Recent content by lamlawindy

You'd be 100% correct if Barry hadn't already been the subject of suspicion, scorn & threats for months. Now, the great majority of the searchers acted out of noble aspirations, but it only takes 1 person with malice to cause harm. Given that Barry has been the target of suspicion on social...

I appreciate your view, as you indicated that you study human communication professionally. You're correct that people see something & then make inferences. As a defense attorney, it's quite often my job to point out that such inferences aren't always necessarily correct & that convictions...

I'm not so sure that there was "nothing." When he tried to do something -- the 27-second video -- he was scorned & criticized. Perhaps that convinced him that silence was preferable.

Ideally, he'd do both: try to find his wife and protect his property. For some reason, he did one but not the other. I'll fault him for not doing one but I won't fault him for doing the other.

Do I think his protecting his property is laudable? Yes. Should he have done more earlier on? Yes.

Maybe it looks bad, maybe not. I think he should not have left it until the day of the search, but the act of protecting one's property is a laudable activity, regardless of how it looks.

No idea. I'd like to think that if I was in his position, then I certainly would do so. However, his behavior alone doesn't "prove" that he did anything when -- at the same time -- multiple agencies have not even found probable cause to believe that Barry did anything to Suzanne.

Again, Barry had no legal duty to retreat to his home or away from it.

It is the ultimate Get Off My Lawn moment. However, I'm a Gen-Xer! You just know that a good many of my fellow Xers & me are going to be warning kids (rifle in hand) to get off our lawns! :D

Again, he has no legal duty to retreat from his PP home and go to PS. You can consider his protecting his property as "stoopid" if you wish. I will not do so.

There hasn't been another time when hundreds of people descended on Chaffee County at one time, some of whom may have had hatred of Barry in their hearts. I agree that Barry has made missteps -- I'll criticize him for not being more diligent about protecting his property -- but I won't...

I agree that Barry had other options, but why should he leave his property if he doesn't want to do so? I also agree that he should've put the cameras up months ago, along with perimeter alarms. I'll criticize him for not being diligent but not for protecting his own property.

He's lawfully allowed to carry a firearm on his property. I don't see how that makes a difference.

As I stated previously: Remember, 95% of the internet suspects him of harming Suzanne: Is it unreasonable to believe that some of the searchers may trespass onto his property intending to do him harm?

That may be correct, which -- again --points to his need for a spokesman or counsel to assist him. That doesn't mean that he didn't have the legal right to keep others off of his property.