It's June

[lloll4]

Item one: Caught an ad for Vasantham (the Tamil channel) for a series of Bollywood and Tamil movies to be aired in June. All feature (judging by the ad) doe-eyed beauties and well, manly men gazing forlornly into the camera... and the tag "an unspeakable love".

I'm not up to date on urban-speak but I think "unspeakable love" usually refers to same sex relationships?

Item two lips, indifferent red two: AP article on coroner's inquiry of dead American was inaccurate - and they were called on it. As far as we know, the man was found dead with suicide notes and it emerged that he had suffered from depression. The man's parents theorised that he'd been murdered because apparently his work was to have endangered US security. Coronor will have the verdict next month.

Wiki page has links. I'm boggled that initially, the parents requested for FBI to lead the investigation. You're not in the USA!

Comments

[februaryfour]

IIRC the FBI could in theory lead the investigation, but it would require that Singapore grant permission to let them investigate, since it's in Singapore.

[lloll4]

Yes, m'dear, they could. I was questioning the need.

[februaryfour]

Heh. People have pretty high faith in the FBI for some reason. They do take the best of the best and are highly selective.

...oh dear

[lloll4]

(I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic but I'll answer as though you are serious.)

It looks like my short remark in the post didn't quite convey my sentiments. It's ok, you don't have to defend the FBI to me. I'm not questioning their capabilities.

My objection was in the area of jurisdiction. Since the matter did not take place on US soil, I thought it was more natural for the local authorities to take the lead in the investigation - short of some extraordinary/unusual circumstances that called for the FBI to act over the heads of the local authorities, that is, or until the local investigation surfaced something that required the FBI to take the lead.

In this instance, if I remember right, the FBI were indeed invited to take part (but not to lead) the local investigation, which I thought was a pretty reasonable move in the circumstances. They were asked to assist, they did so, nicely done. No impugning of FBI's capabilities meant in any way.

/ded of long explanation

Re: ...oh dear

[februaryfour]

Oh, gotcha. I did see the "FBI offered and was turned down, but later invited to participate" bits in the Wiki article, but I should probably have noted that. Sorry for the need for the long explanation! Americans do tend to have the "we're the only ones who matter" sort of mindset (for any definition of "we"), I'm sorry to say, and I'm even sorrier to say that I'm beginning to think that way and I need to be constantly vigilant and try not to. T_T

Re: ...oh dear

[lloll4]

No problem. I thought my remark was rather straightforward - didn't realise that I was trodding on a sore subject!

You're assimilating. ^__^

Re: ...oh dear

[februaryfour]

*groans and facepalms* That's not a good thing. T_T