Everyone’s heard of John Mark Karr, he’s the man who didn’t kill JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen, whose death has been over exposed for over a decade, while other child deaths have gone by without so much as a whisper.
Recently John Mark Karr moved in to his father’s home in a upper middle class Atlanta neighborhood. The response to Karr’s presence there, however, doesn’t come as much of a surprise.
The president of the local community association (Chastain Park Civic Association) emailed residents notifying them of Karr’s presence. Meanwhile neighbors have made their position on the issue clear. One resident said she would call 911, if she so much as saw Karr. Others were begrudged by the fact that Karr was not in jail. Apparently these women are of the belief that we live under some fascist regime where people can be arrested at will for no offense save the fact that they are disliked. One resident noted that she didn’t expect Karr would remain in the neighborhood long, “I think somehow it will be uncomfortable for him to stay. His quality of life will not be so good,” said Michelle Collins.
Karr has been convicted of no crime and is entitled to his privacy. The kooks and paranoids of this neighborhood would be well advised to pick up a copy of the US Constitution, perhaps then they may learn that this is a nation of laws, at least for the time being…
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2006/10/20/1020karr.html
Chastain Park Civic Association:
http://chastainpark.org/intro.htm
