terrorists…bomb away…if this gets past the first stage of prosecution this country isn’t worth a damn anyway. Give kids dangerous drugs with known side effects that include suicidal thoughts. set them in front of a computer where you know they are having problems while you go out to try to find somebody to replace the kids dad. have dad be out shacking up and too busy to watch kid. then have an adult who is doing the same thing the whole cluster-f of idiots in that hood do every day that they probably learned on soap operas and reality shows tease the kid. Bingo…recipe for letting violent criminals out because there is no space in jail because they lock up similar adults. throw in an election that needs to give a boot in the butt to progressive things with red herring issues. you have arecipe for arbitrary punishment and loss of freedoms while searching for deep pockets. let wall streeters that the bombs missed go free who stole millions from the world. recipe for a great country…no? and they laugh…they laugh at this sham of a democracy. now hand those kids more pharmaceutical drugs that we know have bad side effects so we can sue fresh meat. we have male stalkers who can’t be stopped carrying guns and killing women and children in domestic violence cases. we have priests raping babies who run free with the sanction of their insane “church” leaders. steal us blind politicos, but at least we have women we can lock up for doing things folks do everyday. progress sucks. back to the stone tablets and headpieces for the women. bomg away boys…let’s start over…we lost the freedoms here.

I have seen sports coaches and gym teachers harass kids unmercifully over the years. Some committed suicide. Gay kids commit suicide in great numbers because of “religious” evil people. Get a grip. This is only a mirror of american society at its best. They just chose to jump on this ridiculous case because we have so little control over the rest of our lives. Once again, the internet and progressive forms of living take a hit in the name of a sick american society that is already firmly entrenched in the muck of the USofA. Mom…dad…you screwed up. Get over it!

Wow! Lots of feelings on this one. I’d just like to say if Obama has any issues with guns in the next few months, we jump on Huckleberry Hill Boy and indict HIM like they are attempting to do to this misguided bunch. I think folks are so discouraged at the anti-children things our society has started doing more and more that they are jumping on this with both feet. Hope it plays out right, but get rid of the bad drugs and you’ll go a step in the right direction. Hey highlighted honey of a mom…who knows where dad is today…sue the drug company and you’ll be going in a better direction here. I don’t want a violent offender let out because your revenge hood feud took a cell space. You are not squeeky clean enough for a trial and have more tears in your future that shouldn’t be there. Leave the net alone. We have enough real life destructive ones we can’t get locked up for whatever reason. I would rather my kids get harrassed online than in real life. Plug goes out of wall. Problem solved. Moving truck comes…probleam solved.

Whew: It took 30 seconds to scroll back through all the posts discussing the topic.

Charging that woman with a crime based on law promulgated by Myspace is so ridiculous….but funny.

Suppose the nutty Feds get a conviction. The results will be more laughable. Police who have caught sexual predators by pretending to be a under aged girl will move into cells that perverts now live, and will be sent home because the police said they were someone else.!!!!

You can’t have it both ways.

The legal wrangling is silly….the charges against the woman will be dropped
if the attorneys have common sense.

The woman who allegedly “caused” the suicide, can write a book and make millions, based on the interest that been shown by posters in here.

I find it grimmly ammusing that a 13 year old commited suicide, yet there is much talk of a politics on this blog. Sorry, the liberals did not cause this!!!
Maybe just b/c it is an election year (and everyone, down to Newt, is sick of the rebuplicans).
Her father is on the news with his girlfriend, yet both parents are trying to blame an outside party. She was (diagnosed) mentally ill, her parents aren’t getting along, she had a fight w/ mom (common, and I’m sure her mother will taunt herself forever for it, prior to her death)…lets blame a phantom. Not only is it ridiculous, I am embarressed for the parents.
Let her rest in peace.

The people who are arguing in favor of prosecution based on Lori Drew being a bad person who hurt a child’s feelings should be lobotomized– it would raise your IQ. Adults hurt the feelings of children all the time: bad grades, divorces, moving away from friends, etc. Lori Drew is no worse than millions of other insensitive adults.

The point that you bleeding hearts miss is that SHE ISN’T BEING CHARGED FOR HURTING THE KID’S FEELINGS. She is being charged for violating TOS, which the government is stupidly arguing is the same thing as hacking MySpace.

Anybody with the intellectual development of a five year-old understands why this is an affront to internet users, but try explaining that to these numbskulls. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO MAKE EVERYONE A CRIMINAL.

I don’t usually participate in these on-line blogs, but I am shocked by some comments it is hard not to reply. I don’t consider myself to be the sharpest cookie, but it doesn’t take a genious to realize, yes Megan’s mom probably shouldn’t have signed her up on Myspace, but ultimately, without a doubt that is not what triggered Megan to go over the edge. Someone who is troubled, hearing the words from someone she thought she loved telling her “the world would be a better place without you” is what caused her so much pain that convinced her to end her life. No matter what mental problems she had or how many times she cried wolf about killing herself, “Josh Evans” (Lori Drew) is what pushed her over the edge… PERIOD!!! I work in Corrections. Do I feel Lori is a danger to society and should be locked up???? I don’t think that will help anything, but I do believe she played a much greater role in Megan taking her own life than anyone else did. I am going to attack SUPERDAVE one more time because you seem to be the most opinionated person on here and obviously think you are the smartest, most amazing parent that ever lived. To me a lot of what you say sounds rediculous and you seem like a very closed-minded individual. I am almost thinking in some way you must be related to the Drew family, because you are very HARSH towards the Meier family! Everything you say is cruel and evil and sounds very one-sided. I am wondering myself, did you keep your children in a box and only let them out for air?? Did you let your children live thier own life and let them learn from thier own mistakes??? My mother is by far my BESTFRIEND in the whole entire world and if you think she is a bad mother for being my bestfriend you are crazy and probably don’t have half the trust and great relationship I have with my parents. That is sad! I don’t agree with how Megan’s mom is soaking up the Media attention, but I honestly believe she thought signing her up for Myspace would be a good thing. I think it would’ve been good for her until a 49 year old women seeks out revenge and deliberately torments a young child just because she THOUGHT her daughter was being talked about! She knowingly tried to hurt this child on her own free will. Megans Mom mistakingly made a bad choice and she will pay for it for the rest of her life. There is a huge difference and nobody can forsure say Tina Meier is to blame for the death of her daughter, but without a doubt nobody can deny that what Lori Drew did was WRONG, hateful and planned, to make Megan intentionally suffer!!! It bothers me deeply that you honestly believe her parents failed her. Superdave, you are a cruel, cold-hearted person for putting down anyone that you don’t even know for thier parenting skills on here. You have no right and no logic to back it up. It’s your opinion and that doesn’t make you right. You sound so matter-of-fact about everything, but it’s just your stupid ass opinion that I hope nobody actually takes serious!!!

Okay so everyone has opinion. Who really is guilty?! Well I think we need to place blame were it is due……..

Lori Drew for setting up the fake page and person

Her co-conspirators they helped to bring this fake person to life

Megan’s parents for being so blind to her daughters actual problems

Society, because this is the behavior everyone learns from Television, magazines, movies, video games and the internet. Most of all we need to blame ourselves for not watching out for the young children today, and just being a country so full of hate and worrying about what others think about us. Not to mention everyone as a society is ready with open arms to point a finger at someone else when something goes wrong, but no one take responsibility for their own actions anymore.

Everyone is so “I’ll sue you” happy, it makes me sick!

and we may as well include blame on Josh Evans (even though he is a fictional character, he is still responsible, he broke Megans heart after all)!

So who really is guilty?!

If you asked me this before 9/11, the answer would have been no.

Today, I say throw the book at her and a few other things. When people like her act as mean as she did and do it in a chickens**t manner hiding behind a computer impersonating a fictious boy, she should have her picture in a dictionary next to the word unbalanced.

Karl, you obviously don’t have children. If you do, don’t let them out of the house. It’s an ignorant boy crazy world out there. You’re a clown calling the victim emotionally detached - a victim getting messages from an immature adult woman, who made herself anonymous on a computer. What a surprise!

And I post using my real name.

I can’t help but read these and see the absolute disconnect that people have with responsibility and their own children. We are here to protect our children and not put them in harms way. Lori Drew could have easily been a 9 year old but it wasn’t.

If so many on here want to hand their own responsibility over to someone else. What parent would put their troubled daughter in this situation? Don’t give me this garbage that I am so hard. I am not of fan of Lori Drew but that doesnt take away the responsibility of Megan’s parents. She have her problems before Lori Drew appeared. Therefore, It was Megan’s parents who didn’t act responsibly. They failed her and now she is dead. That’s as simple as it gets.