Patsy Ramsey is dead

This past Sunday, the cancer Patsy Ramsey fought for so many years was victorious. One can only speculate on the possibility of a death-bed confession. Or did she keep a Devil's pact with her John to the bitter end? There are so many questions. The dead keep their secrets tightly clasped to their breasts. In Walter A. Davis' Book An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey - a play and two essays, he quotes a selection from Rilke's Fourth Duino Elegy: Who shows a child as he (she) really is? Who sets him (her) I n his (her) constellation and puts the measuring -rodn of distance in his (her) hand? Who makes his (her) death out of the gray bread, which hardens - or leaves it there inside his round mouth, jagged as the core\r\nof a sweet apple?…Murders are easy\r\nto understand. But this: that one can contain \r\ndeath, the whole of death , even before\r\nlife has begun, can hold it to one\\\'s heart\r\ngently, and not refuse to go on living,\r\nis inexpressible. \r\n\r\nTrans: Stephen Mitchell\r\n \r\nI too have seen the images and the documentaries of the child performers on stage in the strange costumes, the even stranger gestures, and wondered at the ghastly display of such terrible psychic wounding and the ecstatic celebration of the death of innocence. I have viewed the Medusa-faced backstage mothers firing deadly barbs of guilt and destruction at those cowering little ones whose tears make your heart want to split in half. I have wondered at how such a transparent atrocity can even be observed by anyone with a shred of conscience let alone encouraged by the culture. Better to bring back the spectacle of the Roman Coliseum. \r\n\r\nI am so thankful for seers like Mr. Davis who are able to turn over such rocks and look with unflinching gaze at the deeper forces that make these horrors come to pass. Occasionally an event arises to the top of the smoldering cesspool and like a giant bubble bursts upon our consciousness. The death of JonBenet was that sort of event that should have awakened us to the deeply submerged issues of pedophilia, the institution of the dysfunctional family and the continued exploitation of children in our culture. It has been said that the mark of the height of a civilization is reflected in how they treat their children. We have given little more than lip service to the love we bear these little ones. Every fact decries this assertion that we love our children. This fraud is reflected in everything from our shorting of education budgets to the refusal to even look at the causes of the epidemic of sexual abuse of boys and girls. In a culture whose primary export is brutality and death, how could it be any other way? In the same way that the horrors of 9/11 were instantly buried in a sea of flags, so the death of JonBenet was obscured in a shroud of tear-stained hankies - morning not the reality of a soul snuffed out long before her physical death but as sentimental obeisance to the dictates of a fantasy.

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Truthfully brilliant

Truthfully brilliant-Davis elucidates Marx' analyses of how capitalism destroys the human spirit and body-- eagerly anticipating his analytical spotlight exposing more poison posing as 'freedom'.  
 
Today, for instance the vile capitalist media's worshipful lies of capitalist "philanthropy", the gates-buffett monopoly finance capital merger of profits made of the blood, bones, lives, hopes and lands-- the body-mind killing exploitation of millions of human beings--lies further shackling more millions in the prisonhouse of capitalist ideology. 
 
Thanks to Davis for contributing so heartily to human liberation liberation by continuing Marx' project of standing Hegel's invaluable dialectics on fighting materialist feet

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Double Standards

Like the ever-vilified Lin Wood: You use the death of a child to help further your cause. Admittedly the odious Mr Wood uses such terrible events and the various emotions they arouse to garner some more gold. You, however more noble the you may think the cause of ‘’ is are equally guilty of promoting yourself and your causes on the back of an event that is, however disturbing, commonplace in all cultures, ideologies and parallel universes. 
It is despicable to pin the perceived socio-political failings of a nation and the fallibilities of a man (Bush) on the shoulders of an abused young girl. 
This is irrespective of how much better you think you are than the average human, ambling his way through life in or out of ‘The Family Unit’. 
As for a ‘conservative estimate’ of one in children having suffered sexual abuse by the age of puberty. I would hate to see what your ‘liberal figures’ are; I would love to see where you got your figures.

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The Yates Kids Memorial/Blog

I couldnt help but notice your comments. First of all its horrible when someone dies because they have people who love them, and 2) your comments are way out of line although everyone is entitled to their own opinions, it was extreme. I do not believe she or John had anything to do with Jonbenet's death, as they stated in their book "The Death of Innocence" and else where that they loved that child. And its true in most cases (the case of Andrea Yates was very extreme)anyhow, I also do not think John Mark Karr directly killed her, although maybe he was a informat for someone

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