Senseless Violence, teen style
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Loading ...Nope, this is not a post about Iraq, or even about King Georgie. It’s about 8 kids my age who don’t have the sense God gave a turnip! According to the L.A. Times,
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube.
Seven of them remained in juvenile detention today, authorities said. A boy who was charged as an adult had been released on bail.
That’s right. They weren’t angry at her. She hadn’t stolen the boy they wanted to date or told a teacher they were cheating. They just wanted to make a video! So eight of them beat her up, then kidnapped her, then threatened her with a worse beating if she went to the police.
When my friend Hazel got a camera that shoots video (when we were 13), we made videos of each other singing stupid songs or pretending to kiss a boy we both liked. We never even put it up on youtube!
The Times also says that
The sheriff’s office said that after the attack, three of the teens forced the victim into a vehicle and drove her to another location, where she was told she would be given a worse beating if she contacted police.
All eight suspects were arrested April 2 and charged with battery and false imprisonment. The three teens who took Lindsay to the second location are also charged with felony kidnapping.
Lindsay was treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and left ear, and numerous bruises, police said.
Who ARE these people? What is wrong with them? Do they want to be John Yoo or Gitmo guards when they grow up?
Here is the video if you want to watch, but I wouldn’t bother.
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Lord of the Flies kids unsupervised who have yet to grow up morally.
Although to be fair to the kids the adults behind Abu Graid might have influenced their ideas about what level of violence and realism is ok in a video.
How is Abu Graid affecting kids is a question worthy of a lot more study.
Again to be fair to the kids in a world where Presidents fight for the right to torture can we really expect our kids to be better than ourselves?
Lewis allen
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Billie Holiday lyrics
Every age has monsters Every kid might be born innocent or they may not be but somewhere between childhood and adulthood we start to find out when anger meets opportunity.
Today’s video tape attack was yesterday’s lynching in front of a whole town.
I watched a video the other day on the internet that explained that more and more people are only trying to make a Viral Video
The term Viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites.
I have no option but to agree with others who have commented on this post. Its a shame to see that teens are resorting to violence for the sole purpose of attention.
Yet, I guess if we were to think about it in depth, many acts of violence…are somewhat driven by the need for attention.
Robert Hawkins.
–In his suicide note, he said he was going to go out in style because before this..he was nobody.
I’m not trying to point fingers..but the media makes too big of a deal out of this.
These kids that did this…sure the were punished…but look.
They also got a LOT of attention.
Great post, Cassie