The story that didn’t get told
Posted by jen August 31st, 2006 in Media Junkie.On Aug 15 a three year old boy from Middletown Marcus Fiesel, was reported
On August 4th Marcus’s arms were tied behind his back, wrapped in a blanket and bound with packing tape, and was locked into a closet by his foster parents. The boy was dead when they returned from thier two day long trip on August 6th. The foster dad then took the boys body to a rural location and burned it, several times, and reported him missing, over a week later. They claimed innoence even while they moved to a new house just days after he went missing. Then the until the police found the body, not far from a remote house of one foster mother’s family members.
no national outlet has reported it, it’s largely been ignored due to the renewed media obsession with JonBenet Ramsey.
Was it that Marcus was a boy? That he was dark haired? Or that he was poor and in foster care?
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No doubt the fact that Marcus was poor factored into it. Also, consider this - the “agency” that placed him with these barely-human monsters is run by fundamentalist so-called Christians.
I promise you that, if the Lifeways group was to be investigated for malfeasance, neglect, and depraved indifference, the fundies would come to their defense in droves and accuse the media and “gubmint” of anti-Christian bias. (This has happened before - in Texas, a chain of “Christian” group homes for children with behavioral issues was nothing more than an abuse factory; when the government of Texas - TEXAS, for God’s sake - went after them, the Religious Reich…erm, Right defended the group with full vigor. Didn’t help, as the people were convicted, but fundie troglodytes still treat the people behind it with the reverence and respect normally due martyrs.)
There is no Christianity in this group, and there’s precious little in what passes for modern Megachurch White Theology.
If Jesus came back today, most of his so-called followers would cross the street to avoid meeting him. And he would still weep. Or, as Max Von Sydow’s character put it in Hannah and Her Sisters, “if Jesus came back and saw what was going on in His name, He’d never stop throwing up.”
WF
Agreed, poverty played a role, but there’s no need to drag religion into it: the media doesn’t function as a watchdog for our benefit - they provide circuses to make their bread. And with all the wonderful drama around JonBenet, there’s no need for another missing/murdered kid story.
Also: WF, your otherwise spot-on comment had a flaw: you refer to “..modern Megachurch White Theology..”. I think you’re misinformed about the demographics about the rising tide of fundamentalism. Blacks and Latinos make up a surprisingly large portion of the unthinking megachurch fundies. And, as a friendly note, throwing “white” in there in such an adverse comment comes off as racism. Which detracts from the strength of your point.
Oh, I understand the demographic growth of minorities in the megachurches. However, the theology of said churches seems to be geared more toward the empowerment of the conservative white folks who still populate the majority of them. I don’t see the theology as being designed to empower minorities.
Still, your thoughts are appreciated, and have given me something to think about.
WF