January 3, 1995
John Salvi is the accused murderer of two persons and wounding five others at a Brookline, Massachusetts, medical clinic where abortion procedures are available. In yesterday’s Tampa Tribune, a friend of Salvi’s named Christo, defended Salvi and criticized the media for “portraying Salvi as a serial killer; instead of a nice guy.”
Christo added what I consider a most outrageous statement: “There's nothing wrong with John whatsoever other than he killed a couple of people.”
How many persons would Salvi have to kill to change Christos’ opinion that Salvi was a “nice guy?”
Mark Twain observed, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
I trust that there is no need to go on for pages to elaborate on the vicious and deadly distortion of human values represented by Salvi and his apologist friend, Christos.
What a bizarre contradiction that Christo is a variety of the name of the Christ.
In the social/political/religious framework, it is well to remember an observation by Lewis Lapham of HARPER’S: “The spirit of liberty is never far from anarchy.”
So long, and thanks for all the fish
10 years ago
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