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>DocCec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In a message dated 98-03-30 12:22:56 EST, you write:
>
><< This story is appalling to me, to think people were so indifferent to
> what they were watching, to not even to bother to pick up a phone and
> dial 911? Pathetic. I hope they can look themselves in the mirror
> without shame, I know I wouldn't be able to.
>
> People watched from the safety of their high-rise apartments before dawn
> Sunday as four men beat a taxi driver to death and dumped his body in
> the trunk of the cab, investigators said. >>
>
>Remember Kitty Genovese? Nothing much has changed, has it?
>Doc
Hi Doc and Kathy,
We all have the identical reaction. And yet why are all those people so
different from all 250 million of the rest of us?
This is not exactly a story of great pride. When I was on a bus bombed by
the Viet Cong I watched one man - a Sgt. Sullivan - helping those who were
the most severely off the bus. I remembered then and now everything in
flashes. I was as helpless to lend a hand as I was not to panic at the
instant of the explosion.
The sergeant was an alcoholic who was later booted out of the service in
disgrace through my own intelligence office because he tried on his own to
show the operation of the black market with military supplies. He did that
and it cost both him and the man he caught their careers in lieu of courts
martial.
I don't know if heros are just made that way or not. Surely I would have
called the cops just as I would at least help the wounded next time. Hell
everybody would. There was no next time for me just as there will not be
for the cab driver and the spectators in the buildings anymore than for
Kitty Genovese.
It's easy to point fingers at times of incredible shows of cowardice and
indifference. We would never be like that. Not one of hundreds of millions
of us.
Best, Terry
"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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