he's cowed and passive-aggressive, so the most he'll say is, "er honey, maybe we should wait a couple more years before starting a family, I'm not quite ready." Of course, Creep leaves birth control entirely up to Woman because that's not a man's job :eyes:, and Woman hears a lot of douche from her friends and various Internet and sitcom sources about how cute 'n' wink-wink sneaky it is to "accidentally on purpose" forget to take your BC pills, and how "he'll lurrrve the baby once it's here," so she flushes her pills and seizes the wheel of reproductive destiny. Naturally, Creep gets the telegraph that his life is over and chooses the most cowardly method available to fix it. And jeebus grits, waits until basically the last freakin' minute to do it, I might add.

This statement will probably make me deeply unpopular, but Laci wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack and I really have a hard time feeling sorry she's gone. It couldn't have been lost on her that she wasn't exactly married to Father of the Year material. But still, she snapped on her blinders and plowed right on through with her plans to breed. Women just need to be smarter than this, and Laci likely willfully ignored all the signs, and her husband's own will, so she could get what she wanted: a baby. Though I don't think anyone deserves to die, especially from domestic violence, I'm honestly not sorry to see Officer Darwin prevent the pair of them from breeding. There, I guess that makes me an elitist b*tch, but I could probably come up with worse if the occasion called for it.

He was convicted of 2nd degree murder of his "unborn son". I'm sure you don't need it spelled out for you what that could do to reproductive rights.

So yes, I watched it with interest.

A pregnancy that was just about over is VERY different than a first trimester abortion.

This changes NOTHING.

Oh - and when, exactly, did a lower court jury (hearing an essentially unrelated case to begin with) get the ability to overturn a supreme court ruling? I must have missed the news.

Think about it. If they can set precedent in the courts that a fetus is a person, deserving of all the rights of a regular person, then they can start chipping away at Roe v Wade.

Until born, this is not a breathing human being. If people want to convey "rights" to a fetus, then we can project this to the moment of conception. And then what?

(1) Will we have daily pregnancy testing of women by the State to confirm if their is a person hiding out in the womb? The State cannot protect the unborn if it doesn't know if it exists.

(2) How will miscarriages be viewed bt the courts? Accidental manslaughter, criminal negligence, 1st degree murder?

The law of unintended consequences will surely kick in......and most of us are not going to like the new State intrusion into the most personal aspects of our personal lives.

All circus all the time here in the Empire.

I mean, this is way cool: give these suckers enough circus and they completely forget about bread.

spent by the combined MSM reporting on this case....something that affects this country, not at all. But when 50% of the population has their vote disenfranchised by RICO-type actions of the Republican Party.....Nada.

fuck no!

I am sad somebody killed her and the child nothing matters after that. No justice, no revenge nothing matters!

so no.

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Not OJ
Not Menendez
Not this one.

I could care less.

The lady who got killed, and her family, deserve some justice. So for that, I do care.

And like him or not, Scott Peterson deserves his day in court. It's in the constitution (or is that The Bill of Rights. My ignorance is bottomless, and I'm too lazy to look it up)

However, the media frenzy is off the charts. The whores in the press cover these stories in such a whacked out manner, that I think it DISHONORS the victims of the crimes. They are turned into entertainment, and the disgusting corrupt media companies make money off the tragedy. And that is vile.

This story should have been a local story. I think the5-6 white guys who control most of our news decided to make the story national because it gets the anti-choice people whipped up, it takes the focus off of the Bush Admin's worldwide crime spree.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many threads about Scott Peterson and each thread wouldn't get hundreds of posts.
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