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John and Edward- Death Threats
There's a story in the News of the World about Death Threats that have been made against Jedward.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/show...o-Jedward.html They have had to tighten up security.
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How ridiculous, poor lads. What is this world coming too.
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I find it appauling, sad and patehtic that people resort to this over a TV show.
Given all the knife & gun crimes we have already, you'd think people would be more respectful and human. Even if it is all a joke, it's not funny. Funny is poking fun at their hairstyle, or copying a bad, but memorable, dance move. Funny is not threatening violence. Makes me sad that people go out of their way to start these groups. Makes me want to put the whole world in a big love bubble and just tell them all to smile and love life.
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Death threats? what? all I know is they are threatening to kill music!
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It's disgusting. These 'people' are low lives with nothing better to do during the day than make empty threats about two teenagers over the internet.
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Absolutely appalling! Quote:
Several sick anti-Jedward groups have sprung up on Facebook. The most popular are "John and Edward - Join if You Want to Kill Them" with 1,277 members and "John and Edward Need a Bullet Through Their Head?" with 690 members. We made X Factor chiefs aware of the names of people making the threats. Last night a spokesman said: "We encourage debate, and we're not policing negative comments. But when it comes to death threats and hate crimes like this we will work with Facebook to get them taken down." This "we will work with Facebook to get them taken down" is a ridiculously inadequate response. Facebook must have the capacity to trace the identity of these people. Details should be made available to the Police, and they should be arrested and charged. |
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If strangers were saying they would knife me or shoot me, I would be absolutely petrified!
I don't know how John and Edward cope. They must be so strong, or perhaps they are oblivious to the awful things people are saying about them.... I believe John said they live in their own bubble to protect themselves... I'm not surprised.
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Good grief - what is wrong with people! Sick.
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HOLD on they have been there for weeks so why bring them up now people. Is this to keep Jedward in or what.
As I say most of us here know they were around the internet from week one.. not that I agree with it, believe me the whole of Facebook should be shut for me, and twitter is not better either. Amazed that people think this is NEW cos the NOW have decided to now print it, shame they did not weeks ago when the twins were really under fire. I hate this type of thing and really it should be stamped out. GG |
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HOLD on they have been there for weeks so why bring them up now people. Is this to keep Jedward in or what.
As I say most of us here know they were around the internet from week one.. not that I agree with it, believe me the whole of Facebook should be shut for me, and twitter is not better either. Amazed that people think this is NEW cos the NOW have decided to now print it, shame they did not weeks ago when the twins were really under fire. I hate this type of thing and really it should be stamped out. GG
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It's pretty horrible and there were similar reports about Rhydian in the bootcamp/start of live shows era.
Very very few of these sad acts who make such threats are a real danger (except possibly to themselves) |
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It's pretty horrible and there were similar reports about Rhydian in the bootcamp/start of live shows era.
Very very few of these sad acts who make such threats are a real danger (except possibly to themselves) |
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You make a good point there. The tabloids have been happy to stir up bad feeling against the twins. NOTW's sister paper has the 'Bin The twins' campaign and they were crowing a few weeks ago that they had got people to boo and heckle the twins at a pop concert
![]() Talk about inciting hatred! I do worry about those boys. How long will Syco protect them? How long will the boys need protection? |
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The Sun were disgaraceful. They were actually bragging that people were booing the boys at the BSB gig because of their campaign.
Talk about inciting hatred! I do worry about those boys. How long will Syco protect them? How long will the boys need protection? The treatment of the twins has been appalling and it has sucked the joy out of them. |
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True, I think the majority are all talk and no action. You know the types who run their mouth off but wouldn't say boo to a goose. I do worry about the small minority of sickos though...
Sleep easy ! |
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Horrible completely horrible ..
How could they? its disgusting |
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To any Facebook members who find these threats disgusting and totally unacceptable (irrespective of which act you happen to support):
The two pages in question are: John & Edward - JOIN IF YOU WANT TO KILL THEM! and John and Edward Need a Bullet Through There (sic) head? Once you log in, you can lodge an objection with Facebook. Just click on 'Report Page', on left hand side, beneath list of (sicko) 'fans'. |
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To any Facebook members who find these threats disgusting and totally unacceptable (irrespective of which act you happen to support):
The two pages in question are: John & Edward - JOIN IF YOU WANT TO KILL THEM! and John and Edward Need a Bullet Through There (sic) head? Once you log in, you can lodge an objection with Facebook. Just click on 'Report Page', on left hand side, beneath list of (sicko) 'fans'. |
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The small minority of sickos are a danger to us all. Jedward are probably safer than most of us as they (or rather those arround them) will be on their guard.
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To any Facebook members who find these threats disgusting and totally unacceptable (irrespective of which act you happen to support):
The two pages in question are: John & Edward - JOIN IF YOU WANT TO KILL THEM! and John and Edward Need a Bullet Through There (sic) head? Once you log in, you can lodge an objection with Facebook. Just click on 'Report Page', on left hand side, beneath list of (sicko) 'fans'.
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It's about time Facebook started automatically deleting hate filled accounts like those. It's cyber bullying at it's worst and if Facebook isn't prepared to self regulate it's high time the government stepped in with a few rules about what is and isn't acceptable.
J&E must be very strong to have been able to cope with everything that has come their way. I don't think any other contestant in any of the series has had to sope with anything like this. Once the show is over and they have time to think about it all I think they could be quite badly affected by it. |
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I thought the OP was going to provide us with some templates
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Looking at that 2nd facebook page, I thought there would teenager but there was a man 30-40 years old.
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This is just dispicable behaviour and the people responsible
should be thorougly ashamed of themselves. They are obviously very sad individuals who need to get a life and stop hating.It worries me and saddens me the sickness some people are capable of
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I find this very worrying, especially as some bravado idiot off those sites might actually believe that he is doing the right thing if he tries to hurt them.
One part of me doesn't want them to win to remove them from the public eye a bit so they are not any kind of target, but I think it wont change anything. So in fact I intend to be voting more because I feel they will be safer if they win as they will be having bodyguards and security. I mean what happens if they get booted out and left to their own devices? They need some protection. I understand now why Louis was so serious on the Paul O Grady show when he said their parents were very worried about them. I've reported both of those sites on Facebook, too. |
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I don't know how John and Edward cope. They must be so strong, or perhaps they are oblivious to the awful things people are saying about them.... I believe John said they live in their own bubble to protect themselves... I'm not surprised.
