Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

HOW HEARTLESS (12/03)

Oh dear. The looters of fine handbags, accessories and expensive goods in SF got caught. Fancy that. What a surprise. We still have cops. We still have detectives who with the aid of cameras, fingerprints, evidence and data bases can work out who did it. Wonders will never cease! Rich Lowry convinced us all last week that our city centers were about to be looted, plundered by hordes of democratic leaning, Biden supporting, society hating criminals. He must be disappointed. Of course we did have another nice young man, brought up in the gun culture who managed to get a some rounds off from an automatic pistol and kill a few fellow schoolmates. At least he had Mr Rittenhouse's example to follow. Probably just self-defense. He should get on TV, be interviewed by Fox News. Celebrity status awaits him. Just bury the dead. I am sure the parents and relatives of those dead kids will weep enough tears for the rest of their lives for all of us. I don't suppose Lowry has the time to compose an editorial on that. It's just people's lives. Stealing fine handbags is much more important.