Posted on 11/29/2004 8:15:32 PM PST by paulat
Given my admittedly limited exposure to Seattle ... yes.
This is one SICK family, in denial and unable or unwilling to acknowledge the skeletons in their closet. One wonders whether prayer for the family--or Freeper/ProtestWarrior picketing the funeral--would be the higher road. Perhaps both. /sad
Sad. Very sad that he is seen as a good man, and his life was a struggle. I bet theirs were too, being killed and all.
He murders his children because he's a deadbeat who can't pay his child support and it's not even mentioned?
This has to be some kind of joke, right?
This is from the same state that jeered one of our servicemen in a parade about 2 months ago..............I can't shake my head enough to compensate for such moral depravity.
This obit is in incredibly poor taste. The paper does have the power to refuse to print paid items, including obits. I hope they receive a thousand angry emails about this.
Prayer of course.
Only Fred Phelps of godhatesfags.com pickets funerals.
"Entries are free and are posted after being reviewed for appropriate content. "
I would imagine that saying something like "Child killers like this should not be remembered fondly in death as this obit suggests but instantly forgotten, and all documents bearing their names and all of their life's works should be excised from this Earth. The Times and it's Leftist clone the P.I. both need to be burned to the ground for being the shameless and obvious mouthpieces of the Democrats while pretending to bring us objective news." would be regarded as "inappropriate content"
And I think the family PAYS for the obit.
More than anything in the world, I love the reporters of the Seattle Times. Where's my shotgun?
Under your bed.........and a case of slugs.
I appreciate your point about the tone of the obit under the circumstances..... but those obits are placed and paid for by the family, not written or edited by the paper.
If I lived closer..........I'd be inserting my clip into my semi-auto shotgun.
"More child custody fallout. The guy didn't want his wife to move, so he made sure she wouldn't take his daughters away from him."
There are other issues hinted at besides just the move away issue that probably contributed to this tragedy.
Look again at the line on the child support. He was probably faced with an excessive child support amount while he was unemployed.
Look also at the line indicating that they had attached his property to collect that money. While federal law prevents excessive garnishment, the current child support laws allow that to be bypassed by seizing the persons property directly. What did they leave him to live on?
They are so precious, pictures say a thousand words.
I agree. If I ever decide to kick, no matter what the circumstances, I will go alone. Why in the heck would I want to drag innocents along? What sordid, unspeakable people.
We can't deny, however, couldn't they have reprinted the facts with the obit? Or in the OpEd? Something, anything, but unchallenged?
They don't fact-check every obit to see if the deceased was as nice as the family always says. It's a paid obituary, not a new story.
What do you expect from the Seattle Times, or for that matter, any mainstream media newspaper?
"It's been enormously shocking," said Rita Hibbard, a close friend of Byrne's. "Steve was a wonderful person who loved his daughters."
I would beg to differ with her on two points:
1. He was a wonderful person.
To me, a wonderful person does not murder his children.
Thah she thinks he is a wonderful person says a lot about her character.
Why? Because we usually tend to admire and draw near to those who have our values and think as we do.
2. He loved his daughters.
Again we disagree. I have a hard time being convinced that one murders those one loves.
But that is just my $ 0.02 cents worth.
Now mom has nothing.
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