October 14, 2018 Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor The Sun Sentinel

October 14, 2018

Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Matthew Shepherd, si, Jesse Dirkhising, no? Some comments on your Page 3A story on Matthew Shepherd and the effects on Laramie, Wyoming, the United States, and the body politick.

Ms. O,

I know, I know, “After the first death there are no others” but why isn’t George Moscone on the same stamp as Harvey Milk?

Let us stipulate that the “alleged perpetrators” who pulled the trigger and killed Moscone and Milk were the only ones acquitted of the murders, it being self-evident that the rest of mankind is collectively guilty of at least one of the murders. Killing a self- proclaimed practicing heterosexual does not have the same panache as killing a serial predatory homosexual with a past History of paedophilia.

The TSA sent me a birthday gift Sunday last. I don’t have to become discalced to get on a plane. So the prospect of being called a homophobe, a wogaphobe, an Islamaphobe, a phobophile, or even a meanie causes me no great concern. Just don’t call me late for cocktail time.

Matthew Shepherd, and God rest his soul, was in a saloon frequented by homosexuals who reveled in “rough trade”. That is neither an excuse nor is it mitigation for the murder most foul done to him. Do you think society would have been better served if his murderers were executed? A bit of a poser for modern American Liberals, no?

Jesse Dirkhising was 12 years old, and therefore incapable of encouraging and approving of what happened to him in the last 3 days of his life. He was kidnapped, tortured, repeatedly raped and sodomized, and finally choked to death by gasoline doused rags. It is not known whether he was burned while alive or post mortem. This was done to him by 2 predatory homosexuals, [Shades of Lord Keynes and Congressman Gary Studds, but not Oscar Wilde.]

There is a picture of Matthew Shepherd’s parents being received in the Oval Office and comforted and consoled by President Obama. I can find no photo of Jesse Dirkhising’s family being so Corporal Work of Mercied.

Why has Jesse Dirkhising gone down the always convenient modern American Liberal memory hole and why do they all wish that the recently released movie about Gosnell, the Philadelphia serial killer cum abortionist, would go down with it? It is a widely known fact that should a Dr. Mengele wanabee ever run in a Broward County Democratic primary he would win overwhelmingly for his “progressive” views on abortion.

Your news story on Page 3A of today’s Sun Sentinel says “that today it [Wyoming] has fewer women in its legislature and remains hesitant to adopt policies that combat anti-gay violence and bias”. That is a sentence worthy of note. And derision. Are you saying that if Wyoming had such laws that Matthew Shepherd would be alive today? Are you familiar with the original Dr. J who said “How said of all the things that men endure, how few laws or Kings can cause or cure?”  I guess not. 

Other than strict enforcement of “Thou shall not kill”, followed by Draconian measures, what could have saved Matthew Shepherd or Jesse Dirkhising? The starting premise is simple. T. S. Eliot pointed out that evil, evil as real as your boot, is not subject to the whims of man, only to his outrage.

Perhaps you could explain why the killers of Matthew Shepherd are each serving 2 separate life sentences? They only killed one dude. Do they start the second one when they finish the first one? Big Bill Clinton did not let such niceties deter him from frying Ricky Ray Rector, if memory serves.

We have a play, “The Laramie Project”, a project supported and subsidized by American taxpayers, about Matthew Shepherd. “Corpus Cristi”, also. It posits tha Christ was crucified because he and His lover, Judas Iscariot, had a lovers’ quarrel and Judas dropped a dime on him There was a Broadway play, called “The Umbrella Man”, about a Puerto Rican teenager who killed White people. It was privately financed and, thankfully, closed quickly.

Why no sad songs for Jesse Dirkhising? He’s going to be dead for a long time also.

KEVIN SMITH

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET