Pistorius Is Indicted on Murder Charge

[wercal]

26. Thanks for the info

I had read that he spoke Afrikaans...and there was some implication that still using that language was a 'hat tip' of sorts to apartheid...wondered if that was accurate or not.

My ex-boss has made several trips to South Africa, and even had a foreign exchange student from there live with him. He reports that the people he knows there are discouraged, because more and more areas are considered 'not safe' at night, and they can't go there anymore. He also reported on the fortress atmosphere that people lived in. I have even seen wild stuff on tv, like electrified car doors and flamethrowers installed in cars, to keep robbers and kidnappers at bay. So I can imagine the atmosphere, to a degree.

And Pistorius' own words and actions before and after the murder paint the picture of a paranoid lunatic.

I happen to believe he really thought he was being robbed/kidnapped, etc...and just started wildly firing into the bathroom.

Some people say that just isn't logical.

But neither is premeditated murder, in a condo complex, where there is a 100% certainty of getting caught.

Excessive fear and/or rage - either could have caused him to act in an illogical manner that night.