WHEN WE’RE NO BETTER THAN ANIMALS

It deeply bothers me that a defenseless person like Annie Le was murdered. Why? How can one rationalize murder of any kind? I’m not talking self-defense, but murder. It is the worst of all crimes one can commit, be it of one or many individuals.

Raymond Clark III; makes me wonder about Raymond Clark I and Raymond Clark II. If they are still alive, how do they feel about their name being forever linked with scum? If they have any love for Raymond Clark III, how can they? How do read their name, or hear it out loud, and not suffer from revulsion?

Annie Le was doing something for mankind. She was making a better world through her research; she was helping scum like Raymond Clark III have a better world. When someone deliberately kills someone, they murder, but they also commit the crime against the whole world.

A beautiful young woman was planning a future, a day of happiness that was turned into ugliness by a coward, who chose to kill her in secrecy, and protect his coward hide from detection. People like Raymond Clark III are usually sick, or they are just plain ugly of spirit. The problem is if they are sick, how come they can rationalize their acts? How do they put all that in prospective?

Somehow, I get a sense that we are all like Raymond Clark the III. I was taking my daily constitutional today, when a young man in a SUV ran a stop sign, and careened around the corner. He must have felt empowered by the size of his vehicle, his baseball cap was turned around on his head, and when I looked at him, he didn’t care. If a small child had been stepping off the curb at that moment, he would have seriously injured or killed that child. This is in a very quiet residential neighborhood! He would have been arrested, maybe I would have killed him, and he would suddenly learn that stop signs and speed limits have a noble purpose, to protect lives. Had he killed a child, would he be any better than Raymond Clark III, any less responsible?

Oh, the weeping and wailing that would come from that young man, when it is too late. It is funny how we sometimes choose to learn our lessons.

Annie Le is now dead, her young life snuffed out by a murderer, it was no accident. That young driver would be charged with manslaughter; too, it would be no accident either. He knows the rules of the road, and he knows what that vehicle can do to someone.