Free Joe Mollicone !

             I'm no friend of white collar criminals. But in general I

    have less FEAR of them than the violent street hoodlum who will cut

    a law abiding citizen's throat for pocket change.

            Today I read that "old " Joe Mollicone - a talented and

    charming embezzler - " will get a chance for parole " on June 20

    ( Providence Journal, June 4, page B1 ).

            I agree with Mollicone lawyer, Robert B.Mann, that " he's

    served an extraordinary long period of time. "

              Perhaps Joe can explain his FALL in an autobiography . He

    is still young enough to have been molded by the 60s " idealism.

                 At age 54 I am wondering why my idealistic " radical "

    generation became on the whole so compromised -if not as rotten and

    corrupt as the Establishment they rebelled against.

            The world is a mess today because OUR generation -not the

    GREATEST GENERATION - failed miserably to live up to their youthful

    ideals.

           Say it ain't so, Joe !


          P.S.  Free Buddy too. No hero,but a bunch of tow truck goons

    should not suffice to send the less than honorable mayor of the Renaissance

    City to jail. Jail is an awful place for ANYBODY !