Shit Morons Say ... because they are fucktards.

"They are victims."

I was listening to local talk radio on the drive home from work. The topic, no surprise, was Rehtaeh Parsons and the lack of justice. A woman called in who started going on about the poor rapists. People have judged them guilty already. Then she said something that made me do a double take.

I said to Sarge; "Did she say what I think she just said? Did she just call the rapists victims?!?!?!?"

Sarge nodded his head and said; "What a fucking stupid bitch!"

The rapists names are NOT public. It has been TWO YEARS since they started ruining Rehtaeh's life. Nothing has been done to them. People want them to face justice and not get away with their crime. To this dumb cow they are victims. Fuck me!

Victims? IF their lives end up ruined they are NOT victims. They are the are the REASON it happened. Because they got a young girl drunk, RAPED HER. TOOK PICTURES OF IT! Distributed at least one of them. And they are the victims? If their was real justice they would be charged with murder and not just rape.

Victims. Fuck off!

Much like the people who tormented her. They should face criminal charges for their behaviour. I have said for a long time that the way to deal with bullying is to treat it as a criminal offence of some sort. It is time to take real measures to end this bullshit.

Society Owes Rehtaeh Parsons but ...

Society owes Rehtaeh Parsons but ... it is too late. :(

It is hard to write this. I have read several stories about Rehtaeh Parsons, and heard them on TV, about her suicide and subsequent death. Her father wrote a blog post that I had to read several times before I was able to finish it. It just breaks my heart to see what she went through. What her family went through. The last lines of his post have been resonating in my head since I read them.


"My daughter wasn’t bullied to death, she was disappointed to death. Disappointed in people she thought she could trust, her school, and the police.

She was my daughter, but she was your daughter too.

For the love of God do something."

As a society we all failed her.  :(

How in the hell can she have gone what she did and no one be charged? The fucking pieces of shit circulated  a picture they took of her when raping her and NOTHING was done. All the hell she was put through and nothing was done.

Monsters at her school tormented her. Sent her texts asking for sex or calling her a slut. Sharing the rape picture. And nothing was done.

And where the hell are the parents of the rapists and the monsters? These pieces of shit deliberately got a young girl drunk. Raped her. Took pictures. And circulated them. And got away with it. Monsters (I refuse to call them students or kids they are monsters) tormented her. And got away with it. You think these damaged pieces of garbage won't cause more trouble for others in the future? They already learned that they could get away with it.

For two years she endured the hell until she couldn't take it any more. The "Justice" System failed her. The school system failed her. Society failed her.

Unfortunately, if things stay true to form, people will get all worked up about this and demand action then forget about it. Most people tend to have a short attention span for things. They will be in an uproar. Then calm down. Then forget about it until the next heinous act happens. Then they will be surprised it happened. (There are a lot of similarities with Amanda Todd being driven to suicide in B.C.)

Hopefully I will be proven wrong and we, as a society, will do something.

Bullying

2 teens committed suicide in the past month and bullying is being blamed. Once again people are up arms over bullying and demanding something be done. Unfortunately, people have short attention spans and in a few weeks the outcry will be about something else. Bullying has been a problem for DECADES if not longer and nothing ever seems to be done about it.

They need to treat bullies like criminals. That is what will happen to them if they act the same way when they hit 17. If someone 17+ threatens you they can be charged with assault. If they physically touch you that is battery. If you can prove they have been harassing you that is a whole other criminal charge. One guy I knew in High School, who was a bully, ended up in trouble with the law within a year of graduating. He was acting the same way he did in High School, pushing a smaller guy around and punching him, but now he was an adult. The guy ended up calling the cops and the ex-bully was arrested, charged, convicted, and became a felon.

Why should someone in High School be treated any different? By letting them get away with their bullying in Elementary, Middle, and High School we are giving kids the wrong message. And I am not just talking about the victims. The bullies get the idea that they CAN act like that pretty much with impunity.

Then you have the way they are dealt with in school. I know when I was in school bullying was pretty much ignored. If you complained about it you just got a bigger target on you. A lot of the time you were simply told that it would "build character" if you were the victim. From talking with people about it the situation hasn't improved all that much since then.

I like a measure South Korea took. If you can prove the Public School knew about the bullying of your child they can be held responsible. The school and teachers. A High School a friend worked at was in the middle of being sued for ignoring bullying when I left.

We should hold the schools responsible for not reacting properly to bullying and hold the bullies criminal responsible if they are repeat offenders.