Hiya JDB,
First of all, I appreciate you and always have... I too have a sense of "people please," but, perhaps, not for the exact same reason.
I'm impressed by a number of things through this all. A few of those things are:
1. Too many people have a gang mentality (whether they are willing to admit it or not.) i.e. hear a little bit of info about a very fractured picture, then look for someone who agrees with you based on the "little", then jump on their bandwagon and run for all it is worth (is this entertainment?)
2. Too many people are looking to slay someone else without thinking of the real harm they can do. They may not know the person, the facts, or the responsibilities, but they are willing to imagine incredible things, speak about them as if they are truth (to the person's great harm)...and away goes the slaying.
3. Too many people are willing to trust the spin of the media without remembering their ultimate goal, then weighing and balancing incoming information, as well as working to seek the facts along the way.
4. Too many people are willing to discredit law enforcement.
5. A number of people are willing to seriously sleuth, study, and brainstorm.
6. MANY people want justice for little Jon Benet (and other victims of violent crime.)
I am not saying that I am without spot in any of the above (1-4). I am not saying that I don't think there is an appropriate time for people to gang up and jump on a bandwagon, slay someone else, trust the media, or discredit law enforcement. I'm just saying that I have had a real lesson as I have read the many postings in here over the last several weeks, as well as considered my own, and all of the effects.
I am looking at the casualties in all of this... Where did the casualties begin? Well, per JBR, didn't they begin with a murderer, or someone who had an accident and decided to "cover" their accident rather than risk what? Very interesting question - what would truth have cost? (particularly based on some of the above line items) I'm not saying its okay to lie, I'm just asking.
Per JMK, ahhhh...perhaps he is a lesson in childhood history, perhaps genetic mental illnesses, perhaps intellectual game playing co-mingled with other things, perhaps the hell that any of us can cause when we open our mouths or communicate in other ways WITHOUT thinking of the calamity that can ensue, perhaps any number of things OR any combination of the latter.
Well...all in all, I'm having a lot of feelings and considerations this evening. Interesting. I am also thinking that I have very much enjoyed the stimulation of some of the communication around here, real eye openers.
Hats off to all sleuths that research and think. And a "people please" to myself and everyone else, on a whole lot of things (using our imaginations, God knows we have them
Wrinkles