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To: Publius
Tell me about Caryl Chessman, pls. 40 years ago. This is significant and because the US had far more homogeneity in re right and wrong, certainly in the MSM, it did.

I remember the Robert Altman execution in CA. The threat of "candlelight vigils" surrounding San Quentin. I took my family up to the redwoods to avoid all the nonsense. In the end, CA Governor Wilson stayed the execution. I took my family out for hamburgers for lunch in Humboldt County.

Gov Wilson did right. My children were of age for all this to be discussed. They reasoned that Innocent Life is precious. And those who steal life from innocents are an evil upon a peacable, civilized society.

The same people who railed and candlelight "vigiled" for the stay of execution for Robert Alton tended to be the very same who treat cutting down "innocent trees" as an evil; and that therefore, these people were unbalanced, and possibly insane; but certainly not logical nor coherently consistent

24 posted on 12/12/2005 4:43:54 PM PST by Alia
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To: Alia
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/chessman.html
25 posted on 12/12/2005 4:47:46 PM PST by Publius
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