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In our industrialized societies, the pendulum weighing morality and technology have shifted. We resided ourselves to enjoy the pleasures of a push-button world with the digitized rape and violence in Grand Theft Auto's Playstation series. Advanced technology has allowed the pacifist to blow away Asians and Germans in Medal of Honor 3. We transported our sadist behaviors on to plasma HD screens and personal computers. Only in times of extreme outrage, have we reverted back to innocents asking questions "Why did it happen?" "How did it happen?" Through techology, we turned into moral hypocrites and the Ted Bundys and Jeffrey Dahmers of hell love it!

Most of the public has always loved serial killers. Old England's, Jack the Ripper slashed five women into mincemeat. He never paid for his heinous crimes. Instead of being hated, Jack enjoyed a following that made even Elvis Presley jealous!

During America's counterculture 1960s and 1970s, California was "serial killer heaven". You had the Hillside Strangler(s) who beat, stabbed and strangled runaways all along the 405. Charles Manson and his nutty "family" ran about carving up A-list celebrities like Thanksgiving turkeys. If you wanted to admire someone, the late Sharon Tate long deserved some sympathy. Her family was obviously "touched" by the public's fascination with a drug-addicted hippie. Manson confessed to attempting to start a race war. I doubt the black separatist movements asked for his help.

Of course, we never forgot Chicago, Illinois scumbag, Richard Speck. In 1968, he strangled and stabbed eight, female nurses to death. He also left one to critically injured to continue her career. In 1991, the E channel did a story on his incarceration. He bragged about the murders and offered no remorse. He cavorted with his black, prison (boyfriend) and claimed to have taken female hormones. He possessed abnormally large, male breasts. Later that year, he died from syphillis. He got his "superstar treatment" in being carted out on a gurney!

During the late 1980s and 1990s, we enjoyed the antics of Ted Bundy and Jeff Dahmer. Bundy possessed what most serial killers lacked; looks and a college education. He spoke well. He dressed well. Amidst his murder trials, he often represented himself. He cross-examined his living witnesses about his alleged crimes. In doing so, plenty of them probably threw up in their mouths. If you took away the grisly, crime scenes, Bundy had the charisma and intellect of a corporate attorney.

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