Generation Jackass (advance Australia fair)
Hurting people on TV is fun, so why not share that fun by hurting someone while filming it and selling it? The story of a dozen Australian teenagers who attacked a mentally impaired girl sexually and filmed it so they could sell the DVD shows an incredible lack of mental development on the parts of the boys involved, and also gives us a glimpse of the moral compass of children grown up in a mass media 24/7 world where images are detached from consequences. The fact that none of these boys clicked that they could be identified and thus prosecuted beggers explanation, but blaming Jackass and new media is only part of the explanation, the much deeper issue is within the boys themselves. Since day dot, groups of young men have chased women down like a pack of wild animals and have raped and attacked them – the thrill of the chase, the excited glints in their eyes, the base desire of the hunt – all these taboos mixed with the puberty flush of hormones in a mass media world dominated by images detached from their consequences creates copied actions without consequences. The new media environment feeds such actions, but such actions are well seeded in children who haven’t been taught that their actions have consequences. The public disgust and deep shame at what they have done, will start hitting home those consequences now.
Aussie teens who filmed attack on girl 'like Nazis'
MELBOURNE - The acts of up to a dozen youths filmed sexually abusing and degrading a teenage girl were similar to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, a child psychologist says.
One school student has been expelled, another left his school voluntarily and others have been suspended over the shocking home-made DVD, which was filmed in Werribee in Melbourne's south-west and has been sold at at least three Victorian schools for A$5 ($5.75).
Excerpts of the DVD show a group of 12 youths surrounding the 17-year-old girl, who has a mild developmental delay, and bullying her to perform sex acts. The youths urinated on the girl and set her hair alight.
The DVD also depicts youths making chlorine bombs, harassing a homeless man and throwing eggs at taxi drivers.
posted by Bomber @ 12:32 pm
18 comments
18 Comments:
With such a large human poulation, there is bound to be aberrations.
These boys are an example of this.
I believe these boys would be of more value to society as organ donors.
Yeh anon, organ donators for sure.
Now this is the time that corporal punishment is needed. Fuck if anyone from my school did this, any of my friends i would give them a good fucking hiding aye. I don't give a shit if its vigitlism.
I saw this last night on Cambell Live and i was fucking pissed off, man im ashamed of some people especially ones like this.
Sorry i got nothing but anger to this.
Bomber doesn't approve of punishment so I imagine he thinks cooooownnnnnsellling it the appropriate response.
Me - bung em in jail for a while, that will knock the stupid smiles of their ugly faces, these things will never be safe to live in society.
Rehab for these types is a myth, go back in 20/30 years and see what they have done by then. We can only hope they will be put away for a very long time before they kill - but experince tells us they will be given many oportunities to abuse and kill before anything is done to protect the innocent, the needs of the crimanls always comes first.
Also go for their stupid mummies and daddies - they (and others) must have known about this. Good on the girl who blew the whistle but I fear for her, she is likely to end the one who gets punished.
As for NZérs acting as if they are in some way better than other races - give me a break, you are the worst pigs I have ever met the only thing you are good at is cover-ups and lies.
Look at your crime and abuse rates, that is only 10% of the full story most abuse (especially of women) is supported by the courts, parliament and the whole system. My advice to anyone abused in NZ is don't report it - the NZ (in)justice system will abuse you with far more intensity than your original persecutors.
It’s not worth losing everything, you cannot win and you have nothing to gain, all you will do is give the lawyers some legalized fun, they get off on your pain.
Just get you passport and get out.
"As for NZérs acting as if they are in some way better than other races - give me a break, you are the worst pigs I have ever met the only thing you are good at is cover-ups and lies."
So, anon, where are you from?
The 1st world - something NZérs no little about.
That is one of the most disgusting things I have ever read. Those boys should be locked up. I read that one has been expelled from school- is this the only punishment they have received?
Are you really blaming the media Bomber? The fact that they sold the DVD is incidental, really. They should be held accountable for the crime of sexually whatever-ing the poor girl. And, as someone else wrote, that sort of crime has been around since Oog the caveman, probably. Don't blame Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O for this. I play Grand Theft Auto- doesn't mean I am going to go out and carjack someone, or run drugs for the Triads.
There will be few, if any, consequences for these criminals.
The only thing that may happen is they will be surrounded by people worrying about them and wanting to make sure they have a good future.
There will be many consequenses for their victims and the whistle blower, no-one will give a damn about them.
...
Deano - I'm blaming the media as such - but if you bombard kids with Jackass and other such pop culture malfunctions - I think it has a part to play in opening the door for this type of behaviour - it's just a reminder that violence begets violence
anon said,
"The 1st world - something NZérs no little about."
Haha. Now where exactly do you come from anon,
Which country?
Never tell NZérs where you are from - they are racists and hate everyone but themelves, because they are, of course the greatest race on earth and NZ is the greatest country on earth.
New Zealander aren't a race anon.
Apart from that, great projection.
Don't tell them, after all they are so much better than everyone else, they must be because they keep telling everyone.
Ignorance is bliss that’s why NZ’ers are bloody ecstatic.
Once again anon speaking for himself/herself.
Well george do tell how many people voted for you and who you represent, other than yourself.
I am not so conceited as to speak for anyone other than myself.
Wooosh.
Thats the point I was making going waaaay over anon's head.
Great irony though anon, cheers for that.
NZér with irony - I don't think so georgy ....
Keep on kidding yourself ignorance is bliss - god you must be bloody ecstatic
Did you get lost on the thread above anon?
Here is a c&p for you from that thread;
"It must be fun coming from the greatest country in the world and being a member of such a superior race, when you are superior amongst the superior WOW ...."
We are, and it is.
Fun that is.
Thanks for still caring.
Are you going to tell us where your from?
I hope your not from New Zealand, because that self-loathing has sure got to be doing some emotional damge.
"NZér with irony - I don't think so georgy ...."
Err...no anon, that would be me laughing at your unintentional irony.
If you mean a NZ'er who gets irony, well one of does at least.
Your turn.
So, that would be checkmate to me then.
Better luck next time, you self-loathing poster you.
Post a Comment
<< Home