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- LETTERS, Page 17Central Park Gang Rape
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- Your "Wilding in the Night," describing the attack on a young
- female jogger in Central Park (NATION, May 8), filled me with
- anger, rage and disgust. How long must law-abiding citizens endure
- the litany of excuses made as justification for acts of murder,
- rape and child abuse? Each person should be held responsible for
- his or her actions.
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- Zeke Loretto
- Antioch, Calif.
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- Charles Krauthammer's passionate response to the Central Park
- "wilding" attack is understandable. But I am disturbed by his
- refusal to accept the possibility of any broader cause behind the
- attackers' moral anomie. He claims it is not economic deprivation,
- it is not social frustration, it is not political cynicism, it is
- not even psychological rage. It is, says Krauthammer, mere anarchy,
- by which he means an "excess of freedom." An excess of freedom!
- These boys stalked an innocent, unarmed woman, a stranger, beat her
- with rocks and lead pipes, raped her and left her to die . . .
- merely because they were free to do so? This explanation is more
- chilling than the crime itself.
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- Jeff Ewener
- Toronto
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- As a 29-year-old black woman, I am enraged by the attack on
- the jogger in Central Park. This woman was not the victim of a few
- "misunderstood youths" but the prey of evil animals. Racism does
- exist, but it cannot be blamed for wilding or drug abuse or teenage
- pregnancy. Why don't these gang members use their brains to build
- for the future?
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- Cheryl A. Tunstall
- Century City, Calif.