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   Message 6,490 of 8,306   
   Bill Smith to All   
   Re: Dawson is not a good reason to start   
   22 Sep 06 05:15:33   
   
   XPost: can.general, mtl.general, qc.general   
   XPost: tor.general   
   From: billincalgaryab@hotmail.com   
      
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   On 15 Sep 2006 04:15:28 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)   
   wrote:   
      
   >"     " (benny_patrick7@hotmail.com) writes:   
   >> Due to events at Dawson, the media yet again started lying about me   
   >   
   >Well Isaac, I was expecting you.  Indeed, I thought of you yesterday.   
   >   
   >So you're 24 or 25 now, and you thus would have been 10 or 11 when your   
   >father killed those people.  Half your life has gone by while he's been   
   >in prison.  I thought you were a bit younger, based on some old   
   >newspaper article.   
   >   
   >But it's significant, the day your father shot those people I was   
   >with someone who was eight at the time, basically your age.  She   
   >went to Dawson, but luckily she graduated a couple of years ago.   
   >   
   >But here's the thing.  YOu could almost have been one of those   
   >people running out of that building yesterday.  You could almost have   
   >been one of those people shot, or the woman who died.  You are basically   
   >their peers.  Indeed, it's conceivable that you have friends who   
   >are still attending Dawson, or maybe your younger brother, and they   
   >could have been shot or killed as easily as those who were.   
   >   
   >ANd that means you should have learned something from yesterday.  You   
   >were likely too young to grasp it all when your father killed those   
   >people in 1992, but now you are an adult, and get to see a similar   
   >situation relived in front of you.  SOmeone uncaring of human life   
   >decides to shoot people, gets a gun, goes to a school and shoots away,   
   >not caring who he hurts or kills.  Those running out of Dawson, and those   
   >shot are in effect you and your peers, which in any decent person would bring   
   >things home far more than an even that happened when you were 10 years old.   
   >   
   >As you watch the news think about it very carefully, and meditate on   
   >the effect the shooting has on the people shot, the people near them,   
   >the people who escaped, and the relatives and friends of those shot   
   >and killed.  Think about the fear those people at Dawson must have   
   >felt on Wednesday, when they thought they might be the next one to   
   >be shot, and not knowing what was going to happen next.   
   >   
   >Think about how awful it would be if the killer lived and then   
   >proceeded to declare that he didn't do anything wrong, showing   
   >a complete lack of remorse for those who had died.  Think about how   
   >awful it must be for the relatives to keep hearing about the killer   
   >of their family members, and know he is just flaunting himself while   
   >he seems to have a pretty good life in prison, while their loved ones   
   >don't have a life anymore.   
   >   
   >So do you promote the killer of Wednesday?  KNowing the damage he had   
   >done, knowing that he was an uncaring person in the end?   
   >   
   >And then you apply all that to your father the killer.  If you see   
   >Wednesday's killer as something bad, and I don't see how any decent   
   >person can see him in any other way, then you have to start seeing   
   >your father the killer in the same way.  Because in the things that   
   >matter, your father the killer is no different from Wednesday's killer.   
   >And if anyone can give consideration to murderers, I doubt they can   
   >find anything of value in your father the killer or Wednesday's killer.   
   >Both killed because they wanted to.   
   >   
   >14 years after your father the killer committed his murders, far in the past   
   >given your age, it's time for you to treat him as the killer he is, and   
   >stop posting his junk for him.  You owe him nothing, he abandoned you   
   >when he decided to kill people.   
   >   
   >I once said he likely bullies you to post his junk.  I still say that   
   >may be the case.  But you are older now, and need to make your life   
   >away from him.  There are places you can go to deal with his bullying,   
   >and of course you have an advantage over others since he's locked in   
   >jail (and for at least another 12 years) and you are free.  Take   
   >that freedom, and and cut off any influence he has over you.  He   
   >is a murderer and doesn't care about those he killed or those   
   >who suffered, and doesn't care about you.   
   >   
   >  Michael   
      
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