I respectually and completely disagree.
If I am understanding your post correctly, you approve of this conversation between Mrs. McD and her grandkids.
IMO
It was absolutely UNnecessary to disclose the details and use the Biblical terminology she did with these young children ages 6 to 10.
Why would she discuss chaining Satan, Satan stealing Stephen, and demons with children this young?
I do not think that a child would even begin to conceive that his big brother (uncle) is capable of committing this crime.
Before a child could come to the conclusion that Stephen was capable, the child would have to know and understand that McD was accused of murdering a person and dismembering them and hiding their body parts.
Once that was explained to the child then the child would need to be able to look at their big brother/uncle and say "YES my big brother could do that. "
I can am 58 years old and it is very difficult for me to look at Stephen's photo and think him capable of this crime.
IMO this conversation between Ms McD and her grandkids is indicative of what drove McD directly off Reality Road.
This type of Biblical rhetoric into the minds of young children sends negative
impressions and mixed messages which a child is not equipped to decipher and appropriately apply.
I can only imagine what Mrs. McD told Stephen about SEX as he was growing up which is why he was all mixed up on that topic as well.
Stealing condoms? A virgin? Never a girlfriend at age 25? Creeping in and out of apartments and God only knows what else....
IMO, Mrs. McDaniel would reap a much more stable crop if she sowed Christianity through God's love and children's bible stories and leave the Book of Revelation for an adult study.
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MM, who lived in the same apartment complex as Giddings and McDaniel, walked out of the Macon police detective bureau just before 3 p.m. Friday as reporters gathered for a police announcement about another, unrelated murder investigation.
Police had asked MM, a Mercer law student, to drop by their headquarters to answer questions, and he was being completely cooperative, said MMs attorney.
MM is not a suspect or a person of interest in Giddings slaying, and the questioning was brief, MMs attorney said.
http://www.macon.com/2011/08/06/1656586/mcdaniels-mother-offers-explanation.html
I respectually and completely disagree.
If I am understanding your post correctly, you approve of this conversation between Mrs. McD and her grandkids.
IMO
It was absolutely UNnecessary to disclose the details and use the Biblical terminology she did with these young children ages 6 to 10.
Why would she discuss chaining Satan, Satan stealing Stephen, and demons with children this young?
I do not think that a child would even begin to conceive that his big brother (uncle) is capable of committing this crime.
Before a child could come to the conclusion that Stephen was capable, the child would have to know and understand that McD was accused of murdering a person and dismembering them and hiding their body parts.
Once that was explained to the child then the child would need to be able to look at their big brother/uncle and say "YES my big brother could do that. "
I can am 58 years old and it is very difficult for me to look at Stephen's photo and think him capable of this crime.
IMO this conversation between Ms McD and her grandkids is indicative of what drove McD directly off Reality Road.
This type of Biblical rhetoric into the minds of young children sends negative
impressions and mixed messages which a child is not equipped to decipher and appropriately apply.
I can only imagine what Mrs. McD told Stephen about SEX as he was growing up which is why he was all mixed up on that topic as well.
Stealing condoms? A virgin? Never a girlfriend at age 25? Creeping in and out of apartments and God only knows what else....
IMO, Mrs. McDaniel would reap a much more stable crop if she sowed Christianity through God's love and children's bible stories and leave the Book of Revelation for an adult study.
Glenda McDaniel reminds me of Ted Bundy's mom Louise Cowell. Louise Cowell believed in her son's innocence up to the day before the execution when he finally told her the truth. I always wondered how she responded to the truth-or did she believe the state had brain washed her son. She never gave anymore interviews after the execution.
Both mother's religious tones are oddly familiar.
I saw the e mail exchange, if this were high school the responders could get in trouble for bullying, but it looks like after this McD stopped such postings.I wondered if I might have missed some of the 1L email exchange, because what I read wasn't nearly as bad as what I had expected after the buildup it received here. I was expecting it to be downright bloody, but it really wasn't.
Clearly a handful of students were annoyed with the email and some of the responses were harsh, but "decimated"? I didn't get that impression. The handful of students who responded seemed as annoyed at his (mis)use of the listserv as anything else, and SM's responses to the criticism didn't seem incensed or even particularly bothered to me. I also got the impression that he was receiving more substantive responses privately, I imagine both opposed to his political position and supportive, which is I think what he was seeking.
Sometimes new law students enter thinking they are God's gift and quickly get their come-uppance, in far more severe and embarrassing ways than this. I suppose it may have been enough to cause him to hold a 3-year, murderous grudge if he is a severely narcissistic, thin-skinned sort. I didn't see that in the email exchange, though.
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Lord, NO, I don't think she needed to go so graphic. And I don't really approve of much of what she said. I meant she couldn't lie and say LG died of an accident. She had to be truthful about people thinking McD did it. Plus, someone, whether adult or child, would tell the children about body parts missing. People do it ALL the freaking time. I don't mean family members. i mean strangers on the street, or people in the schools, or wherever. Kids do it sometimes to be cruel. Adults do it because they are idiots sometimes. They tell children who have family members involved in something like this details either to taunt them or to see if they can get some secret inside info. If the children are blindsided by a stranger on the street with the truth about what happened, it could create a lot of problems, including trust issues with the person who they should be able to trust most, their parents.
You can tell things without being TOO graphic. The religious stuff from the mother wasn't even addressed by me. She has her own issues with that. I was going by the comment from the child. It seemed the mother was surprised by the comment, which is why I thought some other possibly well-meaning intrusive adult had said it to the child. The mother taking it and running with it are a totally different thing.
The reason I said it sounded as if the child thought it was possible he could do this is because, by using Satan as an explanation for this action, the child must believe McD did do this. Now, that being said, if there is more of an article stating the mother discussed the condoms and virginity and all that other stuff, I didn't see it. I only found one link that didn't work, so I searched the macon.com site where I found the Satan quotes from the mom.
The Piper Laurie role is the first thing that came to mind when I read the article. Actually, it was the second thing. The first was why in the world are those poor children being publicly exposed. Every effort should be taken to keep them out of the media. I was relieved to see minimal discussion of the children here yesterday.
Lauren's apartment key was discussed in the previous thread. I still find it interesting and curious that he had one in his possession since the master key would've served the purpose. Some think McD planned to plant it on the MM. I think if that were the plan, it would've been done prior to June 30th.
She's not on trial............Is this a religious board? Freedom of Religion remember, if you teach Bible you have to teach Satan............everyone does it differently. JMO but I do wish people would quit bashing that poor woman. we raise our children the best we know how. Each of our religious views are different. Problem with this world is everyone telling everyone how to live. No ONE person is the only one right.