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Topic History of: Ched Evans ramifications
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In The Know (as always) |
Was the question too hard, hedda ?
I'll let the BBC have the last word on this distasteful subject -
How much damage has Evans saga done?
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In The Know |
hedda wrote:
while we can try & feel sympathy for any victim of a crime or terrible event, the whole concept of British Law is that it takes over that responsibility for very good reasons.
Evans was given a 5 year sentence for his crime, not a lifetime of discrimination.
You are out of step with the public mood, hedda.
I thought that you (being a journalist - allegedly !) would have seen right through the "we've had death threats" story.
Football cannot exist without its sponsors ... and no sponsor (as we have seen) wants his brand tarnished by association with a rapist.
The "mob" are those - like SP17, who is totally against Evans one minute -
www.kingofhits.co.uk/index.php?option=co...;limitstart=0#126243 - and then, seeing that his "gang" are going the other way, joins the vigilantes !
Supporting a convicted rapist is out-of-step with the majority, and has done the game immense harm (but what else would you expect from football supporters?) There IS a mob, hedda - and YOU are in it !
BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan followed the story as it developed and says: "No potential signing I can remember in recent times has done more damage to the reputations of the national game or stirred such emotions
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JK2006 |
Very good post Hedda. ITK - like many, you seem incapable of understanding that we have sympathy for ALL the victims in the Ched Evans case, including the woman, whether or not she was raped. She has suffered and has our sympathy. I keep saying - why cannot seemingly intelligent people understand that feeling for one side does NOT preclude feeling for the other? Even murderers deserve sympathy, without excluding that for their poor victims or, indeed, for their poor families and friends.
Although we don't go along with the ghastly, superficial, fake regret expressed by politicians and others whenever there's a tragedy - "Our thoughts and prayers go out to..." No they don't. Like in the Ched Evans case, they simply feel that's what they OUGHT to say. Because that's what media and stupid people expect them to say. |
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In The Know (as always) |
I'll let the BBC have the last word on this distasteful subject -
How much damage has Evans saga done?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30748104 |
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hedda |
interesting that ITK has bought into the 'victim mentality'.
while we can try & feel sympathy for any victim of a crime or terrible event, the whole concept of British Law is that it takes over that responsibility for very good reasons.
Evans was given a 5 year sentence for his crime, not a lifetime of discrimination.
Many murderers have gone on to have careers..their chosen careers not one that The Mob deems they should have.
The News of The World as an example employed a writer who drowned his wife in the bath. I applaud that except NoTW never gave other ex-prisoners such latitude.
As a believer in re-Incarnation I know Geoffrey Dickens somehow was re-born but his brain did a spectacular leap into ITK's head as he stacked tins of soup in Ye Olde Toree Corner Shoppe.
Moreover it felt so settled there that it sent out a message and dear old Mary Whitehose's puzzlingly brain joined Geoffrey's and voila : ITK !!  |
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