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catsidhe ([personal profile] catsidhe) wrote2008-08-14 05:27 pm

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The US Department of Homeland Security. Murderers.
In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months.




"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Or not. That's what we in Oz call a non-core promise.




(h/t BB)

[identity profile] catsidhe.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Club", "Watch slowly die in agony of untreated cancer", trivial semantics.