Anyone who is watching or reading the news this week has heard that a UN report states humans are responsible for global warming and it'll take a long time to fix the damage, if we get started now.
My response to that is... uh... duh? Since when is this news? Okay, certain ultra conservatives have insisted that pollution and all that bad stuff really has little affect on the environment. One ultra conservative congressman, when asked about the threatened Salmon, insinuated it wouldn't really be bad if Salmon went extinct. Sometimes extinction is good because, after all, who misses the dinosaurs?
Wow, such higher level thinking astounds me.
Another headline news story that is anything but... Shawn Hornbeck helping to hide Ben Ownby for four days.
Really? What did people think was happening during those days, immediately after Ben's abduction, when Michael Devlin was working at Imo's? Something or someone was keeping Ben Ownby inside that apartment and away from the telephone. It doesn't take a genius to put that together, nor does it take a genius to infer that that may be one reason the two boys were so quickly separated and Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck have never been seen together since walking from the police car into the station. I imagine, if I were Ben Ownby, I would probably need some time away from someone who helped my abductor.
That being said, I don't really care for the speculation about why Shawn didn't try to get away during his four-plus years or why he assisted Devlin. Again, it's not rocket science. The kid was taken when he was 11 years old. I've seen all sorts of adults casting blame and pointing to other children under stressful circumstances, such as those who suffered through the Holocaust, as evidence to support their hypothesis that an 11 year old child abducted at gunpoint and abused would try to escape (and suggesting that Shawn Hornbeck either enjoyed his abduction and just didn't care that his disappearance tormented his family).
Come on, people, it's a new low when we start blaming an 11 year old kidnapping victim for his abduction and captivity when the case hasn't even gone to trial yet and the facts haven't come out. This type of speculation serves no purpose. If it's true, what good does it do anyone at this stage? On the other hand, if it's not true (and I believe it's OBVIOUSLY not true), then it sure as hell does a lot of harm.
I believe Shawn Hornbeck did come to accept his captivity, and he became conditioned to obeying Michael Devlin and living the lie. I cannot, however, blame an 11 year old child for becoming so conditioned. I blame Michael Devlin completely and absolutely.
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