Stephen Vincent wrote:
>The story below is forwarded by Diane DiPrima. This is horrific.
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>Subject: NOLA Prisoners left to drown
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>Spread the story, if you can. Diane
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Oh my God. In Venice centuries ago, there were prisons called Pozzi.
They were underground cells. When the canals went to high tide, the
prisoners drowned. The water rose slowly so you could see your fate
coming at you.
It was that or the Piombi, cells under the palace roof where you were
cooked.
This was the Venice of the Council of Ten and the Doge, for Christ's
sake, the Venice of the so-called Renaissance, which might have been one
of history's more brutal eras. But wasn't so-called civilized America,
was it? God forgive us. Someone forgive us.
ken
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Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
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Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538
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