Re: SHOCK: McCain Volunteer attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh... 'B' carved into f
I come from a place that people from different parties will slice each other with machettes. It does not surprise me if things worse than these might happen as we get closer to this much contested electoral campaign. Just remember the candidates can't be held responsible for the criminal acts of people that likes them.
Well, don, if you look at the picture of this girl's face - which, if I'm looking at this timeline right, was taken less than 24 hrs. after the attack - this looks like a LONG way off from a machete attack. I guess it's possible that is a "carving" done by an angry man with a knife, but it almost looks like it could've been done with a sharpened fingernail. Probably painful, but unlikely to even leave a scar, really...
http://rightvoices.com/2008/10/23/shock-mccain-volunteer-attacked-and-mutilated-in-pittsburgh/
Wow, the level of compassion is breathtaking.
Being skeptical of the story - the political nugget of which (the anti-McCain rage of the robber) seems to have come from a police spokeswoman, presumably citing the police report - and having compassion for someone who lost $60, got a black eye, and a scratched face are not mutually exclusive things. I do feel sorry that this girl got robbed and was assaulted. That's always a bad, very traumatic thing to have happen. I DON'T KNOW if the entire tale as written is true. There are certainly aspects of it that seem implausible at face value, and I think the possibility of overzealous political campaigners enhancing a story of an ATM robbery for political purposes is certainly a real one, regardless of political orientation. If one feels that their country will be destroyed (perhaps in a terrorist attack?) if their candidate's opponent should win, well, it's understandable that people might get desperate and start adding some juicy details to an average ATM robbery. So, just to be clear, I have, I feel compassion for this young woman whether her story is wholly true or partially or wholly false. For obvious reasons if it's true and if it's false, because someone would be so pathetically desperate that they'd sink to scratching their own face or telling a phony tale to a cop to get brownie points with their campaign or to smear one's opponent's fans as violent street thieves (for those who think in such black & white, simplistic ways)....
But look at these posts from the victim's blog. Now, looking at this, I'm thinking that, either the clock on her blog is off by about a day, or she is not only making a very rapid physical recovery, but also a super-fast mental, psychological recovery, too. Remember, she was just recently attacked, and according to the newspaper article, "maimed" - one of the words the many right-wing blogs stroking this story are really enjoying repeating - although I think the "rightvoices" blog can take credit for using the word "carved" to describe the knife injuries to her face:
"Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers- I'm phonebanking so let's all work together and get John McCain elected #litf08
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:55:41 +0000
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atodd: Oh the blog I will be making soon... Its been a rough night #litf08
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:52:58 +0000
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atodd: Pretty sure I'm on the wrong side of pittsburgh
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:45:59 +0000
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atodd: Stubbornly searching for a bank of america to avoid ATM fees.
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:23:21 +0000 "
HUH???????
(her blog is here, btw:
http://lifeinthefield.com/users/ashley-todd )
And also, since the story from the newspaper site uses the word maim, and you can see the picture of her, let's recall the definition for that word, more typical to war crimes and serial killers - from various dictionaries:
" 1. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at batter1.
2. To make imperfect or defective; impair.
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verb
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"
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: to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously —compare MAYHEM
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1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. --Blackstone.
2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. --Spenser.
You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. --Shak.
Syn: To mutilate; mangle; cripple."
Ok, see ya!
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