hello friends, it's me again. i hope this does not sound too hypocritical after my last post in which i said that i try not to judge others but i was catching up on my reading again and just had to respond to paul sadek's post. dear paul i think that we are all fully aware of the fact that the person who maimed dayna's little baby may be a child or mentally/emotionally disturbed person...my response is "so what!". if by chance this person was deranged/disturbed what the hell were they doing roaming around unsurper- vised in a park where children play?! and if the perpatrator was a child are we to excuse their behavior simply because of their age? i get so tired of hearing people say that young children are unaware of the consequences of their actions. what are we raising? idiots? what should we do about the darling little six year old who tried to beat a one month old baby to death? didn't charles manson, jeffrey dommer, adolf hitler and the rest of the good time boys begin life as innocent children? sometimes monsters aren't made...they are born! please spare me, if no one else, the abused/fatherless child sob story! it is an excuse used by sadists to relieve themselves of the responsibility of their own actions! my father was an abusive alcoholic and in order to provide for us my mother worked 3 jobs (basically we were on our own for 14 hours a day). my sister and i had concusions, broken bones, cracked ribs and stitches all compliments of dear old dad before he drank himself to death in 1979 (i was 12) but i would never take my past out on an innocent animal or child (or anyone else for that matter!)! and as for the excuse that they abuse because they were abused-give me a break! even as a child you don't have to be told that what is being done to you is wrong...you know it, you feel it in your gut and those who repeat the cycle are worse than those that started it! you would think that having gone through the abuse themselves would make them less inclined to put someone else through the physical and emotional pain that they suffered. those who are so filled with anger that they want to make others suffer for what happened to them are extremely dangerous and should be dealt with accordingly! don't get me wrong! i am angry! i hated my father (although i have forgiven him since then)! but my anger still swells when i read about abuse of any kind! i am so tired of hearing of counseling and the abuser rights! who cares! shouldn't their rights have been forfeited the moment they forcefully took someone else's? and why should my tax money be spent rehabilitating and educating trash like that when our kids can't get a solid education! i am not normally a violent person but if i had my way all animal experi- mentation would end (since they are always saying that they don't know of the effects on humans) and they could use violent offenders for these experiments and in order to give those on death row a chance to give something back to society...organ donation! that's right let the healthy, disease free fella's donate all their organs to people who deserve to live! i really wish their was a way to stop all the killing, raping and what have you without violence but even god killed and if we kill animals who seriously harm humans even if it is possible to prove that the animal was provoked why should humans be shown favor when they commit violent crimes for no apparent reason? who says that we are better because we walk erect and talk in complete sentences? i'll tell you who said it...a human! in my eyes that means nothing! please forgive my ranting and the fact that my post is all in lower case... i am experiencing some keyboard mapping problems and my shift key does not seem to work in conjunction with my letter keys. finally, i sent this post anonymously for reasons i feel are obvious and not because i am not willing to own up to my opinions! [Posted in FML issue 1570]