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Posted on 08/08/2007 4:17:47 PM PDT by wagglebee
Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian is headed to the University of Florida for an October 11 speaking engagement -- which will have the college pay him $50,000. But the event isn't going over well with students there, who are upset that state taxpayer dollars will be used to pay the convicted murderer.
Ashley Emans, a junior at the university, wrote more about the speaking engagement in an editorial on Town Hall.
She said that the student-run speaker's bureau called ACCENT sent Kevorkian the speaking offer shortly after his released from prison, where he served eight years of a 10-25 year prison sentence for the murder of a disabled patient.
"Kevorkian's UF stop will probably be his first paid public speaking engagement since his June 1 release from prison," Emans says and "his $50,000 honorarium is subsidized by taxpayer dollars."
The event will only occur is Kevorkian is granted special permission by his parole officer to leave the state and go to Florida.
While many pro-life students are upset by the appearance, Emans says "Kevorkian will be greeted here in Gainesville, Florida with open arms from many students and professors."
"Once again my school is making national headlines for reasons that make me cringe. It very rarely speaks for me, and I am ashamed my fellow students in the governing body want the cache of Kevorkian at the expense of respect or dignity," Emans says in the Town Hall editorial.
Emans pointed out the irony that Terri Schiavo was a victim of euthanasia in the same state and that the judge who allowed her former husband to take her life was University of Florida graduate George Greer.
"Bioethicist Bill Allen teaches here, who said in an interview that he believed Terri Schiavo was not a person," she added.
Emans concludes that the college is again going out of its way to provide its progressive and open-minded credentials, this time by embracing someone who has admittedly killed more than 130 people via assisted suicide.
"I take issue with UF falling all over itself to nab Kevorkian first," she concluded. "I fail to see what good is to come from using taxpayer dollars to preach a religion of death a significant number do not subscribe to."
They're big on state-sponsored execution of the innocent down there.
Pro-Life Ping
Yeah but every Maxist on the planet can be paid to come to the campus and prattle on in public to wild cheers.
I’m no Kavorkian supporter but these college kids are quite selective in their choices of who to get worked up over. This guy does deserve it, but then so do many others who don’t get what’s coming to them.
You know ,with all the brainwashing that college students have been subjected to, that they can still see through a murderer such as Kevorkian, gives me some hope.
How is heck is this guy worth 50,000 for one speech. No wonder College costs so much and is worth even less.
Note to pro-life students at UF: please stifle your opinions while Mr Kevorkian is on campus. The pro-death students need a quiet atmosphere in which to hear the good doctor. Thank you.
“Kevorkian’s UF stop will probably be his first paid public speaking engagement since his June 1 release from prison”
Doctok Kevorkian, now that you’ve been released from prison, are you going to Disney World?
“No, I’m going to help someone take their own life.”
The irony is that Kevorkian was released early because they said his health was failing. The way I see it, if someone is healthy enough to travel around the country on a speaking tour, then they are healthy enough to go back to prison.
Perhaps so, but I’ll bet a listing of their paid guests over the last couple of years would just about destroy the good feelings this has raised. Thanks for the comment.
Only to cement the idea that there is money in murder.
What ticks me off is since it's a government funded facility, somewhere along the line it's my money funding it whether I want my money to fund it or not.
He should have just went whole hog and dressed up as Chief Osceola. ;)
You can only do that at FSU. NCAA rules.
So the same university whose faculty got the school administration to take back an honorary degree they were going to give Jeb Bush for his service to the state has now decided to invite doctor death. Go figure.
Not only that, but they are paying Dr. Death more money for a single speech than many Americans earn in a year.
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“if someone is healthy enough to travel around the country on a speaking tour, then they are healthy enough to go back to prison.”
Exactly. Put him back in the hole!
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