Kill Or Be Killed.

[Angela 0077]

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1077438

This is a clip about a woman who killed her husband.

Do you think she should have done this to her husband or do you think she should have let him live.

The clip is supposed to be shown tonight on Current affair but l would like you guys to have a look at this and comment afterwards.

 

[Finn]

What's your opinion? Or did you not read/listen to this one as well?

 

[Angela 0077]

Yes l have been watching the clip for the past half hour.
You have to leave your self time to veiw this

It is heartbreaking and a sad story l want to wait for others to comment before l say anything

Have you watched it yet Finn

 

[sojourner]

I think a jury should decide her fate. We don't have the full story.

 

[Hermiod]

I'm not going to watch a video that's most likely prejudicial.

If it's the same case I read about yesterday, the murder was premeditated, planned and carried out. There was no indication of self-defence. Like it or not, she did indeed get away with murder.

 

[Rii]

No, she should not have killed him. Whether committed by the state or the individual, to choose to kill when one is able to do otherwise is the very nadir of humanity.

Yet we are flawed creatures; if murder is the nadir of humanity, compassion lies somewhere about its zenith. Without condoning the act, circumstances may well lead one not to condemn its perpetrator; and to thereby mitigate or even dismiss entirely the punishment ordinarily attendant to such an act.

Susan Falls was certainly subject to such horrors as I, thankfully, can only imagine. Everything else about the case, however, argues against leniency. This was a premeditated murder, carried out methodically. After the crime she did not turn herself in to police, but recruited accomplices to dispose of the body and actively engaged both the police and the public in a campaign of deception. Murder 1? Maybe not. Acquitted on all charges? Bullshit.

This was, indeed, a travesty of justice.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I guess that the jury heard enough evidence to acquit her and I think that we just have to accept that.

However I think it would have been better if she had admitted to what she did as soon as she did it. I don't think she should have got off scot free as she did dispose of the body illegally, she did lie to police and she did being recruited accomplices

 

[Rii]

However I think it would have been better if she had admitted to what she did as soon as she did it.

S.Falls: "Hello, I just executed a complicated plan whereby I murdered my husband to ensure my safety."
Police Officer: "Why didn't you instead execute a complicated plan serving to ensure your safety that didn't involve murdering your husband? Possibly involving calling us somewhat earlier than you did?"
S.Falls: "Umm...."

Given the nature of the crime, her subsequent behaviour is hardly surprising. She knew it would look bad too. Because it does.

 

[trekkiedane]

Apparently she did indeed get away with murder -and that's just wrong.

Had she, in the heat of some moment, grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him a hundred and thirty times I would've had a lot more sympathy for her, but then, it's the classical difference between men and women; men act now where women are planners, I suppose her acquittal is a testament to this...
That said, her actions after the fact were just wrong and should have had some legal consequences imo.

The TV clip, however, is horrible; the dramatized sections and the music makes it all seem like an episode of some show, rather than an interview with a woman who's been through hell and back. A good example of how NOT to do this sort of story on TV.

 

[Hermiod]

^It'll get that treatment eventually anyway when she's presented as a heroine played by some fading TV actress in a movie of the week.

 

[Rii]

The TV clip, however, is horrible; the dramatized sections and the music makes it all seem like an episode of some show, rather than an interview with a woman who's been through hell and back. A good example of how NOT to do this sort of story on TV.

A Current Affair and its partner on Channel 7, Today Tonight, are blights on civilisation. Assuming that everything they say is wrong or biased or taken out of context probably won't lead you to the Truth, but it'll get you a damn sight closer than taking them at face value will.

 

[Kestra]

I don't know the details of the case well (I skimmed a few articles) but it does seem she got away with murder. There is no reason to act with lethal force unless you believe your own safety is in immediate danger. I won't pretend to know what went on in her head, but this appeared completely pre-meditated and she should have had the presence of mind to pursue other options.

 

[JiNX-01]

The title of this thread is a misnomer. She didn't kill the bastard because he was going to kill her. She killed him because years of experience told her that he would carry out the threat to murder one of their children.

Moving out, calling the cops would not have been viewed as options for a woman who had to ask for permission to use the toilet.

And leaving him wasn't a practical option, if she could have found a place to hide.

And I believe her. My best friend was abused by her second husband. He sent her to the ER on numerous occasions.

I was visiting her in California one summer and we had gone for a drive to Monterey. As we were returning to San Jose, she became increasingly nervous, scared, because she knew he'd be mad because we had been gone all day and she knew she'd pay for it.

And like the woman in the video, she didn't believe she had anyplace to go since he controlled the money (going so far as to compare the grocery receipt with the contents of the grocery bags to ensure she didn't buy anything that wasn't authorized. He even demanded she give him a receipt when she gassed up her car.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A guy probably wouldn't have gotten away with this if it had been an abusive wife (and don't tell me there aren't any of those either).

 

[Finn]

Yes l have been watching the clip for the past half hour.
You have to leave your self time to veiw this

It is heartbreaking and a sad story l want to wait for others to comment before l say anything

Have you watched it yet Finn

No subtitles as I can see, so no

 

[Miss Chicken]

Do you get annoyed when shows aren't subtitled, Finn?

 

[Finn]

Do you get annoyed when shows aren't subtitled, Finn?

Sometimes yes.

 

[Miss Chicken]

There should be a law that all TV programs/DVDs are subtitled.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ As long as the subtitles can be disabled, I would agree.

 

[trekkiedane]

^While we're at it, wouldn't it be a good idea if the 'music' also could be disabled? -I'd love it!