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August 19, 2006
Fetch The Comfy Chair... Now... CONFESS!
Okay, does anybody really believe that that freak arrested in Thailand really kllled JonBenet Ramsey?
I mean, don't get me wrong; he deserves the death penalty just for having an unnatural obsession with this case and with little girls in general (he married a 13 year old once, had it annulled, then married a 16 year old... god, what is wrong with Alabama that they even make this legal in the first place?) But if he killed JonBenet, then I killed the Lindbergh baby. (That was 1932. I was born in 1968. Just had to be clear that I was using exaggeration for rhetorical effect and not really confessing.)
But there's something that's inescapable about the Ramsey case, whether this joker is ever convicted of the crime or not. Let's just say for the sake of argument that the Boulder cops got their man, and this guy really did commit the murder.
That may make the Ramseys not guilty, but it sure doesn't make them innocent.
You can't be entirely innocent of a crime -- some crime, if not the crime -- if you take perverse pleasure in dressing up your five year old daughter and parading her around like a circus freak made up to look like a runaway French call girl more than a decade older than she really is. There is something very wrong with parents who dress their little six year old up like a Vegas showgirl, or whose lives and need to compete are so pathetic that they have to pressurize their children in the sick world that is child beauty pageants. Based on how they treated that poor little girl and the other outfits they put her in, it's not a stretch to me to think that the Ramseys would have thought it "cute" to send a seven year old JonBenet out for Halloween in satin hot pants, layers of makeup, and having her go trick-or-treating as a streetwalking hooker.
Maybe they were involved in her murder. Maybe they weren't. Maybe they're implicated and maybe they're absolved of active participation in this crime. We may never know. But the Ramseys weren't innocent. Not with the way they handled that little girl. And no confession from a sick pervert -- whether true or bogus -- changes that.
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With every day that passes, I'm thinking there is more fishiness to this guy's "confession" than solidness.
Like everybody else, I thought the Ramsey family dysfunctional in their willingness to whore their baby out in the name of pageantry, but I never wanted to believe them capable of the ultimate crime against that same child. I had high hopes when this news came out for their public absolution, finally. It may never come, and even if it does, it's too late for some. But, by all that is decent in this world, it would restore some faith for me in humanity generally if proof of their innocence were to appear someday.
Posted by: Jennifer at August 19, 2006 09:29 PM
