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AIBU?

re Facebook and the pictures of James Bulger's killers

347 replies

NessieMcFessie · 15/02/2013 16:11

A friend of mine on Facebook has posted the pictures of James Bulger's killers as they look 'today'. I have no idea where they have come from or if they are actually the two men involved (and I don't know if she knows any of this information).

AIBU to report these pictures? She has had loads of support under her post.

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gimmecakeandcandy · 15/02/2013 22:04

What a load of rubbish Gordy, please retreat back to your utterly pious corner.

gordyslovesheep · 15/02/2013 22:05

no

I am not pious - the people hounding possibly innocent men are twatish idiots though

Flisspaps · 15/02/2013 22:06

Grief porn isn't about feeling empathy. Empathy is normal.

It's about acting as if something that doesn't have anything to to with you does have something to do with you - seeking vengeance, sobbing, saying how awful it's made you feel.

gimmecakeandcandy · 15/02/2013 22:06

No twistedteach there was and is only ONE child to cry for. All this bleeding liberal bollocks turns my stomach. I bet if it was your child you wouldn't be saying there were three children to cry for.

Pigsmummy · 15/02/2013 22:06

Google it, you get the image within seconds. Report away on FB, it won't make a difference

AgentZigzag · 15/02/2013 22:07

The little lad had to go through all those details, repeating them and the consequences they had isn't grubby gordy.

AgentZigzag · 15/02/2013 22:09

And this does have something to do with everyone fliss, so not grief porn.

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:09

Yes I do Gordy, I was 13 at the time with no children, but the murder of James Bulger made me realise that when I had my own I will be very careful

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:11

Flies not grief porn the brutal murder of a little boy does affect people in general.

Mrcrumpswife · 15/02/2013 22:11

sorry to the more rational among us if I seem ranty - idiotic raging over a dramatic tragedy that has cock all to do with you is the kind of thing that fair boils my piss!

Oh how eloquently put

Idiotic raging over a dramatic tragedy or national outrage at a stupid social experiment by a Government that thought just maybe Love bombing 2 evil little murderers would sort them out so that they could be sneaked back into society after serving absolutely no time in prison.

I think we can safely say it didnt work since JV was arrested and found guilty of owning the most serious images of child porn 2 years ago. Does he deserve anonymity as an adult who committed another crime then the answer is easy NO... Why the fuck should he be protected, no one else is or is he special?

As for using their own abusive childhoods as mitigating factors, its only idiots who read too many psycho babble bullshit books that believe that bollocks. Most victims of childhood abuse spend their lives doing everything in their power to prevent anything bad happening to those around them.

Grief porn, what a disgusting phrase. How dare people care about a child horrifically murdered and tortured

What James Bulgers family have been put through by our very own Justice system is another crime on top of what happened to their little boy.

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:12

Fliss I meant farm auto correct

gordyslovesheep · 15/02/2013 22:12

what do YOU get out of repeating them - THAT is the issue - what purpose does it serve - why do it?

Fliss is spot on - be sad and feel empathy - we all do that

needing to be the MOST upset, the MOST outraged and the MOST effected - whilst repeating the nastier details is in utterly poor taste

Pigsmummy · 15/02/2013 22:12

Seriously just google it, it isn't because of Facebook that these pictures are out there. Facebook is a way to share not the origin of the photo.

There hasnt been a denial from anyone regards these photos.

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:13

Mrscrumple I so agree with you

gordyslovesheep · 15/02/2013 22:15

oh and now we have the old 'if you don't want 'justice' (IE violence and rage) you must really love the killers

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:16

Grady what's wrong with being upset and outraged about te brutal torture of a little boy. We are humans with feelings, not emotionless robts

Cortana · 15/02/2013 22:17

"I bet if it was your child you wouldn't be saying there were three children to cry for."

Perhaps not, what Mrs Fergus has said though is that she disagrees with this vigilante style action of naming those suspected of being one of his killers lest another innocent person should lose their life.

Given what she has said on the subject in the past I doubt she feels good about the whole facebook and twitter, everyone's heart bleeds for her obviously, but it's seem strange that those who proclaim to feel her pain the most ignore her wishes.

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:17

No it's not my tragedy but it's all over t Edina you can hardly miss it unless you live as a hermit

TwistedReach · 15/02/2013 22:17

Gimme these were children- seriously disturbed and hurt children. Perhaps you've never seen seriously violent and disturbed abused children? Children who can't even think.

pigletmania · 15/02/2013 22:18

Meant the media grrrr I'm going throw this flipping I pad in the bin

gordyslovesheep · 15/02/2013 22:20

as I said - no reasoning with irrational people - I don;t think you are even absorbing the opposing view point

I think it's one thing to feel sadness and horror and empathy

it's quiet another to latch on the a families rage and deeper feelings and try to own it

RabidCarrot · 15/02/2013 22:22

I think putting these photos up is dangerous, what if they are not of Venables, and Thompson?

Justice was not done for that poor little boy or his family, personally I think these two vermin should have been chucked down a dark hole and left to rot. But in today's society where every one harps on about rehabilitation and human rights these two were given a cosy cell and a new start in life.
They can get married, have Children and do all the things that little boy they killed for fun will never be able to do.
I feel for his family, it must be so hard to wake up with this every day, that someone took your baby and tortured and killed him, and those people are allowed back in to society and protected.
God forbid if someone had done that to my child I would not rest until I had ripped them limb from limb, then I would sit in my prison cell happily.
Vengeance in place of justice as there really is no punishment fit for what they did to that little boy, even animals do not behave in such a manner, and if a dog killed a child it would be put down, shame we could not do that to Venables and Thompson really

AgentZigzag · 15/02/2013 22:23

'needing to be the MOST upset, the MOST outraged and the MOST effected - whilst repeating the nastier details is in utterly poor taste'

It's not the competition you seem to see between people to be most outraged, people are outraged, still, 20 years on.

Good.

I'm glad they're still fucking horrified at what happened, and I'm glad they're still repeating it again and again, all those little heart wrenching details of what his little body had to go though.

He was one of the 'thousands' of children who die each week gordy, if you're suggesting people get off on what he lived through, you can only be looking at the situation at face value. It's people applying it to themselves and how they'd feel about hearing their own three year olds had to go through that when they know they'd just have wanted to be cuddled up with their mum.

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gordyslovesheep · 15/02/2013 22:23

bangs head

off to watch my zombies

enjoy your outrage

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