On Monday, the 28th of April, a brutal crime took place in the "safe" Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks.

A bank robbery occurred, in which two employees were forced to lead the robbers to the safe, located in the rear of the facility. After taking all the money, the robbers ordered the employees to return to the main room. It was then that one of them shot teller Monica Lynne Leech, 39, in the back of the head--for no apparent reason. She was pronounced dead a short time later.

The perpetrators left behind some clues, and will be found. Not surprisingly, community leaders are calling for the death penalty.

How have we come to such senseless violence? Where can we run if such a thing can happen in a town perennially ranked as one of the safest in the nation with a population of more than 100,000?

To be sure, Society has lost any sense of morality. But how did this happen? For me, it is the natural consequence of over- secularization, or "humanism," if you will. In the old days, the moral issues had all been worked out, stemming from the Ten Commandments. But perhaps by the end of World War I, it was time to get modern.

In the modern world, we must believe in the infinite perfectibility of Man. As such, any fault, no matter how terrible, is only a minor setback! We can all reason together, hold hands, and sing "Kum By Yah." All will be well, bye and bye.

We should only visit the prisons and educate those poor inmates that stealing and killing are not appropriate behaviors (somehow they did not know this). Even though there was far more poverty and more illiteracy in the 1930's, and less crime, we must go after the current "root causes" of crime--poverty and ignorance. Otherwise, we would be "blaming the victim." That is, blaming the offender for actually committing the crime. How could it have been his fault? Don't you see? Society failed him.

We must not, under any circumstances, talk about right or wrong, because that would be "imposing our will" on Society. Never mind that anytime any group wants to do ANYTHING, it is trying to impose its will on Society. Whether you vote Democratic, Republican, or Independent, some group is trying to impose its will on Society!

Whatever it takes, we cannot succumb to letting the old-fashioned morality be reinstated. Why, that would be admitting that our great national experiment in unlimited personal freedom, rampant Hedonism, and radical egalitarianism was a colossal failure. Far better to continue living in ostrich-like denial!

Repeat after me: The modern way is best, the modern way is best...