Originally
published May 19, 2004
by Brent Kellogg
Isn't it all
just so much annoying background noise now? How some residents of Genoa
City are still filled with rage and hate and blithely massaging the feet
of revenge with their oily balms of collective fear and dread and lack of
willingness to question just what the hell is really going on?
The Hank Weber brand of legal mangling has spilled into homes like that of
pitchfork-wielding teenager Lily Winters who accepts all the miserably
unpredictable legal procedures, the warrant-less police searches, the
computer scanning and the idea that civil liberties are pretty much a
running joke.
Her self-esteem hemorrhaging and paranoia running deep, Winters demanded
this week that her parents tell what they were talking privately about
before she so rudely interrupted. Did it have something to do with Kevin
Fisher? The man she begged to have sex with and then bawled endlessly when
she got an STD? The man who has been arrested on the lamest of evidence
and charged with electrocuting one of the city's strippers? Was Fisher out
of jail? Had he given in to another girl's sexual pleas?
Winters said her parents better damn well talk or she'd start imagining
horrible things, maybe turn blue and rant again that her meaningless life
will never be the same.
Worried at first that even so much as a hint as to what's going on outside
their daughter's bubble might cause her to develop painful warts, Neil and
Dru Winters broke down. Yes, their adult discussion did have something to
do with their darling and precious baby. Daddy discovered information that
shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Fisher didn't do what he's charged
with and might go to prison.
Lily was aghast. Since the police had arrested Fisher he must be guilty!
It's amazing that for a kid with such a smart mouth, Lily is so stupid.
Don't they teach students at Walnut Grove Academy anything? Aren't there
even basic courses on civics and the law? Shouldn't a child of four know
that a person is innocent until found guilty? Not that the all-grade
school Winters is enrolled chose her to mentor other children can be
blamed. She rarely attends class and whiles away the hours slurping
expensive lattes at the local coffee shops with her equally ignorant
classmates.
Like her daughter, Dru Winters also thinks Fisher is guilty and doesn't
care if he goes to prison. Fisher hurt her baby girl and, forget that the
police couldn't make a case and the family couldn't find a lawyer to file
a civil suit, Fisher's misfortune is Mrs. Winters sweet revenge. Let him
rot.
Dru Winters' ignorance is bliss. This is an evil woman right this moment
plotting to destroy marriages and human relationships. It should be
expected that a used-up model desperately clinging to the few remaining
hairs on her helmeted head would want an innocent man to take a fall for
something he didn't do. Unless, of course, that innocent man were a member
of her family. Then, there would be much hue and cry about the injustice.
You'd think, considering a low plains gorilla has forgotten more than Dru
Winters will ever know, Lily would be smarter than her mother. You'd think
with her shrills of righteousness her stomach would turn as her mother
promises the truth they know won't go beyond the walls of their wooden
box; that they are a family and withholding the truth and sending innocent
people to their doom is what true
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American families living in a democracy
do. Screw Fisher's life, he must be punished. Lily is all that matters and
must be free to "move on" with her life. Daddy Neil is a fool for wanting
to do the right thing by going to the police. Let's point our crooked
fingers. C'mon daddy, where's your sense of pride? Why isn't there a
frenzied shredding sound of you destroying the truth?
You'd think these family values-sucking females would want to do the right
thing.
But you'd be wrong.
Lily wants
Fisher to remain behind bars. "Proof or no proof" she oozed Wednesday,
while regurgitating that sickening premise that Fisher "needs to pay for
the crimes he's committed" and that if daddy tells the cops she'll never
forgive him.
Emotional blackmail at work again, Lily has learned well from the master.
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