Is the "I Never Meant To ..." Defense Good Enough?

October 8th, 2010   (83 views )

Two very different cases involving online cruelty are sparking debate about personal responsibility and what should be legal on the internet. A detailed list of a Duke alumna's sexual encounters has gone viral.

The 42-slide PowerPoint that has drawn widespread attention was meant to be shared between friends. In it, Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, vividly describes the sexual performance of 13 current and former Duke students, all of them varsity athletes and many of them lacrosse players.

After Owen sent the PowerPoint to a few friends, it eventually made its way across listservs at Duke and then onto sites such as Jezebel, The Huffington Post and CNN. At one point Thursday night, “Karen Owen Powerpoint” was the second most-searched term in the United States on Google. “Duke Powerpoint” was 10th.

Then, there is the case out of Rutgers University in New Jersey. 18-year old student Tyler Clementi commited suicide after his roommate used a webcam to stream video online of Clementi's sexual experiences with a guy. Clementi's roomate and another student now face charges.

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Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
Phoebe Prince, Massachusetts, is another case who committed suicide.

Is the "I Never Meant To ..." Defense Good Enough? OR MAYBE THEY MEANT TO, TOO, IN A NURSING HOME?

First, it is absurd that anyone and what kind of sane nitwit describes their personal sexual performance--except whores advertising for money? But the public shouldn't be surprised because it is all over the television and the commercials--everywhere you go.

I HOPE THEY ARE VERY HAPPY--I HOPE Clementi's roomate and another student who face charges ARE VERY HAPPY.

(Tyler Clementi's roommate used a webcam to stream video online of Clementi's sexual experiences with a guy.)

AND IS THE "I NEVER MEANT TO..." DEFENSE, OR MAYBE THEY MEANT TO, TOO, IN A NURSING HOME?


Many people AND THEIR FAMILY are UNAWARE THAT THEY CAN STAY AT HOME WITH THEIR FAMILY, WHATEVER, under A LONG TERM HEALTH CARE PLAN WITH MEDICAID AND MEDICARE--that MOST PEOPLE HAVE--INSTEAD OF GOING INTO A NURSING HOME--which nursing care at home and aides of all types is available through application at the OFFICE OF THE AGING (WHERE PEOPLE APPLY FOR FOOD STAMPS). TELL YOUR RELATIVES. DOCTORS TEND TO PUSH THE ELDERLY INTO NURSING HOMES AND UNDER MEDICARE THEIR IS A MINIMUM--A MINIMUM--OF 21 DAYS(whether they need 3 days or 21 or more) WHICH THE DOCTOR WILL SAY IS FOR REHABILITATIVE PURPOSES, WHICH IS ENOUGH TIME TO BREAK THEIR SPIRIT AND SLOWLY KILL THE PATIENT INTO THINKING THERE IS NO HOPE!

Available is ASSISTANTS OF ALL KINDS AND NURSES, WHATEVER THEY CAN OBTAIN IN A HOSPITAL AND/OR NURSING HOME, THEY CAN RECEIVE AT HOME covered by Medicare and Medicaid IF THEY JUST APPLY FOR IT AT THE OFFICE OF THE AGING.

A NURSING HOME--FOR OTHER THAN THE WEALTHY who will pay an easy $10,000 a month--IS A MODERN DEATH CAMP AND A FORM OF EUTHANASIA, to warehouse the poor WHERE THE FACILITY IS SHORT STAFFED AND OVER-MEDICATE (FOR CONTROL AND FOR MONEY), WHICH OVER MEDICATION CAUSES THE PEOPLE TO LOOSE THEIR APPETITE FOR FOOD AND FOR WATER, THUS LOSING WEIGHT RAPIDLY AND DIE IN NO TIME, AND MEDICATION IS OVER PRESCRIBED ESPECIALLY IF NO ONE COMES TO SEE THE NURSING HOME PATIENT TO PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISSERY OF DEPRESSION AND LONLINESS AND ABANDONMENT BY THE FAMILY.

p.S. From Northern Dutchess Hospital, the doctor sent my Mother to Ferncliff--FOR SO-CALLED REHABILITATION. I talked to the Office of the Aging, got the applications, whatever, and presented this long term information under Medicaid and Medicare available to my Mother to FERNCLIFF NURSING HOME and to my younger sister, her medical proxy, who KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT NURSING HOME ABUSE. I told my Mother that I would take care of her home. I told the doctor that Ferncliff is a death camp--especially for the poor. I am the oldest daughter and could do NOTHING. My Mother told me that she wanted to go home a couple of weeks before being shipped to Ferncliff Nursing Home, which is run, owned by the Archdiose of New York--and priests don't take a vow of poverty today and know how good those priests live from everything from second homes to sex. Locally, the plate was literally passed around for expenses so that a priest could go home to visit his family in a foreign country.


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Comment from: Gail [Visitor] Email
p.S. IS THE "I NEVER MEANT TO ..." DEFENSE GOOD ENOUGH WITH THE OVER MEDICATION AND UNDERSTAFFED SITUATIONS AT A NURSING HOME?
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Comment from: Mike Q [Visitor] Email
Gail saved this forlorn question from an anonymous death. Now I'll help it along, too:

My wife and I watched someone advertised as a comedian perform before an audience of Texans who knew this comic and his attitudes and politics. He said at the outset that he was not at all "politically correct." The audience cheered wildly. It sounded curiously like dog barks. This was not the cheering of something inspiring, life-affirming, sink-or-swim-together. No, this was pique at society for having the nerve to expect people to not act like pigs. It doesn't matter what they think in the privacy of their minds; that's between them and their God, just so long as they behave decently. Because bad behavior does matter. It matters to the victims. It matters to witnesses to this behavior. It matters to children modeling their behavior on what they see. And this audience was resentful about being expected to behave properly. As long as they can keep reinforcing each other about their bad behavior by saying that "political correctness" is bad, they will never change. They can always excuse themselves for what harm they do by saying everybody else does it too, and besides they didn't mean to hurt anyone.

That's a child's argument, and we're supposed to be adults.
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