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Subject: Re: [GM-L] Lepors in Massachusetts
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:54:22 EST
In a message dated 11/26/2005 7:51:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
While the Commonwealth's high-minded intention was to protect a vulnerable
and stigmatized few from their fear-filled neighbors while giving them
quality
medical care, the state in reality snatched away life, stripping leprosy
victims of family and friends while exposing them to experiments beyond
their
limited capacity for informed consent. Penikese patients spoke Russian,
Hebrew,
Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Turkish, but few spoke English.
_http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/26/t
he_tragedy_of_penikese_island/_
(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/26/t
he_tragedy
this author is so wrong it wasnt for proptecting a few people from crazed
masses
it was just the other way/back then PCism killed people. one wonders today
if mr x was institutionalized how many others would be alive. mr x was an
indiviual who contratced aids thru homosexual sex. when he found out he set out
across the country haveing sex with as many individuals as he could.infecting
them all.oh but we werent concerned about them rather with mr x's right to
infect people
my dad remembered being on the top of chelsea hill and looking down and
seeing the carts in 1918 with the bodies stacked on them for burial from the
1918 flu. I am not o fan of the idea 6000 yrs of social experiance is negated by
some politicly correct notion we know better then all the ancestors did
look around are we really that smart?
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