And there are many more criminals who deny that what they did was wrong, yet they make excuses for their actions. (In my opinion, the excuses themselves unveil a guilty conscience.) If a man has murdered a small child, and does not show any form of remorse, does this mean that he has simply not experienced empathy, and therefore cannot tell the difference between right and wrong? Does the empathy itself create the moral code? If there is no empathy, is there no crime? If the jugement of a crime is based upon a person's life experiences and lack of empathy, how can we charge him with a crime? How can we even have laws? By your line of reasoning, that man I described would be innocent.
.... okay, let's review the facts in the case:
Mark Olson admittted to throwing his wife to the ground three times. He bruised her. He ran away and hid in a church school. He was arrested and jailed. He cried in court and refused to enter a plea.
Mark Olson delayed his trial several times, using what right-wingers like to call "technicalities".
.... and Olson blamed his wife for what happened:
TO THE EDITOR:
I am proud of my sister, Heidi Olson, and her decision not to try to influence the public by making statements about the incidents which landed Mark Olson in jail. However, after attending the latest hearing on Feb. 9, I heard Olson's lawyer tell a reporter the false story that Heidi "came after Olson and he was trying to control the situation". Perhaps a weak case has led him to apply this tactic. It is misperceptions like that which hopefully will be brought out in court, when persons testifying are under oath.
It is my hope that the people of Sherburne County will agree that physical violence is never warranted or justified. In my 32 plus years of marriage, my husband has never been physically aggressive with me. I don't think I could do anything that would cause him to act that way. Unless there is a common agreement and a standard about domestic violence, there is not much more that can be said.
Holli Rebney
Minnetonka, MN
... and here's Olson when he was tough on crime:
Ken Avidor wants to know why the major news media promoted Personal Rapid Transit.
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