The Laughing Wolf

An Outrage, But Not A Surprise

Michele has a story on a monster, a real live monster. And to no great surprise, it now has a TV gig. It should have fried for what it did, not just to Lisa but to others. Maybe it has changed, but it still has to prove it to me.

I don't share the outrage over who it is working with, allowing for one notable exception, because I have no beef with Ms. Barrows or particularly with Bernard Goetz. I do feel it may be telling of them that they would choose to associate with someone like this monster, a poster child for child and domestic abuse, and a cowardly murderer who beats on the defensless. What it did was not authority, it was not discipline, it was not any form of BDSM: it was rank and arrant cowardice on the part of a sick bully, and the system failed when it did not kill him or lock him away forever.

People can and do change and grow. Redemption does occur. It is my hope and faith that it is so, for my sake if for no one else's. This thing has much to prove before I can and will believe it. This is not a good way to start.

LW