User blog comment:John Breasly/Reason Pears Was Banned/@comment-3152785-20120923085014

Just as many of the admins, I remember this well. I think this was before I was demoted (or before the second promotion), and just to let you know: This is a pretty legit eason for a full on ban for Pearson.

Now I speak directly to Pearson:

''Cyber-bullying is not a thing to joke about. Here, where people can even mistake it for actual threats, and they can't see the virtual expression on your face that's showing you're joking, or the tone of your voice that makes it clear that you're using sarcasm. People can only see what you write.''

You should know, that 7 seconds somebody is bullied online? Or how about that every three weeks, a child commits suicide of bullying? Now, that might seem a lot worse than some third world issues, but it's not. It's actually a lot worse. The United States is a civilized nation, not a third world nation. Now, ok, you might be like "just every three weeks," but what would you say, if it happened to somebody you know - a friend, a relative - or even you?

Now, I've done quite the extensive research around the It Gets Better project lately, and I can tell that even the people in Congress have the same "well, it's only every three weeks," opinion, because they know, because it is obvious, that when a gay teen commits suicide, it's 70% of the time because of bullying. Now, if they had some sense in their ass, they'd take their bills that would make them rich, and shove it where the sun don't shine, then replace those with anti-bullying bills, and that is on the federal level, not state. So now, I'll provide a great example of bullying for you.

After more than 10 years of trying, Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, got the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed, after many homophobic people in CONGRESS, and in SENATE have voted it down simply because it helps gays. Now, if you don't know, she got this law passed because her son, was killed by two people who pretended to be gay, than took him to a city outskirt, tied him to a fence, and beat him, with an excessive use of pistol whipping. It was reported that Shepard was beaten so brutally that his face was completely covered in blood, except where it had been partially washed clean by his tears. He remained on life support for a few days after a by-passer found him unconscious, but during all that time, he was never able to regain consciousness, to say goodbye to anybody.

Shepard was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. on October 12, 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was 21 years old.

So, if any of you reading this would have known Shepard, how would you have felt? How do you think family members feel? How do you think people close to any victims of this kind of actions feel, when a loved one is ripped from between their arms, and they can never see them again in their entire lifetime? 21 damn years, that is definitely not the life expectancy of a man.

I hope this comment educates you on the results of bullying, since well, this all started out as a "running into them in the hallway" thing for everybody, and than escalated to murder in some cases.