Integrity: Prologue
I believe that enough time has passed since the events described in the following manuscript that, although many may remember them from news reports, most should be able to read this perspective without taking too much offense. Indeed, this is not a unique case; many like it have happened before and since. So I hope that I have waited long enough, and that the presentation at this time is in good taste.
Many will read the following and wonder why I even bother with this preface. For these readers, I hope that these few paragraphs are short enough that they will not prove too much an inconvenience. But I do have a warning to give, to those who sometimes feel the need to dehumanize others, to dismiss them as animals in order to keep their versions of the world clean and safe. These should not read further. They will either dismiss the following outright or have their views severely challenged, and I don’t want to impose such a change on anybody who is not ready for it.
Finally, to those who sympathize with the man who wrote the words below, who may even be on a course similar to his, I hope these pages can be a help to you. Perhaps, by reading his story and bringing it into your consciousness, you can write a different story for yourself.
Beyond this, the manuscript needs little introduction. Since there was no trial, the courts had little need for it, beyond establishing its essential truth. And so, through a friend of mine in the legal system, whose identity I will protect here, I ended up with a Xerox copy of what follows. The sheets were typewritten, with neither page numbers nor dates, so I doubt that the originals looked all that different from the copies I received. The sections are mine, not his – but that is the only change I have made to the text, other than typographical niceties, such as substituting italics for underlining and correcting the occasional trivial spelling error. It seems apparent that the entire work was written within a few days. And so, until I greet you again at the end, I leave the manuscript to speak for itself.
