By Nicholas Stix
The following comment was just posted by someone who signed off as “April” at the May 26 post, “Trial Date Set For Britanny Norwood, in Non-Hate Crime Murder in Bethesda, Maryland, lululemon athletica Store.”
With all of the violence and sickness going on in this world it makes me physically sick to read comments like these about people you don't even know, on assumptions you made from the details that only the media has released on the situation. What ever happened that night is SAD on both sides of the fence. Jayna was one of the kindest persons you could ever meet and if she was still here would hate to see all this happening. I don't no Brittany but I don't hate her nor judge her, and I feel aweful for a decision she made to end another persons life (for what ever reason)that will forever change her future and life. I pray she will look to God for comfort (when judged by everyone and their opinions)and ask for guideance in the next year. Hopefully she will except her mistake and the judgement that will come with it. Our focus and energy needs to be on healing relationships and not pointing fingers, especially when there are always 3 fingers pointed directly back to you. Both families are hurting and need our community to rally around supporting and comforting them through the loss and trails. Let that be our focus and not about Racism. Anything can be made racist, but this is just an easy excuse to point fingers and not take responseability to try to mend the broken bridge.
“With all of the violence and sickness going on in this world it makes me physically sick to read comments like these about people you don't even know, on assumptions you made from the details that only the media has released on the situation.”
Do you have some special knowledge about this crime that the media have not released? I didn’t think so. Have you even studied up on what the media have released? But you’re just chock full of assumptions in support of the woman whom you believe committed this heinous crime.
What ever happened that night is SAD on both sides of the fence.
No, it isn’t. What is sad for the victim is not sad for her murderer. For you to say that means that you have no concept of right and wrong, good and evil.
Jayna was one of the kindest persons you could ever meet and if she was still here would hate to see all this happening.
She would hate to see what happening? Hate to see the woman whom you believe brutally killed her prosecuted? Although I never knew her, I doubt very much that she thought that her life was worthless. Since you feel equally sad for Jayna Murray’s killer, you do not hold that Murray’s life had any value. That’s the way it works, when you can’t bring yourself to choose good over evil.
I don't no Brittany but I don't hate her nor judge her, and I feel aweful for a decision she made to end another persons life (for what ever reason)that will forever change her future and life.
You believe that Brittany Norwood savagely murdered a woman whom you claim to have cared about, yet you not only don’t judge Norwood, but you “feel aweful [sic]” because the savage murder you believe she committed “will forever change her future and life”?
If Brittany Norwood committed this crime, she smashed in Jayna Murray’s skull for 20 minutes, including long after Murray was dead. If you don’t judge her, you’re denying that the murder that you say she committed was a crime, let alone an act of unmitigated evil.
Our focus and energy needs to be on healing relationships and not pointing fingers, especially when there are always 3 fingers pointed directly back to you.
Not only are you a nihilist, lady, but you are a moron. We need to focus on “healing relationships” with, and “not pointing fingers” at murderers? And if I point fingers at savage, racist murderers, I am condemning myself with three other fingers? For what? Have I murdered someone and forgotten about it? But if I had murdered someone, that would be o.k. with you. You have nothing against murderers; it’s people who have the temerity to judge murderers who make you angry. That means to you, savage murderers are morally superior to those of us who condemn them.
You have chosen the dark side. Your support of evil makes you evil, as well. Not in the same way as a murderer, perhaps, but you’re still evil.
Both families are hurting and need our community to rally around supporting and comforting them through the loss and trails. Let that be our focus and not about Racism. Anything can be made racist, but this is just an easy excuse to point fingers and not take responseability to try to mend the broken bridge.
“Let that be our focus and not about Racism. Anything can be made racist…”
Do you talk like that to blacks who charge whites with racism?
Relax; that was a rhetorical question.
“take responseability [sic] to try to mend the broken bridge.”
“Responseability” for what? What is “the broken bridge” you speak of, and how does one go about “mending” it? Why would there be some moral obligation among non-criminals to do whatever your platitudes might entail? Are the critics supposed to beg for forgiveness from their moral superiors, the murderers? Do you read and meditate on any of the moronic, despicable statements you write?
That, too, was a rhetorical question.
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I am frankly surprised that someone with absolutely no spelling skills and the obvious inability to form cogent arguments and opinions has access to a computer. Furthermore what gall you have madam to call a racist murder not racist! Think before you type, oh and a dictionary wouldn't hurt for spelling either.
Perhaps there is a small hope that "April" will read your response and give some real consideration to what she believes. Not likely, but possible. If "April" really does know the murderer and likes her, then she's grasping at straws in trying to defend her, and everything she wrote is hysteric emotionalism. "April", and people who think like her, need to be told that when they defend racist murderers, they have chosen to be evil, a sobering thought indeed.
Somehow, I have the feeling that the friends of killer Brittany Norwood aren't surfing the Internet, searching for anyone who dares to criticize her.
I can't help but wonder how much revulsion a person like "April" feels about the savage black-on-white attacks which are reported here, and occasionally elsewhere.
Actually, she's even weirder than that, jeigheff. She doesn't even know the killer. She claims only to have known the victim, yet takes the part of Norwood, who she is sure is the murderer!
YIKES! My mistake!
I skimmed "April's" comments way too quickly this morning (while half asleep) and reached the mistaken conclusion that "April" was a friend of the murderer, rather than the victim.
You're right, Nicholas: very weird.
huh? did the person who wrote the reply commentary have any background in yoga? or just that lululemon mubo jumbo philosophy that got us here. yoga does not perscribe to black/white right and wrong. try to get a Phd in Yoga Philosophy before trying to make these kinda moral judgements in the name of an ancient tradition. thanks. higher powers are watching.
Hmmm. What would Jesus do? Probably forgive Norwood, if she sincerely repented. Does that mean that Our Lord Christ is evil?
Jay,
Since Norwood has shown herself incapable of sincere repentance—she hasn’t even admitted to killing Murray—this discussion is speculation squared. But I’ll bite.
In his book The Criminal Justice Club, retired LA prosecutor Walt Lewis recalls a turning point in his youth. It was 1950, he was about 13, and his Seventh Day Adventist mother's family had sent him to a boarding school run by the sect. A friend of his maternal grandmother, a saintly, middle-aged, Jewish woman who worked as a waitress (even though she had trouble getting around) used to spend her only day off traveling to and from the school, bringing Lewis Jewish food she’d made just for him.
Lewis was coming up for his baptism, and asked a pastor if Hitler could go to Heaven. The pastor said that if Hitler sincerely repented, and took Jesus as his Savior, he would go to Heaven. Lewis then asked if the Jewish lady would go to Heaven or Hell. The pastor said that unless she repented, and embraced Jesus as her Savior, she would go to Hell.
On the day of Lewis' and his classmates’ planned baptism, Lewis stood in line, and thought about the pastor, Hitler, and the Jewish lady. He bolted, never got baptized, and left the school.
“Does that mean that Our Lord Christ is evil?”
He’s your Lord, not “ours.”
I used Walt Lewis’ story, because I found it so powerful, and because I’m a Jew. Thus, the question of what Jesus would do is a waste of time for me. As for the challenge that your question poses, if Jesus would forgive a Hitler or a Brittany Norwood, so much the worse for Jesus.
While I am not a Christian, I take theological questions very seriously. I wrote my master’s thesis on the relationship between political philosophy and the philosophy of religion. And some of my best friends are Christians. In fact, I liked one so much, I married her!
I have always thought you forgave (or considered forgiving)someone only if the sinner was sorry for what they did. Hitler (like most every murderer) was totally unrepenant, to put it mildly. Toward the end, he would say he would do it all again even if he knew it would end in disaster.
Speaking of political philosophy, in my experience liberal Christianity forgives some people, but not others.
Even if a murderer is sincerely repenant, they still must be punished.
David In TN
I agree with David...
Even if a murderer is sincerely repenant, they still must be punished.
I don't care about race or religion, if someone is a murderer I just want their ass off the street. Whatever Jesus
Christ decides to do with her when she gets there is his business.
(no offense meant to those who do not believe in Jesus)
"What would Jesus do?"
He already did it. He willingly left a sinless environment, to a filthy, sinful world to be born in an animal feeder (manger) to poor parents, lived a sinless life, while people reviled, persecuted, and said all manner of evil against Him, was sold out for thirty pieces of silver, tortured and humiliated by being spat on, punched in the face, his hair ripped out of his face, whipped with wood rods and leather straps that had metal hooks at the end that tore flesh from his body, forced to carry his own wood cross that He was nailed to by having spikes driven through his hands and feet, and hung until he eventually died from His injuries. All this while bearing the sins of the world within Him. Why? For those like Jayna Murray and even Ms. Norwood.
These atrocities always bring out the anger and judgment in us for obvious reasons. Even my response will do the same and that's anticipated too, but time will heal and God's free gift of salvation will continue to be freely available. A prayer for the Murray family was just lifted up. Glory to God.
Hmmm, so much sympathy for blondie but none for Trayvon Martin. I hope the Arabs blow all of you white devils to smithereens.
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