[lbo-talk] Prison Moving Martha Stewart to the Left?

Leigh Meyers leigh_m at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 23 22:05:46 PST 2004


In an ----- Original Message ----- From: mike larkin To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:52 PM

Mike wonders: (Is) Prison Moving Martha Stewart to the Left?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Martha Stewart, in a Christmas message posted on her personal Web site, called Wednesday for sentencing reform and took a swipe at the ``bad food'' in prison.

Stewart, who is roughly halfway through a five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale, urged fans to think about the women she has met in prison who are ``devoid of care, devoid of love, devoid of family.''

She suggested Americans should push for reforms in federal sentencing guidelines for nonviolent first-time offenders and particularly for drug offenders, who she said would be better served by rehabilitation than prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Martha-Stewart.html?oref=login

<> A more socially humanistic point of view, anyway... and she's got the $$$ and public awareness of her "person" to take a shot at it.

Let's see if she utilizes the existing anti-PI/Complex organizations or tries to "roll her own" <heheheh> and decorate it her way.

I was just having this sort of weird flash about her and George Soros as the next "hot item"... oh my, gotta go!

L



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