[Imc] hiding a story

[Brian Hagy]

i don't understand why this was hidden.  it's not advocating the killing
of someone, merely pointing out the puny sentence the judge found
necessary.  and it's reporting from a parent's perspective. besides, how
much of what we have on our website is truly verifible?  in light of that,
i support unhiding it, else we become censors, and hide everything we
can't verify (which would cover a large amount of our material on the
web).

brian


On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Paul Riismandel wrote:

> I want to let people know that I hid a story on the website today.  It has
> nothing to do with terrorism or threats.  I hid it because it contained
> potentially libelous information that cannot be reasonably checked and the
> person who left it left no name, e-mail or any other way to contact.
>
> You can see the text below.  If anyone has an objection I will unhide it,
> though I think it best to xxx out names even so.  I think any final decision
> should be made at the steering meeting this week.
>
> The article was called:"23 year old son killed by nc teacher"
>
> Here is the text (note that i removed the names since that is what could be
> considered libelous and the imc list is archived on the web):
> "My 23 yr old son xxxxx was killed in February of 2001. He was killed by a
> 36 year old man, xxxxx that has a teaching certificate and is pursuing his
> doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC. My son was
> invited to this man's house and was unarmed. This man went to his closet and
> got his 45 handgun out of the bedroom closet, unzipped the case, took the
> gun and holster out of the case, took the gun out of the holster, ejected a
> bullet to make sure that there was a bullet in the gun's chamber(loaded) and
> killed my son with a shot to my son's chest. The bullet pierced my son's
> heart and did massive internal damage. My son was not armed, did not try to
> fight because the man had the gun aimed at my son's chest from about 3 feet
> away. My son pled for his life but was shot and killed anyway. This killer
> is a teacher and pursuing a doctorate in education, he pled guilty to
> involuntary manslaughter. Will serve time in jail on weekends for a couple
> of months and is on probation for 4 years. Apparently the value of my son's
> life was not very important. My son leaves behind families and friends that
> are appalled at this injustice. My son's wife will have to raise their 2
> small boys and their baby that was just born earlier this month. Is there
> any justice at all left in America?"
>
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