Crimes of Desperation
Posted in Arrested Development, Hype!, Uncategorized on 10/03/2009 03:05 pm by AyshCNN posted this article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/02/letterman.past.incidents/index.html named, ‘Sextortion’ is latest issue pushing Letterman into spotlight.
A new review by the Police Executive Research Forum found that 44% of 233 police agencies across the country reported spikes in crime linked to the economy. Of those, 40 percent reported an increase in thefts due to the economy.
Robert ‘Joe’ Halderman supposedly desperate and debt-ridden according to The New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_robert_j.html) has possibly ruined his career and his reputation for life because his ethic of service is at war with a craving for gain. It always seems to come back to money. I’ve had to learn the hard way that it just doesn’t pay but when we are desperate, we do not think clearly.
The movie Fun with Dick and Jane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369441/) is about a middle manager Dick Harper, who becomes jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of a looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.
Even the Showtime show Weeds (http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do) addresses how desperate people can become. The plot revolves around a widowed housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood’s marijuana dealer to make ends meet. The title is a play on words, referring to both the slang term for marijuana and widow’s weeds, it also refers to the tendency of American suburbs to grow quickly and pervasively, with the dwellings and their residents being almost as indistinguishable as weeds; this is mirrored in the show’s theme song “Little Boxes” and opening credits, and is a recurring theme of the show itself. The theme song changes in the second season. The change consists of a different version every week.
People probably think Robert ‘Joe’ Halderman is a dirt bag and that he had a personal vendetta again David Letterman but I believe it was not personal at all. What he did was something a dirt bag would do but I do not know Mr. Halderman so I cannot begin to judge but I hope that what the Assistant District Attorney Judy Salwen says about him wanting” to destroy the reputation of Mr. Letterman and submit him and his family to humiliation and ridicule” is not true. Shame on her, and this is a very judgmental statement in this ‘supposedly’ democratic country we live in.
By no means am I justifying his attempt at extortion but right now, many people feel desperate, silently. We all judge and based on what the media puts out we deem their opinion as gospel. Crimes of desperation suck for all parties including the person who is guilty before proven innocent.
Chatatya lataa… Ayshah
