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Jon Benet Ramsey: Thirst For Beauty And Gore - Wednesday, August 23, 2006-11:11PM

UPDATE: Entertainment Tonight has all the lastest gossip about this little girl. They ended the show by saying that they would keep everyone up to speed on the lastest developments. This show also highlighted Mcally Cullin’s birthday as well as the red carpet events coming up soon. They talked about who the guy from the show Friends took to the Emmy’s and other Hollywood gossip. How does a child’s murder fit in with the Emmy Awards? How is the death of a child who was not even part of Hollywood become entertainment? This is all very disgusting.

I’m not really a person who enjoys controversy but I’m also not one to keep silent just because I have an opposing view. I not only have an opposing view to the way the high profile murder is handled I have a loathing for the amount of thirst the public has for each and every detail. Let me make it very clear that I in no way take lightly that a life was taken violently, however, Jon Benet was not the only person killed in 1996. So why do we keep hearing about this one child again and again? The media bombards us with exactly why they report the case when articles and news reporters refer to her as the “6-year-old beauty queen” instead of the six year old child murdered in her own home. The true reason the case is so popular is that it has both gore and beauty, two things the public loves. What matters above everything is that a child was killed violently, period! That is what needs to be addressed and that killer needs to be off the streets for good.

Do I have an opinion on whether or not her parents should have put her in pageants? Nope I don’t because it has no bearing on her death, not in my opinion anyway. Did the person who killed this little girl kill her due to her pageant status? That is unlikely so my opinion on pageants is irrelevant. What does matter is the fact that a life was taken and that life has been plastered all over the media in a disgusting capitalistic display. That display overshadows justice for Jon Benet but even more so it overshadows the unsolved murdered adults and children that died that December and all unsolved murders since then.

There were 19,650 murders for the year 1996 as reported by several sites but more specifically the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics. So why are we hearing about one case repeatedly? Is there something about this specific child’s murder that stands out above the rest? Again, it’s the gore and beauty mix that keeps people drawn to the case. This dishonors her and the children who never made the spotlight. All of justice for this child has been perverted and justice for those who were murdered before and after her up to this point shares the same perversion. Do not forget that others shared Jon Benet’s fate and do not forget that it is justice that is needed, not pictures, short films and book after book to tell us the true Jon Benet story.

Do I feel badly for the Ramsey family? I sure do. I feel just as bad for them as I do for the countless names on the Murder Wall that is hosted by the The National Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc. I have a feeling that they do not have a special beauty-gore wall. I have a feeling that they see each and every victim as equal and deserving of justice. There are countless families that struggle each day due to the death of a murdered child. There are countless families that were accused of killing their child then later exonerated yet still denied peace of mind. Nor were the exonerated awarded a partially mended life. They did not have a national apology or countless books written about their child or loved one.

Death by murder is a destructive force that never seems to let up even when the family has money, no money, a big home, a small home, is Black, White, Hispanic or Korean. Lives are destroyed when a family member is murdered. For those who live each day with unsolved cases how do they feel as they watch one case captivate the world and leave their loved one behind? It is my hope other surviving families do not feel any anger towards Jon Benet because she didn’t ask to be murdered and she never asked to be put in the spotlight like this or held across nations as one of the most famous US murders.

International news for the death of one child, does that not strike you as odd? Have you ever asked yourself, how did they know about Jon Benet Ramsey in Thailand when Bangkok, Thailand is 8375 miles from Boulder, Colorado? How on earth did officials in Thailand know who Jon Benet was? This major spotlight leaves so many other unsolved murders in the dark. That is why it disgusts me to see such fan fair over the arrest of this guy that claims he killed Jon Benet. When the spot light hits one murder case, no matter who that person was, all other cases lose light and fall back. It is unjust.

“Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are.”

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