The story at the link below is disturbing on many levels. Subsequent to the widely publicized girl beating video posted on YouTube.com, a group of girls near my hometown lured a 12 year-old girl from an event into a vacant lot and began beating her with fists, and one girl even used a rock.
http://www.news-tribune.net/local/local_story_109120443.html

Now, one would think that the harsh punishment the Florida girls are receiving, and what they are potentially facing as a sentence would be a deterrent to others with this same idea of videotaping a beating, but apparently it has just provided an incentive.

What’s even more disturbing is that this occurred at Thunder Over Louisville. Thunder is the the largest display of fireworks in North America, and it is the event that kicks off festivities for the Kentucky Derby. I’ve been to this event on numerous occasions, and I know that during this time people are literally everywhere. Parking lots are full, yards overflow with people and cars are parked anywhere one can get away with parking without being towed. The area where this beating supposedly took place was in a parking lot of a facility that is used as a reception hall. It’s reported to have been vacant, and I have difficulty understanding how, during
Thunder over Louisville
, a parking lot so near the festivities could be vacant of both cars and people. Surely, someone had to have seen this going on and should have reported it, but apparently the girls were able to get by with it long enough to post video footage on the internet.

Additionally disturbing is the fact that this 12 year-old girl is said to be the daughter of a police officer. My guess is, since security is stepped up during Thunder, her police officer parent had to have been nearby and probably working the event. Even if the parent was working that evening, would the 12 year-old be there alone to wander around by herself? My question would not only be where were the parents of all of these children during this event, but did the 12 year-old not have any friends with her that could have called for help? And how could these girls have lured her away? Wouldn’t red flags have shot up in her head when these girls called her on her cell phone to lure her to a remote area?

It’s disturbing to know how easily something like this can happen, and even more disturbing that the girls perpetrating the assault are so proud of what they have done, they place a videotape of it for the world to see. How sad does one’s life have to be to need such attention as this?

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Dr. Phil is in the news again after his staff members posted bail for one of the teens involved in beating video posted on YouTube (http://www.sensiblelife.com/editorial/2008/04/08/beatdowns-on-the-web/).

The article on this is below, and it states the story the show was planning to do on this issue has now been canceled and the staff spoken to, but one has to wonder why it happened in the first place. Someone had to approve the budget for it, and even then, no one questioned the appropriateness of such an act? Unbelievable.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=309293&GT1=7703

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This article is very enlightening on the history and stance of Barry (now Barack) Obama. Voters are advised to proceed with caution and think out the consequences of the decisions they make. While perhaps very convincing, Obama’s lip service can’t be substantiated, so don’t be fooled into believing he is out for this country’s best interest.

http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11572988/