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Old Aug 21, 2006 | 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by kobiashi
Do you think that the dumbing down of America is a recent phenomenon?
I was born in '72, so I'm still just a kid .

History tells us that this isn't a recent phenomenon. In fact there was a time when people just didn't have enough information available to them (in a reasonable amount of time). I'm aware that this isn't a new trend. It just seems odd that there are people out there complaining about this and that but are more informed about what's happening on some "reality" TV show. We have the information available to us, in many cases in real time. With all of our advancements over the years I find it odd that we, as a society, are becoming less intelligent. Or so it appears.

It seems strange that this attention hound, who likely didn't commit this crime (no DNA test results yet), is getting all the headlines when there are many other, far more relevent, things happening in the world.
 
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Old Aug 21, 2006 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by wittom
It seems strange that this attention hound, who likely didn't commit this crime (no DNA test results yet), is getting all the headlines when there are many other, far more relevent, things happening in the world.
If it bleeds, it leads.
 
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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 12:30 AM
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Awww... Let him enjoy it. He'll probably get raped to death in prison. Things like that happen frequently to guys who have done things like that.

Originally Posted by Stealth
I'd bet he did something pretty bad where he was and wanted a "free ride" home and made the whole thing up. But nonetheless what a freaking joke!
I don't know, I have a friend who is in Guinea Africa for a couple of years on business. It just so happens that 2 countries that border Guinea are or have recently been involved in civil wars. The people who sent my friend over there told him that if anything ever happened that made him nervous about survival that he can go to the US Embassy and tell them that he is affraid for his life and wants to leave and they will fly him home. If you noticed in all the recent events in Israel the US government was going to charge all the people they flew out of the country for doing so.

I would rather pay the government for a plane ride after I got home than get a free ride and have to fight for my freedom.
 
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