Ugh

[zenbabe]

oh hell yeah, he even set up a donation website.

As soon as it came out that he was having an affair with Amber, the parents of Lacy shut it down.

[Frieda]

that's pretty sick! a cold-blooded killer.. brrr..

[zenbabe]

look at some pictures of him, no expresion the entire trial...I swear to God that man has no soul. There isn't a thing going on behind his eyes....EVIL!!!!

[Spicy Jack]

i'm listening to KFI they are too damn funny.

[zenbabe]

You know, for a cold blooded killer, he is pretty hot.

I bet some psycho girl will marry him while he is in prison.

who wants to bet?

[Magpie]

America is always intrigued by the good looking, seemingly perfect young family gone bad... like soap operas; the characters always *look* good.

The real truth is that this type of domestic crime happens all the time, it just doesn't make the press like this case did. If Scott and Laci Peterson were an unattractive, their life less "perfect" looking on the outside, etc, etc,... do you think this case would have gained as much national attention as it has?

I doubt it.

[Coffee]

Believe it or not...today is the first I have heard of this case.
(I haven't had TV in about 2 years now).

One of the vendors near us is apparently Obsessed with this case and was yelling out updates all day long.

I asked sort of the same question as Smartypants did? WTF is so special about this murder when important news is going on...Like election messing about?

Reminds me of the OJ trial...especially that vendor.
heh, she even talked about the jury break as if SHE had a week break. "We have a 1 week break now" she anounced to the room.

[melissa]

People are so weird.

[zenbabe]

location, location, location....

[sparticle]

Originally posted by Smartypants
Just to throw this out there as someone who doesn't understand it...

What is the national obsession with this case, except as something the media turns on and off as a distraction from the fact that there is important news out there that they're doing a terrible job of reporting?

I couldn't agree with you more. It is a run of the mill domestic homicide that wouldn't get a full column in the local paper if both parties poor and black and unattractive. Equally heinous things happen every day in every major city and one never hears a word.

And I think Affleck would make the perfect Scott Peterson, because, as you know, there will have to be a movie.

And I'm with Zennie -- at least one pathetic psycho broad will have to try to marry him in prison and "stand by him", if dozens haven't already.

[sparticle]

In fact, there could be a movie with Aff-hack and J-Ho, Together Again One Last Time. And there could be, like, this accident when they film the murder scene, and whoops! no more J-Ho, and Affleck would go through this big longass trial and...and...

It would be just like real life! Only better because we get to get rid of J-Ho instead of some poor innocent lady who never did anything to anyone. And Affleck might get life and there would be no more mediocre Ben Affleck movies.

What's not to like?

[funkytuba]

Originally posted by sparticle
I couldn't agree with you more. It is a run of the mill domestic homicide that wouldn't get a full column in the local paper if both parties poor and black and unattractive. Equally heinous things happen every day in every major city and one never hears a word.

One big difference.
Poor parties of any race would be unable to afford the type of legal battle that gives the newsies something to cover live.
No trial would mean less coverage. I mean, those lawyers running the defense ought to be getting cuts from the network legal analysts.

[sparticle]

Originally posted by funkytuba
One big difference.
Poor parties of any race would be unable to afford the type of legal battle that gives the newsies something to cover live.
No trial would mean less coverage. I mean, those lawyers running the defense ought to be getting cuts from the network legal analysts.

Boy oh boy, you got that right.

[Smartypants]

Actually, there's another VERY big difference.

WAIT! First I just have to comment: Coffee, you live in the Bay Area and you were able to avoid ever HEARING about this!? I am AMAZED.

OK, now:

It's true that this was made a bigger deal than other domestic homicides (I think men murdering their wives is the most common form of murder in the US) due to the fact that this was a photogenic couple, but that's not the whole story. The other reason, and we will see where this leads to, is that this was a test case to see if someone could be convicted of a double murder for killing a pregnant woman. The guilty verdict for the murder of the fetus here opens the same door that choice advocates were concerned the so-called "late-birth" abortion ban would have opened had it passed.

Once an unborn fetus is declared a full-fledged person with the same rights of government protection as a breathing, post-natal human being, the anti-choice forces are going to start applying that yardstick to every fertilized cell, every fetal stem cell, every "victim" of morning-after pills, etc., etc.

Granted, Ms. Peterson's fetus was on the brink of birth at the time of the crime, but every little crack that the religious right can find to put a wedge in to widen with the goal of overturning Roe v. Wade, is a step towards a return to the Dark Days prior to 1973.

What's more, if THIS is the route that social conservatives takes to reverse Roe, then women who need to break the law to terminate their pregnancies, and their doctors, won't just be charged with a minor crime; the charge will be murder in first degree.

I understand that women were the most eager to throw Peterson's ass into San Quentin or the gas chamber, identifying with the wife and her victimization by an arrogant man, but all women should take a deep breath and ponder the consequences of today's verdict concerning the "murder" of her "baby" and whether, in fact, it was pursued with such high-profile rigor by men who pose a greater overall threat to American women.

-- And that again, is why such a big deal was made of using this "perfect" couple as an example. Roe's identity was kept a secret not just to protect her privacy, but because Norma McCovey, the real "Jane Roe," was poor and uneducated, opening her case to prejudicial treatment. You can be certain that the effort and cost would not have been expended here if Scott Peterson was a big fat white-trash slob who sat around in a wife-beater, and Laci worked at the local Dairy Queen and was missing her two front teeth. If that were so, chances are the jury wouldn't have seen her unborn child as human enough to convict.

Notice that the papers refer to the unborn child by the name it would have had had it been born. He has in no uncertain terms been made a "martyr for the cause."

[trisherina]

Interesting point. Honestly hadn't thought of it.