Amish murders

[Patcat]

I grew up near an Amish community in Southern Indiana. I saw them as an outsider of course, but a more gentle, tolerant, kind people would be hard to find. This incident is just awful.

Patcat

[loserbaby12]

There's a bunch of Amish people around where we live, and even my friend Craig (who hates the Amish), says that his was absolutely horrible. I'm praying & thinking of all the families invovled in this horrible act of violence...

[sarahlee]

I lived in Lancaster County at one time (dad was stationed at Mechaicsburg) and went to middle school with some Amish kids. My dad could talk to anybody, and even managed to strike up and aquantance with some Amish. I say this because I got to know them as well as an "english" can-- and nobler, kinder people you'll never meet. It does not surprise me that their first reaction was forgiveness. They are not the idealized image in the movies, but I learned alot about virtue from them. I am so sorry their innocent ones were lost.

[Cassie]

its sad.....that is all I can say......very, very sad.....

last week it was a school in Colorado

[Cassie]

I agree with what your saying that he needed a Goren. People in the milk mans circle of life, had noticed a change in him and didnt think much of it, or him?

We may never know if we saved a life, or am sending somoene over the edge with our carelesss actons or words.

[Cassie]

janethyland said:

. It concentrates the Mind but loosens the Soul!

I really liked this line, and I thought about it all last night, and when I went to work this morning, in my manna email the thought for the day was:


277. "The Lord

gave us mind

and conscience;

we cannot hide

from ourselves."



Prov.20.27 GNB

[Techguy]

This is a very sad and tragic story, so no doubt the stable of L&O writers must have already completed a "ripped from the headlines" first draft to get it on air for one of the sweeps periods. *groan*

[sarahlee]

techguy said:

This is a very sad and tragic story, so no doubt the stable of L&O writers must have already completed a "ripped from the headlines" first draft to get it on air for one of the sweeps periods. *groan*

May you be very, very wrong.

[sarahlee]

techguy said:

This is a very sad and tragic story, so no doubt the stable of L&O writers must have already completed a "ripped from the headlines" first draft to get it on air for one of the sweeps periods. *groan*

May you be very, very wrong.

[Techguy]

Sarah Lee, not so very long ago I wouldn't have even imagined such a scenario. Unfortunately, CI now seems to be dancing to a different tune, a siren song, so anything is possible.

[Cassie]

So Techguy,

Did you have a problem with "The Wee Small Hours?" I thought the episode was great. but it bothered me terribly that it wasn't even 6 months, there was at the time (still is) no closure for the family of Natalee Holloway . As a parent, I see it as too fresh of a wound.

My sister called me today and was talking about a show she saw on Nova last night about "The Umbrella Crime" Apparently, it was used in a James Bond movie, and art intimating life, a man was murdered that way. The crime happened in 1975, I believe the family would have a tougher skin dealing with it today if they saw the story unfold on tv

www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_umbrella/index.html

[Patcat]

A friend and I were discussing the recent tragedies, wondering if there are more of these types of events or if we're just more aware of them. Not to take away the terror and tragedy of these events, but I think one reason we're aware of them is that we now have news on a 24 hour and instant basis. The worst school tragedy in American history was the bombing of a rural school in Wisconsin in the 1920s. An angry man with a grudge buried dynamite beneath the school and blew it up. This story made the papers, of course, but in most cases several days after the event. Now, the press would be swarming over the school and town within minutes and the same rumors and stories would be expressed over and over until the next tragedy took their place.

I don't know if we should take solace that tragedies like this aren't new and we know more about them.

Patcat

[Techguy]

cassie said:

So Techguy,

Did you have a problem with "The Wee Small Hours?" I thought the episode was great. but it bothered me terribly that it wasn't even 6 months, there was at the time (still is) no closure for the family of Natalee Holloway . As a parent, I see it as too fresh of a wound.

Cassie, no I didn't have a problem with "In the Wee Small Hours" with respect to its timing around the Natalee Holloway story. I suppose if I had a deeper more vested personal interest as you do, then I would feel differently.

My issues with CI are fairly recent and are related to the changes I have seen very early on in Season 6 insofar as how the setups to the crime and the crimes themselves are being handled. I feel CI is caving in to pressures for ratings, especially in the young male demographic, and has resorted to copying the graphic violence of "popular" shows in order to grab the attention of the targeted demographic. Maybe I'm being naive about the ways of television, but I am holding out for a return to the more subtle approach, with an emphasis on the psychology of the crime and not all the accompanying gruesome details.