[Alberta's Child]

Very good post. The proper function for this kind of person who is allegedly "rehabilitated" is not at a gathering of Boeing employees, but in a middle school or high school auditorium . . . to explain to young kids that a life of crime is a dead end.

Unfortunately, this guy's story confirms that -- in a bad way.

When I was in middle school I had one visit from a group of narcotics detectives from the local police department. Back then, this was the extent of the police department's anti-drug effort in schools. It was one of the most effective presentations I've ever seen. The lieutenant of the narcotics squad held up a couple of small plastic bags -- one filled with white powder and the other with brown powder. He asked if we knew what these were. One kid raised his hand dutifully and said he thought the white powder was cocaine. A couple of other kids guessed at what was in the second bag, and one finally said: "Heroin."

"No, this isn't cocaine and heroin, kids," the detective said, dangling the little bags in the air in front of the class (almost playfully), "this is John Belushi right here, and you're never going to see him alive again because this is all he was."

This was just several weeks after Belushi had died of a drug overdose.

Wow.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...The proper function for this kind of person who is allegedly "rehabilitated" is not at a gathering of Boeing employees, but in a middle school or high school auditorium . . . to explain to young kids that a life of crime is a dead end..."

Well, maybe he was trying to reach those "at risk" Boeing employees. You know, because the lure of "da club" is just too strong to resist for some of those engineers, as they go about their daily lives of keeping it real by working diligently, paying their taxes, and abstaining from crime...