Sex on the beach " rape trial

         In a front page picture this morning " not guilty " Ed McGovern

    looks so professorial with his glasses, graying beard and suit. So

    CIVILIZED ! No ,he and Phillip O'Donnel could not BY LAW be convicted

    of a sordid , gang bang rape. And I agree with the verdict in the strict

    interpretation of rape laws , the verdict of six men and six women.

       Still I can sympathize with the " consenting " woman's cry yesterday:

    " I hope they burn in hell ! "

      Can a drunken woman -even ordering " sex on the beach " cocktails -

    really OK being gang banged ?

      I know it sounds preachy but it never ceases to amaze me the role BOOZE

    plays in the moral decline of people.

       I have been turned off by strident, arrogant feminism for years now.

    Still I always respected its ABC values. To begin with: women are not

    mere SEX OBJECTS in ANY situation.

       Long before Women"s Lib, though, GENTLEMEN understood this.