Thread: String of obscenities e-mailed from Savannah Now !?!?

There is a lot of irony in this. Lowery spent all those years smearing people in the press and causing them to loose their jobs and income...

What goes around, comes around.

Dixie

WOW I try never to judge a person on appearances, but that is one whacked out looking dude!!!

Originally Posted by jp_48504

I don't understand why he didn't get food from a local church or from welfare. It is a shame that he chose this route. I feel for his family.

Because he is a citizen, welfare is for illegals and their children :P

Perhaps he went to get a menial job as many Americans have done in the past when times were tough and he learned what we know....

Most of those jobs are now cut off from Americans and filled with illegal aliens working for slave wages.

W

I agree with much of the above - and

Yes, Dixie is correct-there are many levels of irony to this story. The most important to me is the importance of rules and following them.

Unemployment in the present time - well, while I don't wish ill-will on any person that has lost a job [especially for the other family members] but... maybe Mr. Lowery can begin to understand the frustration and pain that many of his fellow citizens have felt - and some for a long time. People in media that have chosen to 'look the other way' while US citizens jobs have been outsourced, insourced or outright replaced - are only now beginning to see the chain of events come full circle. I don't understand how our government can produce press releases from Depts. like the DoL (Dept. of Labor) saying...." only 300,000 jobs were lost last month". Seems to me, that is not a bragging point, but something to apologize for, and be ashamed of. Many, well most, Americans that lose jobs do not resort to trying to rob banks to survive in response. Mr. Lowery should have 'bucked up' and learned to adjust like most of his fellow Americans.

I like what apropos said a few posts ago: it goes to show that prejudices find themselves in all corners of society and the folks in the media are just as subject to these biases. It also suggests that many media reporters adhere to more left-leaning views of the world than do most of the rest of the citizens (IMHO).

Finally: Karma can be a real biatch, can't it?

That's my 0.02 cents. I do hope Mr. Lowery recovers ok. But, at the same time, I hope this chain of events serves as an example of what NOT to do in voicing public comments on a topic of heated debate.

Phrede wrote:

Finally: Karma can be a real biatch, can't it?

You got that right Phrede!

Karma, come uppance, call it what you will but it all stems back from Newton's theory of, "there's a reaction for every action in physics and in man." Roughly translated: What comes around, goes around.

The mortgage crisis is a prime example of this. For years, we all know these companies have been breaking laws just to make a buck, and now it is exploding in their faces!

I'm glad to see this idiot get his due.

Barton: Bank robber doomed to fail
Opinion | Editorial | Tom Barton
Tom Barton | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 12:30 am


Don Lowery knows as much about bank robbery as the pope knows about Viagra.

So when Don, a former newspaper colleague of mine, walked into a southside bank at noon Monday to pull off what police said was an armed robbery, he was doomed to fail. Indeed, one witness told an officer that she passed Don outside the bank right before he went inside. She said he wasn't wearing a mask.

What kind of stickup artist walks around in front of people with his face uncovered outside a bank he's going to rob?

An extremely stupid one, I would argue. Or one who's desperate.

Or maybe both.

Don and this newspaper parted ways for reasons that management can't discuss. But nearly three decades ago, he sat at a desk that was next to mine when I came to work in Savannah in 1978 after I left the University of Georgia. I hired on as the police reporter for the Savannah Evening Press. Don was the police reporter for the Savannah Morning News.

We were rivals.

Competition to be first to report the news from the cop shop was fierce. While some reporters did double duty and covered the same beats for both papers, Don and I competed on the "if it bleeds, it leads" front.

Regrettably, he beat me more often than I beat him. Except it wasn't a fair fight. He had a not-so-secret weapon: newspaper photographer Bob Morris.

Bob, who died several years ago, was a nightside police reporter's dream. That's because Bob's schedule coincided with the sun - when it was below the horizon, Bob was hot on the trail for something newsworthy.

He was the Nikon night stalker. If four people were killed on I-16 while racing for a six-pack of beer, or if one guy shot another guy inside a rough west Savannah saloon, Bob didn't just get the pictures. He got the names, the quotes and the phone numbers.

Don was the lucky beneficiary. He and Bob turned out great stories under the tightest deadline pressure, forcing the nightside news editor to tear up and remake front pages under the scornful eyes of the composing room foreman. That way, Morning News readers woke up to the freshest newspaper possible.

Me? Thanks to Don, I played clean-up and wrote a lot of second-day leads for the afternoon paper.

Like many in this exhausting, crazy and addictive profession, Don worked long hours for not a lot of money. He toiled for other papers, including the Effingham Herald in Springfield. There, I'm told, he was a burr under the saddle of good ol' boys who had their own ideas about the public's need to know.

It's a tough way to make a living - especially if you'd rather be honest than liked. It wears on you. It can eat you up physically and emotionally. It can cause you to do stupid things.

The payback, as the saying goes, can be hell.

Don married a lovely girl, Sandy, who came to work in the newsroom as a secretary right out of high school. They have two grown children, two grandchildren and live in Guyton. She doesn't want to be quoted.

I understand that Don, who's 52 and looks like a toothpick with thinning hair and big thick glasses, has been ill: He needs a liver transplant.

Money apparently was an issue. According to the police report about the robbery, an officer noticed that Don appeared to be in pain. (He suffered several broken ribs when customers jumped him after he fumbled his weapon; he was listed in critical condition Tuesday). He asked Don if he was all right. Don replied, "I'm broke."

The officer thought this was in reference to his injuries, so he asked Don, "What's broke?"

Don answered, "I am. I needed the money. My kids ain't got no food."

This was a shock. Hunger or no hunger, there's no excuse for bringing a loaded, sawed-off, single-barreled shotgun into a bank and trying to rob it, even if you are ill, klutzy and have never harmed a fly or a politician who didn't deserve it.

A federal prosecutor told me that Don could be looking at a "substantial" sentence in federal court, where bank robberies are tried. Conceivably, he could spend almost the rest of his life behind bars - provided he lives.

You do the crime, you do the time. God forbid someone had been shot.

I don't know all the details. Still, I don't see how the greater good is served by locking up someone who's sick, broke and trying to put food on the table.

Forget O.J. Simpson and his robbery arrest in Las Vegas. I'll be watching my former colleague's case, and hoping that justice is tempered with mercy.

Tom Barton is the editorial page editor of the Savannah Morning News. His e-mail address is tom.barton@savannahnow.com.

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Wow....this is so.....surreal.

Someone pinch me just so I know I'm awake and not dreaming this whole thing.

I'm shocked that anyone, even a bleeding heart lib-idiot, would stoop to such low and nasty depravity.

Truth is a hard pill to swallow for many. I agree, he probably couldn't adequately deal with the realization that illegal aliens have in fact had a negative impact on our country and the availability of jobs for Americans.

Obviously, he has unresolved psychological issues, and his filthy email is a clear illustration. His inability to secure a decent job to support his family, simply pushed him over the edge.

I certainly hope he gets the professional help he so desperately needs. I can't help but wonder how many others in the media have similar issues that have simply not surfaced.