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.

What brought out the worst in Andrew Wurst ?

 I am tempted to indulge in my own brand of psycho- babble in

    commenting on 14 year old Andrew Wurst who may have planned a cold

    blooded murder a month earlier: " I'm going to go to the dinner dance

    and kill some people," he warned classmates, One of them nicknamed

    him " Satan". Wurst " hated his life. He hated the world. He hated

    school ". Now a science teacher, John Gillette, has been shot dead

    and others wounded by  a crazy kid  tormented in some inner hell.

       To turn against life itself in the very springtime of life !

     Just a speculation- perhaps futile- but how many of these  " crazy "

    kids were surrounded by emotionally healthy, " biophilous " adults ?

     Picture a vulnerable kid who never gets a clue from any of the adults

    in his life about WHAT IT"S ALL ABOUT.  He is surrounded by so called

    adults who deep down are still very infantile themselves, who have

    never undergone their own Copernican Revolution- learning that their

    EGO is not the center of the universe.

       Perhaps from day one the kid perceives himself as a mere nuisance at

    best in envied adult world. How many kids are born into the world-even

    the affluent world- not really wanted at all?

       I can't think of anything else -in a kid born mentally healthy- that

    can poison his very soul, creating a future moral monster.

      These kids -unless we are prepared to believe in Satanic influence -

    got a very malignant message from the ADULT WORLD very early in life.

       In the absence of caring adults, they got that message from TV. Love

    that Marilyn Manson !

        My own psycho- babble but I tried .

Heywood on Dr. Laura - FAN MAIL ?

         I write often myself to newspapers via E-mail just for the fun of

    it. If one tenth of them were published I would I would consider it

    extraordinary good luck. More often they are just the grip or the laugh

    of the day sent out into Cyber Space. I forward all of them to my own

    private chat partners. So all is not in vain,

       Mr. Heywood in a letter this morning on Robert Whitcomb's column ( " The

    rise of the grief industry" ) makes a number of valid points about Dr.

    Laura. She herself is no " grief counselor " or VICTIM consoler. She

    may even scold me if I asked her humorously about " toxic " parents .

       But as the editor points out Dr. Laura is part of MASS THERAPY and

    her stock in trade is " rather strident sermons " while usually " ignorant

    of the details of a callers life". My brother, for example, is on lithium.

    If he had an impulse to call Dr. Laura, I would be very nervous  about

    her " doing the right thing " advice. It could be disastrous !

       Also it was only necessary for Mr. Whitcomb to listen to her for

    five minutes to have her number. She is a gifted and intelligent person.

    Nevertheless she offers cheap counseling for dimwits!

       Yet I would not deny them this .

     I agreed completely with Mr. Whitcomb on " grief counselors ". If

    an individual in grief stricken state seeks them out ,that is his or

    her business. But how dare show up at school presuming that their

    service is really in demand! No thank you - we refuse to grieve by

    the numbers !

      President Kennedy was assassinated while I was in high school. If a

    grief counselor had showed up back then, I know what my reaction would

    have been: " Don't tell me what I am suppose to feel or how soon I will

    get over it". Many of us never quite get over PURE EVIL !

Brian T. Stewart -rat suspect but guilty ?

 I read the AP story TWICE just because it was so MONSTROUS. Would

    a man-even a real CREEP- inject his own son with HIV tainted blood in

    order to avoid rather modest child support payments ?

       The horror of AIDS death is that it is long suffering agony. A child

    with AIDS would also be quite EXPENSIVE to support.

       A brainless maniac and a pitiless psychopath might do just what Brian T.

    Stewart is accused of doing. But reading the story ( April 24 ) it is

    clear that the evidence against him already reported is hardly overwhelming.

    He may indeed be INNOCENT . To be sure he needs a good lawyer.

       I read : " after eliminating all possible ways the kid could obtain

    the HIV virus...."

        Not so fast ! How can police investigators be sure about ALL POSSIBLE

    WAYS? HIV is a very TRICKY molecular assassin !

        Can HIV tainted blood be STOLEN from a hospital without a number of

    possible eye witnesses? What a lax security !

       Mr. Stewart, a lab aide, being seen with a white lab coat in his son's

    room - is pretty flimsy EVIDENCE of a monstrous crime .

       If Stewart insists he is innocent, he deserves as good a legal defense

    as O.J Simpson.

       Things are not always what they seem. A good anti-dote to lynch mob

    fervor.