[cspackler]

Be caareful, I made the exact same arguments on another thread yestrday and was dogpiled on by those who accused me of being holier-than-thou, etc...

I just don't get the ease at which some just write off these statements as "the booze talking", and not a glimpse into his soul.

You'll probably even get the alcoholic "Jekyl and Hyde" argument. Funny thing is is that the whole point of that story was the concoction was simply briging out the dark side of what is already in us...

[AFreeBird]

Too late, he just got the argument from me, and although I don't recall responding to you directly on the other thread(s), I think I did agree with someone who did.

I've been touched by alchoholism in a very personal way. I saw it, and was affected by it everyday for more years than I care to remember.

And I saw how, when on the sauce, a normally very caring and loving person, could turn on, and be mean and downright cruel, to the people that person loved.

So its not a stretch for me to beleive that a group of people, not related in any way to Mel, for whom he may may may not have any personal feelings for, could come under fire from him while the monkey was riding his back.

You folks need to under understand that long time alchoholics brain chemistry has been severely altered. It NOT THE SAME as getting drunk once in a while.