Please consider signing this petition. If you would like to have more
information regarding the activities of Jack Kervorkian, I will with
pleasure send you a fact sheet created by Steve Drake of Not Dead Yet and a
chronology of events I used with a presentation on Not Dead Yet and Jack
Kervorkian.
Susan Fitzmaurice
The Gleitsman Foundation is a non-profit organization that
recognizes and promotes social activism worldwide. In 1989, they
established the Citizen Activist Award, it honors those who have
challenged social injustice in the United States. A $100,000 award
is usually shared by two recipients. GUESS WHAT?
JACK KEVORKIAN IS ONE OF THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENTS.
Contrary to popular myth and the Gleitsman Foundation press
release, Kevorkian's "career" has little to do with "compassion."
As detailed in his own writings, Kevorkian advocated euthanasia
and assisted suicide since the late 1950s as part of a plan to
exploit living people - who could be treated as if they were dead -
for lethal medical experimentation. For over 30 years, Kevorkian
focused on death row prisoners, wanting to give condemned
persons the option to be put to death through general anesthesia,
as long as they agreed to be kept alive and sedated for hours or
days for the purpose of surgical experimentation. Some prisoners
said "yes" to Kevorkian, but society said "no."
In the 1980s, it became clear to Kevorkian that resistance to his
death row agenda was insurmountable. Therefore, he turned to a
group of people who's assisted deaths and medical exploitation
would meet with greater public acceptance: old, ill, and disabled
people. The majority of Kevorkian's body count consists of
middle-aged women with chronic conditions and disabilities.
IF YOU ARE APPALLED AT THE IDEA OF HONORING
JACK KEVORKIAN FOR HIS ACTIVITIES AS A SERIAL KILLER
OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, PLEASE CUT AND PASTE
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT, ALONG WITH RELEVANT
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, AND EMAIL IT TO:
[log in to unmask] OR FAX IT TO: 708-209-1735.
Individuals and organizations that sign on by the morning of
April 9th will be listed in a document that protesters will include
in their press packet, In addition, we will fax the document to
the Gleitsman Foundation and its judges.
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To the Gleitsman Foundation and its Judges:
We, the undersigned are shocked and appalled at your selection
of Jack Kevorkian as a co-recipient of the Citizen Activist Award.
We have followed Kevorkian's activities for years and have been
disgusted by his career as a serial killer of old, ill and disabled
people. Kevorkian's body count consists mostly of people with
nonterminal conditions and disabilities - people who had histories
of spousal abuse, abandonment by friends and family, exclusion
from employment and housing, and other aspects of
discrimination that we, our families and our friends, live with every
day. Kevorkian endorses that discrimation and, in honoring
Kevorkian, so do the participants in this award.
Bestowing this honor is an affront to all people with disabilities and
a dishonor to other recipients of Gleitsman Awards.
(signed)
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