This post is about Tracy Latimer's Murderer

[trouble]

*epic-length incoherent screaming*

OH YAY! Gentle reader, I'm here to inform you that once again Tracy Latimer's murderer is in the news, which means we can deal with another week or two or months or years of people wibbling on about how Tracy Latimer's murderer is such a sweet innocent man who only murdered his disabled daughter because Tracy wasn't really a person and deserved to be murdered, and how he's such a victim of the system, and woe is poor him, and how cripples really DO have no life and it's totally okay for people to murder disabled children, as long as they don't have a disability and murder their own non-disabled children. Those people are menaces and should be locked up forever!!!!!!!!!!!

This reminds me, once again, of who's considered to have worth in this society.

Look, to be a bit more reasonable, I do think it's reasonable that Tracy Latimer's murderer be up for parole. We have rules about that in this country, and I'm not arguing about that. What I hate is every time Tracy Latimer's murderer is mentioned in the news, the same damned thing happens. Can we just ignore him until his prison term is up, and then keep him away from all children everywhere since he obviously thinks they're disposable? (Oh, wait, only the crippled children. That's okay then.)

Tracy Latimer. She laughed, she smiled, she had friends, she went to school. And he murdered her while the family was at church, in a way we've deemed is inhumane when applied to dogs. What an innocent woobie he is.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

I hear you.

[laughingrat]

Here through network. When looking up Ms. Latimer--I admit I hadn't heard of the case--I was irritated to find that good old Wikipedia doesn't have an article on her--just on her precious woobie dad. Tasteful! Or maybe there's some really awesome reason for that which I'm unaware of, but chances are not.

[meloukhia]

*incoherent noises*

I suppose it would be too much for the media to interview a single disability right activist. I don't even.

[onyxlynx]

What gets me is that those people believe that they are moral.

[staranise]

I recently had a little romantic interlude with an old flame end on a totally sour note as he mentioned his master's thesis on philosophy was about changing definitions of personhood. "This will mean gorillas are people!" he said.

"Yes, and it will mean Tracy Latimer wasn't a person."

"Oh... well. There are some cases that will have to be dealt with when they come up."

So much for how well that had been going.

[ginny_t]

Yeah.

[ironed_orchid]

Argh. There isn't enough rage for this one.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Nope, not allowed. We must get all weepy and hand-wringy and go on and on about how the system has somehow failed this bastard. Every damn time.