FL-SEP-11-2004-Decomposed-body-found-in-car-Thursday

[AmyStrange]

http://vh10066.v1.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040911/NEWS01/409110417/1001

[saracat]

1. Why is this posted here?

[AmyStrange]

2. Why not here?

[saracat]

3. Or anywhere?

What is the point? Of the post?

[AmyStrange]

4. What is the point of ANY post...

but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

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[saracat]

5. Good point.

It just seemed odd and somewhat salacious .The world seems on the point of implosion and the fate of a single person might seem inconsequential to some.the article seemed to dwell to much on the objectification of the body.I am trying to phrase it politely.But gruesome sells and compassion doesn't.Thanks for the clarification!