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UNCHAINED!
What great news. Susan McDougal is finally out of jail. Of course, there is still Starr's criminal contempt charge pending against her, so she will be back to defend herself in court, but at least for awhile Starr is blocked from further torturing her.
He also lost this week when the Supremes refused to let him run amok and destroy client-lawyer privilege. Kenny was trying to get this privilege canceled when the client died.
Well, we waste no tears on Kenny's frustrations. It was just so great to see Susan without those chains -- but must confess we have a favorite candidate to inherit them.
Now the world news is concentrated on President Clinton's China trip. The majority party politicians in Congress are loudly proclaiming the sins of this country and how the President of the U.S.A. should not be associating with people who keep political prisoners.
What was Susan McDougal if she wasn't a political prisoner? Could there be any connection between freeing her and the chance that someone in the media might just see the similarity and remark on it?
That sure would have been embarrassing. We know she appeared in court to plea for the right to medical treatment. It surprised everyone when Judge George Howard Jr. released her immediately with "time served." We understand that the judge read letters to the court from some of her supporters. We hope some of those letters were from GenderGappers.
While
the mainly conservative pols are wallowing in "the sins of China,"
the Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, stood up in his superiority pulpit
and condemned all those who's sexual preference didn't match his. Calling
homosexuality a sin, Lott was soliciting the votes from the ri-chus far
right-wing.
He did this while criticizing China for its absence of religious freedom. What a hypocrite.
We've all been exposed to religious terrorists who have tried, and still continue, to deprive women of their reproductive choices.
And those that insist on school prayer, and THEIR religious icons in our courtrooms.
And those who would deprive a terminally ill person in extreme pain the choice of ending her/his life.
Small potatoes, you may think, when placed beside the sins of China. Could be, but ask the students at Kent State if their deaths were better or easier or less important than those of Tiananmen Square.
Or ask the women and men killed by the religious violence at women's clinics.
Or ask Susan if her freedom is as important to her as any other dissident. On second thought, there is no need to. That smile as she emerged from the courthouse in Arkansas said it all.
Welcome back, Susan.
1998-027
Copyright 1998 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that this copyright notice is attached. Address all queries to: twanda@ConnRiver.net.
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