05/11/08 - As said every Sunday in the Catholic Mass, sin is not just what we have done but also what we have failed to do. And by these terms we are all complicit in Rachel Hoffman's murder. Maybe not so much as the men who actually killed her, or the Tallahassee Police Department who set her up as an informant even though her knowledge on the subject was as flimsy as what can be gleaned from a TV melodrama, or even Rachel Hoffman who was in fact breaking the law by selling drugs - yet each and every one of us through action or inaction has helped create the divided society which killed Rachel in its trap. On one side we have Rachel's world, one that has taken delight in drugs ever since Bob Dylan giddily sang about how everybody must get stoned back in the 1960's. Movies are made this world. Boutiques specialize in what they wear and how they furnish their homes. Musicians revel in its lucid dreams. Consumerism bends over backwards to keep the stoners happy, yet the root of this culture remains illegal and so they have come to see themselves as modern day Robin Hoods – partaking in a trade that the Sherrif of Nottingham can't stand yet the people of... | 
