Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drusd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!drusd!phl From: phl@drusd.UUCP (LavettePH) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: GOETZ: TEN PREDICTIONS FOR 1985 Message-ID: <1194@drusd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 14:19:54 EST Article-I.D.: drusd.1194 Posted: Wed Jan 16 14:19:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:20:31 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 48 I have dusted off my crystal ball. I want to share what it has revealed. 1. None of the four men who are alledged to have assaulted Goetz will be brought to trial for assaulting him. 2. Goetz will be convicted and fined for the Sullivan law violation and acquitted on all other charges. 3. The four will sue Goetz for wounding them and the jury(s) will award an aggregate amount that will leave him penniless for the rest of his life. 4. The mayor of New York will issue a press release to the effect that, in spite of national publicity, justice has been done and the system works. 5. The number of NYC transit authority and city police foot patrolmen will be cut for lack of funds. 6. The number of privately owned weapons will increase as more citizens perceive that they are on their own against the criminals in their midst. 7. A "Gun Control Act of 1985" will be introduced, but be voted down, in the congress because it is "unenforceable". 8. A pile of "Get Tough on Thugs" acts will die in various committees because of lack of funds to build the necessary prison capacity. 9. The thug/goodbody ratio in the larger cities will increase as the thugs flee from the better armed suburbs and the goodbodys flee from the crime ridden cities. (They will do this even though they are safer in New York than they are in Fairbanks, Denver, Reno, etc. - but who reads statistics?) 10. People will begin to wonder whether Goetz's real crime was shooting up the four in the subway or calling attention to the sorry state of our system of criminal justice and why those armies of do-gooders who usually leap to the defense of every crook in the country ("You really should have held up a liquor store,Goetz. Then we'd all be on your side.") want to see him hanged, drawn and quartered and the pieces left for the buzzards. But, the public's memory is short and the whole thing will be forgotten in a year after the politicans and the media convince the public, "Not to worry. This was the act of a lone nut." {I further predict that this last one will take place no later than Superbowl Sunday, 1986, when the public's attention is dis- tracted by the Bronco's record breaking loss to the Pheonix Phlames.} Any doubters? - Phil