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Editor, The North Country Gazette:
It appears that Michigan calls murder -- murder while Florida calls it things such as judicial independence, right to die, right to privacy, a family matter, none of the president nor governor nor law maker's business, and an award-getting endeavor.
It's amazing how the two states look at the same thing so differently. Dr. Jack Kevorkian obviously picked the wrong state to exercise his need to help kill off the vulnerable. But then... maybe it would have taken the thrill away to have the state encouraging him to practice his murderous endeavors.
Personally, I would like the mainstream media to explain why it was wrong for Dr. Kevorkian to kill off people that sought him out for that very purpose, but okay for doctors to kill off an innocent upon a Judge George Greer's order, an order based upon "self-serving" hearsay, an order that came from a judge that isn't exactly making it look like his was an unbiased decision. And, hey, he is the one that is giving the negative and questionable impression by his own mouth and his own actions, not by anyone else putting anything in there.
I thought it was imperative that judges do nothing to give even the hint of "appearance" of impropriety. I guess those rules changed in the Florida case of Terri Schiavo.
In further irony, Dr. Kevorkian's attorney is fighting to get Jack out of prison because of a long list of health issues? I'm puzzled. I thought Jack killed off people so they didn't have to suffer. So why does he now want out of prison to suffer longer? Why doesn't "he" want the faster way out that he provided for others, if it is so right?
I'm still waiting for eyes to open and realization to set in. I'm still waiting for that mainstream media to connect the dots and explain why murder in Michigan is a right in Florida. 5-24-06
Carrie Hutchens
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