Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Wow. The summer is over and the last time I updated this thing was in June? so sad. Ah, summer turns to fall....

SO why post today? Well... watching HLN (I cant help myself... I am addicted to the channel) ... I stumbled across a story of Nikki Catsouras. Basically, she had a horrific wreck a few years back on Halloween day and 2 CHP officers took pics on the scene and sent them to friends and family. So the family is fighting to have the pics removed from the web. so HLN asks the question "Where do you stand?" ... and I find myself in the morbid minority.....

1. Granted, the pics are bad... head split open.... blood.. brain matter... twisted car.... a real horror story, but why are these pics any different from the countless other pics on the web that are similar? Are those families any less hurt by the pics of their loved ones being broadcast online?

2. Once something is in the public domain it is owned by everyone.... defining actual ownership is ambiguous at best.... and removing the pics would boil down to a matter or censorship. Censorship in even its most basic forms is a slow poison that creeps into society like cyanide in the drinking water. You take these away.... ban them from the web (which is impossible.... use laser beams to remove them from our memory???) and then what's next? So we remove celebrity autopsy photos and then videos of people busting their asses in the streets and eventually we are back to burning books and having the government tell us what we can and cannot see and/or read. I'm not drinking the KoolAid.

3. John and Ponch would be ashamed of these CHP officers. They were truly unprofessional. I mean come on man... WTF were you thinking? They should be reprimanded/fired/etc... but the damage is done. You can't diffuse a bomb after it's gone off.

4. The people who are attacking and harrassing the family need to get a life.... grow up.... meet the legal system... whatever.... I mean... come on, this is ridiculous!

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