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amsler@nevada.edu (JOHN AMSLER) said..
>Paranoid?  Hmmm.  You might want to ask the victims of Charles Manson,
>Richard Speck, Albert deSalvo, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis
>Toole, or Gerald Gallego.  Unfortunately, you can't ... because they're
>all dead, viciously murdered not by ghosts or imaginary goblins, but by
>*real* psychopaths!  (Here's an idea:  Polly Klaas's parents are still
>around;  why don't you ask *them* about "paranoia" and "psychopaths?"  I'm
>sure they would have a unique perspective on the subject at which you seem
>to sneer.) In this corrupted, barbaric, morally rudderless, disintegrating
>"society," people -- especially women -- who don't adopt serious measures
>for their own self-defense and preservation are assuming an unacceptable
>risk ... attested to by the roster of any cemetery, the slabs of any
>morgue, or the blotter of any large-city police department!  For you to
>dismiss the matter as "paranoid" is quite haughty and condescending, at 
>least as I interpret it. 

This is entirely paranoid and I dismiss it as overreaction.

Yes -- take actions to keep yourself reasonably safe.  Determine for
yourself what those actions might be.  But Polly Klaas, since you
mentioned it -- she was taken from her -home- and killed.  To take
actions such that one would be completely protected against that kind
of danger would require extreme paranoia.

Using her name to imply that "you will end up a victim like her if
you're not careful" is seriously tacky.

Allan
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Allan Schaffer                                             aschaffe@sgi.com
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