A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Tuesday, August 25, 1998
The "cyanide " lady - a victim ?
Without knowing more, I study the haggard face of Kathryn
Schoonover ( she must have lost her hair from the cancer treatment )
and read : " homeless cancer patient ". She won't be homeless now ! She
has been arrested for lunatic behavior - mailing out cyanide containing
envelopes. Just like Kathryn the envelopes, I learn, have no " return
address !
Republicans can scream all they want for the death penalty for
this woman. She is already under nature's own immutable death sentence.
Is this how we treat poor cancer patients ? The clearly mentally
ill? We cannot even manage to give them the dignity of a home to die
in ?
But the poor and the mentally ill just don't have the right
attitude do they, Mr. And Mrs. Republican ?
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