RE: Not insensitive, but realistic.

Hi, Gef,

“I have thought about it for some time now, I tried to understand your opinion on this, and I’ll try to put less cynism in my next post, because I see you don’t find it appropriate in these posts. Maybe it is because I’m too young (will not deny it) that I was so sarcastic, or maybe just because I’m right …”

I appreciate your comment, I honestly cannot envisage how sarcasm has any appropriate place in a discussion like this. Yes you are young but you are certainly no fool, that much is clear but as to whether you are right?

“The members of the local community … shocked, no doubt, afraid, even more, angry, yes … are their lives ruined, nope. The police, no doubt, for the men searching for these girls, it must have been a very tyring (physically and emotionally) two weaks. The media is involved in it because it wanted to be involved in it. I’m not talking about a local newspaper in Soham, which is most likely written by a relative of these girls, but BBC, ITV etc….. than they surely should be able to go through this.”

News media get involved because it is their job but don’t think that some reporters don’t get emotionally involved in the stories they cover because some do, I’ve seen it happen.

“Not, forgotten, in fact, they will be brought up every year over and over again. The case won’t be forgotten, the trial has to come and etc, but the horror these girls have gone through, this is what will be forgotten!”

I think the horror of such events is the one thing that will not be forgotten.

“I mean emotionally involved.”

Have you been around dead children? How much more involved emotionally can you be? The pathologist who carried out the post mortems will have been emotionally involved. You can only divorce yourself from the physical aspects of such a job for so long. Yes, it’s a matter of searching for clues as to how they died, a real mental exercise, but when the job is done you can’t tell me that people aren’t emotionally affected. Same for all the others I listed.

“Never said that, said I’ve lived some of my childhood in the
AFTERMATH of the Dutroux-case.”

That is your response to my telling you how I don’t see how you can truly imagine the horror the victims and their families went through. So can I take you back to post 19 and my comment…

‘We don’t know how long the girls were held before they were killed, or how they died, or the agonies and the terror they went through before their deaths.’

And your reply..

“True, and I can imagine what it must have been like for the victims and the relatives…”

No, you cannot and I hope you are never put in a position where you can.

“Now I have to be harsh again, but do you think CNN would report this case if a war in Iraq would have been going on? The press consists of humans, that doesn’t mean they are ‘humane’.”

Don’t care what CNN do or do not report. The press write about human suffering and the deaths of Holly and Jessica are certainly about suffering and certainly not ‘humane.’

“Law-books are not based on morality, but on facts and punishments.
The public may have already ‘killed’ him, like with Dutroux.”

I defy you to explain and convince me that the murderer has any rights left after what he has done, and what appear to be his cynical attempts to avoid blame and proper punishment. What do you want to do? ‘Rehabilitate’ him and put him in charge of schoolgirls just to show how justice can be done and the ‘real’ victim rehabilitated?

“As I said, now is too early. Wait 2 more months. Than we’ll discuss again.”

I look forward to it, but I fear you won’t change my opinion, nor I yours.

Regards,

kev35