This weekend Mark Barron of the University of Alabama was arrested. Early reports seem to be that Barron and his cousin were involved in a one car accident. Barron then lied to police and tried to cover for his cousin. What Barron did is tremendously stupid, he has his whole future ahead of him. I understand that he had loyalty to his cousin, and that is commendable up to a point. But, you have to be honest with the police, and all authority figures. We are sure that Barron will be punished for his foolish actions, it may be as strict as having to sit out a game, or as mild as an in house punishment. In house punishment being mild in a public sense, we wouldn't want to run sprints for Cochran or Saban. This incident is of course in no way a representation of Alabama or its fans, just don't tell the Auburn fans that.
The justification of the actions of the Auburn armed robbers has now begun. The first line of comment I heard from Auburn fans was this:
"Funny that Auburn kicks criminals off the team while Alabama doesn't."
Covering for your cousin and facing a misdemeanor charge vs. armed felony robbery. Yeah, those two are completely comparable (insert sarcasm here). One is a serious offence, and one is a mistake. It would be like saying Cam's laptop thieving was the same thing as killing a person. Our laws have different punishments for different crimes for a reason, because not all offenses are equal.
The next leap in logic taken by the Auburn family:
"I'd say that protecting a criminal from police is on the same level as armed robbery."
You can say that, but you would be wrong. Auburn fan's will use this line to make themselves feel better about what their players did. They will go to their old standard line of "everyone else is doing it too."
Why does Auburn feel the need to base their morality off of the actions of others, especially Alabama? Why does Alabama and it's actions become the compass for their morality? Shouldn't the rules and what is right and wrong be the basis for their morality? How many times did we here the "if Cam was being payed it's fine, cause everyone does it." line?
"If Barron's cousin was driving drunk, and he was trying to cover for him. Barron is guilty of attempted murder."
No way anyone can take this statement seriously. First off Barron wasn't driving, he was riding. Secondly, is this poster honestly saying that not only has he never driven after having any alcohol, but that he has stopped everyone else he has ever been around from doing so as well. This is beyond even the usual stretching and justification we have come to expect from Auburn fans. Trying to make what Barron did worse, in order to trivialize what the Auburn players did. Also making crazy statements like this gives Auburn more room to gloat using their whole we kick criminals off our team thing.
What is really hypocritical in all this is Cam Newton. Cam lied to police, he threw the laptop out of a window. I never heard an Auburn fan say that was a heinous crime? Not only that, but if you read the police report here, what Cam did was way worse than what Barron did. Cam was only covering for himself and his own crimes, not a family member. So similar crime except Cam did it for himself, Barron did it for others. Oh and Cam committed the first crime of stealing the laptop.
Remember when your parents asked: "If everyone else jumped off a bridge would you?" That statement is played out, but has a point. Just because everyone else is doing something doesn't change whether it is right or wrong. Let's all try to live in reality.
I would never lie to you officer.
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