massimilianogoi on 22/2/2010 at 13:51
Quote:
Sun Feb 21, 9:04 pm ETROME (AFP) - Politicians and Internet activists in Italy have denounced a page on the social networking site Facebook that calls for children with Down Syndrome to be used for target practice.
Police were trying to track down who set up the page, which features a photo of a Down Syndrome baby with the word "idiot" superimposed on it, and by late Sunday had attracted nearly 1,700 members.
The page proposed what it said was "an easy and amusing solution" to get rid of "these foul creatures", calling them "parasites": use them as targets at shooting centres.
Equality minister Mara Carfagna, promising legal action against those responsible for the page, denouncing it as "unacceptable and dangerous."
A number of rival groups have already been set up on Facebook to denounce the original page, one of which had attracted more than 17,000 members.
"People's ignorance has no limits," Manuela Colombo, the president of a support group for families with Down Syndrome children told ANSA news agency.
Police action to get the site shut down might take some time according to some experts, because Facebook is based in Palo Alto, California, and the procedure might entail a lengthy legal process.
One baby in 1,200 is born with Down Sydrome in Italy and there are 38,000 with the condition living there, 61 percent of whom are older than 25 years, according to figures cited by the Italian Down Syndrome Association, ANSA reported.
Yeah, theBlackMan, society is more screwed up than ever.. People like these group founders should deserve to be hanged in public plaza.
DDL on 22/2/2010 at 14:45
Yeah, hanging!
That's the civilised response of an enlightened society, right?
:tsktsk:
Oh wait, it's massimilianogoi...never mind, then.
massimilianogoi on 22/2/2010 at 14:59
Quote Posted by DDL
Yeah, hanging!
That's the civilised response of an enlightened society, right?
:tsktsk:
Oh wait, it's massimilianogoi...never mind, then.
For people like that, oh, yes!
june gloom on 22/2/2010 at 15:03
If we hung every happy asshole who ever expressed a cruel, unfunny opinion to shock people for their own amusement the internet would consist entirely of 45-year-old stay-at-home moms playing Scrabble on Yahoo and the world would run out of rope. Go away already.
Turtle on 22/2/2010 at 16:58
I want so badly to put that in my location field, but it won't fit.
I demand satisfaction!
massimilianogoi on 22/2/2010 at 18:53
use it like a signature
Turtle on 22/2/2010 at 20:38
fuck off
CCCToad on 22/2/2010 at 21:06
Quote Posted by dethtoll
If we hung every happy asshole who ever expressed a cruel, unfunny opinion to shock people for their own amusement the internet would consist entirely of 45-year-old stay-at-home moms playing Scrabble on Yahoo and the world would run out of rope. Go away already.
Coming from somebody who has wished everything from banning to painful death on people who disagree with him.
I think dethtoll holds that opinion because he knows he'd be the first person on the noose if we started hanging people who express cruel, unfunny opinions.
rachel on 22/2/2010 at 21:41
It is notable that a future edition of The Encyclopedia Galactica fell through a wormhole in time, and its entry for dethtoll is "the first person on the noose when they started hanging people who express cruel, unfunny opinions."
*Zaccheus* on 22/2/2010 at 22:24
Hmm ... I just noticed, if "dethtoll" started with an 'r' instead if a 'd' it would be an anagram of "the troll". :joke:
