*WARNING!* May contain disturbing descriptions of graphic violence.

Subj: Greed
Date: 12/13/2000 1:54:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: se7en@emailshows.com (The Search For John Doe)
To: drivingmrspacey

To: You
From: John Doe
Subject: Greed

Greed: Excessive desire, especially for wealth; avarice. 

"Yea, they are greedy dogs that can never have enough, they are so wicked that they cannot understand; they have all turned aside to their own way, every one for his own gain and his own advantage." Isaiah 56:11

After the fat one, I picked the lawyer. And, you all must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This was a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath he could muster... to keeping rapists and murderers on the streets.

His greed is the greed of the politican, living for power, corrupted and defiled by each step deeped into the excrement of lies and flattery which is his world.

This is the greed of the businessman who dreams of total power, who counts his gold in the church and makes a church of his counting room.

It is the greed of sickening debased scum like the so-called "serial killer" who wrote to me yesterday to boast of his pleasure in his crimes.

I enjoy my work, but there is no sin in that. I am not acting for my own pleasure. I am working at a job I am divinely ordained to perform. My pleasure is only the satisfaction of the Just.

Subj: Blowing off steam
Date: 12/14/2000 1:32:45 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: se7en@emailshows.com (The Search For John Doe)
To: drivingmrspacey

To: 
From: Detective Somerset
Subject: Blowing off steam

In any major city, minding your own business is a perfected science. There's a public crime prevention course offered at our precinct house once a month. The first thing they teach is that you should never cry "help." Always scream "fire," because people don't want to get caught up in anything. But a fire... that's an evening's entertainment. They come running.

All we do is pick up the pieces. We take all the evidence, and all the pictures and samples. We write everything down and note what time things happened... We put it in a nice neat pile and file it away, on the slim chance it's ever needed in a courtroom. It's like collecting diamonds on a desert island. You keep them just in case you ever get rescued, but it's a pretty big ocean out there.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is one of those cases we never get to close. and I can't live with that idea.

All I want is to lock this man up behind real tangible iron bars and collect my gold watch and pension get the hell out of this city forever

I want to give my little house in the country a fresh layer of whitewash and air it out with all the windows open wide to the fresh air.

I am a burnt-out man.

Subj: Never quit
Date: 12/15/2000 5:50:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: se7en@emailshows.com (The Search For John Doe)
To: drivingmrspacey

To: Detective Mills, Detective Somerset
From: Tracy Mills
Subject: Never quit

i hate this city and what it does to people. I hate our indiffernece and cruelty but i have to believe we can make a difference in it. i try to teach 5th graders. you try to catch criminals. we try to do our little bit to make the whole thing suck a little bit less. if we quit there's nothing. and you both know it or you wouldn't be there, staring all this horror in the face.

ps david i love it that you thought the marquis de sade was pronounced sharday like the singer sade. that's why I married the captain of the football team. cause I knew you'd be my big dumb hero. you wont let us down.

(Tracy should learn to use spell check. Soon! Shouldn't put it off, if you know what I mean!)

Subj: Let them all talk
Date: 12/16/2000 2:04:35 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: se7en@emailshows.com (The Search For John Doe)
To: drivingmrspacey

Se7en: The Search For John Doe

To: You
From: John Doe
Subject: Let them all talk

The whole world seems to be preoccupied with psychoanalyzing me. Some of their hypotheses me are laughably entertaining. One says say I am a homosexual, another that I hate myself, another that I am: 

"an intelligent man and a deep scholar of religious text and classical literature. His masterful murders were shocking if not ingenious."

Another has a rather more elaborate theory:

http://janedoemain.com/sk-list/jdoe.html

In one essay, entitled "HEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY" A Mr. David Hand writes "John Doe's project is to preach a shattering sermon on the condition of the times: his view of their grim corruption links him, ironically, with one of the two detectives who are pursuing him..." 

http://www.human-nature.com/free-associations/hand.html

Rather insightful, but still wrong, Mr. Hand.

A certain Ashley Montague writes:

"You show me a murderer, and I'll show you a person who's been failed in the supreme need for love, who never learned how to love, and will hate, as I heard one saying, 'I hate the whole world's guts, and the whole world hates mine.' These are the victims of society...as most of us are victims of our society."

One day they will all understand the truth.

Page 1 Greetings; Love; It breaks my heart; Listen to Me
Page 2 Anger; Doctor, heal thyself; No Subject
Page 3 First lesson; Italian & German; Gluttony; Sloth; Files
Page 4 Greed; Blowing off steam; Never Quit; Let them  all talk
Page 5 Lust; Monday Night Football; It's working; Pride; 
Solitary; Be ready for anything
Page 6 Coming Attractions

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