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I don't approve of their methods, but I approve less of an entire town colluding to cover up the misbehavior of their youth in order to protect a friggin football team.

I don't approve of their methods, but I approve less of an entire town colluding to cover up the misbehavior of their youth in order to protect a friggin football team.

Really? I don't give a fuck at all. Probably because I don't know that's happening in a case that hasn't been tried and is working it's way through the criminal justice process (and neither do you, incidentally) and also because there are limits to how much anyone can care about and I've carved out a space for **** that actually matters to me leaving no space for "anonymous random girl may or may not have been assaulted sexually by douche-bags in some town I'll never be within 500 miles of"

Lets just hope he doesn't find a deathnote.

Just had a flashback to the Florida shooter thing.

SpoilerThat thing's not resolved yet ya?

Their actions go well beyond releasing just information and facts related to the case itself. From the article, it appears as though they're finding anything that could be embarrassing about anyone they think might be related to the case, presumably to use as pressure if the town doesn't do what they think they should. All because they assume some kind of weak stereotype involving a cover up to protect the local football team must be happening, purely because it's a small town where football is a big deal. Can't see how this could ever end badly at all!

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 2:57pm by gbaji

True. All the more reason to not respond with "OMG! Anonymous says they're bad people and we should hate them, so I'm going to do just that!!!".

Yes:



People absolutely are saying that the whole town is engaged in some kind of cover up, more or less solely because Anonymous said they were (or suspected they were, or implied it, hacked the school web site to find evidence of it, or whatever else is making people think that this must be true).



Yup. Which is utterly irrelevant to the points I was making about the actions of Anonymous and how it equated to mob justice and was a bad idea. If all Anonymous did was release that video, I don't think anyone would have an issue with their actions. But their self proclaimed mission to expose the town for covering up the events surrounding the rape of this girl (and the purely speculative assumption that it has anything to do with protecting a football team) goes well beyond that. The very act of doing and saying that makes people believe that a cover up must have occurred, even though there is no evidence of it.

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 5:04pm by gbaji

Are any of us saying that? Besides, we don't need anonymous to tell us that **** laughing about thinking a girl was dead while she was being raped and joking that her being raped was her "dying wish" is a bad person. He told the world himself when he made that video.

Maybe. Or maybe he had a bad ten minutes. If someone showed the world video of just the stupid things I said when I was 16 they might think...you know what, I'm a bad example, but you get the idea. Your entire knowledge of this kids personality is based on what's likely him at his worst. That's a poor way to judge someone. Maybe he's a piece of **** the world is better without, but you can't tell from the information that's actually available.

That's rich.

Up here in New England, anything porcelain that's no longer serving it's original purpose in the bathroom gets a Virgin Mary figurine stuck in/on it along with a cross and flower or two, and then becomes a yard shrine.

End times, dude.