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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

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Compare the two pics/ Charlie doesn't look glam. He doesn't look chic or attractive unless you are homeless and haven't eaten or slept in a few days.

i understand what you're tryin to say merry but what was rollin stone supposed to do ?? black out his teeth and make his nose bigger?? i think what they were tryin to say was look at this guy .. he looks like any normal good lookin kid his age .. compared to adam lanza the guy who shot up the sandy hook school and the guy who shot up the colorado movie theatre and the guy who shot gabby giffords he looks absolutely handsome .. they all looked like they were way off the reservation if you get my drift .. but this boston bomber looked more like the guy who would hold the door open for a little old lady or somethin .. which of course is wrong .. or is it ?? just how screwed up was his sense of right and wrong ?? i mean really , just how do you spot the really sane ones who still want to kill you in the name of islam , right after they have a nice conversation with you about a video game they just got ?? 

This picture is a "selfie" the kid took.  The kid  has the face of an angel. That's the irony. I think the picture and the article go together beautifully.  People need to read this article because it is scary how much the kid was liked and so not a terrorist, except for ONE time...

 

As Frenchy said, He doesn't look like a crazy. None of his pictures make him look crazy.  Charles Manson WAS crazy, and it shows.

 

What the heck  am I still doing up?  I think I must be retired!!!!!

I still think that it's the wrong message. Making some guy that blew people's legs off look more glamorous than they really are and it will bite us in the backside. HARD. I see your point as well but what about the young impressionable ones who don't have a well developed sense of good judgement yet? That's the problem for me.

You're not alone, Merry. There are petitions all over face book and a general outcry of rage.  Sometimes the artistic approach is not the practical approach.  In this case, you may be right.

  Maybe they should have shown him when they found him inside the boat where he scrawled all kinds of jihadist saying and smelled of his own urine.  I can see your point.

Sorry, Merry, but yer dead wrong on this one. I think this whole hoopla is the same type of hysteria as when anti-Rock & Roll zealots claim that simply listening to an Ozzy Osbourne album would make an "impressionable" child run outside and start biting the heads off pigeons.

It's a bullshit argument. Anybody so deranged as to simply see Tsarnaev on the cover of RS and instantly decide that it would be "cool" to go out and blow up a public function, was already so far gone that they would have found ANY photo or song or random episode of "That 70's Show" to be sufficiently "motivation" for them to start killing people. Psychopaths ALWAYS find a justification for their acts, and if we start censoring anything that a lunatic MIGHT distort into their own rationalization or motivation, then we might as well just shut EVERYTHING down - And they'll STILL find SOMETHING to "trigger" their crimes.

Automatically assuming that RS intended to "glamorize" him - Or worse, that we all need to be "protected" from that kind of "He-Looks-Just-Like-My-Neighbor's-Kid" editorializing - is the real problem here. The over-reaction to the RS cover says a lot about people who still live in cringing fear of terrorism, and who want any reference to it to be couched in the same predictable, reliable, dire and threatening "They-Are-NOT-LIKE-US !!!" tones with which they've been so well-conditioned - Which is EXACTLY WHAT TERRORISTS WANT. The LAST thing that Al-Queda or Hammas or the KKK or FOXNews want is for people to NOT let themselves be stampeded by fear, and to start talking amongst themselves and hashing out their fears and their worries, and to start discussing viable, forward-looking solutions for the societal problems that help to create terrorism in the first place.

There is also the thing many people don't consider when talking about terrorists. People in a lot of these countries are raised to believe that this is OK that blowing up people and themselves is the way it has to be sometimes for a more peaceful nation, world, etc. To Americans who do not raise their children with these hatreds and twisted beliefs, it is APPALLING!!  MAYBE, sometimes a good looking, angelic, charming or whatever person SHOULD  be exposed and examined once in awhile to make people realize that EVIL is not only in the UGLY scary looking Manson types. Sometimes sick twisted madman tendencies are in that sweet, kind,  well mannered young man or woman that lives in your own neighborhood.

or how bout the westboro baptist church?....a nice constant screech of hatred in the christian vein. example? anyone who doesn't denounce homosexuality is an enabler...and all homosexuals and enablers should be put to death....a charming group of religiously demented ratfucks who think quality family time is picketing as a family

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/westboro-baptist-church-warri...

Paging Ted Bundy....Ted Bundy to the Media Courtesy Phone....

The problem, of course, is that sensationalist / provoking media will just take the angle of "EVEN ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE CAN BE KILLERS !!!", and exploit it for every ounce that they can squeeze out of it - Thereby, again, feeding the delusions and cravings for fame (or infamy) of psychos and loons..

*sigh*...The occasional cost of living in a country with a First Amendment...

Maybe they should send the Taliban a subscription. I wouldn't be shocked if they already had a couple copies.

Heavy sigh, they can say what they want that's their right ,just as it's mine to call it bs and boycott. And support businesses that boycott Rolling stone.

Your "boycott" only holds water if you also intend to boycott TIME, CNN and every other news agency and political talk show that runs a picture of Tsarnev.

unfortunately thats probably true too snagg .. no easy answer .. if you say somethin you encourage more of these fucktards to do it too .. and if you say nothin then everybody is kept in the dark and they sneak up on you .. again .. and again .. and again .. either way we're screwed .. 

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