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> The guy had the nerve to ask us to support him.

There's support, and there's support.
Support for his actions?, of course not.
But, if he was an apparently decent person in all other respects, good 
work ethic, lots of selfless service to others, hadn't been dipping 
into club funds when he could have (check carefully!) etc, then it may 
well be appropriate to note that to the authorities. If he had none of 
these attributes then maybe not.

As you may imagine, I utterly do not condone or support such action. 
The boss (no, not Bruce Springstein) reserves some of his strongest 
words for those who lead innocent ones astray and explicitly forbids 
doing harm to others when they are unable to be aware of what is being 
done to them, and such acts cannot and must not be condoned or 
encouraged in any form. BUT we all have our problems and some people 
who otherwise lead exemplary lives are burdened with the grossest of 
mental defects (which this is) which they are usually unable of their 
own volition to shake off. Such can be made more or less useful 
members of society depending on how they are treated. It's in the 
interests of all, if we decide to let them live or continue to 
participate in society (some have other ideas about this) to maximise 
their usefulness to society, quite apart from helping them for their 
own sakes.



            Russell McMahon 

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