Saturday, November 23, 2002

AND, FOR ONCE, DEATH WAS AN OPTION: Updating from my previous note, Rabbi Fred Neulander was sentenced yesterday to a life term, with a minimum of 30 years to be served in prison. The rabbi's last sermon worked.

edited to add: The "sermon" is now online, which tries to answer the question: how does a man plead for mercy for an act he has not acknowledged committing? By, umm . . .

And I wanted to spend the days of the years of my life — long days of long years of my life — with her. We had a little dialogue that I'm sure each and every one of you has or that you might have with your close friend, with your beloved, with your husband, with your wife, with your partner. One of us would say to the other, "I want to grow old with you." And the other would lean over and whisper, "I want to grow old with you too, but let's do it slowly."


Yeah, but I guess the whole "hiring someone to have her killed so I can carry on with my mistress who I started seeing immediately after presiding of her husband's funeral" thing threw a little wrench into that plan. "Oops."

It's the quintessence of chutzpah to plead for mercy based upon the goodness of the person you had killed, and yet that's exactly what he did. Full coverage available here.

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