Re: Congressman Convicted of Manslaughter (Motorcy
We need to take our "victories" where we can find them if there ever could be such a thing in an instance such as the motorcyclist's wrongful death.
Yeah he might get a brief walk-thru in a Country Club prison but the fact remains he is now stigmatized and branded...he refused to take ownership of his irresponsibility and a jury of his peers stapled ownership of his murderous malfeasance firmly on his forehead.
He can't duck that fact or explain it away, he has been branded a liar and a reckless killer by society.
Consider that most politicians are driven by demons rather than inspired by ideals. They thrive on power and public opinion/approval...they cannot validate their beings from within....they need symbols, external tangible things to prove they are "someone"
more politicians are sociopathic than not, and as sociopaths they have no core inner-sense of right and wrong...and that goes for republican, democrat, whig or Tory....their reference points for their very existence are only what they have surrounded themselves with externally....and Mr. Janklow has now been surrounded by condemnation.
He has been stripped and sent to a hell of his own making, he will never again look at someone without wondering if they too....agree with the jury that sapped and stripped him of his "legitimacy".
I believe him when he spoke of waking up with night sweats...clearly he spoke of HIS discomfort...because in his ugly world, it is all about HIM...not what he had wrought upon the family of the motorcyclist or the cyclist himself.
I dare say the grieving family knows that his wish to see them is only to attempt to get himself off the hook, to ease his own discomfort...he has no genuine empathy or sorrow to offer. Janklow will have to find forgiveness and redemption elsewhere and in his case, it is in the hardest place to reach...in his own soul...if he should ever be fortunate enough to find that
So in the dead of night, he is sweating ownership, he is sweating exposure of the crippled little creature behind the disguises of importance.....all his symbols of power and legitimacy have been removed and the world gets to see the ugly little dwarfed mutant behind the masquerade....
he is indeed serving a life term.....in an ugly reality that has no exit door or parole board....he's in prison now....no matter where he goes, lives, sleeps, eats or drinks. May he live long...
3 cheers for the jury
