Melanie - again

Anonymous said...
Very little is said by most of the ex student's of Bayfield High. There remains a dignified silence, out of respect for their dead friend's and classmate's. A dignity that appears to have escaped sweet_ad,

It was strange none of Melanie White's school friends went to the 'memorial'. Could it be that she wasn't as well known to the Bain family, as she would like us to believe and her fellow classmates know this, and didn't support her media circus, and attention seeking behaviour?

You are probably right as to why some fellow classmates didn't support the hoped-for media circus. I have trouble connecting with any reason why a person would want to 'claim' victims in this way. I think it tells us a lot more about the under-riding reasons for the support of the dead Robin Bain, I think it serves more the fragile complexions and personalities of the supporters rather than anything of real material value of the dead man. Like a lot of things unusual about the Bain case the support and destruction of the Bain family go hand in hand - something that one could have mixed feelings about anyway, but to then add in the persecution of the only 'survivor' or Robin's reign makes things appear as they really are, and as the persecutors really are - sick.

When I wrote my letter to Kalnovitch I understood then, if not before, the effect these people have on one another because they are too cowardly to draw restraining lines of their behaviour, too cowardly to be honest with themselves and so become victims of their own making. They're locked into a false reality and take sustenance from the 'fact' that they're the only ones that can see the 'truth' and that lesser mortals are in fact like mindless sheep for not being able to see the same 'truth.' I think this blind belief in the 'truth' is what allows them to so readily dismiss their own mistakes or misguided beliefs about evidence. They've convinced themselves they're protected by 'right.' It's truly an unusual public phenomenon to witness in NZ. It's frightening also in a way because with it comes suddenly the realisation that these people, ordinary looking that they may be, are actually capable of such viciousness and hate. They sup on hate and lies and find sustenance from it. They are a pack, and oddly enough there are some characteristics they have in common, regionally, hobbies etc. Yes, they are a pack.

I don't think we were quite ready for them, but we are ready for them now and I can even take the compassionate view that many of them will probably need psychological help to recover, to be debriefed and de-anguished. They were/are the perfect sheep for indoctrination and what they cite as a joyous song of righteousness is in fact plainly a mantra of hate that allows them freedom or immunity to break social mores.