I TRY NOT TO JUDGE PEOPLE…
…because I think, one day, I’m going to be judged.
– Bono, on the failure of Mark Chapman, John Lennon’s killer, to get parole. (TV grab, 4.10.00) Chapman, who says he’s “well again” wants to be released so he can tour his own material.
The executive director of the Correctional Association of New York wasn’t so diplomatic.
If Jesus Christ returned to Earth for the sole purpose of decreeing that it would be appropriate to release Mark Chapman, the parole board wouldn’t be willing to take the political heat they would get by doing it.