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
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From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Michael H. Collis
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:16 PM
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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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