WTH is wrong with these guys?

[Merry]

And I said what the hell but I was truly thinking the other one!!!!!!!http://t.now.msn.com/rolling-stone-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-cover-criticized

[flippr 2.0]

shakin' my head

[crestofwaves]

Too bad he looks like a dark angel with those curly locks.  I just finished reading this article about how the media lets us all down and has made us numb with infotainment.  Interesting.

http://www.alternet.org/media/bill-moyers-weapons-mass-distraction-...

 

[Merry]

It's supposed to be an honor to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone. So stupid with a capital STUPID to influence the youngest of Rolling Stone readers this way.

[frenchy]

well , just my 2 cents here and you are all welcome to disagree .. but you look at this kid .. and he looks like he'd fit in at any frat party from new york to los angles and everyplace in between .. he's been in this country for over 10 years and seemed to have american friends .. so it makes you scratch your head how he could so blindly follow his brother to bomb and kill a bunch of innocent people .. and i think thats what they were tryin to get to the heart of .. what made him become the monster he became .. to be honest i don't know all that much about him . just snippets here and there but he seemed like your average everyday young guy .. of course we know now thats not true .. so what do we as americans do ?? look the other way ? hide our heads in the sand ?? or try to understand what it is that makes these guys go off like short fused firecrackers ?? i'm not sayin you have to like them , but i'd rather know what makes them tick than just stick my head in the sand .. and if it helps some of the younger folks that rollin stone panders to to understand too then i can see the relevance.. i mean there's still probably gonna be plenty of ink devoted to kanye west and kim kardashian and beyonce and jay z .. and they can either skip over it or read it .. but if they do read it then it just might help in some small way .. the more you know the better you can understand somethin ..   

[Lifesighs]

In my opinion the article is probably worth reading I do have a problem with putting him on the cover of the magazine, it would have been better to put some pictures of some victims on the cover with stories of what they were doing in their lives before being cut down by the terrorist.

[Kim]

I've never read Rolling Stone, thought it was just all about music and though I LOVE music, I don't necessarily want to read a whole magazine about it. ANYWAY, I don't know that this is "right" or "wrong" but our world is made up of right, wrong, bad, good, ugly, and beautiful and I tend to want to know ALL about, like YOU said, FRENCHY...."what makes people tick".  I did a lot of moderately mischievious stuff as a kid that under the right (or wrong) circumstances could have got somebody hurt.  The difference between a lot of REGULAR/NORMAL kids and THIS kid is that he got caught for ONE thing and the fact that maybe he just thought a few harmless "this and that" with his brother wouldn't lead to anything and certainly not THIS!! I am DEFINITELY NOT saying, "Forgive this poor boy, he didn't know what he was doing"....absolutely NOT. Its just that we really don't KNOW how innocently OR evilly this whole thing STARTED. MAYBE this perspective gives the victims a way to heal, I don't know. I am not the KNOW ALL....I don't know exactly how I would feel about this whole situation if I was affected in a more direct or personal way. NONE of us know that unless we have BEEN there or been in a very similar situation. I would be open to reading the article.

[T2Friends]

There is no way this kid thought this was some harmless prank or that no-one would be hurt.  He knew exactly what those home made shrapnel bombs would do.  Take a look at the pictures of the aftermath.  Before these two "kids" actually put the bomb together they went on line and learned how and watched videos on the kind of damage the devise could cause to human flesh and then with purpose and malice went out to cause the maximum amount of pain and suffering possible.  There was nothing, absolutely nothing innocent about this act of terror.  There is no doubt in my mind that the Rolling Stone magazine covers serious stories and has provided in depth articles about serious topics.  But putting a picture of this kid on the cover, a picture that appears to try to further feed this notion that there is any innocence there, not just in the act but in this boys soul is wrong and part of a ploy to increase magazine sales.  

[Merry]

T2 I think it's backfiring on Rolling Stone, the last I heard there were mass cancelations and chains of stores refusing to carry the magazine. My opinion since I grew up listening to the tune Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr Hook is that it's for heroes of the arts.

[Kim]

No, there WAS nothing innocent about what he ULTIMATELY did but THAT had to start from somewhere.I didn't mean to indicate THAT at all...but I mean a little kid doesn't think "I would like to cause major suffering to human beings and  ruin their lives." It starts with a harmless little mischief and then someone talking them into something they may KNOW is wrong but going along with it and  changing their minds from innocent to somewhere between a little crazy and INSANE and SICK in the head. 

[frenchy]

well , i guess i'd have to read the article to see what kind of light they paint him in .. it may be that they're tryin to glamorize him in some jesse james kinda way but then if you ever read one of their record reviews of an album they hated you'd know these guys could be vicious .. lets hope they stuck to the facts .. 

[crestofwaves]

I read it.  It's exactly as it says on the cover--a kid who seemed normal turned into a monster.  There is no answer as to why.  The article just talks to people who knew him, his brother, his mother and his father.  It also talks to the nurses at the hospital who took care of him, and they did not want to get too close and had to force themselves not to call him "hon, " which is very scary since he was so normal in almost everyway--but look at what he did.

The article was good. Did not praise him--it just opened lots of questions as to what the heck happened to him.

Charles Manson was on the cover in 1974, so this is not the first strange cover.  And I think the picture here goes with the article.  He was just a kid who turned MONSTER.  How?  If it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone.

 

[frenchy]

yeah i agree cresty , but i think he had a bit more help than your average everyday garden variety young guy . his backround was hard to get out from under .. from just the snippets that i read he seemed to be gettin along ok and the guys who knew him never felt like any bells and alarms were goin off .. that i know of anyway ..so what was it that made him turn ?? he was here for about 10 years or so right ?/ was that not enough time to feel like he was a part of this country ?? or was the influence of his brother ?? or islam ?? or both , just too strong ?? did he not think this thru ?? i mean what did he think was gonna happen next ??