More Excess Baggage

The world has been shocked by the brutal murder of an honor student at the hands of street thugs in Chicago. Not since the LA riot video of Reginald Denny being dragged from the cab of his truck and set upon has the public seen this kind of anarchy on US streets. Scenes like this are a sad reminder of South African "necklacing", where a tire was forced around a hapless victim's neck, gasoline poured on it, and it ignited to fatal results. Or the wanton violence of the head choppers, jihadists with their dull blades and minds in the Middle East and Chechnya. This horrible event can not be a ringing endorsement for the city in which it occurred to host the Olympics. May there be swift justice for the savage perpetrators. On another matter of justice, Hollyweird seems to have rallied around Roman Polanski, an admitted child rapist. The entertainment community has long been a model of excess and eccentricity with Fatty Arbuckle, who notoriously stretched the ironically named Virginia Rappe beyond her limits with fatal consequences to Busby Berkeley whose drunk driving skills left something to be desired with more dead strewn off the road, rallying to protect their own regardless of the offense, but it is hard to conceive of anyone standing up to defend drugging and raping a thirteen year old. Maybe Polanski can share a correctional facility with Manson who murdered Polanski's first wife. That would make for some bloody bedfellows with Manson, I am sure, the one left standing-wiry, crazy little cuss that he is with his iconic little forehead swastika that I would gladly remove-why stop with the Nazi emblem when you can have the whole head? It would be good to see Polanski in the can instead of in like Flynn.