03-21-2017, 07:02 AM
(03-21-2017, 12:55 AM)Benton Wrote: judging by the lesser editorialized account, it sounds like the cause of death was a heart attack, not scalded to death. I dont know if some sources realize or care, but playing loose with facts casts an entire story in doubt. Painting the cause of death as scalding instead of a heart attack makes it hard to put faith in the rest of it.
So let's say the first account was deliberately sensationalized in an effort to bring about Helter Skelter (to the delight of racists of all stripes). Let's say this includes deliberately lying about the cause of death. You seem to think that therefore the guards are exonerated. If their conduct precipitated the inmates death, or the heart attack that allegedly caused his death, or whatever else caused it - they aren't off the hook because Joe I Dream of Helter Skelter Journalist lied about it all!
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
