Freddogg Off The Chain

Do we all have a dark side that we can be pushed towards like a Sears refrigerator with non swiveling caster wheels? Do we all have a breaking point, a precipitating single or series of events that would glaze over our eyes and send us into a frenzied homicidal mission of revenge and atonement?

Three years ago I presented a report in a graduate class on the 1968 Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam. I had read everything available on the subject and remember drawing the conclusion that these morons were sick and twisted going into “Nam” just like some of the imbecilic rapists and murderers representing us in Iraq. The question I posed: “was the killing an aberration or an operation”?

A woman in the class, a former marine whose husband had worked for General Westmoreland , told me that it was clear throughout literature that we all have that dark side just waiting and lurking for the proper trigger.

“I don’t have it, ”I said. “There are no circumstances that could drive me to gun down unarmed women and children in a ditch or stick a lighted flare up a baby’s butt, toss it into the air, then cut it in half with machine gun fire. That monster is just not inside me.”

I read this morning where a 29 year old Geeky looking Fairfield educated lawyer from Connecticut who believed a 58 year old neighbor had molested his two year old daughter climbed through the guy’s window and stabbed him 18 times with a big assed kitchen knife then returned home with the knife and bloody clothes.

The police arrived and pretty much said “good one and nice job” now Jon Edington is “FREE” after posting the one million dollars in bail money.

If you were sitting on a jury and believe the molestation story to be true and your only choices were murder one or not guilty how would you vote? And could the molestation of a child in your extended family trigger you into a murderous rage?

Judge Freddogg