Pity the poor CRIMINAL! - Garner Ted Armstrong - December 1969

Garner Ted Armstrong

Paradoxically, millions of our people live in fear of crime. Still, attitudes toward criminals continue to soften - some crimes are so sensationalized the culprits are virtually praised as heroes. What's happening to old-fashioned indignation against wrongdoing? This article probes current trends, and offers some logical reasons for them. "Congratulations! Your son has done a remarkable thing!" beamed the shopkeeper in Rome. He was talking to the father of captured hijacker, Raffaele Minichiello, who had electrified the world by forcing the crew of an American airliner, TWA Flight 85 bound for San Francisco from Los Angeles, to fly to Rome. Television newscasters referred to the crime with barely concealed tongue-in-cheek amusement. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library