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- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 12:20:22 PDT
- From: nelson@BOLYARD.WPD.SGI.COM(Nelson Bolyard)
- Subject: File 2--Response to "The Terminus of Len Rose"
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- In article <1991Jul19.033544.11623@chinacat.unicom.com> "Craig Neidorf"
- <C483307@UMCVMB.BITNET> wrote one of the first articles I've read that
- actually gave facts about what happened to Len Rose after he moved to
- Illinois. I appreciate that. But then he wrote (about the law
- enforcement folks who were involved):
-
- >A Few Words About Law Enforcement and the Len Rose case...
-
- >[...] These people are decent folks just like you and me. Despite the
- >highly publicized incidents of the past couple of years, the vast
- >majority of these people are not out there trying to destroy someone's
- >life just to make a name for themselves or to put a notch on their
- >desk. They believe in their work like a sacred religious mission. At
- >the same time they have families, hobbies, like to go to the movies,
- >play video games, take vacations during the holidays, and everything
- >else.
-
- > [...] I believe that the prosecutors
- >acted in the way they thought best and were not out to deny Rose of
- >his constitutional rights, [...]
-
- > While I believe that the prosecutors involved with his case are
- >honest, hardworking, and highly motivated people, [...]
-
- >As a group in general, the law enforcement community has
- >earned my respect and appreciation.
-
- This is sad. During World War II, millions of innocent and
- less-than-innocent people were put to death in concentration camps by
- "decent folks" who "believe in their work like a sacred religious
- mission", who "have families, hobbies, like to go to the movies, play
- video games, take vacations during the holidays, and everything else."
- They were just soldiers in a war, who did what they believed their
- superiors expected of them, without questioning the morality of their
- actions. Some of them actually believed the pseudo-religious Nazi
- doctrines that the jews were the cause of all their people's problems.
-
- The lesson we and all the world's inhabitants should have learned from
- WW2 is that each of us is responsible for the consequences of his
- actions, and it is up to each of us to be sure that our actions are
- moral and just. None of us can hide his actions behind the excuse
- that his superiors, or some recent and hastily-enacted law, justifies
- an immoral act.
-
- If the law enforcement community of the US has failed to learn this
- lesson, then we are doomed to repeat an awful history.
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