Who said these bastards were rehabilitated (Bulger murder)

[shootemindehead]

Yeah, this was huge news in 1993 here in the UK, and the case continues to reverberate to this day. It's one of those cases that everyone has at least heard of, or knows the connotations of it, and of course it always gets refreshed interest everytime there's a new documentary. There were two competing docs last year as it was the 25th anniversary, one of which was quite controversial in its apparent take on the killers themselves. Then, of course, there's the recurring issue of Venables and possession of child pornography (both killers are under new identities, with one or both having had to get new identities at one time or another as the info has been leaked). IIRC Venables is back in prison for a second time for that offense. Yeh, Jon Venables is a truly disturbing character and the Bulger case is all the more shocking because of how innocent he and Thompson looked at the time. I remember the case really well and it was terribly shocking to everyone. What I hated though was the politicians using 'Child's Play 3' and other horror movies as a cheap political football and trying to emulate Mary Whitehouse's gibberish ten years earlier and thus belittling the entire case and the conversation that SHOULD have been happing because of it. Hard to believe it was 25 years ago.

[MinionZombie]

Yeh, Jon Venables is a truly disturbing character and the Bulger case is all the more shocking because of how innocent he and Thompson looked at the time. I remember the case really well and it was terribly shocking to everyone. What I hated though was the politicians using 'Child's Play 3' and other horror movies as a cheap political football and trying to emulate Mary Whitehouse's gibberish ten years earlier and thus belittling the entire case and the conversation that SHOULD have been happing because of it. Oh yeah, the "Ban The Sadist Videos" resurgence. What a load of bullshit that was. Something to do with the father of one of the kids having rented Child's Play 3, but there was sod all evidence that the killers had even watched it. And how could go from that film to the sort of stuff those two bastards did?! Scapegoat bollocks, tabloids rushing for easy answers, same old shit comes around every generation like in 2005 and the whole palava around "Manhunt". ^^^ "Dolls" ... seriously?! That's tame as all get out. Fun flick, but it's more like a Grimms fairytale than anything else!

[Neil]