EFFINGHAM CO.—This guy is the very definition of uninformed.
Also, a moron.
Here’s what this lil m-ron was talking about:
He’s got one thing right, and one thing only: he has the right to voice his opinion. The First Amendment exists in this country, and it protects even losers like this guy. And, I realize, amongst many of the uninformed in Effingham who don’t know the difference between when a public official disseminates incorrect information versus if I disseminate incorrect information, it protects even someone like me that they incorrectly view as not being accurate in our representation of what’s been developing in the case. It never ceases to intrigue me about the mentality of people who don’t understand the difference between public officials delivering wrong information, and US delivering wrong information. Of course, considering the source, I shouldn’t be surprised.
But back to this punk.
While he may have the RIGHT to issue his opinion in a public forum, what he lacks at this point is tact and knowing when to keep his opinions to himself if he doesn’t want to “lose his job” (actually: if he’s fired now after what his boss told him, he has an amazing civil rights wrongful termination suit, depending upon who his employer is.) While the family in the case of Willow Long is, for all intents and purposes, split over what they believe and what story they adhere to, as well as what their opinions are of the behaviors of certain ones involved in this, it’s not just “their” “right to grieve and no one else’s.” That’s literally insane talk. EVERYONE involved in this case, from the beginning of it up to this moment, has the “right” to grieve. The community was there because they can relate. I won’t go out on a limb and presume that lil ‘ron dude here has any kids….but something about this mess makes me doubt it heavily. And if he ever has one, God forbid Lodgson should ever know the horror if that child should ever go missing or worse, be murdered.
Another point I take issue with is the “circus” he characterizes it. What most normal people see when they look at hundreds of volunteers contributing community resources and shutting down PRIVATE businesses for it (I emphasize this because a privately-owned business can do what they want with their business hours; they are not owned by the taxpayer) is a strong community, one that will come to the aid of a stricken family or missing child. How this puke can view anything so positive as this as a “circus” only speaks again to the degenerate condition into which many in his generation have fallen.
Little Mr. Lodgson-ron may not realize it, but nearly every time a child goes missing in our area, THIS IS THE RESPONSE. We’re fortunate it doesn’t happen often. It appears he’s reporting statistics that are likely based largely on events occurring roughly north of a line bisected by Interstates 72 and 74, where the population is so much more dense than it is in points south of that line. People up north, as a rule, either don’t care when a child goes missing, believe there’s nothing they can do about it, or are TOLD there’s nothing they can do about it, “the authorities will handle it.” That’s what separates this state; that’s what makes it an obscenity when northern Illinois politics are forced upon the people south of I-70. We are not like that. We may have our problems, there may be inherent dumbasses in pockets of society downstate, yes, there may even be inbred among them like so many in northern Illinois want to believe…but the rest of us? We care. And if one of us is in trouble, and many of us can help, WE DO IT. We don’t sit back and criticize the effort. We can criticize the public officials if their response is awkward, sluggish, inexplicable, and we here at Disclosure do, as per our First Amendment rights to criticize our government. But we don’t criticize the hearts of the people who give of their time and resources, working in heat and bugs, trying to help find a helpless little girl whose mother sits on the sidelines giggling, or an uncle sitting there swilling a beer. Those people who gave of that time may have known what was really happening, and that may have been what pushed them all to work all the harder.
So Mr. Lodgson: You’re “famous.” You’re probably going viral with this; we had more than 80,000 clicks yesterday. You’re probably going to receive comments to the effect that Illinois should bring back public stoning. But you need to know something: There’s a big difference between being “famous” and “infamy.” You won’t like the latter. Let’s just hope the rest of your generation can ascertain the difference.