RK Newsletter #26 3-5-2000
©copyright 2000
Editors note: Richard made a great effort to learn the Spanish
language
during his retirement. He spent weeks in Mexico for that
purpose and
enjoys reading the popular short form of Mexican novels.
Dear Chuck
Thank you for your letter of September 17th. The final
chapters of my
Mexican Novella have "disappeared", you report? I'm sorry about
that.
Believe it or not I had been reading the story and enjoying it.
I was in
fact prepared to respond to your suggested quiz questions. It's
about the
three heirs of a great Mexican family seeking revenge for the
unnecessary
killing of their father by some evil men. All this in the
background of a
civil war in the late 19th century.
No problem though. Every Mexican Novella has the same mix
of action and
plot, with the same good guys and bad guys. The good guys
always win.
I shall hasten to assure you, on the subject of "keys" in
prison, that
they don't give us all their keys; just the keys to our cells,
not the keys
to the building, or the gates to the yard.
Also, when you express concern that "some of the others"
might escape,
you should realize that it is I who am the danger. I am the
"Killer". My
other friends are almost all here for third strike offenses such
as drinking
beer in a public bar, or being on the scene when another person
was observed
purchasing some drugs, or for shop lifting at Home Depot.
To help convince you of the error of your concern about the
"Others" you
should know that I consort with another "Killer". I have a good
friend here
who is in prison for the same reason I am. He shot and killed a
son in law
who was on drugs and was hurting his daughter. We make a good
team. We're
hoping to get into the Guiness book of records as the only men
in prison for
doing the "right thing" saving their daughter's life by killing
the man who
beat and abused her.
Hey, it's good to hear of your trip North to visit the
daughter, grand
daughter and kids. You have of course always been playing with
a full deck!
But the trip did help to clear the channels, didn't it? Travel
has always
done that to me. I do it on a Motorcycle of course.
Many a time on a motorcycle trip, I have looked up at that
beautiful
open road unwinding before me through some lonely section of the
west and
have said to myself, "Let time stand still! Let me live this
moment
forever." That's the way to clear channels.
On the subject of alternative medicine. It works and works
well if you
believe. I have an alternative medicine I believe in. It's
dark chocolate
with almonds. I am convinced I have discovered the perfect
medicine. I am
just ahead of the medical world. One of these days they will
announce an
"amazing discovery". Their latest studies have determined that
"chocolate is
the world's best medicine." Wait and see!
You ask about my appeal? How is it coming? Two
answers to that
question. The first is these things take time. I am arranging
for my
epitaph to be delayed until the appeal is completed. The
decision "not
guilty" can then be engraved on my tombstone.
The other answer is that the whole objective of the appeal
system is not
to seek justice. Its purpose is to extend hope to the doomed so
they won't
get mad and really complain. All of my friends have appeals in
process.
None of them will ever come to anything. Most of them will be
dropped in
time because the subject involved has died of natural causes.
(read that old
age).
No, the appeal process in time will study my case and will
come up with
the following conclusion. "You're probably a hero! The guy you
killed was
evil! But, you do understand, do you not, that you broke a law?
Your
sentence stands."
I have never expected more so it doesn't bother me. The
law's failure
to help me is the final proof that what I did was the only
solution.
On the subject of pay to POW's for their wartime work for
Japanese
corporations. I think they should be able to make a good case
for my being
paid something for my work in Japan. However, a fair wage could
be the wage
of the equivalent Japanese worker. So instead of 30 yen a day I
would get
350 yen a day. With a bit of imaginative extrapolation that
should work out
to maybe 10 dollars a day for my year in Japan. No big thing.
A fun idea,
though.
Enough for now. Thank you for the crossword puzzles. And
thanks for
the Mexican Novella. I shall start the new one right away.
Richard Keech
semper fi
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