So Siobhan O’Dowd decided to take down her Raoul Moat tribute page. Apparently, she regrets the whole thing. However, she still has a soft spot for the psychopathic monster.
I just I genuinely felt sorry for him because he asked for help but didn’t get it. He felt his whole life had been taken away from him. He was in jail and his girlfriend writes to him and says she is seeing someone else he had kids with her and was in love with her.
So shit happens. The “Dear John” letter isn’t exactly new. It may be a cruel way to announce a split, but it happens. Besides, given Moat’s history, she may have felt that a face to face encounter was potentially dangerous. A fear that was well founded as it turned out.
I genuinely felt sorry for him and am not the only person who did feel sorry for him either.
Which just goes to show how misguided some people can be.
The 21-year-old added: “I feel sorry for the families because it was an awful thing that he did.”
This, of course, is the crux of the matter. Innocent people were shot – and one killed – by a thug who was incapable of controlling himself, who thought that violence was an answer to his problems. We all have problems. We do not all take it out on others using violence. There is nothing to feel sorry for Raoul Moat over. He made his decisions and we judge him by them. He was a murderer and as such deserves no sympathy.
Miss O’Dowd directed some blame towards Moat’s former girlfriend, Sam Stobbart, 23, who told him her new boyfriend was a policeman.
“The lad who got shot, that was horrible but if she hadn’t have said he was a police officer it would not have happened,” she claimed. “Yes she was scared of him but she should not have written him a letter. Because of her that lad has lost his life really.”
No! No! No! Raoul Moat pulled the trigger. He made the decision, he carried out the act, he is entirely and solely responsible for the death. Sam Stobbart was not responsible; Moat was. Stop making excuses for the inexcusable.
You beat me to it.
This thick cow has got her picture in our local newspaper.
It’s that Facebook creed again. To thick to know any better.
Facebook, for the hard of thinking…
Check out Mary Dejevsky in the ‘Indy’ today. Even people who should know better are expressing sympathy for this man…
This, of course, is the crux of the matter. Innocent people were shot – and one killed – by a thug who was incapable of controlling himself, who thought that violence was an answer to his problems. We all have problems
Though isn’t there are remarkable parallel between the arguments advanced to excuse Moat and the arguments advanced to excuse policemen who kill innocents? Thus the death of Jean Charles de Menenzes is excused as the fault of the 7/7 bombers and not the psychopaths who pumped 7 bullets into the head of a man they could clearly see was unarmed. The death of Ian Tomlinson is blamed on the G20 protestors and not the vicious cowardly thug who shoved him to the ground. Etc. Etc. Blaming the victim or third parties is not unique to the thick hero worshippers of Moat. It is also the way that the state justifies its use of violence and murder.
Stephen, true and it’s time it stopped. It’s worth pointing out the difference between Moat and the De Menenzes executioners and the G20 police officer is that I very much doubt he intended to kill. A difference of degree, anyway.
No, I agree. The killer of Ian Tomlinson probably didn’t intend to kill his victim. However I don’t think that would get any citizen who killed a policeman off the hook. And rightly so. That’s what the crime of manslaughter is for.
Yuk! For an antidote; Tebbit in the Torygraph…
My slightly different take on it all
http://www.boatangdemetriou.com/2010/07/raoul-moat-sympathy-for-devil.html