This post is in no way meant to defend what he did. What bothered me the most was the way the divisive and distractive, agenda-pushing ma$$ media (to a person) pounced on the guy in the reverse McCarthyism of political correctness when we have war criminals who have killed millions with their lies and bank looters who have stolen trillions with their schemes walking around free.
"Men can’t hit women. That’s it. Ray Rice had to go. And now he is gone. Mrs. Rice asked for leniency for her husband....
Oh, yeah, her. Who cares about her wishes.
And think of this, hollering do-gooders who mean no harm: this call to banish and shun Rice means her life has just completely imploded. She may be at risk of being beaten because Ray may blame her for what has happened. Her economic future has just been totally shredded, and it's easy for others to say just go get a divorce.
So often it is that agenda-pushing do-gooders and media slaves fail to think through things lately, have you noticed that? The media mob's bloodthirsty rush to crucify some football player failed to account for that.
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Thus the conversation in AmeriKa leading up to elections is what Ray Rice did to his wife, not war and peace or the economy that serves only the elite.
Related: Are You Trying Out For the Football Team?
Nope. About to quit it, if you get my $ignal.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Once again I'm proved right. Agenda in full swing.
"NFL’s troubles weigh on fans" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff September 10, 2014
It’s a small protest; Katherine Perry knows that. But after the National Football League’s controversial response to a brutal display of domestic violence by a star player, Perry says she will not buy a jersey this season.
“I can at least choose where I spend my discretionary income,” said Perry, 31, a New England Patriots fan who is outraged by video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator.
Some of football’s biggest fans are feeling uneasy these days.
Football’s ugly side — the kid-glove treatment of some players charged with crimes, the growing evidence of traumatic brain injuries among players, reports of bullying and homophobia, even the contention surrounding the Washington Redskins name and logo — is increasingly intruding on the nation’s highest-rated sport among viewers.
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The Ravens cut Rice and the NFL indefinitely suspended him Monday after the violent video surfaced. But an eruption of outrage from fans, sportswriters, and anti-domestic violence activists has followed, putting the image-conscious NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell on the defensive.
Even the NFL’s October campaign to raise money and awareness on breast cancer strikes some fans as awkward.
“The NFL will be plastered in pink,” said Perry, a human resources manager in Boston who spends Sundays watching the NFL RedZone channel. “It’s a great cause, but it seems a little disingenuous. They’re supporting women’s health, but [domestic violence] is a women’s health issue, too.”
Why is the Department of Defense in charge of research and getting a cut of the loot?
As for the disingenuousness, it is all around us.
In Brookline, Dennis Doughty, a vice president of technology at Blade in Fort Point Channel — and commissioner of his fantasy football league — says that watching his beloved game has actually become stressful.
(Slight smile from blog editor)
“Every time a player gets tackled and his head hits the ground, you think he just had one more blow to the head,” Doughty said. “You get this pit in your stomach, and you worry what it’s doing to him.”
Doughty has no plans to stop watching football for now, but he is wondering if the 65-inch TV he’s buying in large part to watch football was a good idea. “I feel like I might have this huge white elephant in my house.”
Especially when you have to upgrade in a few years.
He noted that, as one sign of the shifting opinions of the game, football announcers have changed the way they talk about injuries.
“Ten years ago they used this expression, ‘He just got his bell rung.’ Now they don’t say that. They realized it’s a trivialization of the problem.”
In Medford, after news of the disturbing Rice video, Patriots fan Vince Lavertino is looking at the game differently. “When I sit down to watch football I don’t want to think about the crimes the players are committing,” Lavertino, an engineer, said during his lunch break in Downtown Crossing. But now he can’t help but think about off-field behavior.
Wow, a double but.
“I’m still going to watch,” he said. “But it bothers me.”
Have another beer and chill out!
Indeed, fans are still watching in droves.
And none of my jock sports buddies care. They want to see the game and their players ion their leagues that I couldn't care less about.
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The vast majority of fans interviewed this week around Boston — where the murder charges against former Patriots star Aaron Hernandez have been a major story for months — say they are not ready to give up on football, upset as they may be about a player’s off-field behavior, the league’s response, and other issues.
Related: Aaron and Abigail Are Cousins
Also see:
Aaron Hernandez’s girlfriend again seeks dismissal of perjury charge
Hernandez lawyers seek to suppress cellphone evidence
The way I see it, the heavy-hand of state authority and the delay of justice indicates a foul on the offense.
“You’ve got to separate between the players’ personal lives and football,” said Joanne Carrasquillo, a customer service employee from Brighton.
Just did.
“I’ve got to watch the games,” said Christopher Rowell, an Amtrak employee from Mattapan. “I’m a football man.”
Will do. Have to. If not, friends will wanna know what's wrong, don't like us, snob?
Nevertheless, some fans are fed up.
Me, too!
Individual boycotts or threats of boycotts, are popping up around the country.
BDS, baby!
Before Sunday’s game between the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans, Native Americans protested outside Houston’s stadium over the Redskins name. Chance Landry, owner of the city’s Southern Apache Museum, told the Houston Chronicle Native Americans feel the NFL isn’t showing them respect. “We don’t want our children and grandchildren to have to live with this any longer,” he said.
Related: Native Americans deserve respect
There are a lot of words I will not use here, and I won't clue you in on them but I do object to this politically-correct dogma being used to stamp out free speech in this country and censor discussion. We all know it is being driven by the Zionist media controllers with their overemphasis on all this divisive stuff. It's to ultimately shut down criticism of anything they are doing in the hopes if you don't see it anymore you won't know what is there.
XXXXXX. Didn't make the survey.
In August, after the NFL penalized Rice with a two-game suspension, Maine Governor Paul LePage — who says he was beaten by his father until he ran away from home at age 11 — threatened to boycott the league.
That's surprising because LePage is generally presented as a bad guy in my Bo$ton Globe.
In the end, it was a move he didn’t take after the NFL increased penalties for domestic violence or sexual assault to a six-game suspension without pay for the first offense and an indefinite ban for a second offense. A banned player can petition for reinstatement after one year.
Arlington writer Steve Almond is following through with his boycott. The author of “Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto” — which argues that the sport “legitimizes and even fosters within us a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia” — says he stopped watching football before the last Super Bowl.
Don't cast the 1%'s problems onto me or label me with those last two. Matter of fact, I'll prove you wrong above.
“If you really look at football, it’s very troubling on a whole bunch of levels,” he said. “I believe we’re at a moral crossroads, but change is gradual.”
Like the MILITARISTIC ASPECT (like jet overflights wasting fuel and warming the planet or the general terminology as Carlin once noted)?
“Against Football” was published in August, and Almond says he’s heard from people who call him a “pansy” as well as those who take its message so seriously that they’ve also stopped watching.
One such former fan is Irving Kurki of Brookline, a retired Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center employee. “The Jets were my team,” he said, “and it was a Sunday afternoon event for me.”
It is, and if I failed to show up.... I'd rather face Satan himself. I wouldn't want that fall out.
But now, he says, he’s come to realize that “it’s wrong to be entertained by a process whereby people are injured and their lifespans are shortened.”
Kurki said he’s not only stopped watching, but he’s stopped reading about football. So far he’s not suffering from withdrawal. “I was a smoker once, too, and I gave that up.”
And here I am reading a Globe.
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Anybody REMEMBER the VICTIM (page A8).
"Experts say Janay Rice’s misplaced blame is not unusual" by Deborah Kotz | Globe Staff, September 10, 2014
The video of NFL player Ray Rice punching his girlfriend so ferociously that she loses consciousness — which led to Rice’s firing Monday from the Baltimore Ravens — leaves little room for debate about who shoulders blame for the assault.
But Janay Rice, the victim who is now the athlete’s wife, has implicated others, including herself and the media, for her husband’s troubles.
“No one knows the pain” the media have caused her family, Janay posted on her Instagram account Tuesday, “to take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass [off] for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.”
Of course, all the agenda-pushing experts will explain it away as saying the woman is out her mind! How disrespectful is that?
Janay Rice had apologized in a May 23 press conference convened by the Ravens for her “role in that night” of the assault, while Ray Rice apologized at that time for “the situation my wife and I were in” when they got into an altercation at an Atlantic City casino in February.
Specialists in responding to and preventing domestic violence expressed little surprise at Janay’s reactions, saying they are common among abuse victims.
Not to go off topic, but I'm thinking of all the innocent men, women, and children standing under US air and drone strikes right now. What a beat down that has been and still is, 'ey?
“This is a demonstration of power and control that an abuser has over someone,” said Ruth Glenn, interim executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. “Of course, she’s going to apologize. That’s the dynamic for domestic violence — that the victim shares the blame.”
Why did GAZA just LEAP TO MIND?
Ray Rice’s abnegation of full responsibility also fits the profile of those who engage in abuse, specialists said.
Profiling? Isn't that bad?
Such people, usually men but sometimes women, tend to be narcissistic, blaming other people for their own negative actions.
In other words, they behave just like the Israeli government.
“They overevaluate what they’re contributing to the relationship and underevaluate what they get out of it,” said psychologist David Adams, codirector of Emerge, one of 15 certified programs to treat domestic violence perpetrators in Massachusetts. “Ray Rice may see himself as providing a lot of money, and he puts a lot of stock in that, while also feeling like he’s the real victim.”
While the video showed Janay Rice slapping Ray Rice lightly before he landed his punch, prosecutors dropped assault charges against her. Ultimately, domestic abuse isn’t just about taking a swipe in the heat of an argument, domestic violence counselors say.
“It’s about power and control over a person,” said Laura Van Zandt, executive director of REACH, a Boston nonprofit that provides safety and support to domestic violence victims. “Abusers lower a victim’s self-esteem, cut her off from family and friends, and exert control over finances.”
Put it all in the war context.
Victims are often psychologically tormented by their abusers before physical violence occurs.
Like a blockade that lasts years and keeps people at a sub-subsistence level?
“Victims do not enter these relationships because they want to be abused,” Glenn said. “They get into relationships because they love that person and usually believe they can fix the situation.”
Specialists said punishments meted out by judges or prosecutors in plea deals often do more harm than good.
I said that.
Rice avoided jail time, and agreed to enter an anger management program, which Adams said can prove counterproductive.
“Anger management focuses on losing control, but domestic violence is really about maintaining control,” he said.
Many abusers leave anger management classes with a better understanding of triggers that may set them off — a sarcastic tone, or a rehashing of the past directed at them by their partner — which allows them to lay blame on the victim, rather than take responsibility for their actions. Anger management classes typically last 10 weeks.
Put this all into the war setting and this government's drive to expunge enemies it literally created.
A 2004 study by the state’s Office of the Commissioner of Probation found that abusers who completed certified batterer intervention programs, such as those run by Emerge, were significantly less likely to commit another violent offense or have a restraining order issued against them compared with those who completed anger management programs.
The Emerge program lasts 40 weeks, with two-hour group therapy sessions each week. Men who attend the program learn how to empathize and become better listeners. They are not allowed to minimize their abusive behavior or assign blame to their victim. A 12-week progress report is sent to victims letting them know whether the therapy is helping — or whether they’re likely to be victims again if they stay in the relationship.
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I saw from the hits that you readers don't give a shit so this is the end of this story.
