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Published on 11/24/1997 All articles from this issue

Letters to the Editor

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Reason to read

I thought the 4-part series was really great journalism. I don't normally read the Crier, but was told about this series and read it from cover to cover.

The author is to be congratulated for her great style, completeness and accuracy. I know Chuck, and had heard pieces of the story. It was really great to get it all spelled out in such wonderful form.

Keep up the good work.

Roger BorovoyLos Altos

Could hardly wait

We could hardly wait for the next week's paper to see the outcome of the Geschkes' kidnapping story. We would enjoy more human interest stories.

Tula StephensonMountain View

Don't waste your time

My reaction is one word - boring! Why this overdone piece five years after a kidnapping in which no injury was sustained by the victim? I don't think you should waste your time in the future.

Charles BeckerMountain View

Judge should offer 'basic honesty'

Readers continue to respond to the Town Crier's four-part series detailing the 1992 kidnapping of Charles "Chuck" Geschke, president of Adobe Systems. Here's a sampling.

I have just read and reread in disbelief Ken Kaye's piece regarding Judge James Ware in Other Voices (TC Nov. 19) on the Comment page. This essay illustrates perfectly why the public holds the legal profession and our judicial system in such low regard.

I do not know Judge Ware either personally or professionally, and, for all I know, he may well have been a "fair and hard-working" judge. I also know that Judge Ware has, on numerous occasions and over a period of many years, repeated a bold-faced and self-serving lie. To argue that this lie, so central to this judge's persona and career "doesn't matter," is a leap of reasoning that seemingly only a fellow lawyer can conceive.

Even if we were to agree with Mr. Kaye that being truthful in one's public utterances is somehow akin to not being "really human," a judge ... must be held to a higher standard. The power and prestige that come with that position carry responsibilities, the most elementary of which is basic honesty ...

The pervasive cynicism regarding our public figures need not be validated and reinforced by having an admitted liar cloaked in judge's robes.

Julian Palmor

Los Altos