Tom wasn't in the fight of his life because he received no injuries. Nor did his daughter receive any injuries. This was not a "fight" but an execution. This was NOT three bloodied and beaten combatants, and one died. This is someone with his brains literally beaten out...followed and cornered from room to room.
If SM had called the police that night, and they had interupted this scene before anybody died, do you believe they would have arrested Tom or Jason?
If Jason, would they have found him guilty of a crime for which he should be executed? Would our system require he die in the heinous way he died?
You and I do not know Jason or Tom Martens or Molly Martens. So we can attribute good motives and bad ones anyway we want. But feelings aren't evidence. And the evidence says overkill. I guess you have excuses for that and I don't. That's allowed on this Board. But I might ask you, is there anyone in your life that you love, that you would want to die this way?
The evidence we heard this week goes to the kind of society we want to live in. I fear a society where we invent excuses for heinous violence like this.
TM did not "give his life" for his daughter. He didn't get a scratch. He TOOK a life for his daughter. Or is throwing away his life to cover for that raging, sick woman that drove Maginn to write his book. Either way, we are a society of laws. Neither one of them, by law, had a right to do what they did.
We have put in place many options for abused women with no resources. Molly had many resources, many options. Execution with such extreme violence was not an option we should want to find excuses for....because that's a slippery slope. Most murderers feel aggrieved. So they shoot up their workplace, or a school, or kill the other woman or the nasty boss.
When individuals are permitted to decide who lives or dies based on their feelings..we are the Wild,Wild west. When we make their feelings more important than a human life or a lawful society, that's a dangerous path.
indeed.
I have been reading up on FBI training in de-escalation and crisis control.
Theres quite a lot of information online for anybody that is interested in the subject.
I doubt very much whether we have heard all of the autopsy conclusions as yet..
I would be very interested in whether there were more than one post mortem strike?
If the aim of the attack on Jason was to make him stop an alleged but highly unlikely action, a single strike to the arm, hand or shoulder would have automatically caused grip to drop. I even know this and I have had no specific training in physical deescalation.
So, a single well placed strike could have the alleged action to cease, he would have lost his grip and she could have run away.
I am trying to visualise a scene which could have led to the injuries that killed Jason Corbett. The nature of the frenzy and the spirit informing the attackers..
I cannot help but wonder whether they have ever considered exorcism as a solution for their family problems...
Just my thoughts..
Re the single whack to arm or shoulder, I think people may think Tom is too old and frail.. he is not, or at least he was not, at the time.. As regards accuracy, he plays golf. Now, I have a dread of golf so I know nothing about it apart from the fact that people spend hours trying to get small balls into holes one of life's mysteries..and they have things called handicaps which seems to be a level of aptitude thing( I'm not feigning ignorance here, btw, I'm not pretending.)
Re the dreaded golf. I wonder why he chose a bat and not a golf club.. its just a stone I never remember uncovering in the years we have been sleuthing this..
I wonder if he did any of it himself.
