A Heart-Warming Story
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It's time, I feel, for a heart warming story. It seems that your 'Hall of Shame' is made up of the sheep who follow what others believe and add a piece more just so they feel they fit in. Unfortunately, you have ignored the wolves - the manipulators of Schapelle's tragedy.
Many years ago I was watching my black and white television when a woman appeared on the screen to explain in a strange detached manner that her baby had been taken by a dingo. She identified the baby's bloody clothing and no emotion passed across her face.
As the days progressed, I learned that she was a Seventh Day Adventist and that her husband was a pastor and since I'd been involved in cult de-programming I understood everything I'd seen. What nobody realised is that although Seventh Day Adventists are not considered a cult, the members live their lives isolated from the rest of the community and to justify their beliefs to neighbors and friends an 'us and them' mindset develops. When the cameras were turned off, Lindy Chamberlain most likely howled her heart out but for those brief moments that Australia was watching she would show how God's love and her religion of choice protects her from pain.
But the man on the street never saw that. They saw a cold hearted religious fanatic and believed that the child's name 'Azaria', meant sacrifice. I joined the support movement with a sign in hand and went to chant outside the couthouse in Darwin. The real evil wasn't from the sheep who bleated their beliefs and lacked the brains to find out what 'Azaria' meant, it was the Darwin Police who had withheld information that would have vindicated her.
A man had written an article in the West Australian newspaper about how Lindy's body language and mannerisms proved her guilt. What's more he laid out a proof that the husband, Michael, was involved as well. Since, I am a bit of a hoarder, I kept the article vowing one day to get even with this charlatan.
The years past and Lindy was released and although 80% of the population had once believed she was guilty they seemed to have disappeared. From that time on, everyone you ever met had been a supporter... of course, they were.
I went to WAIT, now callled Curtain University, to do some additional units when who should I see but the writer of the aforementioned article tutoring a creative writing course. That was apt. So, I found the newspaper article and photocopied a thousand copies and planted them all over the campus...
ha ha ha ... I got revenge because apparantly he was the only person in Australia who had believed Lindy Chamberlain was guilty.
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