Cecilia Jong

[Miss]

The girl who was kidnapped and later killed for over a very long period of time, Mississauga.

People respecting her and showing sympathy should be ashamed. Same with people putting letters in the beginning of their name on MSN etc. Think about it.

Why show respect for only one person? When there are millons of people who have died off all ages and have had it alot worse. Only because she is merely mentioned on TV she gets all this sympathy? And the rest who die unregonized don't? Thats disrespectul and rude to everyone else.

 

[dust601]

Thats the way america works right now.
2 people get in a car crash, ones a celebrity ones not. The celebritys gonna have 20 million people writing get well cards to, the other person will have there family and friends and thats it. Were somehow suppose to feel more sorry things when they happen to notable names then normal people.

 

[x[311]x]

Yeah, well known people always get the most respect in America... Whether they are Movie Stars, Sports Stars, or Celebrities... Or even if they get a 5 minute spot on the National News... Like Cecilia Jong. She was on TV for maybe what 1 or 2 minutes, but as soon as her face hit the TV screen she became a nationally known face. It has everything to do w/ the media. If i got into a car accident with Freddy Adu (15 year old national soccer player) who every one knows.. I could be in the bed right next to him and never see anyone but my family and friends.. Where as he would have Nike Reps coming to see him, as well as the media, and random people who just want to meet him... So its not neccessarily disrespectful to the other people that have died, or been severly injured. Its just how America works, we don't see a reason to care for the poor and the injured if we don't know who they are.
I'm not saying the way we do things are right, but people mourn nationally when they are given a reason to do it, via the Media...

 

[B)ushid(o]

Originally posted by Miss
People respecting her and showing sympathy should be ashamed.

How does that work? So if I show sympathy towards her I should be ashamed?

 

[Miss]

Because they show no sympathy and respect for noone else.

 

[Lights]

Originally posted by Miss
Because they show no sympathy and respect for noone else.

Two wrongs make a right?
There is no shame for feeling sympathy for someone who was killed, it is no sin. We must encourage the families, help them to stay strong. It should be done always, though by different people, not everyone at once. There is always someone who is in mourning. Of course there will be more sympathy for a little girl than some grizzled old man who passed away. Its the innocence of youth.

Are you asking everyone has a moment of silence everytime someone is killed? We would live in a silent world. Give help when you can, but you cant expect everyone to cry constantly, that does nobody any good.

 

[Miss]

Originally posted by Lights
Two wrongs make a right?
There is no shame for feeling sympathy for someone who was killed, it is no sin. We must encourage the families, help them to stay strong. It should be done always, though by different people, not everyone at once. There is always someone who is in mourning. Of course there will be more sympathy for a little girl than some grizzled old man who passed away. Its the innocence of youth.

Are you asking everyone has a moment of silence everytime someone is killed? We would live in a silent world. Give help when you can, but you cant expect everyone to cry constantly, that does nobody any good.

They don't even know you though, so how can you be there for the family when they never met you, nor ever will? Unless you are apart of that family. It is no sin. But its disrespectful and rude. Because some girl gets on the news and dead, means she gets the sympathy and respect from all the public and media? And yet the millions of others who die and aren't mentioned what happens to them? What I'm saying is if your going to respect this one girl then don't specify it, show respect for everyone who has passed on.

 

[B)ushid(o]

Let me ask you this: Would you want your name posted on newspapers and news shows for weeks on end? Would you want your family to be berated by reporters and symphatizers for months?

I think that most families want to mourn for relatives who died with just their family, friends, and even neighbors rather than have the whole country bothering them for months about their relative, child, spouse, etc. dying.

Don't put all the blame on people who sympathize with her. If anyhting you should be blaming the media for exposing the story.

 

[Raccoon]

Canadians aren't used to kidnappings and murders like you Americans. When something happens in our country, stuff gets done to try to find the person. In America, the police chief would just say "This is the fifth one this week.. I think I will hide the case file under some magazines."

P.S. It is Cecilia Zhang, not Jong. Get your facts straight before you go on a little ****ing rant.

 

[Gedrin]

Wow someone who knows little about an area of the world acting like they personally know exactly what is going on there. Believe it or not we take kidnapping very seriously here. When someone just disappears, especially children, people go looking for them.

When children are kidnapped their faces are most often put on the news to get people to look for them, or at least recognize them if they see them. A system that is used in the U.S. is called the amber alert. This is a system that puts police on alert when a child is kidnapped. We take kidnapping very seriously.

I suppose I could end this post saying that I don't blame you because Americans aren't used to continually drinking while chasing teenage canadian hooligans in full military dress, and the typing handicaps that that imposes. Television would tell me otherwise, but I know that not all canadians are mounties, and that they don't continually drink.
Reality if quite far from the impressions I would get from television.


As for respecting the dead, I have no problem with that. The death of a child is always a sad thing. As was already said if you want to direct your anger at someone direct it at the media.