<center><font size="1" color="#ff0000">LAST EDITED ON Aug-07-02 AT 11:57 PM (EST)</font></center><p>For some reason, I am reminded of the "Textbook Answer" situation at West Point during 1942. Along the Eastern Coast of the United States, merchant vessels were being sunk at an alarming rate and each individual explosion was quite impressive and headline making.<P>Some young cadet at West Point decided to incorporate this information into his response to a question regarding the use of submarines in warfare, but was told that the correct answer was that submarines were of use only in the defense of a country's home coastal port cities. The "official" view was that German submarines would only be of use in European waters, so the clear evidence of their use along American shores was simply ignored.<P>I don't know what happened in the Aisenberg case, but I think a similar 'textbook orientation' may have been at work. Some woman who wants a baby and goes into a maternity ward is recognized as a rare crime, while some woman going into a home and taking a baby is not recognized at all despite the fact that all those articles in the newspaper about increased security at maternity wards makes it a perfectly reasonable thing to do.<P>The "Textbook" gets to be enshrined as gospel and no one ever wants to go beyond the official dogma. Certainly no one on the BPD does.<P>On edit: Along the lines of some of the prior comments on enshrinement of 'guidelines' and concerning 'ethics', I would like to add that we often view the "I don't get mad, I get even" type as a beer guzzling, blue-collar workman with a lunch pail who goes to a pool hall and a gym, but quite often its a man in a business suit who is a well educated professional carrying an attache case and who goes to an upscale health club and the theater. Doctors and dentists often are involved in insurance scams and tax evasion schemes, but we forget that they too are often guillty of arson, rape, smuggling, murder and the like. So I see this JonBenet murder as a work of a heterosexual male who is the 'upscale type' in appearances but who definitely is at his core the 'I don't get mad, I get even' type.<P><P>