Berkowitz born again

[The Good Michael]

This is disgusting on many levels. I don't know who's worse, Berkowitz or the lying, conniving, money-grubbing woman interviewing him.

Sickens me.

Mike

[RivkahChaya]

So, you're mad about some article about Berkowitz becoming a Christian? That's sort of old news, so really it's something about the woman who interviewed him? Is it just me, or did you forget to include a link?

[The Good Michael]

So, you're mad about some article about Berkowitz becoming a Christian? That's sort of old news, so really it's something about the woman who interviewed him? Is it just me, or did you forget to include a link?

Just you. The link is there for those who have faith.

Mike

[Beowulf]

This is disgusting on many levels. I don't know who's worse, Berkowitz or the lying, conniving, money-grubbing woman interviewing him.

Sickens me.

Mike

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
― Charles Manson

[Carol]

Oo's Berkowitz when ee's at 'ome?

Carol

[RivkahChaya]

Oo's Berkowitz when ee's at 'ome?

Carol

Son of Sam.

[RivkahChaya]

BTW: I'm still not getting the link. Can you post a summary, or a full addy to CP to the browser bar?

[Errata]

That almost never happens. Jews almost never convert to Christianity. When they leave for another actual religion, it's usually Buddhism.

[Roy Corduroy]

Unless you want to execute murderers get used to it.

Roy

[RivkahChaya]

That almost never happens. Jews almost never convert to Christianity. When they leave for another actual religion, it's usually Buddhism.

Berkowitz was adopted. Did his parents go through a Jewish orphanage? otherwise, he might not have originally been Jewish. I know he "looks" very Jewish, but that doesn't really mean anything, especially in the US. You can have a Jewish great-grandparent somewhere, and a Russian grandparent, and come out "looking" Jewish, in spite of being half Norwegian, or even half Chinese.

Given the prejudices back then, they probably did have to go through a Jewish orphanage, but I just don't know for sure.

[RivkahChaya]

Unless you want to execute murderers get used to it.

Roy

Get used to what? would someone please post a link to whatever we're supposed to be talking about? And, New York does have the death penalty now, it just doesn't have a method. So, someone can be sentenced to death, just not executed.

California is in a similar situation: their official charter, or whatever you call it, for executions, requires the presence of a doctor who is licensed in the state of California, and right now, no doctor in California is willing to be present for executions, so California can't actually kill anyone.

[Errata]

Berkowitz was adopted. Did his parents go through a Jewish orphanage? otherwise, he might not have originally been Jewish. I know he "looks" very Jewish, but that doesn't really mean anything, especially in the US. You can have a Jewish great-grandparent somewhere, and a Russian grandparent, and come out "looking" Jewish, in spite of being half Norwegian, or even half Chinese.

Given the prejudices back then, they probably did have to go through a Jewish orphanage, but I just don't know for sure.

I think it was a private adoption, but he did find his birth mother so we know his original parentage. His mother was a poor Jew and his father was either her Italian Catholic husband or her Jewish lover. The husband was long gone by the time she delivered, and her lover threatened to leave if she didn't give up the baby. I think he left anyway. So he really was "biologically" Jewish, but he didn't hang out in an orphanage or anything, so he was pretty much Jewish since birth, even if he had been born to black Baptists.

But it's weird though right?

[Roy Corduroy]

Get used to what?

Right, sorry. Get used to stories of what convicted murderers do or say behind bars. For the media it's product, or content I think is the newest word for that.

You never hear a peep from Ted Bundy

Roy

[The Good Michael]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxDRa6ZE70

Here's the link to the show with someone named Roxanne Tauriello; an evangelist. It does seem to me almost poetic that religion and serial murder should be married together in this fashion now that I reflect upon it.

Mike

[Carol]

Son of Sam.

Thank you, Rivkah.

Carol