cracked:Just because she’s a dog owner doesn’t mean she’s different.4 Ways America
cracked:Just because she’s a dog owner doesn’t mean she’s different.4 Ways America Has a (White) Terrorism Problem#4. Americans Have a Weak Spot for White, Liberal TerroristsLet’s be clear: Patty was brainwashed. But so is every other terrorist out there, from what I can tell. Very few people are born with an innate desire to utilize beheadings to achieve their political and religious agenda. I mean, I know like six people born that way, but they were really bad babies. And three of them were mine.The difference between Patty and, say, I don’t know, terrorists with brown skin, is that her conversion time was insanely short and she looks like white America. During her trial her defense went back and forth between her having Stockholm Syndrome and her being “forced” to rob banks and drive getaway cars while her comrades shot civilians dead. Both are bad news for everyone involved, but you couldn’t really tell where Patty stood ideology-wise. Especially because she looked like the thousands of young upper-class American girls who were wearing their boyfriends’ letter jackets and cheering at the big homecoming game one year and smoking pot and hitching to California with their new Moonie cult the next year.So when Patty came back to regular, normal life, it was like your own prodigal daughter coming home to eat the fatted calf. She got married, had children, appeared in John Waters movies, did all the things normal middle-class women do as they grow older. Now, let’s contrast Patty’s story with another lady criminal of her generation…Read More -- source link
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