This is what the Legislature can and must do. Just getting interlock devices installed on first time DWI's cars was a major battle which took many years, thanks to very well paid lobbyists working for the liquor industry. New Mexico's legislature is massively influenced by corporate lobbyists, perhaps like all legislatures in the USA.
Even if you don't believe in reincarnation, there is hopefully some bright light that will come from this tragedy: we must organize to pass much stronger laws concerning DWI. The driver who killed Lobsang had had 4 DWI's before, I am told, yet still kept driving drunk! If he had been taken off the streets or even feared being taken off the streets and incarcerated, might he not have been driving that fatal day and killed this international treasure, taking him from our midst? It is a classic and terrible story of two worlds colliding: the ideal and spiritual world, colliding with the drunken vulgarity world.
Lobsang's widow, Gisela Minke, graciously and publicly forgave Roque Lucero of Santo Domingo at the wonderful memorial for killing her husband. This helps to heal the hurt in all of his friends and family; this is Buddhism-at-its-best at work, and this is probably what Lobsang himself would have done.
I don't forgive him, however. I hope that his punishment is swift and thorough. Getting into a car and driving when you are drunk is a deadly assault on the law and on the health and well being of all of the living. Everyone in New Mexico has been touched with the tragic effects of those who choose to drive drunk. It is time to put that to an end, and make people dare not to even take the chance of getting arrested or killing someone. We should call this statutory change we hope for LOBSANG'S LAW.
My deepest condolences to Gisela and to his family. Lobsang's life was a vital and monumental one.
Even if you don't believe in reincarnation, there is hopefully some bright light that will come from this tragedy: we must organize to pass much stronger laws concerning DWI. The driver who killed Lobsang had had 4 DWI's before, I am told, yet still kept driving drunk! If he had been taken off the streets or even feared being taken off the streets and incarcerated, might he not have been driving that fatal day and killed this international treasure, taking him from our midst? It is a classic and terrible story of two worlds colliding: the ideal and spiritual world, colliding with the drunken vulgarity world.
Lobsang's widow, Gisela Minke, graciously and publicly forgave Roque Lucero of Santo Domingo at the wonderful memorial for killing her husband. This helps to heal the hurt in all of his friends and family; this is Buddhism-at-its-best at work, and this is probably what Lobsang himself would have done.
I don't forgive him, however. I hope that his punishment is swift and thorough. Getting into a car and driving when you are drunk is a deadly assault on the law and on the health and well being of all of the living. Everyone in New Mexico has been touched with the tragic effects of those who choose to drive drunk. It is time to put that to an end, and make people dare not to even take the chance of getting arrested or killing someone. We should call this statutory change we hope for LOBSANG'S LAW.
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