Gay Student's Flamboyant Behavior Blamed For His Murder

[William769]

Only a few hours had passed after 17-year-old Brandon McInerney had pled guilty to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King at E.O. Green Junior High School when the media started pointing fingers.

The Los Angeles Times ran a story the same day, November 21, which said that the assistant principal at the school, who is openly gay, had been criticized for being "more intent on protecting King's civil rights" than "acknowledging that his dress and behavior were causing problems."

In a separate piece, also published Monday, the LA Times reported that the murdered teen's mother, Dawn King, had sought the help of school officials in "toning down her son's behavior" just a few days before the shooting. But she was allegedly told by the administration that King had "a civil right to explore his sexual identity."

During his live radio show on November 22, Rush Limbaugh claimed the school's progressive attitude was at fault for King's murder. "He was showing up in school dressed as a woman," Limbaugh said. "So now a confused 17-year-old is dead because the school 'Ah, there's nothing we can do.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/lawrence-king-gay-murder_n_1109047.html

[msongs]

1. so the kid deserved to be murdered in other words. nt

[Ikonoklast]

2. What? A person got shot to death, and it's HIS fault???

I don't care if he dressed like Elvis every day, or Liberace, or Abraham Fucking Lincoln, NO ONE DESERVES TO BE MURDERED FOR THAT.

[get the red out]

3. No, Rush-bag

He's dead because someone else raised a son who was screwed up and homophobic enough to think he had the right to murder someone else because he was gay. Most likely someone that listens to right wing radio.

[jobycom]

5. That post there ^^^ is exactly right. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. +1

[JohnnyLib2]

16. +2

[MADem]

4. I think probably the murderer ought to be appropriately blamed for the kid's murder.

Seems pretty clear who did what, when, where and to whom:

On February 12, 2008, after days of conflict between the two students, McInerney, who was 14 at the time, sat down behind King in computer class around 8:00 a.m. McInerney pulled a .22 caliber handgun from his bag and shot King twice in the head, before dropping the weapon and leaving school grounds.

[DirkGently]

6. How can you expect bigots to not rape/beat/ kill you if you insist on being someone they hate?

[RKP5637]

7. Yet another senseless murder in a senseless world. Now someone's blamed for

their own murder. Seems no matter what one does in life someone's going to hate them and some will go the next step and do a senseless murder. Around here there are senseless murders, someone just walking down the street or sitting in their car murdered for no apparent reason. Which always leads me to say I think there's a reason earth is quarantined off in its own corner of the universe.

[Initech]

8. This whole thing is a fucked up situation, and that jackass plays the blame the victim card.

I hate Rush Limbaugh with every micro fiber of my being - he's a professional bully and hate mongerer.

[RKP5637]

10. And he makes a lot of $$$ infesting the airways. I believe in free speech, but

damn, it's so abused by assholes like Limbaugh and similar.

[Initech]

12. I completely agree there.

[libinnyandia]

13. There is a special palce in hell for people like Rush. I hope he

he has to listen to liberal radio for eternity. Rush and Glenn Beck.

[Initech]

14. That would be quite a fitting punishment!

The day Rush's heart finally explodes from too much Viagra and oxycontin the day we'll be better off as a country.

[noiretextatique]

15. indeed

and ann coulter and many others.

[Divine Discontent]

17. and that disgusting vile pussbag is spewing his filth on stations that don't have the dignity to

kick his smart-ass off radio!

[Initech]

19. To call Rush Limbaugh a piece of shit is an insult to, well, shit.

[Evasporque]

11. Because of the road contruction the drunk driver crashed into the bright yellow school bus.....

Who is to blame...? With Limbaughsian deduction the school bus is...

[Divine Discontent]

18. oh Puss.. I mean Rush...

come on Drug-Rush, blaming the victim for being flamboyant, and say that he got what he deserved for it, ya, that's mature Rush... what are you 14? wish you coulda pulled the trigger??? nazi-pig.

[Scuba]

Would that defense work if the victim was a fat asshole with a cigar? He didn't look right?

[Scuba]

20. Would that defense work if the victim was a fat asshole with a cigar? He didn't look right?

[NMMNG]

21. Same RW shtick

Blame the victim for the poor behavior of the aggressor. Kid kills another kid in cold blood? It's obviously the fault of the victim because he wore dresses. Man rapes a woman? It's obviously her fault because she wore skimpy clothing and went outside her house. Where's all that "personal responsibility" we always hear them preaching? Where is the tough on crime attitude they're famous for? If Brandon McInerney had been a black kid arrested for smoking crack the RWers would be demanding he be put away forever. But he only killed a gay kid so it's a travesty of justice, and all the gay kid's fault.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Statistics show it's frequently the victim's fault. nt

:sarcasm: