God rest their souls. Lotter and Nissen had told Teena that if he told anyone what they did, they would kill him. If all they did was kill her, you could have made the argument they did it only because she ratted on them. None, because the multiple surgeries leave the person in no physical condition to run around in the field in combat boots. In addition, it wasnt sex abuse trauma that aggravated her condition. That is why you see no academic papers about how they treated and attempted to heal Teena. According to his own admission, Teena helped them to get on their feet financially and economically, when they got to Omaha, where were they, when Teena was desperately calling from Falls City to get out of there? I am not just saying the way you are saying it, he he trans he. On December 24, 1993, during a . Cost is now certainly an issue in DP debate as it should be. ), you contradict yourself. Thats all for this post. He offered some sort of an apology that is written in a totally contrived language. Tisdel's mother, Linda Gutierres, who died on December 2, 2003,[6] at age 54, was portrayed in the film by Jeannetta Arnette. She was hurt as a woman, she suffered as a woman, and her murder was a crime of violence against women. The film also starred Chloe Sevigny as his girlfriend Lana Tisdel. The newspaper story mentioned that Nebraska state prisons dont keep records of inmate weddings, so theres no way to find out whether the men followed through and actually got married. THREATENED, He feet wouldnt hold her weight. Interesting that Lana speaks nothing of it for the cameras, but Tom Nissen mentions it. Facts from the case put a large dent in a popular nation that Teena Brandon was attacked by the two jealous boyfriend once they discovered that Brandon is a girl. Boys Dont Cry is a fantasy has nothing in common with real events. This could have been easily fixed with steroid injections you can get on the street. Great piece. 100% They knew it was wrong the murder was a PUNISHMENT & it was completely premeditated. Lanas father, L.L. After moving into the home of Lisa Lambert, Teena began dating her friend, 19-year-old Lana Tisdel, and began associating with ex-convicts John L. Lotter (born May 31, 1971) and Marvin Thomas "Tom" Nissen (born October 22, 1971). LOT OF ENEMIES FOR ME! The Great Pretender- Disappointment- Case File- Something Precious- You Win Again- Baby It's You 2. Really, read up on the outlaw biker violence against women and how Nissen beat Teena by kicking and punching her in the belly every time he beat her. So, you got four without special characteristics, that drew no public or media interest. We all should. Maybe Teena Brandon saw John Lotter as a real world outlaw and looked up to him. Please only use it for a guidance and Lana Tisdel's actual income may vary a lot from the dollar amount shown above. A job you should never give an inmate, but here we are. Best of 2022 Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. The guy is anxious and uncomfortable twirling a beer glass when he is telling this. Maybe he is afraid of going to hell. Lotter used to beat up strangers at the convenience store where Lana Tisdel worked, for any perceived slight against her; Lotter took police on a multi state car chase, once went for a police officers gun once and almost got killed. Rather, it was clear to *most* of us. Too bad, Lotter got more help from the well meaning morons trying to get him off the death row than Teena got from highly paid professionals whose job it was to help her. A bunch of not really Hoboes were having a Barbeque alongside the railway tracks. In August 2020, Lana suffered a new tragedy when her Ford pickup crossed a center line and fatally injured Chrysler minivan driver Glenn D. Aston in a head-on crash in Fairview, Kansas. AFFORDABLE, Violence against any woman is a terrible tragedy, but against her was especially tragic, given both, who she was and the circumstances under which it happened. Thank you for the heads-up Ill do some more research on the pic! But a court later reduced Richardson Countys liability. WHERE ARE THE VICTIMS APPEALS TO THEIR HORRIFIC DEATHS?? Cheers. . It is also noteworthy that Teena Brandon came from a FAMILY, meaning from a large extended family with ties that bind. No, Teena Brandon was a woman. I believe Teena Brandon has fallen victim to all these lies. Can I tie her up and keep her in my bedroom (until the Court opens after Christmas holidays, so that she can be surrendered there and bail be revoked)? He asked. Ive watched the entire worlds moral compass go south and its by design. [7], Tanner Lambert graduated from Humboldt High School in 2011, and was raised by his aunt. CA is unusual in taking quite so long Tx takes c 14 and even when appeals are exhausted they havent executed anyone for years, so there its pointless. Teena Brandon was a girl, she was not saving money for sex reassignment surgery, she had none. By the reasoning that the death penalty is too expensive because of litigation, than all prisoners are too expensive because they all have the right to appeal, not just death row inmates. He also provides additional details of Teenas time with her gay cousins in Omaha. Aston was killed in the crash. On top of that, there are serious efforts to get John Lotter off the death row, where he belongs. It was clearly sarcasm. Some of that same nonsense is applied to Teenaa case by liberal commentators who cant see the wood for the trees, Marcus, I agree with you one hundred percent. Your email address will not be published. It allows the individuals that commit violent crimes to be glamorized, to feel gratitude for the crimes they committed. Well, maybe they did. What I would object to, per the above observation, is demand/enforcement/coercion of something that I should be free to offer as a kindness because it is, in fact, counter-factual for the reason you state. He once bolted from a courtroom trying to escape in shackles and got as far as the steps outside the Courthouse. The Tisdel family did not get along well with Teena's mother, Jo Ann Brandon, and his sister, Tammy, who accused Tisdel of being responsible for the murders. Teenas circumstances shout psychosocial mess. What I specifically reject is the notion she was somehow MORE victim or SPECIAL victim cos identity politics says she is via claiming it was a hate crime (hate crime attracting greater censure and punishment than the equivalent non-hate crime). TB: God rest their souls indeed. American woman involved with December 1993 murders. In simplifying and celebrating the cross-dressing aspects of the story, the film makers never found out the real Teena Brandon, how awesome she was, despite her problems and her bad deeds, and what a tragedy her murder really was. Her kidnapping, rape, and murder was a lot more brutal in real life, because the two were a lot closer to her than the film portrays. They knew each other. Fry em! It costs more to house death row inmates, who are held in segregated sections, in individual cells, with guards delivering everything from daily meals to loo paper. Lana, who in her youth resembled actress Jodie Foster, still has long beautiful strawberry blond hair. Even if we accept that Lotters to all intents and purposes an 8-y-o (I dont, necessarily), he is clearly very dangerous and likely needs incarceration for life. Thanks much for the correction on Joan Didion I have edited accordingly! Its the person who REALLY matters, not the accidental characteristics that overtake and make abstract the person in the chattering (or twittering) of liberals. You actually made a case for her identifying as a man with her attempted suicide, desire to be in the military, trying to be one of the gang, etc. Blown out and lonely. The Harley riders then started sobering up and making their way over to police to surrender and hoping to cut a deal with prosecutor and get some leniency, none of them were real criminals. Wanna follow Lana Tisdel's net worth? Name switch. Thats all that matters. But it (identity) doesnt matter, as some commentators would have it. A lot of women join military and jump out of airplanes, and most of them are not LGBTQ. They should have run that man out of town. Rather than rant, Ill simply state that Im perfectly content to use whatever pronoun a person would prefer, as the likely kind thing to do; and Brandon would seemingly have wished to be known as he. She could not get in the Army because she did not have a high school diploma. Also, certain things she was closer with Nissen that she was with Tisdel. The biggest problem with the PC Brigade appropriating Teena Brandon as a transgender icon is that they overlook the real person who lived and died. Yes, she became an Issue, much as Matthew Shephard did when he was murdered by two scumbags, after which far more silliness issued. A hate crime is a crime that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other grounds.. Also, Joan Didian is still alive, but sadly Dominick Dunne passed away in 2005. Lisa Lambert did not associate with them and lived a town away. Except, what homework? There are millions of tragic stories of cisgender women who have been victims of violent crimes, and weve offered our full measure of empathy towards them for our entire livesat the exclusion of seeing our own tragic stories offered any reciprocal respect. Gender identity is the gender a person identifies with or feels themselves to be, and is their own or a social construction. Based on things she said, Teena reacted emotionally as a female, not a male to the rape and beating. Lana herself suffered injuries requiring hospitalization, but she has since recovered. BY AT LEAST But a week after he was arrested on a check-forging. Life without parole is done with, while enabling opportunity to reverse a terrible wrong, regardless of the morality of the death penalty. You oppose the death sentence? Nissen has admitted to pulling the trigger at various points and has changed his story to saying lotter didwhen it has suited him to do soie to get a plea deal and avoid the death penalty. brandon is a he. I cant believe he wasnt tried and convicted also. Identity politics or whatever cannot alter scientific fact. Full disclosure I dont believe in the death penalty either. Second, A male environmental activist grad school type decided to live among the Hobos, 2010s, he had a made a mistake of pitching his tent near a mentally ill person. Teena may have identified as male, but she was a girl, and the crime is a better example of violence against women than it is of transphobia. Donna Minkowitzs Love Hurts celebrates Teena Brandon as a cross-dresser, but if you read carefully, it gives good ringside detail of Teenas street-corner thuggishness and her involvement with the gay male cruising scene. When Boys Don't Cry was released, she petitioned Nebraska movie theatre owners to not show the film. It had to have been Lana's mother told them where he was. Dissolute youths. Lana herself suffered injuries requiring hospitalization, but she has since recovered. The next article you should look at is Carolyn Gages The Inconvenient Truth About Teena Brandon, which gives a good account of Teenas psychiatric symptoms and why she was hospitalized, and has a great reveal in the end. [9] She married Josh Bachman in 2001 and lives in Kansas with their children. They then drove to the house of Lisa Lambert, where Brandon had been hiding out. You people love to ignore using his correct prounons like one way to respect him is use HE AND HIM. She has a daughter and two sons and at least one grandchild. That whole town is sick. Lana is residing in Kansas with her husband and kids. That, then, reflects a capacity to reason, to scheme and to that degree militates against the notion that they should not be considered culpable. Im sorry, but where is there evidence of this? The real question is, why Teena liked Lotter. SURVEILIANCE, WHAT SEEMS TO BE In August 2020, Lana suffered a new tragedy when her Ford pickup crossed a center line and fatally injured Chrysler minivan driver Glenn D. Aston in a head-on crash in Fairview, Kansas. Teena is a female, so refer to her as she. Im happy to refer to people as they wish so long as Im not asked to deny biological sex. New development. I take it you like to think for yourself, too? Give it a rest Marcus. NEED RELIABLE HELP! Disappointment (excerpt) a 6song, 1 track tribute to Lana Tisdel. She then became a reluctant witness, not willing to implicate Nissen and get him arrested. BB: Im sure youre right. Like I said before, the media vultures created a trans icon where they should have really dug into the events. Notice how no account of Teena Brandons life examines Teenas family to any extent. Lotter is capable of self-pity. But a week later, when her father gave her a signed blank check to get a perm, Tisdel took it to a supermarket and filled it out for $250, the amount needed. It cant logically be both. Not to mention, . In the context of the above does it make sense that Teena starts showering seven times a day with a complete change of clothing? I got three, and two got none of the notoriety because it did not involve any identity issues. John Lotter is most definitely at the head of the class on the Nebraska death row. Cru: Theres certainly a perception, which I share, that the liberal left is trying to impose their ideology of inversion, where black equals white, etc; a phenomenon which has infected the West. For the love of god, call him a he. Sister testified that she lied to Tom Nissen, because Teena asked her to. You stole the gun. They deserve the death sentence, regardless. After they raped Teena, they told her that they would murder her if she told anyone, and Teena believed them. He was dead when the Morning Shift came to the overnight cell to do the roll call. Tisdel has disputed claims that after the truth was revealed to her, they continued a romantic relationship, but instead she told Brandon that they could still be friends. CONCERNED And as a gay man myself, I can say that weve had enough of having our stories heteronormalized to make people like you feel more comfortable. Maybe someones mind could be enlightened if they opened it instead of walking away. People do not talk about it, because they have something to hide. After everything she had experienced before her death, she made it clear that her name was Teena. I AM PRESENTLY Biological sex is assigned at birth. The notion that retardedness being intellectually below average equates to failure to know the difference between right and wrong, seems to me pretty dubious. It is a gray and overcast day, and the three of them are either smiling for the photographer or they are grinning. 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