A Voice for the Innocent, A Plea for the Forgotten

Originally posted on Lindsay Detwiler , Author:

During the “off season” of “Walking Dead” last year, my husband and I were browsing for a new show to get hooked on for our Sunday night vegetation sessions. An advertisement for a show called “Salem” caught our eye, and we started watching. Although the content is somewhat odd at times, we found that it fulfilled our need—my husband enjoys the gore, while I like my eye candy a.k.a. Shane West (who also happens to be Landon in A Walk to Remember).

Besides drooling over the hunky protagonist, the show hooks me because of its sheer horror—not just from creepy side effects, but from the whole premise behind it. It’s hard to imagine that in our country, women and men were brutally tortured and murdered for their “witchcraft”…which was most likely nothing more than a few attention-seeking girls pointing false fingers.

The persecution of the innocence has always struck…

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