Dan White was not a monster!!
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j-craig-2 — 16 years ago(January 25, 2010 01:42 AM)
In my eyes Dan White was mentally ill,-though the fast food defense was crazy desperation by his lawyer- & should`ve been put into a hospital for the criminally insane & not locked up in jail,he seemed like a tortured soul -who knows what he saw in vietnam?- yet he was a hero as a fireman,rescuing a very elderly lady from a burning building,& had such morals a cop that he resigned after informing on a fellow officer who beat up a handcuffed suspect,wheres the compassion for him?
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j-craig-2 — 16 years ago(January 26, 2010 07:33 AM)
He was also a person whose whole life was falling apart around him,harvey milk let him down with the vote on the teenage asylum, & this resulted in these 2 former political allies falling out,which eventually resulted in Mr White losing his dream career,the guy must have been under so much stress to do what he did,& that stress & living hell he went through ultimatly resulted in him taking his own life,wasnt harvey milk a compassionate man? do you think he wouldve wanted his kids to grow up without a father? he was obviously mentally ill & the goverment & country he served so well let him down by not giving him the care he needed,then he shouldve been imprisoned for his crime,for life if need be,,the US
justicesystem is a total joke! same as its political & healthcare system,,which is very apparent when you read up on this story & not just watch a totally biasedright onfilm!
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otter — 16 years ago(January 31, 2010 09:03 AM)
Uh, he SHOT AND KILLED THE MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, as well as Harvey Milk. Two people dead, the government of a major city shattered, families and loved ones heartbroken, and there's actually debate about whether this guy was really so bad?
If someone shot and killed someone YOU loved, would you stop and say "Well, he was under a lot of stress, he'd lost his job, and he was so handsome and charming". No, you wouldn't. You'd realize he was a cold-blooded murderer, and that nothing else about him mattered.
But apparently there are still people in this world who think a gay man's life isn't worth much.
PS: As far as locking him up in the nuthouse, he didn't qualify. To be declared "not guilty on the grounds of insanity", he'd have to have believed that Milk and Moscone were aliens who had to be killed before they could conquer the Earth with their army of ass babies, or something equally delusional. As it was, he killed them because he blamed them for his own mistakes, which doesn't meet the legal definition of insanity, but got off with a slap on the wrist. At least he had the decency to give himself the death penalty, good riddance.-
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straburyred-38 — 14 years ago(August 15, 2011 02:44 PM)
It's just as well that Dan White killed himself. If he hadn't,he would've had the gay community and pro-gay advocates after his @$$! He'd have had no refuge.
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Joeytrom@aol.com — 12 years ago(April 15, 2013 07:29 AM)
By the time Dan White killed himself, it didn't get very much notice in the gay community as it was being ravaged by AIDS.
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alpeaston — 16 years ago(January 30, 2010 11:58 AM)
He was also a homophobic, throwback, redneck, a-hole.
That he only spent 5 years in jail for what was obviously the premeditated murder of two people was the true outrage and crime!
I would have hoped that had he not done the right thing and took his own life (cause
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he knew he deserved the death penalty) that some gay man or woman would have shot him dead.
Oh and they should have made sure to have some Twinkies and milky way bars on hand just to have a decent defense!
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j-craig-2 — 16 years ago(February 04, 2010 09:08 AM)
Yeah well read up on his life before he became a politican,the guy was a decent man who became mentally ill,how about a little compassion folks? & forgivness,ever heard of they words? Furthermore wouldnt it have hurt Dan White more anyway to have lived out the remainder of his life with the burden of what he had done? Think about it!
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alpeaston — 16 years ago(February 04, 2010 11:32 PM)
I can have plenty of compassion for White, his wife and his kids. No doubt a terrible tragedy all around.
But I also think of the contribution that a living Harvey Milk might have made. Who knows how much more along we could be with gay right. He could have been the gay Martin Luther King!
No one won in this terrible event but it is especially disquieting (and remarkably unjust) that White, who obviously premeditated the dual murders, walked away with so little time especially considering he easily qualified for the death penalty!
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BertramWilberforceWooster — 12 years ago(November 04, 2013 12:58 AM)
He could have been the gay Martin Luther King!
That's a horrible comparison. MLK was black.
Btw, before you get offended, that was meant as sarcasm, so pull your panties out of twats.
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talktej27 — 15 years ago(June 30, 2010 06:37 PM)
So if I've done a few good deeds in my past life, but am currently suffering from slight depression, would I qualify to assassinate others & get over it serving only 5 years' sentence for my acts under stress? If we go by your theory, we should be having quite a few assassinations everyday. There are lots of decent guys out there going through a hell lot of stress, but strange as you may find it, they don't resort to murdering people just in order to deal with their "mental illness".
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Doc80 — 13 years ago(January 25, 2013 01:03 PM)
I would like to point out that Dan White didn't lose his job, he quit. He quit because he didn't get his way and after he actually thought about his decision, he wanted back in. Only problem though was that Mayor Mascone wouldn't reinstate him because he didn't think it was right to just reward him after he spit in the face of the people who elected him in the first place. A good example would if a US Senator suddenly quits and after a week, the go to the governor of the state to name them as the "replacement," assuming of course that that is the setup in that state.