Post by Clipper on Sept 21, 2009 12:52:06 GMT -5
I agree with our assessment of TOPIX, but I am more inclined to believe that the majority of the OD comment section is still dominated by many of the same people that were on the original OD forums.
I guess I am a masochist. I tend to go there and stir the shit, and then sit back and laugh while they knock me around and raise hell. I can see their blood pressure rising like a thermometer tossed into a fire. Like stating that they should feel sorry for Sullivan's family with him possibly losing his pension. Hell, everyone that knows the situation, knows that Sullivan has separated from his wife, and that SHE will ultimately stick it farther up his butt than either the state police OR the court did. My sympathy is limited to a feeling that Sullivan has dug a hole and is too deeply dug in to be able to climb out. He has a beautiful estranged wife and beautiful children. I have to think that the drinking led to the running with other women and ending with a separation from his wife. I known many police officers personally over the years, and know that many of them over the years have ended up with marital troubles and alcoholism due to the stresses of the job.
I guess if ya want to dance, ya have to put a quarter in the juke box. My limited sympathy for him comes from the fact that when I was younger, I drank, and I made some very poor judgment calls that carried long term consequences. Pride and booze can put us on a really steep downward spiral. Progressive poor decision making and increased dependence on the booze simply speeds one along the path to destruction until we either hit a bottom or die.
I sincerely hope that pride does not drive him to suicide. He is in a very tough place right now, regardless of how much he is to blame for his own fate. He has worked hard for many years to build that home on the road to Prospect, and to achieve his rank. However many mistakes he made along the way, he is still a human being. The OD seemed to take great pleasure in making sure he got kicked around and stomped on regularly. More so than any other case I remember reading about in the papers.
I guess I simply don't like to see someone being kicked around while they are down, by the self righteous and judgmental. I have to think that Sullivan is rethinking many of his decisions right now, and having a lot of regret for many of them, not only the decision to drive 71mph over Deerfield hill that night after drinking. It is time for the dust to settle and for him to be given a chance to sort out his life and pick up the pieces. He has been punished enough for that night in February, and will surely pay a high price for his marital indiscretions.
I guess I am a masochist. I tend to go there and stir the shit, and then sit back and laugh while they knock me around and raise hell. I can see their blood pressure rising like a thermometer tossed into a fire. Like stating that they should feel sorry for Sullivan's family with him possibly losing his pension. Hell, everyone that knows the situation, knows that Sullivan has separated from his wife, and that SHE will ultimately stick it farther up his butt than either the state police OR the court did. My sympathy is limited to a feeling that Sullivan has dug a hole and is too deeply dug in to be able to climb out. He has a beautiful estranged wife and beautiful children. I have to think that the drinking led to the running with other women and ending with a separation from his wife. I known many police officers personally over the years, and know that many of them over the years have ended up with marital troubles and alcoholism due to the stresses of the job.
I guess if ya want to dance, ya have to put a quarter in the juke box. My limited sympathy for him comes from the fact that when I was younger, I drank, and I made some very poor judgment calls that carried long term consequences. Pride and booze can put us on a really steep downward spiral. Progressive poor decision making and increased dependence on the booze simply speeds one along the path to destruction until we either hit a bottom or die.
I sincerely hope that pride does not drive him to suicide. He is in a very tough place right now, regardless of how much he is to blame for his own fate. He has worked hard for many years to build that home on the road to Prospect, and to achieve his rank. However many mistakes he made along the way, he is still a human being. The OD seemed to take great pleasure in making sure he got kicked around and stomped on regularly. More so than any other case I remember reading about in the papers.
I guess I simply don't like to see someone being kicked around while they are down, by the self righteous and judgmental. I have to think that Sullivan is rethinking many of his decisions right now, and having a lot of regret for many of them, not only the decision to drive 71mph over Deerfield hill that night after drinking. It is time for the dust to settle and for him to be given a chance to sort out his life and pick up the pieces. He has been punished enough for that night in February, and will surely pay a high price for his marital indiscretions.
