Re: The family in the cellar

In article <MPG.229246a2fc40ebd09898a2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <memo.20080511195131.3240B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
> prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> > In article <K0M6vJ.7x2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J
> > Heydt) wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I've read about it.  And now the guy is saying, "I'm not a
> > > monster!  After all, I could have killed them if I wanted to."
> > 
> > It's things like this that makes the story so horribly fascinating for
> > me.  Usually, I have some inkling of the thought processes of another
> > person resulting in their behaviour, even if I wouldn't behave that
way
> > myself, even if I don't understand it fully.  But in this case, it's
so
> > alien.
> 
> Oh, he's just a screwed up selfish bastard who doesn't let the fact that

> something is wrong stop him from doing it. Lots of people like him all 
> over the place.
> 
> What I don't get is the _mother_. There's no way she lived there all 
> these years and did not know. There's just no way. And doing nothing 
> when she did know.. that really boggles.
> 
> And so far no one has even intimated that they don't believe her when 
> she says so. 

This is not the first time that people in this area have closed their 
eyes to what was going on around them...

.... though last time, millions died.

Is it something in the water?

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