OOTD.... I have to agree with you... but.... I find that I am apalled (sp?) when I read newspaper stories about some crime that was committed, and then perhaps also a story about someone being arrested.. in Canada say... where we have 'innocent until proven guilty'... and the public commenting on the newspaper stories.. I seriously find it revolting. It's like most of the people who write in to express their comments are sheep, completely believing whatever is written, and completely making up their minds as to what exactly happened, and they're screaming for the person (perhaps the person charged, or on trial, or whatever) to be executed. It gives me an inkling as to what it must have been like in the 'olden days' when our country had public hangings or however it was done.. I can just visualize all those people screaming for the person to be executed there too.. that is when the person was already ruled to be guilty. But in newspaper stories.. we're counting on so much.. that the reporter heard it right.. that the cop said it right.. that all of them all heard and saw and know the same things, but yet discrepancies.. all over the place.. and the reason we have trials here, is for usually a jury to hear the ENTIRE case, and ALL of the facts.. not just the little few that are reported in a story.. perhaps by a somewhat biased reporter? And so yes.. I suppose when I think about it, I think it is unfair for the dead guy's past criminal record to be published on the day his murder is announced, before his body is even retrieved yet... because of how all of what I see as 'stupid people' will jump up and down and say, 'see, that is why he was murdered, he was a criminal himself'.. and it makes me feel really sad, because... we don't even know yet whether those things had ANY bearing at all on why he was murdered, or what he was currently involved in.
Call me controlling. I too, want to know ALL the details, and decide for myself. I just hate it when I see the boatloads of people jumping at theories as being fact, when they're not fact, and they don't know everything yet, etc.
So... if someone wants to help out this woman and her 3 kids... they might change their minds if they see that the husband/father could have potentially brought this upon himself through his lifestyle choices? I would feel so bad if that was the case also.
