A US Marine murdered a transgendered prostitute in The Philippines, and was found guilty and given 12 years in jail.
But what's heartbreaking for me is the number of people defending and even applauding this 'man's' actions. What they say you'd only think that a 2 dimensional Saturday morning cartoon villain would say.
https://www.facebook.com/time/posts/10153336880011491?commen...
Half of them are also women which makes it even tougher, as you'd think that women would be more empathic...but no, many are not. I've seen the poor dead girl attacked, called a 'he-she', an 'it' misgendered, insulted, said that she deserved it, that she was 'pretending' so on and so forth.
This is heartbreaking for me to watch, and makes me so disgusted at the number of people who are so eager to attack and demonize this poor woman and lionize her killer. Why? Because she was trans, that's it.
Because she was trans, she deserved to die.
That's...it's awful. I wish there was more we could do about this.
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If you kill someone other than by accident it's murder.
Murder should have serious consequences whether the victim is transgender or not, you can't just go round killing people.
Judging by some of the comments, we still have a long way to go to get people to understand us.
Angharad
Intent
Each country's laws are different. France has or had 'crimes of passion' and I think in America it is necessary to prove intent to kill while the man said she was still alive when he left her. It might be that because of that 'intent' was in doubt.
Never, never read the comments on online articles. The news itself is already slanted so the last thing I want to do after reading it is satisfy some troll's desire for attention
Rhona McCloud
There are at least 53
There are at least 53 different sets of laws on the books in the United States that would deal with murder, with each having a different minimum obligation for what is murder. The original article tells a different tale, the fact that she is transgendered is beside the point the real issue there is a fight over military activities in the country and fear that they won't face justice.
If he was forced to face justice by a US court his butt would be in a sling because there's enough evidence to send him to prison for at least 25 years. The locals want justice but in this case local justice isn't happening.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
humans are after all only human
There will always be those who hate, fear others who aren't the same color, same race, same mind set, same...,
I've met some of those who think the blurring of the boundaries between male and female is justification for murder. Then there are those who wouldn't quite go as far as murder themselves but they condone it under the right circumstances.
We will never live in a perfect world in the here and now. Those who do NOT fit another person's ideas of dress code, gender code, skin color code, mind collective code need to be wary of the code police. Those who wish bodily harm to those who don't measure up to their codes. But alas, life doesn't come with a complete set of rule books on who to trust and who to avoid.
As sure as sunflowers herald the summer months, there will be killers and those who die for being different. We rail against the killers and those who silently and otherwise support them. Don't let their demons pull us in as we learn to hate the haters. An insidious poison of the mind, hate. It destroys the one carrying it rather than the one it is directed at.
Reach out to the ones who need help, guidance, if only to say, "I care." Sometimes it is all they need. Knowing someone cares and loves them for who they are. You may be the only person who ever told them they are loved.
Life is meant to be lived not worn until it is worn out
always,
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Licorice, if you read the
Licorice, pleae don't take this as a swipe at you but I need to point out something important
The source article leaves the transgender issue as a fact and it playing into the murder but it wasn't the entire story. The bulk of the story is that he was tried by the Philipines in their court system so they were the ones that screwed up there. Had he been tried in the US court system, both federal and military, he more than likely would have gotten at least 15-25 years to life in prison and may have even been facing the death penalty. He was caught up in a dispute over who should try military criminals in that country. They forced him to be tried locally instead of by a US court.
The locals are to blame for her not getting enough justice. Her death was just a way of getting one way over another!
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Philippine jails are very rough....
Their security of prisoners is not very good. So it's a very good chance that the former Marine won't make six weeks in jail before they are hauling him out in a body bag.
I'm sure that will make the Internet trolls on the Facebook page very very happy, another white gringo American dead. A victory for their side. One less piece of trash in the world.
What trolls?
These who demonized the girl or their counterparts?
Trolls...
I was referring to the ones that want the Marine dead, that want all the military bases closed. The ones that want Westerners gone from the islands.
But trolls are trolls. They stir stuff up just because they can.