The thousand injuries of Fortunato !

After reading Mark Patinkin's column today, I will paraphrase

    a famous Edgar Allan Poe  story to express the indignant reader's

    opinion on the almost freed convicted - or wrongly convicted - rapist ,

    Carlton Bleau : "  The thousand injuries of  that liberal judge Fortunato

    I had borne as best as I could, but when he went soft-headed on assault,

    I vowed revenge . "

                 But in his defense : " In matters  of fine wines, this Fortunato,

    like his countrymen, was a quack . But in the matter of  THE LAW he was

    sincere.

               I congratulate the good judge on  being furious with a white

    collar criminal - an incompetent and corrupt FBI scientist. It is

    precisely career felons who can so easily be accused for the wrong crimes

    by inept police departments.

                 Was Patinkin also indignant with the cop who terrorized a

    parking lot attendant ? His past was NOT held against him in  the trial.


                   Nice guys like Patinkin can be a little naive.