Peterson Trial

Well the was declared guilty and sentenced to death. People cheered or cried. This whole trial things annoys me on sooooo many levels.

One is why. Why did this get national attention over all the thousands of murders that occur every year from a husband killing a wife and vice versa? Why does no ask that question. It seems very critical to me to understand why the press picked this story. And make no mistake, it was the press that drove this to national attention. The viewers where words of encouragement only. Am I the only one pissed off by manufactured news of this level.

The woman died, its sad but it is NOT national news. If a husband killing a wife was national then how come all the other deaths that occur national wide not reported on CNN and FoxNews ad nausem? Well one reason is because apparently to be worthy of national news certain requirements have to be made. One is the family has to be photogenic. Do you really think national coverage would have happened if the Petersons where ugly? I don't think. Another requirement is apparently have to live in California. Why, beats the hell out of me. Also you have to be rich and white. The exception to this requirement is if a famous black person. If not rich then apparently your murder is just expected and barely worth local news coverage. Finally the woman has be gorgeous. If men don't look at her photo and think unclean thoughts, well just not good enough.

So the lesson to be learned is this. If photogenic, rich, white woman in California and you get murdered you just might become famous! Then throngs of insane strangers will rally around your corpse and declare love for you!! I bet that will make death go down easier.

BTW, the jury did Peterson a favor. Getting sentenced to death means his litany of appeals will probably get heard when before they may not have. Long story short, expect his ass freed in about 5-10 years.