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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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I can't believe I'm agreeing with a deranged psychopath...but yeah. He's right dammit. Collecting that shit is just creepy.
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Undeath
Title: Facepuncher of Asses
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While I agree with the fundamental subject, I just have to laugh in Berkowitz's face. After all, wouldn't his victims still be alive had he found Jesus BEFORE killing them? Just as there are 'no atheists in foxholes', I don't think there's really Christians in prison.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Well, if there are no atheists in foxholes, wouldn't it also follow that there are no atheists in prison for similar reasons?
As for Berkowitz, he appears to be sincere in his conversion.
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| In March 2002, Berkowitz sent a letter to New York Governor George Pataki asking that his parole hearing be canceled, stating: "In all honesty, I believe that I deserve to be in prison for the rest of my life. I have, with God's help, long ago come to terms with my situation and I have accepted my punishment."[39] In June 2004, he was denied a second parole hearing after he stated that he did not want one. The parole board saw that he had a good record in the prison programs, but decided that the brutality of his crimes called for him to stay imprisoned. In July 2006, the board once again denied parole on similar grounds, with Berkowitz not in attendance at the hearing. He is very involved in prison ministry and regularly counsels troubled inmates. |
Don't get me wrong, nothing will ever undo what he did. But not everyone in prison is in there for crimes as severe and grisly as his. And if his counseling and faith are able to reform any parole-eligible inmates, well, then good for him.
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JoshWoodzy
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Yeah, agreed. He does seem pretty sincere about it, denying himself parole twice is a good example.
But is he on medication now? I mean 30 years ago he was hearing voices and talking to his dog and shit. Was he possessed? Mentally unstable? (obviously) I don't understand how, without the help of medicine of some sort that his "crazy" just went away.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
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Yeah, agreed. He does seem pretty sincere about it, denying himself parole twice is a good example.
But is he on medication now? I mean 30 years ago he was hearing voices and talking to his dog and shit. Was he possessed? Mentally unstable? (obviously) I don't understand how, without the help of medicine of some sort that his "crazy" just went away. |
He admitted himself that he made all that up to get the insanity plea.
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Syd Lexia
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He's also said, and he never recanted this, that he was part of a satanic cult, and he claims that both the sons of his neighbor Sam Carr, the man whose dog he claimed to be possessed by, were also part of it. Both men died under mysterious circumstances in the years following David's arrest. Berkowitz has refused to talk about the cult in detail, claiming it would put his family in danger. Until they got his confession, police believed there were multiple shooters.
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Zephyrus Camadael
Title: Almighty lord of Zelda!
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Heck of a lot of work if all he wanted was an insanity plea.
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Kojjiro!
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Yeah uh, probably just saying he's denying his parole because he knows somebody who's relative he killed would probably off him.
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Greg the White
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Location: Pennsylvania
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| Kojjiro! wrote: |
| Yeah uh, probably just saying he's denying his parole because he knows somebody who's relative he killed would probably off him. |
Either that or stay in prison and get terror-laid for the rest of your life. Tough call.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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He was almost killed in prison a few years after he got in.
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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
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Speaking of Serial Killer collectables, anyone remember these?
I think it is absolutely terrible now, but as a teen I probably thought they would be cool.
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Title: NERD
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| He was almost killed in prison a few years after he got in. |
Found this related to that doing some browsing:
"In 1979, there was an attempt on Berkowitz's life. He refused to identify the person(s) who had attacked him with a knife, but suggested that the act was directed by the cult he once belonged to. He bears a permanent scar from the wound that took 52 stitches to close."
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if denying parole wasn't enough evidence for you, here is something else I found:
"Berkowitz plans to write a memoir, entitled Son of Hope: The Prison Journals of David Berkowitz, which will be published through Morning Star Communications. Berkowitz himself will receive no money from publication, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the New York state crime victims board for distribution to the victims of his crimes."
He seems pretty legit.
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