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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 10:54 PM Aug 2018

Let's try this. Re:the tragic murder of Mollie Tibbetts

The death of Mollie Tibbetts is a profound tragedy and my thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. When I was a young man a friend of mine, a young woman who taught me how to play backgammon, was killed by serial murderer Gerald Stano in Daytona Beach. She went missing, the signs went up, and she turned up dead. Stano offered her a ride, she got in his car, he asked her for oral sex, she laughed in his face, and he stabbed her to death. Her name was Mary Carol Maher.

I didn't draw any global lessons from that. Anybody that draws global lessons about immigrants from Mollie Tibbetts ' murder , illegal or legal, were never going to vote for a Democrat anyway.

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Let's try this. Re:the tragic murder of Mollie Tibbetts (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 OP
Or try this... Agschmid Aug 2018 #1
Honestly, It's Not Good LandOfHopeAndDreams Aug 2018 #2
Gosh! We should just give up then. kcr Aug 2018 #3
I think it's ghoulish to politicize her death but that's just me. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #5
The man who murdered her will likely plead and spend the rest of his life in prison. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #4
The GOP better be careful. The murderer was illegally employed by a well known Republican? Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #6
I read he was employed but it was not divulged by whom. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #7
He worked there for 4 years. justgamma Aug 2018 #8
They say they used the govt's e-verify system bdjhawk Aug 2018 #9
 
2. Honestly, It's Not Good
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:02 PM
Aug 2018

This was a National story, that was being closely followed. I know, because I was following it. Over a month with no discovery of a body, or even confirmation anything had happened to her for certain.

Now to have it be committed by an illegal immigrant, just gets that aspect out there. Like the killing in San Francisco. But Mollie was a big news item for several weeks, and momentum like that does not go away. His trial will be covered and it would have been had it been someone completely different. If anything, it could be attributed to the fact it involved a young white woman, but the bottom line, is it's very, very sad that she is gone. She sounded like a nice person, and was just out for a run, and no doubt felt completely safe, up until the moment she realized she wasn't.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
4. The man who murdered her will likely plead and spend the rest of his life in prison.
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:07 PM
Aug 2018

IA doesn't have the death penalty.

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
6. The GOP better be careful. The murderer was illegally employed by a well known Republican?
Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:12 PM
Aug 2018

There is already backlash, among non-Trump worshippers, in condemning a whole group of people because of the actions of one. Having a prominent Republican that knowingly employed the man that committed the murder might bring up some interesting discussions that the GOP has thus far been avoiding.

justgamma

(3,666 posts)
8. He worked there for 4 years.
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 12:34 AM
Aug 2018

Was an employee in good standing. You would think that maybe Craig Lang could have checked his status at some point. Guess the Cons don't care as long as they get the cheap labor.

bdjhawk

(420 posts)
9. They say they used the govt's e-verify system
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 03:53 AM
Aug 2018

And fully comply with all requirements. Just watch, it will now be spun that because the federal “gubermints” system 4 years ago, he was eligible to be hired..... yet one more bad thing that was Obama’s fault!! You know they will!!

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