The News Media Whispers the Truth about the Petit Family Massacre
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On July 23 2007, two paroled burglars entered a home in uppermiddle class Cheshire CT through an UNLOCKED door, beat and bound the male resident, Dr
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Three guests on Larry King's July 30 TV show droned on about reforming parole regulations to prevent such home invasions in the future. Fine, reform the system. But remember that not all predators are paroled felons they might well be felons already released from parole or upandcoming young monsters with clean records
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Inexplicably, the unlocked door the killers had entered was never mentioned on Larry King (and just barely mentioned four times in hundreds of media reports)
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The media also had their eyes wide shut during the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping in Salt Lake City in 2002
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Of course the media doesn't want to "blame the victims." It would almost seem cruel to add insult to injury to blame those unwitting naf's for contributory negligence. But, as a result
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Many months later, the state legislature is still trying to forge new laws to "curb" such massacres in the future, yet NO mention is made of the UNLOCKED door! And now all subsequent news media reports refer to the invasion as a "breakin" rather than the harsh truth that the primary facilitator of the massacre was a "walkin" through an UNLOCKED door! The old adage is true: "None are so blind as those who refuse to see." The elephant in the middle of the room is now completely invisible.
Know this: roughly half of the 8,000plus home intrusions daily in the US (that's 2.9 million annually
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Of course nobody wants to blame the victims. Those innocents were lulled into the same false sense of security that seduces most people living in the Sleepyvilles of the world. They just didn't realize that predators far outnumber the police and that predators have all heard how Sleepyville has poor security where people actually brag about not locking their doors or windows!
Some particularly innocent victims leave their doors unlocked even after they've been invaded through unlocked doors! It's not always easy to find sympathy for such wanton carelessness, but we must remember, after all, that they are indeed innocent victims in both senses of the word.
Yet when some poor souls end up butchered
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Actually, it's hard to blame and shame the news reporters for sugarcoating the cold reality. In fact, the surviving victims themselves usually are in blind denial of the blatantly obvious and brutal truth that their contributory negligence led to such anguish. It happens more often than not in heinous crimes it's human nature, a coping mechanism. They probably can't bear to admit it even to themselves the angst would be too great.
The news reporters shudder when they see it up close and personal thus they opt for mercy on the surviving victims. Nevertheless, wouldn't the public's ignorance and their blas safety attitude diminish (at least a bit) if the media regularly mentioned a brief, tactful security precaution at the end of each crime news report? Is the media too polite and too charitable to save future victims even if it's just one?
It's a shame that those who've suffered a crime due to unlocked doors and windows had to learn such a harsh lesson the hard way. The news media could have and should have done a better job of warning them. Isn't it ironic to see charity causing such inadvertent harm?
Be honest now. Do you keep all your doors and windows locked at all times? If not, reread the above. Gamble in Vegas, not in your life.
Folklore and fables from vampire and wolfman legends to tales of The Brothers' Grimm tell us of ogres
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