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|    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              Here Here                     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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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