fitchgrad -- I am by no means excusing RAPE. I think it is a horrible crime, but were you personally involved? As far as I am concerned, what did or did not happen is all hearsay until he is convicted of a crime. I find it comical that people can do everything they can to try to ruin someone via the Vindy chat room... if there were stones to your accusations you would have done something about it outside of the chat room. Make no mistake, i do not think that rape is an excusable crime, nor do i think that it falls under the category of "bad judgement" or any of the things I discussed in my earlier post, but I do think that rape is a VERY puinishable crime, so why has Mr. Davis not been convicted of anything? I do not need to "forgive him" for anything, because no one has proved that ghe has done anything wrong! I just find it very hard to believe that there are that many "alleged" victims, but yet he has not been convicted of anything? There is a part of this story I think everyone is missing, and it could be the difference between the lie and the truth. I do not need my head examined, and for the record, I am a mere acquaintance of the Davis family -- I do not know them very well, but what I do know of them has been respectable. So no, I am not friend or family member -- nor am I stupid. I think you should find a better way to channel your anger and regret for not doing something about a serious crime than slandering someone on Vindy.
I am happy that Davis was elected to be a trustee in this town. He has lived here his entire life, and regardless of his past, he has always been about this community and everything in it. I am sorry if there were some bad choices made on his part, but I am a firm believer in the past being just that, the past. Regardless of the "thin blue line" you all speak of, he is a respectable young man. If there was any fact to these incidents that you all speak of, there would have been repercussions that go along with it. Everyone makes mistakes in their lives - are those of you condemning him admitting to being perfect with no skeletons in your closets? I think everyone has secrets, it is just a matter of who knows about them. Some people are better at hiding the truth than others. Let the man lead his life, with his family... he is a newlywed with a new baby, and he is committed to this position. I think you all should give his poor wife, who just gave birth, a little credit. If he was the monster you make him out to be, do you think she would have married him three years ago, and do you think she would have given him a little girl? Again I say, we all do things we may not be proud of, but all of these mistakes are what make us see what is important. It was a fair election, and he won. Leave it alone. If you were so adamanet about pursuing these "wrong doings" why wait until now?
Ditzler, Davis in Austintown
fitchgrad -- I am by no means excusing RAPE. I think it is a horrible crime, but were you personally involved? As far as I am concerned, what did or did not happen is all hearsay until he is convicted of a crime. I find it comical that people can do everything they can to try to ruin someone via the Vindy chat room... if there were stones to your accusations you would have done something about it outside of the chat room. Make no mistake, i do not think that rape is an excusable crime, nor do i think that it falls under the category of "bad judgement" or any of the things I discussed in my earlier post, but I do think that rape is a VERY puinishable crime, so why has Mr. Davis not been convicted of anything? I do not need to "forgive him" for anything, because no one has proved that ghe has done anything wrong! I just find it very hard to believe that there are that many "alleged" victims, but yet he has not been convicted of anything? There is a part of this story I think everyone is missing, and it could be the difference between the lie and the truth. I do not need my head examined, and for the record, I am a mere acquaintance of the Davis family -- I do not know them very well, but what I do know of them has been respectable. So no, I am not friend or family member -- nor am I stupid. I think you should find a better way to channel your anger and regret for not doing something about a serious crime than slandering someone on Vindy.
November 5, 2009 at 2:19 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Ditzler, Davis in Austintown
spelling correction -- adamant, not adamanet.
November 5, 2009 at 12:02 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Ditzler, Davis in Austintown
I am happy that Davis was elected to be a trustee in this town. He has lived here his entire life, and regardless of his past, he has always been about this community and everything in it. I am sorry if there were some bad choices made on his part, but I am a firm believer in the past being just that, the past. Regardless of the "thin blue line" you all speak of, he is a respectable young man. If there was any fact to these incidents that you all speak of, there would have been repercussions that go along with it. Everyone makes mistakes in their lives - are those of you condemning him admitting to being perfect with no skeletons in your closets? I think everyone has secrets, it is just a matter of who knows about them. Some people are better at hiding the truth than others. Let the man lead his life, with his family... he is a newlywed with a new baby, and he is committed to this position. I think you all should give his poor wife, who just gave birth, a little credit. If he was the monster you make him out to be, do you think she would have married him three years ago, and do you think she would have given him a little girl? Again I say, we all do things we may not be proud of, but all of these mistakes are what make us see what is important. It was a fair election, and he won. Leave it alone. If you were so adamanet about pursuing these "wrong doings" why wait until now?
November 5, 2009 at 11:41 a.m. permalink suggest removal