I will not offer an apology for my challenge effort which responded to the information available at the time. I do extend my condolences to all who experienced the emotional loss, and express my outrage at the miscarriages of justices in this case, which seem symptomatic of what's going on in America (but I hoped not rural Oregon).

Does anyone else sense a parallel to world events in this preemptive strike on trumped-up non-charges? The supposed governmental intercession to rescue an innocent victim resulting in her untimely death, not to mention torture and humiliation by an arrogant rules-flaunting teen-ager? The rousing of popular passions based on false, incomplete, contradictory or misleading information? The official sources of military/police power spinning the facts on their website? I wax wroth! Is this Deputy Tripp a relative of Linda Tripp? Wait, no first name is given -- could it actually be she? The behavior patterns are consistent!

This case should be pursued in ever higher circles. If we want justice, it should be taken all the way up to the Supreme Court, where ----- Oh, oh, ----------- never mind!