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Hard-nosed sheriff who inspired 'Walking Tall' killed his wife, inquiry says

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When growing up, it often proved the neighbors or people that were most judgmental, like the preacher, or the preachers family and kids, or the teacher’s kids, all of whom would cast shame on everyone else turned out to be the worst.

The people that wore their problems on their sleeve turned out to be just ordinary people with ordinary problems and were the victims of ridicule.

Ever since then I tend not to give much thought to those casting the most judgement because I figure they have the most problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_Pusser

From the Wikipedia

  He is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line.

It is not schadenfreude, but something about when these morality crusaders get caught being the most vile of us all. Maybe it is just my cynicism.

your not going far enough to be cynical, the whole whole phenominon is becoming a WTF that just does not stop, and when you throw in some very serious evil stuff like the nuns in ireland filling up abandoned wells and septic systems with new borns and babys

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/tuam-mother-a...

and countless other outright horror show stuff from varios "holy" orders the question becomes, exactly what percentage of these self identified saviors are actualy sociopathic perverts.

https://archive.ph/pCOQv

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