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A truckload of WTF
Jun. 20th, 2007 11:58 amWhat the HELL is this?
Nevermind that on the streets of Crothersville, where I went tonight, everyone understands that Hall wasn't gay, a statement echoed by his family. The defendants' motivation for beating a man to death for hours and hours, then driving him out into a pasture and beathing him some more, is "gay panic". He came on to them, so they killed him.(...) Either Aaron Hall was brutally beaten to death because he was gay, or else his murderers are attempting to exhort a sick sympathy from homophobic jury members by portraying beating a man to death as a natural response to homosexuality.
...?!
Both of those possibilities are just so revolting it's hard to find the words. What the hell? I mean really, what the HELL? WTF on a hierto unknown height of WTF-scale? WHAT.
The descriptions of what they did to that guy is just chilling. Can you imagine the sort of horror he felt? That's just gruesome. It's bad enough they killed him, making his last hours horrying and painful? FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. And it's been largly ignored by the media. Way to go, media. Because Paris Hilton back-and-forth-to-jail is so much more newsworthy, right? Also, why the fuck does not Indiana have hate crime laws?
There's a legal theory for their argument. It's called the "gay panic defense," and it suggests that temporary insanity from exposure to homosexuality is a defense against murder. Matthew Shepard's killers tried to use it.
WHAT?! I did not know that about the Shepard case. I did not need to know that about the Shepard case. It's raising the already extremely high revolting factor to dizzying heights. What kind of defense is that? I'd sure like to see someone try to use the "het panic defense". That would go down swimmingly, I'm sure. Or trying to defend a murder with racism, that's totally acceptable, right? NO. Wrong, wrong, wrong. A Britannica Encyclopedia full of wrong.
Shit, it even has a Wikipedia article. Oh yeah, it's as bad as blaming the victim for, say, a rape. It's revolting, it's shitty and, read my lips, IT IS NOT THE VICTIM'S FAULT. This should be put down in stone in front of every Court ever, so that judges, juries, lawyers and defendants will always get reminded of it. And so that shitty, shitty attempts at defence like that of the the murders in this story gets the proper smack-down it deserves twice over.
So. Pass the link on if you want to spread some awareness of this story and the fate of Aaron Hall. I have, now I need to stop making my brain repeat "WHAT WHAT WHAT" every six seconds and feel less like taking a shower.
Nevermind that on the streets of Crothersville, where I went tonight, everyone understands that Hall wasn't gay, a statement echoed by his family. The defendants' motivation for beating a man to death for hours and hours, then driving him out into a pasture and beathing him some more, is "gay panic". He came on to them, so they killed him.(...) Either Aaron Hall was brutally beaten to death because he was gay, or else his murderers are attempting to exhort a sick sympathy from homophobic jury members by portraying beating a man to death as a natural response to homosexuality.
...?!
Both of those possibilities are just so revolting it's hard to find the words. What the hell? I mean really, what the HELL? WTF on a hierto unknown height of WTF-scale? WHAT.
The descriptions of what they did to that guy is just chilling. Can you imagine the sort of horror he felt? That's just gruesome. It's bad enough they killed him, making his last hours horrying and painful? FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. And it's been largly ignored by the media. Way to go, media. Because Paris Hilton back-and-forth-to-jail is so much more newsworthy, right? Also, why the fuck does not Indiana have hate crime laws?
There's a legal theory for their argument. It's called the "gay panic defense," and it suggests that temporary insanity from exposure to homosexuality is a defense against murder. Matthew Shepard's killers tried to use it.
WHAT?! I did not know that about the Shepard case. I did not need to know that about the Shepard case. It's raising the already extremely high revolting factor to dizzying heights. What kind of defense is that? I'd sure like to see someone try to use the "het panic defense". That would go down swimmingly, I'm sure. Or trying to defend a murder with racism, that's totally acceptable, right? NO. Wrong, wrong, wrong. A Britannica Encyclopedia full of wrong.
Shit, it even has a Wikipedia article. Oh yeah, it's as bad as blaming the victim for, say, a rape. It's revolting, it's shitty and, read my lips, IT IS NOT THE VICTIM'S FAULT. This should be put down in stone in front of every Court ever, so that judges, juries, lawyers and defendants will always get reminded of it. And so that shitty, shitty attempts at defence like that of the the murders in this story gets the proper smack-down it deserves twice over.
So. Pass the link on if you want to spread some awareness of this story and the fate of Aaron Hall. I have, now I need to stop making my brain repeat "WHAT WHAT WHAT" every six seconds and feel less like taking a shower.