A random musing:
There are a few people here who seem to believe that merely discussing the bad behaviors of Lauren Kanarek makes you a hater, basher, or other similar inflammatory descriptor.
They also seem to believe that in doing so, you are either an undying supporter of Michael Barisone and you believe in his whole cloth innocence… or that you know he is guilty as sin, but you’re such an ardent supporter that you lie about said guilt and make up wild fabrications in that endeavor.
While certainly there may be some who fall Into such categories, just like there are flat-earthers, people who believe Xenu sent his galactic followers to Earthly volcanoes and their ghostly thetans haunt us humans, and people who believe COVID vaccines include Gates-manufactured microchips or make you magnetic, they are almost certainly few. People believe some pretty loony things, but most people are reasonable.
From what I can tell, MOST of us here have precisely zero idea what happened on August 7th. What we see is a total lack of evidence and two eye witnesses who are largely unreliable narrators. And the more that comes out via the criminal trial and the civil suit, the more questions arise about the behavior of those two unreliable narrators and their circle in the days leading up to, and following, August 7th… and about the claims they have made about those days/weeks/months.
Since we do not know, and since they are proving unreliable, and since what is emerging makes them look even more suspect, we look at the existing evidence and speculate and discuss possible scenarios. That is what people do. That’s what detectives do. That is what the defense’s lawyers are doing. Hell, there is a whole genre of true crime podcasts that do precisely this.
It doesn’t make anyone “bullies” or “monsters”, or whatever. And anyone saying so is taking this whole thing way too personally.
At the end of the day, I think most people just want to understand what happened and get to the truth. Right now, it isn’t looking so good for Lauren and her circle… but SHE opened that door when she filed her civil suit. She further chummed the waters when she went on COTH and YouTube and Facebook and wherever else and shot her mouth off. Her family members coming here and doing the same didn’t help.
Ultimately, by making a spectacle of themselves, they fed the interest in this whole affair… and that interest isn’t going to wane until this saga reaches a conclusion. And the fact that it DOES appear they behaved very, very badly - illegally, even - in the run-up to the shooting makes it all the worse.
Someone quoted the whole “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” thing. Never has that sounded more apt than now. I imagine it will only get worse as this lawsuit progresses.
Anyhoo… even their own texts admit they knew as much before August 7th. To quote one them: “I told Lauren that we should give a date after the show that we will move out. Rather than go through the whole process of eviction. It is not going to go well after this and more, we need to get the horses out of there.” Too bad they just didn’t pack up and leave.