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Jack Kevorkian Will Focus on Prison Reform Over Assisted Suicide
LifeNews.com ^
| October 8, 2007
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 10/08/2007 5:04:19 PM PDT by monomaniac
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 8, 2007
Royal Oak, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian has said in a new interview that he will focus on promoting prison reform and civil rights instead of advocating euthanasia. He says his health has recovered following his prison stay for showing a national television audience a video of him killing a disabled patient.He served eight years of a 10-25 year prison sentence for the murder of a disabled patient after killing more than 130 people via assisted suicide in Michigan.
Though he is ready to hit the lecture circuit, Kevorkian tells the Detroit News that he has "more important" issues than assisted suicide to discuss.
I feel good now and have some things to do, Kevorkian told the newspaper.
I have a couple of issues bigger than euthanasia, both controversial, that Id like to get out there if they let me," he said, referring to whether or not the parole board will allow him to travel and speak.
Still, Kevorkian told the News he will also focus on a new tactic in the assisted suicide debate -- saying that he will use the Ninth Amendment to show that even though euthanasia isn't mention as a right in the constitution that court's can't prevent it.
"If it (Ninth Amendment) would be applied the way it was supposed to, I would never have been jailed or have gone to prison," Kevorkian said. "And it would also put an end to any debate over so many issues: Euthanasia and abortion...."
Kevorkian's first speech, planned for the University of Florida, has been postponed until January.
Saying it is worried about security in light of concerns at other college campuses, the university postponed the speech. Kevorkian was slated to speak to UF students on October 11 and receive $50,000 for the talk, as long as his parole officers approved the trip.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assistedsuicide; disabled; kevorkian; killing; murder; prisonreform; prolife; universityofflorida
To: monomaniac
After touring (no, I wasn’t an inmate) some federal prisons I am a firm believer that we need to change the system.
All the people who believe that prisons should be hells on earth miss the point: we’re making people worse. If we’re going to reintroduce them into society we can’t be giving them advanced courses in criminality. There are alternatives that still serve as punishment.
Before anybody criticizes me, please state if you have toured or served in prisons, OK?
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:08:22 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
To: monomaniac
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:09:35 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Loud Mime
I haven’t, but... let’s just say a sizable portion of my family is very familiar with the justice system. I completely agree with you. The system as it is now has at least a 40% recidivism rate. No other nation experiences that. And how did we ever let prison behavior/customs seep into the mainstream? I’m talking about the baggy pant hanging so low as to show underwear. I don’t know the answer, but what we have now is corrupt and creating more advanced criminals.
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:12:51 PM PDT
by
Clock King
(Bring the noise!)
To: Loud Mime
Federal Prison? That’s a vacation. Try working in Wayne County Jail. (Detroit)
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: monomaniac
hmmm...a euthenasia practitioner turning his attention to prisons...to reform what, how long prisoners get to live?
To: monomaniac
He says his health has recovered following his prison stay for showing a national television audience a video of him killing a disabled patient.
Jack didn't go to jail for showing the video or even "helping" the man kill himself.
In the video, the victim pulls of the mask.
Jack walks over and puts it back on.
Yep.
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:18:21 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: monomaniac
Hey,you worthless piece of excrement....I thought that you were released early because you were at death’s doorstep.Why aren’t you spending your remaining days on your knees asking God for His forgiveness?
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:22:16 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: monomaniac
He feels fine NOW. Hmm. Just think if he’d pulled his own plug while his health was less than it is today.
Why not pull the plug on everyone in prison for a long haul?
It’s not a “quality life” being lived, is it? That’s the terminology used by Jack’s crowd. Quality of life.
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:40:42 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Clock King
Viacom’s MTV/BET/VH1 pushed gangsterism into the mainstream. Wear your pants baggy correctional “don’t have my size” style and throw some gang signs around. Lie about how many ties “you’ve been sent up” and how many times “you’ve gotten shot”.
They pad their bios with negative things they can brag about. In any other career (even sacking groceries) they would be things that would KEEP you from getting employed. Not so at Viacom’s office of Standards and Practices.
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:43:43 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: monomaniac
I was just reading an old sci-fi book “Schismatrix” where prisoners were told, “You have one civil right: The right to die.”
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posted on
10/08/2007 5:51:55 PM PDT
by
eccentric
(a.k.a. baldwidow)
To: Clock King
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posted on
10/08/2007 7:09:02 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(VOTE CONSERVATIVE in '08!)
To: SJSAMPLE
No kidding ?
I never knew that.
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posted on
10/09/2007 9:31:52 PM PDT
by
festus
(No matter how guilty you are a jury will probably get you off.)
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