THAT'S IT - NOW I'VE SEEN EVERYTHING

[maderr]

OMFG, People need to get a FUCKING LIFE: (taken from here)

A lawyer in Portland, Ore., plans to argue that his client beat his 2-year-old son to death because his ancestors were abused as slaves hundreds of years ago, reports the Portland Oregonian.

Lawyer Randall Vogt said his client, Isaac Cortez Bynum, whipped and broke his son's neck and ribs because he suffers from post-traumatic slave syndrome.

The syndrome's main proponent, Portland academic Joy DeGruy-Leary, claims that because African Americans never got a chance to heal from slavery and still face racism, oppression and societal inequality, they suffer from multigenerational trauma.

WTF?!?!?!

Argh. I'd threaten to traumatize those idiots myself except that'd mean I'm racist. Argh!

*edit*

From the newspaper article itself:

Noting the theory has not been proven or ever offered in court, Washington County Circuit Judge Nancy W. Campbell recently threw out DeGruy-Leary's pretrial testimony.

But the judge said she would reconsider the defense for Bynum's September trial if his lawyer can show the slave theory is an accepted mental disorder with a valid scientific basis and specifically applies to this case.

She shouldn't be reconsideirng it at all. But maybe I'm biased.

Comments

[hayama-sb.livejournal.com]

I agree that this is stupid & idiotic. Shows just how far people will go to try & blame someone or something else for their own damn actions.

As for the Judge, I can see why she is doing the "reconsidering" thing, cause it looks like she's not a Federal Judge. Federal Judges are appointed for life. Most state judges are elected, so she's SAYING she might reconsider the defense probably for a political reason more so than she believing any of the bullshit. Actually the fact she threw it out to begin with shows she thinks BS.

Where's Penn & Teller when we need them?

[miikarin.livejournal.com]

Hmm... let's take some time to think about this...

...actually, let's not.

"WTF?!?!?!

Argh. I'd threaten to traumatize those idiots myself except that'd mean I'm racist. Argh!"

I think you summed it up quite nicely

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

Buckwheats.

[minni.livejournal.com]

Sure are entertaining to the masses when you've only got two options: Point and laugh, or scream and place arson into their drinking water.

On the other hand, this isPortland, Oregon. It's almost as bad as the whole state of Calafornia.

[nepenth.livejournal.com]

wow. what some people won't consider. i believe that's called denying personal responsibility. puhlease, some people. its things like this which make me wonder about the gene pool. at least the judge threw it out.

[mashoogina.livejournal.com]

How about we just say that the guy is a fucking psycho? That is ridiculous. This is what I missed about America... the judicial system. How does anyone ever come up with this shit? You fucking beat the shit out of your 2 year old (?!?!?!) and he died. That has nothing to do with slavery. My, my, my... that means that all this drug dealing, gang violence, etc. can be attributed to that. Not that I am citing the African-American community as the source of all of those things, but in areas where they are the predominant participants. Spare me!!!!

I appreciate the fact that race is a huge issue in this country, and that what has pushed these people to the breaking point is race-related, b/c that's how they got to the point in the first place, but I think stretching it to slavery as a cause is absurd. I want to know how that turns out in the Fall.