I think that is where many people have gone off the rails with this case. They imbue the incident with a moral imperative, their own ethics and apply a rigid benchmark of rationality in a situation so extreme that logic and rationale would have been the first sacrifices.
One thing that is unquestionably a solid fact, existential though it may seem, is that no number of theories that are prefaced by ‘as a mother’, ‘as a Christian’ or ‘as a family man’, have any cogency. Ego and pre-supposed ‘empathy’ have no place in a constructive approach to the case. What I would have done in that situation is a strange starting point. We weren’t in that situation and cannot conceive (certainly not forecast) the subsequent behaviour patterns of another, equally as unique, human being.
Well said.
However, this is why we have laws written by elected law-makers, government investigative agencies held to a reasonable standard of competence and lack of bias in conducting investigations, and a court system which is supposed to apply the laws without prejudice.
When the social and financial status of suspects in any case subverts those laws, then the system breaks down.
The Ramseys did what they did. Why they did it is simply a matter of human curiosity.
What followed after is no less than the result of the corruption in the system in Boulder and Colorado. How many innocent people have been victims of that system because of the privileges afforded the Ramseys by: currently, three Boulder DAs; how many judges; how many governors and Colorado State Attorneys General; and how many U.S. Attorneys General? (It's not like this is some case nobody ever heard of outside of Colorado, after all.)
If the Ramseys are to be given a pass because of the stress of the situation they found themselves in, no matter which one of them did what to JonBenet, not to mention the countless individuals and agencies the Ramseys attacked and brought every evil thing upon they could devise with their money, lawyers, and powerful political and media influence to keep up the subversion, then the system itself cannot be defended.
Until our government, whether at the state or federal level, investigates these suspected crimes of conspiracy like any other RICO case, including investigating Lin Wood and the Ramsey's for their SLAPP suits, Boulder stands as a cancer in the U.S. Justice System.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket...izations_Act#Where_RICO_laws_might_be_applied
I'm no lawyer, but this isn't rocket science and there are plenty of precedents.
This went way beyond the crimes against JonBenet Ramsey the moment the Boulder DAs decided to conspire with the Ramseys' lawyers to obstruct the investigation. There is sufficient evidence now that three DAs have and are openly refusing to investigate the plethora of crimes committed in this case and in its wake. Organized crime ain't got nothing on Team Ramsey.
It speaks to the branch of our government responsible for creating and enforcing laws. It's no less than this: if our justice system is so corrupt that the initial acts of investigating and prosecuting crimes are based on the financial resources and connections of the suspects, who can defend it?
If the horrible abuse and death of JonBenet Ramsey can't be reasonably adjudicated with all the evidence collected, with two million dollars spent to build the case file, what's wrong with this picture?
When the prime suspects are not only able to slip through the system because of their legal and personal firepower, but are then aided by the same DAs in attacking companies and individuals, even financially benefiting from that aid with a ruthless, vindictive, and greedy streak of legal threats and actions against every vulnerable victim they choose to exploit for those purposes...well, what are we playing at? This makes O.J. look like a good guy.
I may be over-reacting, but I've watched this epic unfolding of the hijacking of our justice system for 15 years and it only gets worse. We now have had two highly competent, decorated, dedicated police officers throw down the gauntlet, writing entire books listing the facts of this case and how it was deliberately derailed, not only by the prime suspects, but by the very DAs who took an oath to be officers of the court and to represent the People.
There is no competent, unbiased lawyer in the land who didn't marvel at the transparent shenanigans of Hunter and Lacy for 12 years.
Yet not one government agency, not one law bar, not one elected official has come forward to investigate this abuse of power.
If our government has become callous and indifferent to such blatant and historic corruption within, because clearly the so-called officers of the court are unwilling and unable to police themselves, then in fact the Ramseys, Hunter, and Lacy don't live by the same laws as we beer can collectors: they are above it.
That means our U.S. Constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on.
As I see it now, the lawyers of Oz have destroyed the system because finally we've seen behind the curtain.
Only there is no benevolent wizard there; just greedy opportunists without any scruples at all.