Clayboy (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} clayboy) wrote,@ 2007-08-01 18:30:00 |
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Tag, you're it
The summer is here, and there is no news to report. When there is nothing to report, the media has to come up with something, and a pedophile scare is just the perfect thing. This summer, Jack McClennan is "it". Until June, he had a text-only website where he rated local happenings based on how well he liked the girls there. Creepy, yes. He went on to talk to the media on every occasion he could. Attention whore, yes. Is he attracted to minors? Definitely, yes. It has been over a month since his website disappeared from the net. He seems to have been disowned by his relatives, he fled town, and has been living from hand to mouth in his car in Los Angeles since. And then, after he's apparently completely neutralized, the summer dries up the newsfeeds and the U.S. national media explodes with Jack coverage. Now people are hysterically holding on to their children lest scary Jack appears from thin air and naps them. For 45 years, he has never sexually offended a minor. But now, thanks to the media frenzy, to quote a GirlChat poster, "the prevailing opinion is that he's on the verge of kidnapping or raping a child." The media is in a very real way inciting mob rule, and the police are helping by publishing identifying details on an innocent man while claiming he is a danger they are helpless to deal with.
Newsweek scratches their heads in asking themselves if there could be such a thing as a man who finds minors attractive AND is law-abiding at the same time. I know, absurd, right? This piece in the Post Chronicle notes that "the problem is that McClellan has never been convicted of a sex offense, seemingly leaving police without authority to do anything". I know, right? Like, if only he would rape a child, it would be so simpler, and we wouldn't have to feel like our heads were about to asplode!
"We’ve monitored his website, and at the moment we’re determined that it does not cross into that area where it’s criminal in nature," says a police officer. That's a given, because "at the moment" his website does no longer exists, and hasn't for over a month! None of the coverage notes that his website is far gone, and many claim that he still posts pictures to this non-existing website, a practice which he ceased much earlier.
This spin is giving me serious vertigo. Jack is a creep who is not helping any cause, but the bigger tools are the sheeple who swallow whatever crap is spoon-fed them by the fascist self-serving news conglomerations.
The summer is here, and there is no news to report. When there is nothing to report, the media has to come up with something, and a pedophile scare is just the perfect thing. This summer, Jack McClennan is "it". Until June, he had a text-only website where he rated local happenings based on how well he liked the girls there. Creepy, yes. He went on to talk to the media on every occasion he could. Attention whore, yes. Is he attracted to minors? Definitely, yes. It has been over a month since his website disappeared from the net. He seems to have been disowned by his relatives, he fled town, and has been living from hand to mouth in his car in Los Angeles since. And then, after he's apparently completely neutralized, the summer dries up the newsfeeds and the U.S. national media explodes with Jack coverage. Now people are hysterically holding on to their children lest scary Jack appears from thin air and naps them. For 45 years, he has never sexually offended a minor. But now, thanks to the media frenzy, to quote a GirlChat poster, "the prevailing opinion is that he's on the verge of kidnapping or raping a child." The media is in a very real way inciting mob rule, and the police are helping by publishing identifying details on an innocent man while claiming he is a danger they are helpless to deal with.
Newsweek scratches their heads in asking themselves if there could be such a thing as a man who finds minors attractive AND is law-abiding at the same time. I know, absurd, right? This piece in the Post Chronicle notes that "the problem is that McClellan has never been convicted of a sex offense, seemingly leaving police without authority to do anything". I know, right? Like, if only he would rape a child, it would be so simpler, and we wouldn't have to feel like our heads were about to asplode!
"We’ve monitored his website, and at the moment we’re determined that it does not cross into that area where it’s criminal in nature," says a police officer. That's a given, because "at the moment" his website does no longer exists, and hasn't for over a month! None of the coverage notes that his website is far gone, and many claim that he still posts pictures to this non-existing website, a practice which he ceased much earlier.
This spin is giving me serious vertigo. Jack is a creep who is not helping any cause, but the bigger tools are the sheeple who swallow whatever crap is spoon-fed them by the fascist self-serving news conglomerations.
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