She’s beyond stunned. She said something about “Paradise lost” — my friend’s little house has a big yard, which she’s been intensively gardening every weekend for almost 50 years: Paradise.
Think what you will about what might be the snake — I think it’s Q. I think Q got into his brain and ate it.
There’s been a debate here about whether Sirhan2 committed an “ordinary murder,” and whether those of us who were alive then are simply indulging in a combination of nostalgia and revenge.
Sirhan is a political assassin who tried to kill our democratic government. So no, he doesn’t get to be paroled in a sensible world.
I see there’s now a debate over what kind of sentence should be meted out to Coleman. Is this an “ordinary murder”? Is he insane? Is his insanity temporary? Will he come back at his wife, the woman he thinks has reptile DNA, and finish his bloody mission?
The crime was horrific. Will it seem less horrific after he’s been locked up for a couple of decades? He seems to be a charmer — will he charm the Parole Board? He’s a Bible-thumper already — will he be one of those model prisoners sustained by his faith, and charm supporters outside prison? If he’s in a mental hospital setting, will they keep him forever? or medicate to stability, then let him back into a world where he can choose to stop taking his meds?
Sirhan shook the nation, as he did his part to take us down.
Coleman has shaken a neighborhood, the local world of surfers and childcare operations, the town, destroyed his wife — destroyed innocence.
Just a meditation — on Paradise lost.
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