Maybe if she is so inclined, Alyce would like to one day get to know the REAL Travis, from the people who actually knew him:
"Travis Alexander`s driving down the street. He sees a homeless man. He pulls over, he talks to him, gets to know that he seems like a normal guy, just had some things happen in his life. He says I`m going to help you out, brings him to his house, lets him get showered, gives him a change of clothes, his own clothing, takes him down to a local restaurant, talks to the manager, tells the guy`s story, asks if the manager if he`ll give this guy a job, gave him a job, and changed that guy`s life forever. And that`s the Travis Alexander that I know and love." Chris Hughes
Walked into Office Depot in Carson City today, and suddenly realized that it was the first stop Travis and I made after I picked him up at the Reno airport. It was his first trip to Tahoe to help me build my business. He bought equipment and had copies made, and all the time I'm thinking "Oh no! How is he ever going to get all that back on the plane?!" We get to the car, he puts the equipment in the back, gets in the passenger seat, and hands me an envelope. He smiles that great smile and says "This will help you get your business going." Bittersweet. JoAnn Conner
http://www.travisalexanderjustice.com/friends
Travis didn't just do things to keep the pretense of being a good person. He didn't agree to help people then half
it, like agreeing to take a cat for someone then lock it in a room and starve it. Or pretend to care about the planet and helping people after they got to jail to look good for mitigation purposes. He was not self serving. He was a truly caring and giving individual who did things without expecting anything in return. Read story after story of him helping people out just because.
Maybe one day Alyce will realize what a horrible mistake she's made. What really pains me is there are so many people out there sticking up for Jodi and trashing Travis, someone who truly doesn't deserve it, to take the side of his remorseless murderer. Sometimes life is just so cruel. At least some form of justice was done though.
BBM I don't think she will ever concede to others, or even to herself, that she was wrong about her evaluation of missy and her idea of the whole dang shebang of DV in this particular trial - it's how she sees it and no one will sway her in her beliefs. If they did sway her, her whole life's work would be meaningless- to her and everyone else, too. It's really sad because she seemed to help a lot of other people in her career. She has given up all she has worked for- for one little liar- missy :jail: and has drank missy's Kool-Aid- lock, stock, and barrel. ALV has destroyed her credibility in a lot of people's eyes.
Life is both cruel and sometimes mystifying because of the myriad of opinions that people have and hold. They believe these
opinions as
truth in their minds, which may stun me and you- we have our
opinions, also, that we hold as
truth. And as much as we feel we are correct, they feel that they are correct (misguided to me and unbelievable :scared
.
I found some good articles on ALV, if you are interested. The first one, I felt,
hit the mark with me:
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Alyce LaViolette was well aware of the facts of the case when she agreed to defend Ms. Arias and justify her confessed killing of Travis Alexander. Ms. LaViolette alone is responsible for her theorizing and her thinking and her testimony, and should be prepared to face criticism for these views just like any other professional claiming expertise on a topic.....
When we act against another without restraint and in a group, humans are capable of incredibly cruel and inhumane treatment of each other. The only way to reasonably challenge Ms. LaViolette is to keep the critique focused and aimed at what she has actually said and done. Dehumanizing and demonizing her does more to dehumanize those who engage in the attacks. Although I think it is highly unlikely she will ever have the capacity and desire to rethink her position and see Ms. Arias more objectively and rationally, the only way that she could possibly do so would be to make this a teachable moment, rather than a collective mobbing...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-bullying/201304/the-mobbing-alyce-laviolette
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Ms. LaViolette has theorized throughout her career that abuse is fundamentally about patriarchy. Few would deny that to the extent that women are economically dependent on men they are at greater risk of abuse. Moreover, the more that social relationships are based on male authority and female submission, the greater the potential for abuse. Patriarchy is indeed a characteristic of western and eastern civilizations. Men have held the majority of positions of political leadership, controlled resources and property, and dictated moral authority throughout human history. While scholars are divided over whether any true matriarchy has ever existed, all are in agreement that patriarchy is the universal norm, and that gender relations cannot be understood outside this universal norm...
In the trial of Jodi Arias, whose own court-scribbled portrait of Snow White with a blackened eye has taken on new meaning with Ms. LaViolettes testimony, the dual between purity and depravity couldnt be more sensationalized nor cynical. Not only is the defense painting a picture of Ms. Arias as an innocent whod might as well have tweetering little birdies flitting around her head, so pure they regard her in the face of Mr. Alexanders supposed depravity, but that same innocence has been denied the victim. Travis Alexander was no Snow White to be sure, yet his own ordinary flaws have been turned into felonious crimes and mortal sins to justify his killing.
In the end, the Snow White defense of Jodi Arias doesnt stand a snowballs chance in Hell of succeeding because, aside from an avalanche of forensic and material evidence condemning her, her defense has taken their own fairy tale a step too far and brought it into the realm of science fiction. It may have been Travis who wanted Jodi to dress up as Little Red Riding Hood for a little fairy tale fornicating, but it was Jodi Arias who with her lies, has cried wolf. Not many will take a bite of her poisoned apple anytime soon.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-bullying/201304/jodi-arias-and-the-snow-white-defense
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If any man had acted in the same way with a woman he then killed violently, there would be no dispute that he was stalking her, and that she was a victim of a pathological abuser and premeditated killer. It has been by raising awareness of domestic abuse that we have learned how deadly stalking can become, particularly after a woman has ended a relationship and more critically, when the jilted lover realizes he can never have her. But because most stalkers are men and most stalking victims are women, some find it troubling to consider that a man can be a victim of a womans obsession with having him all to herself.
Most crimes of domestic abuse and stalking are perpetrated by men, but just because the majority of victims are women, to deny that women can be controlling and abusive and stalk and kill the men they covet, is a travesty to what the last thirty-five years have taught us about the dynamics of abuse. To suggest that Jodi Arias was a victim of an abusive boyfriend flies in the face of everything we have learned about power, control and obsession in intimate partner and stalking crimes. Far worse, to remain blind to the evidence of stalking and premeditated homicide because of the genders of the perpetrators and/or victims, is to send us back 35 years to the years before the case of Francine Hughes and The Burning Bed brought the realities of domestic abuse out of the closet, and gave victims some help and hope, however limited it remains...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...d-and-jodi-arias-the-abuse-defense-gone-wrong
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All, very good articles :twocents:
