Excerpted from Murder Most Foul:
¡§The end justifies the means.¡¨
- Machiavelli, The Prince
The concept of a social reformer exposing the deplorable conditions in London¡¦s East End by committing the Whitechapel Murders, knowing that they would focus the world¡¦s attention on that area, is an old one and has been addressed by authors as diverse as Donald Rumbelow, Donald McCormick, and Harlan Ellison. To be able to clean up the slums of one of Earth¡¦s major cities single-handedly, by the mere blood sacrifice of a few of society¡¦s castoffs, would have truly been a liberal¡¦s dream and could have actually been attempted as an early experiment in ¡¥social engineering¡¦:
¡§There are many aspects in these crimes that support the idea of "Jack the Reformer". I can't forget the following verse (from the book "The Identity of Jack the Ripper" by Donald McCormick):¡¨
"I've no time to tell you how
I came to be a killer.
But you should know, as time will show,
That I'm society's pillar."
- Jose Luis Carril Miguens10
Is this concept farfetched? Many have thought not, including George Bernard Shaw, who looked upon the Ripper as an ¡¥independent genius¡¦, able to do what the Social Democrats in 1888 London could not9. In further support of the position that this sort of thing could have happened, we examine the content of an interesting URL on the Internet, termed ¡¥Clinton Body Count¡¦24. Incredibly, this site gives the names and details concerning dozens of people once associated with Bill and Hillary Clinton, all of whom have since met with violent deaths, and often under the most suspicious of circumstances. Some of these deaths, such as that of Vincent Foster, were obviously beneficial to the Clintons, and one is left wondering if there really may be any substance to the inferences drawn. Certainly, one cannot deny that neither this ultra-liberal, latter-day Lady Macbeth nor her libidinous husband has ever let anything stand in their way for very long. As Richard Whittington-Egan told Paul Feldman, albeit for a far different reason, "There comes a time when circumstantial evidence is no longer circumstantial".10
Naturally, someone of this persuasion would worry about the ¡¥negative¡¦ ramifications of the murders about as much as one of the Tsar¡¦s Cossacks would worry about which peasant owned the cabbage patch through which he was galloping. If the government actually fell due to the Ripper¡¦s actions, and it very nearly did, then so much the better ¡V ¡¥it was too conservative anyway¡¦. And if the murder and gross mutilation of three or four useless old whores did not produce the desired result, well, then, maybe the total and outrageous destruction of a young and pretty one would.
Conclusion ¡V if the Ripper were a liberal social reformer, he would not have hesitated to kill, probably being limited only by time. His other motives for mutilation and leaving of the victims in public could have been as follows:
Mutilation
„h Jack the Anarchist
The Ripper would have had just one goal - to make the crimes as grisly and as horrifying as possible, so as to draw the maximum attention to them and the area in which they were committed.
Public Display
„h Jack the Anarchist
The Ripper¡¦s leaving of the victims in public could be attributed to only one possibility ¡V to embarrass the government, draw the maximum world attention to the area affected, and to maximize public outrage, thus raising the cry for sweet liberal reform.
SOURCES:
1. Badal, James In the Wake of the Butcher
2. Bloch, Robert Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
3. Crime SuspenStories, The Giggling Killer
EC Publications
4. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Complete Sherlock Holmes
5. Futrelle, Jacques The Thinking Machine
6. Jesse, F. Tennyson Murder and its Motives
7. King, C. Daly The Curious Mr. Tarrant
8. Maples, William Dead Men Do Tell Tales
9. Rumbelow, Donald The Complete Jack the Ripper
10. Ryder, Stephen www.casebook.org
11. Scott, George A History of Torture
12. Sledge, Eugene With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
13. Smithsonian Magazine, The Shadow of a Gunman from World War II
September 1993
14. Spitz. Werner, Medicolegal Investigation of Death, Second
and Fisher, Russell Edition
15. Styron William The Confessions of Nat Turner
16. Sugden, Philip The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
17. Ubelaker, Douglas Bones: A Forensic Detective¡¦s Casebook
18. von Krafft-Ebing, Richard Psychopathia Sexualis
19. http://www.crimelibrary.com
20. http://drugs.uta.edu/drugs.html
21. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v3n1/ridgway.html
22. http://65.107.211.206/
23. http://www.wcb.vcu.edu/wcb/students/...s/poecrit.html
24. http://www.daveschultz.com/scum/clinton/bodycount.html
25. http://www.sociology.org/vol003.002/...icle.1998.html
26. http://www.psycharts.com/impofthe.htm
27. http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/17evil.html
28. http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html
29. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v281...jbk0609-1.html
30. http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf065/sf065p14.htm
¡§The end justifies the means.¡¨
- Machiavelli, The Prince
The concept of a social reformer exposing the deplorable conditions in London¡¦s East End by committing the Whitechapel Murders, knowing that they would focus the world¡¦s attention on that area, is an old one and has been addressed by authors as diverse as Donald Rumbelow, Donald McCormick, and Harlan Ellison. To be able to clean up the slums of one of Earth¡¦s major cities single-handedly, by the mere blood sacrifice of a few of society¡¦s castoffs, would have truly been a liberal¡¦s dream and could have actually been attempted as an early experiment in ¡¥social engineering¡¦:
¡§There are many aspects in these crimes that support the idea of "Jack the Reformer". I can't forget the following verse (from the book "The Identity of Jack the Ripper" by Donald McCormick):¡¨
"I've no time to tell you how
I came to be a killer.
But you should know, as time will show,
That I'm society's pillar."
- Jose Luis Carril Miguens10
Is this concept farfetched? Many have thought not, including George Bernard Shaw, who looked upon the Ripper as an ¡¥independent genius¡¦, able to do what the Social Democrats in 1888 London could not9. In further support of the position that this sort of thing could have happened, we examine the content of an interesting URL on the Internet, termed ¡¥Clinton Body Count¡¦24. Incredibly, this site gives the names and details concerning dozens of people once associated with Bill and Hillary Clinton, all of whom have since met with violent deaths, and often under the most suspicious of circumstances. Some of these deaths, such as that of Vincent Foster, were obviously beneficial to the Clintons, and one is left wondering if there really may be any substance to the inferences drawn. Certainly, one cannot deny that neither this ultra-liberal, latter-day Lady Macbeth nor her libidinous husband has ever let anything stand in their way for very long. As Richard Whittington-Egan told Paul Feldman, albeit for a far different reason, "There comes a time when circumstantial evidence is no longer circumstantial".10
Naturally, someone of this persuasion would worry about the ¡¥negative¡¦ ramifications of the murders about as much as one of the Tsar¡¦s Cossacks would worry about which peasant owned the cabbage patch through which he was galloping. If the government actually fell due to the Ripper¡¦s actions, and it very nearly did, then so much the better ¡V ¡¥it was too conservative anyway¡¦. And if the murder and gross mutilation of three or four useless old whores did not produce the desired result, well, then, maybe the total and outrageous destruction of a young and pretty one would.
Conclusion ¡V if the Ripper were a liberal social reformer, he would not have hesitated to kill, probably being limited only by time. His other motives for mutilation and leaving of the victims in public could have been as follows:
Mutilation
„h Jack the Anarchist
The Ripper would have had just one goal - to make the crimes as grisly and as horrifying as possible, so as to draw the maximum attention to them and the area in which they were committed.
Public Display
„h Jack the Anarchist
The Ripper¡¦s leaving of the victims in public could be attributed to only one possibility ¡V to embarrass the government, draw the maximum world attention to the area affected, and to maximize public outrage, thus raising the cry for sweet liberal reform.
SOURCES:
1. Badal, James In the Wake of the Butcher
2. Bloch, Robert Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
3. Crime SuspenStories, The Giggling Killer
EC Publications
4. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Complete Sherlock Holmes
5. Futrelle, Jacques The Thinking Machine
6. Jesse, F. Tennyson Murder and its Motives
7. King, C. Daly The Curious Mr. Tarrant
8. Maples, William Dead Men Do Tell Tales
9. Rumbelow, Donald The Complete Jack the Ripper
10. Ryder, Stephen www.casebook.org
11. Scott, George A History of Torture
12. Sledge, Eugene With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
13. Smithsonian Magazine, The Shadow of a Gunman from World War II
September 1993
14. Spitz. Werner, Medicolegal Investigation of Death, Second
and Fisher, Russell Edition
15. Styron William The Confessions of Nat Turner
16. Sugden, Philip The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
17. Ubelaker, Douglas Bones: A Forensic Detective¡¦s Casebook
18. von Krafft-Ebing, Richard Psychopathia Sexualis
19. http://www.crimelibrary.com
20. http://drugs.uta.edu/drugs.html
21. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v3n1/ridgway.html
22. http://65.107.211.206/
23. http://www.wcb.vcu.edu/wcb/students/...s/poecrit.html
24. http://www.daveschultz.com/scum/clinton/bodycount.html
25. http://www.sociology.org/vol003.002/...icle.1998.html
26. http://www.psycharts.com/impofthe.htm
27. http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/17evil.html
28. http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html
29. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v281...jbk0609-1.html
30. http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf065/sf065p14.htm
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