Murder = Lock down = fund raisers

[Earth Angel]

Perhaps I am getting hard from all the info about Sandy Hook and now Boston but this story struck me as odd in many ways......
a beautiful young girl was stabbed to death by a stranger in her house, witnessed by her 12 year old brother.....her parents were at a little league game....odd, without the kids but anyway......The town is now on lock down ....so is this going to be the new method of fighting crime???.....at a press conference the parents stand behind the local law and are seen 'near tears'..........NEAR tears??? and want people to know a memorial fund has been set up...I don't know about you but if your child is suddenly brutally murdered is fund raising the first thing you think of??...
stood in the background. Macedo said Leila's parents wanted to convey their requests that their privacy be respected, but also that a memorial fund had been set up for their daughter. ..oh and people with pink and purple ribbons have been out already ...the whole town seemed to know her favourite colours pink and purple and are putting them up everywhere.........please don't misunderstand I feel for this poor child but the rest of the story just seems a little contrived as many do lately.

http://news.yahoo.com/rural-calif-community-lockdown-killer-sought-223919213.html

[Flash]

The lock down of the town is strange, I agree.

However, it is very easy nowadays to know the preferred colors of someone, just read their facebook page. Someone will post it if it is not there already. I would not make a story around this. Second, in my city, it is common practice to set up a memorial fund for a deceased, instead of having flower covering the coffin and the whole place. People are asked to give to the fund instead and the money is given to a preferred charity of the deceased. I think we should not overdo in the conspiracy stuff. Our credibility as thorough researchers here on Avalon will take a hit..

Such hit are sadly common place on cities, they just got a runaway sicko in that small town right now. In my opinion of course.

[MorningSong]

The problem here (IMO) that Eath Angel has uncovered is that in today's society, everything has been monetized... the premature death of a child, the shock and trauma of the relatives, the instinctive knee-jerking of "paying it up" of a society that does not address the cause of social illness (rampant thoughtless disregard for life) to cover up it's guilt for not being able to "fix" the cause of the problem (teach your children well) but patch things up with alieviating a symptom... money cures the grief.. "move along...get over it.... create a fund, a scolarship, a park in the name of the fallen...idolize the dead so that they live forever". "But don't even try processing the grief, the loss, the tragic event, the why's and hows... get over it, move along.. here's some money to comfort you... go spend it... you'll feel better!"

This model is perpetrated all thoughout the "system": collateral "damage" of bombing civilian villages trying to get the bad guys, dishing out relief funds for climatic disasters (ex: how many times do they have to rebuild beach houses on the NC coast before they realize it's time to move away from the coast?), oil companies dishing out huge sums after an ecologial disaster (damage done, but who's going to repopulate the ocean, de-tox the land?). The question our pea-brain society asks first is "who's gonna pay now?"

We at Avalon have gone beyond that and ask the "who, when, how, and why" questions. More people need to be doing that.... waking up to our own responsability towards all life and ask ourselves, "what is life on this planet?" The lack of asking those questions, and pointing fingers at "who's gotta pay" is taking this world down a very dark and dirty road.