[pax_et_bonum]

No words.

[chaos_5]

WOW, now that is just bizarre.

[SolidWood]

Hillary is taking notes.

[theBuckwheat]

Before anyone posts remarks about government health care in the UK, recall that here in the US we have some incidents to be ashamed of, such as forced sterilization of people thought to be mental incompetents, and the 40 year syphilis test on unknowing blacks (the “Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”).

[Burlem]

An example of socialized medicine, at its extreme.

[maica]

Can someone explain to me how a person can recognize two men in their sixties, who were not even born when this woman was put away? Qhat part of reading comprehension am I not understanding?

[Luke Skyfreeper]

A WOMAN was locked up and “lost” for 70 years after being wrongly accused of stealing 13p.

Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified” indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery.

The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions.

Thirteen pence. Which she didn't even take. And if she had taken it, a verbal reprimand would've been an appropriate level of punishment -- not to be "certified" indefinitely when there was never anything wrong with her.

If ever a case merited a comment of "un-f******-believable," this would be it.

[xJones]

I found a photo of her and her brothers:

[rawhide]

Found an update to this story here:

Thursday, October 18, 2007 Prisoner Jean Gambell dies- A life wasted. It is less than a month since I posted on the illegal imprisonment of Jean Gambell in one of the States institutions for seventy years.

This morning the Telegraph has reported Page 12 1 paragraph in brief, that she has died of a stroke. I just feel ashamed, no doubt all claims against the State must now be null and void, the Lord Protector and his caring cohorts must be overjoyed.

Posted by Guthrum at 9:24 AM

http://lookingforavoice.blogspot.com/2007/10/prisoner-jean-gambell-dies-life-wasted.html