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Tue 23 Jun, 2009 12:17 pm
Hello, everyone.
While I was watching the news in my country, I heard about a shocking murder.
A 22-year-old boy, who lives in the capital of my country[Sofia], killed his mother and his sister last night.
Firstly, he killed his mother with a battle. Then, he left her body and went to see his neighbour, who lives next to his apartment. The boy stayed there, playing cards with a group of boys for like... 5 hours. After that, he came back to his apartment and waited for her sister to come home. When she did, she asked him where their mother was. But... she didn't receive an answer. Her brother killed her, too [with the same battle].
He has probably been on drugs at that night. When the police asked him why he did such a horrible thing, he just answered "they annoyed me"...
The police says that the boy had described every detail of the murder in a notebook before he did it. And also the boy's best friend described his[the murderer's] T-shirt. It shows two demons taking a baby from the stomach of a dead pregnant woman and ripping it to pieces... If that's not disgusting... What is?
There has been a series of terrible murders lately in my country.
But my question is: what do YOU do in America when this kind of things happen. Because in my country there's only corruption and nobody cares about other people's problems.
What should we ALL do? Because first of all, we're citizens of the world and we should be taken as a global society. And since we're all responsible for things like this to happen, we are the ones who have to make a change... That's my point of view.
What happens in America?
The story hits the news and it's a big deal for a short while, until the next thing happens and we all rush to the new circus in town.
Chai is basically correct. Assuming the killer was white and from an upper class family, although not mandatory- it would be a news story, a trial would follow, and if the person was found guilty they would most likely go to prison for the rest of their life. The TV show Dateline (that likes to sensationalize murders between family members) might make an episode about the crime , but I couldn't say for certain it would make the cut. We have a lot white people doing all kinds of bad things lately to one another. Either way, no one would remember the event in a fairly short space of time. If the person was black or latino I doubt you would find more than a paragraph in the newspaper, maybe a mention on a local news station, and if found guilty, the person would probably be put on death row for the next 20 years.
Be glad you don't like in the Sudan or the Congo. Countries like that have even less justice than Bulgaria.
@Green Witch,
Yes, but at least there IS justice in America.
How about this: [happened like 5 months ago]
A drunk driver kills a young family [husband, wife and daughter]. It IS his fault, the police proved that. What does he get? Surpriiiseee! Two years!
I'm not joking, it was on the news for a long time....
@strawberry pie,
Many people in America who commit drunk driving crimes are allowed to go free or get little punishment. However, we have a group in America called Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It was started by a mother whose child was killed by a drunk driver. The organization managed to get new laws against drunk drivers and are a powerful lobby group that fight for the rights of victims. If you do not like your law system I suggest you become a politician, an activist or a lawyer. Change tends to happen when the smallest among us make the biggest noise. You might want to start by reading a biography of Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr..
@strawberry pie,
SP, Pamela, (I have to double check your own spelling) I think the word you mean is "bottle".
Corruption is rampant throughout the world, though in some places it is more a part of the culture and the economy than in others. People have mental illnesses the world over. Justice systems vary greatly, and justice can have, as Green Witch intimated, two faces, or more than two.
In the particular instance you are speaking of, clearly the boy was angry and rebellious and apparently lacking in care. We had a thread here on a2k once about what they call "sociopathy". I'm no expert on sociopathic behavior, so I can't just easily say what to do.
Ossobuco, I meant a bat or beetle or... I don't know... This is used in baseball - to hit the small ball. I guess I just memorized the wrong word at school...
Yes, I do want to become a lawyer and I hope I'll be able to study International law... My dream is to work in the Euro parliament.
But I thought that in big countries like the USA, justice stands above everything. Anyway, ossobuco, what you suppose is wrong. May be it seems that the boy is ill or has mental disease... But that's not true.
All his friends[and not only friends] say that he has been a great person, who loved his mother an sister very much. The boy studied in the most prestigious university of the country. It all happened in a week. He refused to eat or sleep, he just stayed on drugs for 7 days. And... he freaked out...
The problem is that in Bulgaria, politicians are one of the biggest supporters of drug dealing... They don't reveal their secrets to the society but most of the people already know that.
And my country is a huge mess right now without any perspectives for getting better.
Unless it were Foxfyre, arguing politics, in which case it would be called a dingbat.
@strawberry pie,
strawberry pie wrote:And my country is a huge mess right now without any perspectives for getting better.
May I ask what forms of civic activism you have tried? Have you written to your representative in parliament? Have you written letters to the editor at your local newspaper? Have you joined a civic organization devoted to a political cause that's important to you?
If you're interested in making a difference in your country, perhaps you want to get in touch with our member "dagmaraka". Although she's not from Bulgaria, she is from Eastern Europe (Slovakia), is politically active, and may be able to give you some tips about your options.
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