Why did Marko Kulju steal the Easter Ear?

Answer 1

This countryman of mine has been lynched high. There were more column meters published on the death of Princess Diana than there were on the invasion at Normandy. And less columns on the massive Buddha statutes annihilated by the Taleban regime than column meters on this accidentally broken earlobe of the Easter Island Moai statute.

It was the Easter week at the Easter Island. The same week the Finnish leaders of the Botnia pulp factory at the border river between Uruguay and Argentine were on trial in a South American court for "Planned damage". After Finnish flags had been burnt in the streets of Argentine for 3 years for this biggest investment ever to Uruguay. And the big neighbour nation was envious. The News Offices from BBC and CNN to Congoo News picked this up from the massive bombardment in the South American Spanish magazines. And as I read the actual story behind the News from Congoo to Australia, it seems to me that the lonely hiker did not break the statue by purpose. Even the local court decision stated that it was merely an accident, not a convicted theft or even an attempted theft or deliberate vandalism. A man would have get jailed for such, up to 7 years. Instead, it was declared that this particular statue was particularly eroded, soft and fragile.

But you don't figure that out by reading these genious' news services. One lady shouted that "A tattood guy came, ripped off the ear, stole it and ran!" And our brilliant investigative journalists recycle the hearsay to about 500 million people. BCC, CNN and AOL included. The printed media has gone down with the web mob that demands irrational entertainment, not truth behind matters. The Finnish hiker immediately wrote a letter describing the incident in Spanish in a major Chilean newspaper. But NONE of the Western media houses translated and provided even inserts from the victims own viewpoint. So now we know that even BBC, CNN, AOL abd Congoo News are on the same line regarding the fact that none of them translates original foreign languages to English. They just copy from one another.

"Tattood? A boxer? Vodka tourist from Finland? OK, that is enough, no other questions." (The only problem with the editors' story was that the hiker liked extreme sports and did not use alcohol at all.) It does not prove man a thief though the whole globe would shout and shoot so!

We have a classical scape goat and red herring here. Not every tattood boxer is suffering from Dementia pugilistica. It is alarming that the raging majority of the Internet considers that 7 years in a local prison would be even too light a punishment for breaking the ear. Ear for an ear says the Mayor - and more. Luckily, the Americans are OnLine. So in the Magnificent A-O-L only, 314,000 votes on the judgment in a day, with 3200 comments.

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The question is misleading. The Finnish hiker on the Easter week 2008 at Easter Island did not damage the Moai statue by purpose. Thus, theft was not even tried. This was also confirmed by the local court, which did not give a sentence on vandalism or stealing but for the mere fact that a part of a particularly fragile specimen of statues was broken.

The whole story is described here:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Easter-island-broken-ear-mob-lynch.htm

The printed media has gone down with the web mob that demands irrational entertainment, not truth behind matters. The Finnish hiker immediately wrote a letter describing the incident in Spanish in a major Chilean newspaper. But NONE of the Western media houses translated and provided even inserts from the victims own viewpoint. So now we know that even BBC, CNN, AOL and Congoo News are on the same line regarding the fact that none of them translates original foreign languages to English. They just copy from one another. Mindless recycling. Investigative journalism has died in extinction.

This is a threatening indication.