Postby WildcatOne » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:03 pm
Thanks for posting the link, Gator and Jean...this is a volatile issue that has some very clearly defined parameters, and many of us have stood at opposite ends of this ordeal, all carefully read and understood but each person has their own feelings about what happened. Here's mine, with respect to all and thanks for being open and honest.
My first knee-jerk reaction was to track down the people who did this, take the law into my own hands and punish them by bruising and scarring them everywhere but on the soles of their feet. All who participated in that massacre were responsible and accountable. The driver, his crew, the promoter, the people who put the event on, and the sponsors whose names are festooned across the side of the car that killed all those innocent people. That's not just my opinion, it is my instinct. The circumstances speak for themselves. There was no excuse for doing what they did. They never should have done that; at the very least they were tempting fate to begin with. No one with half an ounce of common sense would have staged a 3,000 horsepower burnout on a city street with a huge crowd standing there with no guardwalls. I am not a "sad accident" person on this. I believe it was avoidable with the slightest hint of sensible judgement. It was a money gig. So they did it.
I haven't heard if there were any indictments issued, but now that these cowards have disclaimed any responsibility either by ownership or participation, and the driver is not owning up to his committal of this act by protecting himself financially from the victims, I take it all as a complete denial. Roll over, Johnnie Cochran. You're missing one hell of a slime-fest. It's one thing to do what they did, but it goes one giant leap further to disavow any responsibility for having done it...and it looks like they might even get away with it. In a criminal court, this would probably be brought in as second-degree manslaughter at the very least, first-degree due to the planning of it at the most. Murder, in legal terms, takes on different degrees and levels as well as definitions since lawyers and insurance companies took over our country a while back. So the good news is that this isn't a capital punishment situation. But stepping outside of the rigid confines of legal entrapment and escape that this has turned into...a game...what about the morality of what is happening that the people responsible for this horrible ("crime"?) are doing now? They'll weasel out of it; they're already trying. It goes beyond anger with me, folks. It turns into a sickening feeling of helplessness while I watch these reptiles make their moves to get out from under the burden of their own actions and not accept the consequences. It literally makes me sick.
What goes around, comes around. And it comes back in spades, for better or for worse. There is no avoiding it or putting it off. It happens to everyone for everything they do, good and bad, and it always happens on time and in full. Mark my words, if these people dissuade justice being served on them for what they've done, justice will eventually find them and be given to them in measures they never dreamed it could, and they will be powerless to stop it. I guess that pretty much makes my 2 cents' worth.
Again, we're a family here, I respect and appreciate every single one of us and I have read and felt great empathy for all who posted here. This is my own take on the deal, and although I hope I am not burned at the stake for it, at least it's great to have a place to express my words.
God Bless the families who were so terribly hurt by this, and I will also pray for the people who are responsible for it. They will need it most of all. WC1
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