[fw-wiz] Re: Ethics, morality and the industry

From: Mike Smith (jmikesmith_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/11/04

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:40:20 -0500 (EST)

    For what it's worth, I've just returned to the office from the CSI conference.
    I listened to Mr. Abagnale's speech.

    For the first 30 mintues, he spoke about his exploits/crimes/adventures as a
    teenager (by coincidence, HBO aired "Catch Me If You Can" that night; it was
    interesting to see the differences in the two stories). The telling was well
    rehearsed, and occasionally amusing for its phrasing and timing of delivery.
    Mr. Abagnale is an accomplished public speaker. My opinion is that he did not
    glamorize his deeds or pat himself on the back for his cleverness, although he
    did say once or twice that he was the first person to commit some acts in some
    ways.

    He then spoke for about ten or fifteen minutes on, essentially, what he'd
    learned from his time as a criminal. He cited his parents' divorce as a causal
    factor in his running away and resorting to crime to survive. He spoke quite
    movingly of how much he missed his father, who died while Mr. Abagnale was in
    French prison, and whom he had not seen since he ran away (contrary to what the
    movie depicts). He commented that the main thing that had enabled him to stay
    on the good side these past 25 or 30 years was the love of his wife (whom he
    met while on an undercover operation for the FBI). He expressed strong views
    about the good influence of a loving, two-parent family. He exhorted the men
    in the audience to love their wives and their children, because, in the end,
    that's all that really matters.

    The speech really had nothing to do with security or crime or reformation. I
    overheard people afterward saying how moved they were by his presentation.
    Some people I spoke to were aware of the pre-show controversy about Mr.
    Abagnale's appearance, and most seemed to agree that the protesters and
    boycotters had missed something valuable.

    =====
    Mike Smith

    "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
                            H.G. Wells - The Outline of History

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