In December 1975, Detroit police officer Paul Harrington used his service pistol to shoot his first wife, Becky, and their two young daughters, Pamela and Cassandra, to death.
Harrington, a Vietnam veteran by, pled not guilty by reason of insanity, blaming his PTSD for the crime. He claimed that he had accidentally executed a Vietnamese family during the war, and that the murders of his wife and daughters were the result of reliving that experience.
Harrington received overwhelming support, both in the news and in the community at large, and was successfully acquitted and sent to a psychiatric hospital— for two months. There were no protests when he was released, and he successfully integrated back into the community.
In October of 1999, Harrington was remarried with two young sons. After sending the oldest off to school one morning, he shot both his second wife, Wanda, and their youngest son, three year old Brian, in the head at point-blank range, then called 911, waiting calmly on his front porch for police to arrive. Harrington told the 911 operator that he’d spared his oldest son because the teenager was “too big…I didn’t want to wrestle him.”
Once again, Harrington pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, blaming his “demons” for driving him to kill. This time, however, the jury rejected his defense, and a judge sentenced him to life without parole in November of 2000.
At no point in this entire saga did anyone point to Harrington’s supporters and claim that because of them, men should lose the right to vote. No one made that argument about Chris Watts’ supporters either, even as they blamed his wife Shannan for her own murder, and the murder of their two young daughters. Nor does anyone make that argument about Andrew Tate fans, even though Tate is an accused rapist and human trafficker.
Weird.
@Grommlite@PeonyPrincess27@CapeBHighlander@sappholives83 How could they not know what he was arrested for, they’re his fans? Some LC supporters also sincerely believe she was set up — does that somehow justify them in your eyes? Or is it only about deluded men? Do the fans of “Saint Elliot” also not know what he did?
@CapeBHighlander@sappholives83 I’ve come across a lot of comments from women who consider her a spawn of hell. And I’ve come across a lot of comments from men who believe that because of Lindsay’s actions, all women should be deprived of the right to vote and be subjected to violence.
But PLEASE tell me more about how “men don’t defend men who kill their children.” There are comments like this on every post about male family annihilators.
And don’t come at me about the GoFundMe, because men have donated $$$$ to a rapist child murderer’s campaign.
In December 1975, Detroit police officer Paul Harrington used his service pistol to shoot his first wife, Becky, and their two young daughters, Pamela and Cassandra, to death.
Harrington, a Vietnam veteran by, pled not guilty by reason of insanity, blaming his PTSD for the crime. He claimed that he had accidentally executed a Vietnamese family during the war, and that the murders of his wife and daughters were the result of reliving that experience.
Harrington received overwhelming support, both in the news and in the community at large, and was successfully acquitted and sent to a psychiatric hospital— for two months. There were no protests when he was released, and he successfully integrated back into the community.
In October of 1999, Harrington was remarried with two young sons. After sending the oldest off to school one morning, he shot both his second wife, Wanda, and their youngest son, three year old Brian, in the head at point-blank range, then called 911, waiting calmly on his front porch for police to arrive. Harrington told the 911 operator that he’d spared his oldest son because the teenager was “too big…I didn’t want to wrestle him.”
Once again, Harrington pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, blaming his “demons” for driving him to kill. This time, however, the jury rejected his defense, and a judge sentenced him to life without parole in November of 2000.
At no point in this entire saga did anyone point to Harrington’s supporters and claim that because of them, men should lose the right to vote. No one made that argument about Chris Watts’ supporters either, even as they blamed his wife Shannan for her own murder, and the murder of their two young daughters. Nor does anyone make that argument about Andrew Tate fans, even though Tate is an accused rapist and human trafficker.
Weird.
Yeah, that’s not what I saw. Was some of it inappropriate? Sure — but using the behavior of a few dozen emotionally unstable women as an excuse to come for all of our rights? How is that even remotely acceptable? Men do worse than that every day of the week, AND they support rapists and wife beaters and adult men who creep on teenage girls, and no one ever comes for their rights. If you ask me, one big sign that you might not deserve the right to vote is the desire to take other people’s rights away because you disagree with them about something. Gee, wonder which sex does that.
@Ape868293034793@United_Africana@ma1ybe some of the statements the killer's friends and associates gave police
"They stated that Baxter loved his wife and children, he was a great father and that his actions were somehow excused or explained by the fact he was losing everything," https://t.co/BasFKClIbg
You didn’t see a “mob” of women outside of the courtroom. Language and truth are both important, so let’s be accurate here. You saw a few dozen people — most, but not all, of whom were women — who showed up to support her.
Now let’s talk about why.
In most cases, women feel for Lindsey Clancy because they have personal experience with severe postpartum depression or even post partum psychosis. If you had even a shred of empathy for women, you’d realize why — because they see a case of “there but for the grace of God.”
These are women who — regardless of your position on Lindsey Clancy — have endured immense mental anguish, and who were in many cases terrified that they would hurt their own children. They look at Lindsey and they see what might have been, and they think about how horrible they would feel in her shoes. About how awful it would be to have lost that fight instead of having won. These aren’t women who want to murder their babies, they’re women who were terrified that they might. They see Lindsey and they see a woman for whom their own worst nightmare has come true. You’d have to be inhuman not to feel for someone who has to live your own worst nightmare.
But that’s complicated and messy and true, and it doesn’t let you paint women as murderous whores who deserve neither rights nor respect.