I just saw videotape of Helder, the teenaged mailbox pipe-bomber, being escorted from the police car to headquarters, a big grin on his face as he delights in his newfound fame. Here is someone who felt it necessary to maim and blind innocent people, and justified his actions with a nebulous note regarding the evils of conformity, corporations, and the government. He has admitted the crimes, will be tried and confined to prison, probably for life.

I suggest that he could provide a service to all vacuous, homicidally inclined individuals and their potential victims by doing a short penance in the Pillory prior to his imprisonment. You know the Pillory...it's the wooden stocks that allowed criminals to be confined and exhibited in public with only their hands, head, and feet exposed back in "unenlightened" times. It was designed not simply for punishment, but for humiliation. My guess is that nothing would take the blush off of this jackass's fame like a little public humiliation.

LEJ (medieval at heart)