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Show ALL DUNN by Roy Dunn HOWDY FOLKS It happened hap-pened a long time ago, so long ago, in fact, that I can't remember re-member the date and I doubt that most of you folks could tell me the exact date that a little girl in Utah County was raped and beaten to death with a coulking gun. We never read any more about what is being done about this horrible crime but I think I can safely assume as-sume that her murderer is still healthy as a horse, eating three squares a day and competent doctors are looking after his health. No doubt he feels safe in the knowledge that nothing worse will happen to him. Just recently there was a news item in the paper that in New Delhi, a man-eating tiger is on the loose and has eaten five men in the last five days. A big tiger hunt is on and a reward has been offered for the animals death. This tiger will be killed on sight, and he only eats men. There are mad-dogs roaming at large around here, who when caught, will be protected almost al-most to the point of being pampered. Sirhan B. Sirhan blasted down Sen. Robert Kennedy, but there is a long road ahead be-for be-for his execution in the apple-green apple-green gas chamber at San Quentin. That day quite possibly possi-bly may never come. Legal appeals ap-peals up to the Supreme Court are certain to take more than a year and may even spare Sirhan Sir-han indefinitely. All this, in spite of the fact that a jury of seven men and five women found him guilty as charged and recommended the death penalty. The decision was unanimous and due process pro-cess of law had run it's course. Everyone knows that justice is blind. The laws of other countries are strange to us and it may be that in Sirhan's place of birth, his murderous act may have been justified under the law. This creates a problem in the courts of many countries, coun-tries, but it doesn't change the law. German courts are having headaches with foreign workers work-ers who prefer to follow the laws and customs of their homelands rather than those of Germany. The majority of Ger many's million "guest workers" are conscientious, honest men and women who work hard and live simply to provide for their families in Italy, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. They are also law-abiding. But when passions run high, they take justice in their own hands and are utterly mystified to find themselves being charged char-ged with serious crimes by the German courts. In Heidelberg, for example, a 26 year old Sicilian was dismayed dis-mayed to find himself hauled before the juvenile court for seducing a 13-year-old girl. The girl was Sicilian. His lawyer argued, "My client has married the girl and under Italian law, that atones for his offence against her chastity." Applying the wisdom of Solomon Sol-omon and the law of Italy, the juvenile court declared the Italian Ital-ian innocent and returned him to the arms of his 13 year old bride, who meanwhile had become be-come the mother of a 7-month-old daughter. In Kassel, a 21-year-old German Ger-man was driving to work with his Turkish teen-aged friend when he ran into a light pole, killing the Turk. The parents took the body of their son back to Turkey for burial and returned to Kassel to administer self-justice. The Turkish father blew the boy's head off with a shot gun. He then went to the police, laid the gun on the table and said calmly, "I have just killed a man. He had my boy's death on his conscience." But Sirhan B. Sirhan cannot use any of the excuses mentioned men-tioned here for such is not the case. Our laws decrees an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But it rarely works that way. It's going to be interesting to see how it all turns out for Sirhan and Ray and Speck and Poulsen and all those who wouldn't hesitate to kill you or your family. Some folks say that capital punishment is barbaric. But so is the war in Vietnam. There's thousands of boys being executed exe-cuted over there. Their only crime was being eligible for the draft. SEE YA'ALL LATER. |