Chandra Levy found

[Nateddi]

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[Fires of History]

I don't know why everyone is "shocked," I knew she was dead the second she went missing. Why is everyone surprised?

Edit: I mean, did people think she just went on holiday for a few months? Politicians murder to cover up their mistakes, period.

(Edited by Fires of History at 4:40 am on May 23, 2002)

[shunt]

just another damn news story to keep the American™ glorpkettles preoccupied and away from the things they need to be focused on....

this topic is not really one worth going into...

[I Will Deny You]

There is a girl who went to my school that lived right near Adams Morgan (where Chandra Levy lived) and she disappeared. No one cared.

Maybe it would be a better idea to focus on the little kids that die in sweatshops owned by companies that contribute to US politicians.

Lindsay

[Valkyrie]

I think she counts as much as anyone else who is murdered in all the places in the world. That a likely suspect is a holier than thou member of congress just proves how fucked up the system is and how fuckd up representative democracy. I wish these girls would make smarter empowering choices and stop fucking these old men who have a wee bit of power, but woes in getting it up.

[El Che]

my question is who cares? and my second question is why do yankee soap operas make headlines all across the world!? I personaly object to that and to the exportation from yankeelandia of the stupid and stupidificating format of media groups.

[red senator]

Quote: from Paris on 12:04 am on May 24, 2002
I think she counts as much as anyone else who is murdered in all the places in the world. That a likely suspect is a holier than thou member of congress just proves how fucked up the system is and how fuckd up representative democracy. I wish these girls would make smarter empowering choices and stop fucking these old men who have a wee bit of power, but woes in getting it up.


I am pretty sure he was never charged as a suspect. plus, I don't think that he did it because he was just a congressman, that isn't the type of government position you kill for. If he was a senator, president, of even speaker of the house, i could se a murder and cover up, but not from a lowly representative.

[Valkyrie]

Are you bullshitting or what? Because i don't get the attitude here.

Right. It doesn't matter WHO killed her. It matters that she WAS killed. Even more so if the person who killed her was someone she did'nt know. That a women can't be safe going to a park alone without risk of being killed or raped and that women account for the highest percentile of randomly violent crimes is just as important an issue as people working in sweatshops.

So, what are you saying? That only abstract faceless groups of people count and not the actual individuals who make up these groups???

Ask yourselves then why you care that groups of people are starving, or are being slaughtered enmasse or are working in sweatshops. Do you honestly care ?? Do you really?

[Valkyrie]

The other fucking contagiously falling in line with "leftist ideals" is the leniecy and sympathy shown towards the death penalty and "those poor mistreated victims of society" who kill on a whim.

Give me a fucking break.

[Unknown]

I hate to sound like an ideot but who is chendry levend

[bleed3r]

Quote: from I Will Deny You on 9:55 pm on May 23, 2002
There is a girl who went to my school that lived right near Adams Morgan (where Chandra Levy lived) and she disappeared. No one cared.

Maybe it would be a better idea to focus on the little kids that die in sweatshops owned by companies that contribute to US politicians.

Lindsay


That's wrong. I'm from sacramento, and she lived just north of modesto (very close to here), and all i've seen on the news lately is how much people do care.. There have been tons of candlelight vigils and memorial services, that's not "not caring" if you ask me.

I agree with the second statement, but i think it's pretty sick to "not care" about the death of an individual. Capitalist soldier or not, she didn't deserve to die.

[bleed3r]

The attitude here is disgusting, shame on you all, and kudos to Paris for being the only semi-compassionate individual decent enough to say something.

[suffianr]

Damn! I had guessed as much that politician guy was shagging her, and had to do her in before she went public with it...But I guess we're all becoming desensitized to this sort of thing nowadays, coz it sort of reminds me of a B-grade 80's crime thiller about politicians shagging girlies and murdering them afterwards. Ooooh...very bad, very bad...

[thebigcom]

that whole affair is a shame. she was an innocent girl, and the events dragged condit into a mess he probably wasn't responsible for. whether he is a cheater or not, he probabaly didnt wat to kill her. probably

[Dhul Fiqar]

I think the bottom line here is that it's totally sickening to me and many others here to see how the entrie world is crying for people like Chandra Levy and Daniel Pearl while ignoring HUGE deathtolls elsewhere. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many Afghan civilians/children died while the world was focused on an AmeriKKKan kidnap victim who purposely went to dangerous areas in neighbouring Pakistan? Probably a lot more than one.

Likewise, sweatshop children and innocent Palestinians
were killed in droves while this Levy thing had everyone's attention. Yes, it's sad and unjust that someone is dead through no fault of their own, but these pop icons of the American media did not die the most unjust death of anyone in the world that week, day or even hour. They are singled out because they're Americans, they are easily identified with by the public and thus make good stories, period.

--- G. Raven

(Edited by Dhul Fiqar at 7:52 pm on June 1, 2002)

[I Will Deny You]

While she was staying in DC she lived in Adams Morgan, right near my friend.

Lindsay

[Supermodel]

This thread is heart breaking to me because I can really see both sides.

Of course we are being elitist by publicising the fates of Chandray Levy and Daniel Pearl, while passing over the deaths of thousands of people in every country and for many, many reasons.

I hope for a world where every life does count, where people are not born into a world where they are unlikely to live long and no one cares. Che had some wonderful quotes on this about the death of a son being just another thing among the poorest of South America.

Yet on the other hand, it is perfectly understandable that the press, who live to grab our attention, mostly take people who represent the part of society that considers itself safe, invincable, protected, in charge, and demonstrates how feeble we really are. It also serves as a warning not to let our supposed superiority in the workplace/school/dance club/clothes store let us believe that we are any safer from violent crime.

For IDWY and I who spend our days in Washington DC, is the unsolved murder of Chandra Levy a greater threat to us personally than the deaths of many Israeli soldiers in a bus bombing this morning in the left bank? I can't answer that question.

[CheGuevara]

Who's crying over those Israeli soldiers? Not me...

[Supermodel]

It doesn't matter whether you cry for them or for the starving of Somalia....the question is what situation is the most threatening to you personally? For young women in DC, they suddenly have to worry more about going for a jog than what is going on in the Middle East.

[Fires of History]

Quote: from Supermodel on 11:56 pm on June 5, 2002
It also serves as a warning not to let our supposed superiority in the workplace/school/dance club/clothes store let us believe that we are any safer from violent crime.


Yes, what a scary thought that the rich and affluent are susceptible to violent crime too. Now that is news!

[Lefty]

a girl that was an aide to gary condit, the congressman for someplace in california and it was suspected that when she went missing, that he killed her after having an affair with her. it was all over the news before 9/11...where do you live unknown?

[anti machine]

How do these horny criminals get elected anyway?

[marxistdisciple]

I suspect horny, gun-toting hicks vote for them en masse?

[bleed3r]

Quote: from anti machine on 9:18 pm on June 13, 2002
How do these horny criminals get elected anyway?


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