> Are there words enough for the vileness of what went on in Glen Ridge?
> And that it goes on so many other places, so many other times? Like
> most, I read the news stories about the 'baseball bat and the retarded
> girl' so many years ago, but this Salon piece from last August about
> the book Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the
> Perfect Suburb makes it clear that this was a pattern, of years, of
> dozens of boys, of an entire community. And to see that community
> rally around these sons-of-bitches. And to think only a fat nigger --
> an outsider barely tolerated because he was strong (or, you might
> imagine, smart) -- was what it took to tell the truth, so sticky is
> the web of community and relative morals.
>
> The Rape of Nanking was only a matter of scale, I suppose. But the
> mind is so willing to ignore evil; it's too difficult to live in the
> same world with it. I found myself making the same excuses as I heard
> their story, and even as I read along below. One by one, the excuses
> fell away, until I read the excerpt about the party (unrelated to the
> rape) that just made me scream that there is nothing left to redeem
> this. And nothing -- no punishment, no **outrage** from the system.
>
> Sick -- not just the act, but the system.
>
> Rohit
Suburban life ain't what it seems
Suburban life the American dream
Suburban life so pretty and great
Suburban life ain't what it seems
Suburban Life by the Kotton Mouth Kings.
Tim
--You must always change the way it is, to have it the way you want.
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