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Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
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"Michael H. Collis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Virginia was the first to issue an apology, which is only fitting, seeing that it was that state which handed the case for eugenics to the Supreme Court.  As a matter of fact, the Supreme Court ruling allowing the states to sterilize the "unfit" has never been overturned.  

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:55:30 -0600
>From: "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer  
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>But NC was also one of the few states to issue an official apology for it's
>role in sterilizations.... or is that just southern manners?  "We're sorry
>we did this awful thing, now let's just forget it."
>
>http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/drn/12_02.shtml#477
>Although didn't one of the NC candidates for governor propose paying
>reparations to women sterilized under the program?
>On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:39 PM, ksalkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Playing devil's advocate here -- but we are talking about a state which
>> allowed the practice of eugenics until the 1970s -- one would hope for some
>> common-sense here but there are times when I seriously doubt the state
>> legislature has any.
>>
>> Kat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Michael H. Collis
>>  Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:16 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
>>
>> I would hope so.   The only way his supporters can justify a pardon is to
>> say, along with Singer, Kervorkian, Hitler, and their ilk, tyhat people
>> with
>> disabilities are sub-human, and therefore not worthy of life.
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>> >Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:56:30 -0400
>> >From: ksalkin <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Subject: Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> >This whole thing makes me sick - how on earth can his "supporters" justify
>> a
>> >pardon?  I honestly can't imagine someone getting away with such a thing
>> >here in North Carolina, right, Mike?  In fact, I'm sure he'd get the death
>> >penalty.
>> >
>> >Kat
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of
>> >Michael H. Collis
>> >Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 5:46 PM
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
>> >
>> >You got that rightm Kendall.
>> >
>> >---- Original message ----
>> >>Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:47:44 -0600
>> >>From: "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>Subject: Re: FW: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
>> >>To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>
>> >>Meir,
>> >>
>> >>I don't know the Canadian system, but here he'd have to prove trial error
>> >to
>> >>get his conviction reversed.  Is it the same in Canada, and if so, it
>> seems
>> >>like the Canadian system has already treated him more than fairly, even
>> >from
>> >>the standpoint of a convicted felon.
>> >>
>> >>On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: CBC News [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> >>> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:42
>> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>> Subject: CBC News: 'I want to be free': Latimer
>> >>>
>> >>> MW was surfing www.cbc.ca and sent you this CBC News story with the
>> >>> following
>> >>> comment:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> so you murder your daughter so therefore YOU are free?
>> >>>
>> >>> and you are rebelling a just sentence that was sucessfully shortened
>> and
>> >>> you are
>> >>> still   crying?
>> >>>
>> >>> put him straight back to jail
>> >>>
>> >>> and throw away the key.
>> >>>
>> >>>  his daughter is not suffering
>> >>>
>> >>>  but she is dead as a result.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is SHE free?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> >>> 'I want to be free': Latimer
>> >>>
>> >>> A Saskatchewan man who killed his disabled daughter is fighting for a
>> new
>> >>> murder
>> >>> trial, arguing that even though he has been released on day parole, he
>> >will
>> >>> never truly be free until he clears his name.
>> >>>
>> >>> Copyright 2008 CBC All Rights Reserved
>> >>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> >>> This story, forwarded to you by [log in to unmask],  appears on
>> >>> http://www.cbc.ca at the following URL:
>> >>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/05/08/latimer-interview.html
>> >>>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>--
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Kendall
>> >>
>> >>An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>> >>
>> >>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>> >>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
>> >>depends on the unreasonable man.
>> >>
>> >>-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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>-- 
>
>
>Kendall
>
>An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
>depends on the unreasonable man.
>
>-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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