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Date Posted: 20:36:05 08/13/02 Tue
In reply to:
Sunday Life
's message, "Sick reports" on 20:28:34 08/13/02 Tue
IFC response to Sunday Life Propaganda 'Cancer Timebomb'
>Sunday Life
>C/o The Belfast Telegraph
>124-144 Royal Avenue
>Belfast BT1 1EB
>Northern Ireland
>
>Monday July 15, 2002
>
>
>To the Editor;
>
>We are writing in response to your newspaper’s liberal
>misuse of the facts in implying a link between the
>high rate of illness in Portlaoise Prison and Dundalk,
>to a supposed exposure to explosives.
>
>The timing of your article is no accident, coming as
>it does two short weeks after the IRPWA’s report on
>secret asbestos removal operations, under cover of
>darkness, at Portlaoise Prison.
>
>Family members and others outside the prison have
>documented the high levels of illness complaints at
>Portlaoise for some time now, and until the secret
>removals of asbestos were exposed last month by the
>IRPWA; no plausible explanation for these symptoms was
>given by the prison medical staff.
>
>Kevin Murray, the Irish prisoner who “died suddenly
>from brain cancer”, was allowed to suffer appallingly
>at Portlaoise for over a year while his family,
>friends, and many others fought to have him released
>for proper medical care. Doctors at Portlaoise
>treated his blinding headaches and increasing loss of
>motor control with anti-depressants --- a seemingly
>universal prescription when it comes to Irish
>political prisoners. Kevin Murray was finally only
>released when the tumor had become totally inoperable,
>and died at a hospice a short time later.
>
>Also, your suggestive comment that “two senior figures
>from the border area have now also been diagnosed with
>cancer”, neglects to mention that the statistical
>evidence for incidence of cancer in North Louth is 12%
>higher than the National average. North Louth was
>directly downwind of the fire at Windscale nuclear
>power plant (now called Sellafield), when it burned
>for 4 days in 1957. We resent your deliberate
>misrepresentation of an unresolved environmental
>crisis to make your own editorial points.
>
>Additionally, the weak attempts to link the McKevitt
>brothers’ high blood pressure and heart difficulties
>with anything other than health factors common to the
>overall population are fallacious and insulting to the
>reader.
>
>These shallow attempts to cover up for an
>institutionalized policy of abuse to Irish Political
>Prisoners are not lost on those of us here in the
>United States who will continue to monitor this
>situation very carefully.
>
>
>Yours very sincerely;
>
>D. Fennessy
>P.O. Box 11417
>Chicago IL 60611
>USA
>
>(Please confirm here: deemail@msn.com)
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