Stan Geiger

What Say the Liberals?

When I was a wee lad in the 1960s, I attended Kendall Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I can recall two classmates that didn't live long enough to move beyond that school.

One was Doug Jones. He was in my sister's grade, a couple of years ahead of me. He had a brain tumor. He died from it.

The other was a child named Kim Hall. I believe it was Kim, anyway. There was a set of identical twin brothers named Kim and Joe. I think it was Kim that died young.

The brothers were walking home from school one day, along Delaware Avenue, behind what is now Wilson Middle School. They were playing on a grassy embankment behind the school. As I remember the story, Kim came running down the embankment and his momentum carried him into the street. He was run over by a car and killed.

An illness, an accident, and two young lives ended much too soon. What tremendous devastation their parents, and other family members, must have felt.

Sad, yes. Tragic, yes. But, at least, explicable.

Two young lives were terminated in Weleetka. Two girls, ages 11 and 13, were gunned down, shot several times. Their parents, and other family members, are, no doubt, gutted. But worse yet, the loss of these two young lives, to date, goes unexplained.

Not that there could be a good reason to gun down the girls, but why? They weren't inner-city kids that happened to be standing in the wrong place when some gang-banger decided to open fire on a crowd. They weren't victims of a sexual predator. They were simply walking along a country road, and someone shot them dead.

Maybe time will tell; maybe not. For the sake of the families, I hope it does. It might help a little just to know the reason why.

Meanwhile, I'm thinkin' there are a lot of trees around Weleetka. Certainly one can be found with a sturdy limb from which the son-of-a-bitch---or sons-of-bitches---that committed these murders would look good hanging.

But then there are those liberal thinkers, "progressives" they like to call themselves. We shouldn't be mean to criminals, murderers, they say. Murderers are human beings, and deserving of rights and such.

Due process? I'm all in favor of due process. But once that is done, what rights should be accorded to a he, she, it or them that would shoot down two young girls in cold blood?

Oh men and women of liberal great, let me hear you pontificate. Give me a good reason why the perpetrator(s) of this crime should not be put to death.

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