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]]> By: TORY LOWE http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-142555 TORY LOWE Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:37:19 +0000 #comment-142555 2. Jim Walsh's article in the City Pages is incredibly one-sided. Why didn't they just print the guy's legal Complaint? According to Walsh, Tory Lowe was charged with theft merely for retrieving his own Play Station. He quotes Lowe as saying, "There was no investigation, or questions, or anything . . . They put me in jail, just like that. They tried to put me in jail for 15 years."<br /> <br /> Does Walsh even mention that Lowe pled guilty? Or that there is another pending theft charge against Lowe? Or that his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child commenced a domestic abuse proceeding against him?<br /> <br /> I don't doubt that racial epithets are common among middle-aged blue collar empoyees of the Swift Pork Company,¹ but doesn't good journalism require the writer to be somewhat skeptical of a self-interested litigant (and confessed criminal) spinning his version of the events that underlie his pending lawsuit?<br /> <br /> TORY LOWE: I KNOW ITS HARD FOR SOME WHITES TO UNDERSTAND DISCRIMINATION. MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WHITE AND THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN RACISM. I NEVER COMMITTED ANY CRIME. THE STRATEGY<br /> WAS EASY GO TO TRIAL IN A SMALL ONE HORSE WHITE TOWN,ALL WHITE JURY, FACING 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A PLAY STATION 2, WHITE WOMEN, BLACK MAN, CROOKED COPS, LOL <br /> I DID PLEA GUILTY TO A DOMESTIC CHARGE NOT TO ANY CRIMINAL CHARGE. EVEN WITH ALL THE FACTS IN MY FAVOR I HAD ONE THING AGAINST ME.....HISTORY!!! MY CHANCES WERE SLIM AND EVEN WITH<br /> OVER WHELMING FACTS OF INNOCENTS THE ODDS OF ME WALKING AWAY A FREE MAN WAS AGAINST ME. HEY YOUR RIGHT ON ONE THING JUNIOR COLLEGES DON'T GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOOTBALL...BUT THEY DO GIVE ENOUGH GRANTS AND I RECEIVED OTHER FORMS OF SCHOLARSHIP MONEYS...FOR A FATHERLESS KID FROM MILWAUKEE..WHO WAS THE FIRST TO GO OFF TO COLLEGE IN HIS ENTIRE FAMILY.. IT WAS A SCHOLARSHIP TO ME...THERE I BECAME BROADCASTING PRESIDENT AND DEFENSIVE MVP 1996 NJCAA NATIONAL RC COLA BOWL CHAMPIONS...MONEY WELL SPENT... 2. Jim Walsh’s article in the City Pages is incredibly one-sided. Why didn’t they just print the guy’s legal Complaint? According to Walsh, Tory Lowe was charged with theft merely for retrieving his own Play Station. He quotes Lowe as saying, “There was no investigation, or questions, or anything . . . They put me in jail, just like that. They tried to put me in jail for 15 years.”

Does Walsh even mention that Lowe pled guilty? Or that there is another pending theft charge against Lowe? Or that his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child commenced a domestic abuse proceeding against him?

I don’t doubt that racial epithets are common among middle-aged blue collar empoyees of the Swift Pork Company,¹ but doesn’t good journalism require the writer to be somewhat skeptical of a self-interested litigant (and confessed criminal) spinning his version of the events that underlie his pending lawsuit?

TORY LOWE: I KNOW ITS HARD FOR SOME WHITES TO UNDERSTAND DISCRIMINATION. MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WHITE AND THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN RACISM. I NEVER COMMITTED ANY CRIME. THE STRATEGY
WAS EASY GO TO TRIAL IN A SMALL ONE HORSE WHITE TOWN,ALL WHITE JURY, FACING 15 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A PLAY STATION 2, WHITE WOMEN, BLACK MAN, CROOKED COPS, LOL
I DID PLEA GUILTY TO A DOMESTIC CHARGE NOT TO ANY CRIMINAL CHARGE. EVEN WITH ALL THE FACTS IN MY FAVOR I HAD ONE THING AGAINST ME…..HISTORY!!! MY CHANCES WERE SLIM AND EVEN WITH
OVER WHELMING FACTS OF INNOCENTS THE ODDS OF ME WALKING AWAY A FREE MAN WAS AGAINST ME. HEY YOUR RIGHT ON ONE THING JUNIOR COLLEGES DON’T GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOOTBALL…BUT THEY DO GIVE ENOUGH GRANTS AND I RECEIVED OTHER FORMS OF SCHOLARSHIP MONEYS…FOR A FATHERLESS KID FROM MILWAUKEE..WHO WAS THE FIRST TO GO OFF TO COLLEGE IN HIS ENTIRE FAMILY.. IT WAS A SCHOLARSHIP TO ME…THERE I BECAME BROADCASTING PRESIDENT AND DEFENSIVE MVP 1996 NJCAA NATIONAL RC COLA BOWL CHAMPIONS…MONEY WELL SPENT…

]]> By: Tate http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31473 Tate Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:22:38 +0000 #comment-31473 <em>April 19/20 has all sorts of bad thing that have happened.<br /> <br /> Ruby Ridge shoot out.<br /> <br /> OK City Bombing.</em><br /> <br /> Add Waco (April 19), Columbine (April 20), and Grand Forks "hell and highwater" (April 19) to the list. April 19/20 has all sorts of bad thing that have happened.

Ruby Ridge shoot out.

OK City Bombing.

Add Waco (April 19), Columbine (April 20), and Grand Forks “hell and highwater” (April 19) to the list.

]]> By: Waldo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31463 Waldo Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:44:27 +0000 #comment-31463 ...as the army of crows regrouped on the jungle gym behind Tippi Hedren. …as the army of crows regrouped on the jungle gym behind Tippi Hedren.

]]> By: Waldo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31461 Waldo Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:39:21 +0000 #comment-31461 I got my Taylor's mixed up. It was Rod Taylor, not Robert, that was in The Birds. It came to me on my drive home last night, and I thought to my self how could I get those two mixed up, and then my fingers turned into popsicle sticks, and everyone liked me, especially the magical gnome and his flying pair of pigs. I got my Taylor’s mixed up. It was Rod Taylor, not Robert, that was in The Birds. It came to me on my drive home last night, and I thought to my self how could I get those two mixed up, and then my fingers turned into popsicle sticks, and everyone liked me, especially the magical gnome and his flying pair of pigs.

]]> By: Mpls Simpleton http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31428 Mpls Simpleton Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:56:21 +0000 #comment-31428 April 19/20 has all sorts of bad thing that have happened.<br /> <br /> Ruby Ridge shoot out.<br /> <br /> OK City Bombing.<br /> April 19/20 has all sorts of bad thing that have happened.

Ruby Ridge shoot out.

OK City Bombing.

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31422 msparber Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:29:46 +0000 #comment-31422 By the way, all I really remember from the birds is that awful song the schoolkids sing, which sounded to me something like this:<br /> <br /> "With a hibblety-hobbelty wibbelty wobbelty jibbelty jobbelty NOW NOW NOW." By the way, all I really remember from the birds is that awful song the schoolkids sing, which sounded to me something like this:

“With a hibblety-hobbelty wibbelty wobbelty jibbelty jobbelty NOW NOW NOW.”

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31419 msparber Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:24:16 +0000 #comment-31419 I get that too. Gah, it's awful. And, when I was a boy, when I got a fever, I hallucinated, which was terrifying.<br /> <br /> How did we get on this topic? I get that too. Gah, it’s awful. And, when I was a boy, when I got a fever, I hallucinated, which was terrifying.

How did we get on this topic?

]]> By: Waldo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31415 Waldo Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:54:10 +0000 #comment-31415 Seriously though, i dno't ever remember having the mumps as a kid, and that was a long time ago. I do however rememeber having a serious case of the German measles, with a temp around 106, i was hallucinating, my fingers felt ... just like two balloons...no, actually for me, it wasn't balloons, but popsicle sticks. Sometimes today, when I get sick, my fingers feel like popsicle sticks, again. Seriously though, i dno’t ever remember having the mumps as a kid, and that was a long time ago. I do however rememeber having a serious case of the German measles, with a temp around 106, i was hallucinating, my fingers felt … just like two balloons…no, actually for me, it wasn’t balloons, but popsicle sticks. Sometimes today, when I get sick, my fingers feel like popsicle sticks, again.

]]> By: Waldo http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9082#comment-31413 Waldo Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:51:38 +0000 #comment-31413 You have an issue with mumps.<br /> From the looks of Alexis' website, seems she has a problem with pumps.<br /> I don't particularly like the word stumps.<br /> so, there u go. You have an issue with mumps.
From the looks of Alexis’ website, seems she has a problem with pumps.
I don’t particularly like the word stumps.
so, there u go.

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