[GCFL-discuss] Re: Martha Stewart

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This is a topic about which I know little, so I feel compelled to discuss it!
I like Martha Stewart's magazine, television show, line of merchandise and her personal sense of style and taste.
I am sad that she made some apparent bad choices and I hope that she has learned not to make those same mistakes, or ones like them, in the future.
In Mexico, just showing her picture on the news associated with wrong-doing would have been shaming enough and that would have been her punishment.
Here in America she spends time in jail while those more deserving of punishment roam the streets and prey on the less fortunate.
Jeanene
Tucson, AZ


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net 
  To: Jeanene 
  Cc: Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:09 AM
  Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Re: Martha Stewart



  "Celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart has been sentenced to five months in prison and fined $30,000 for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone Systems stock in late 2001"(CNN).

  5 Months in Jail, 2 years probation, and $30K, I think it's a joke and a half. WAY too short of time in Jail and what's $30K to a woman who owns millions? Then for her to quote Nelson Mandela is absurd! "Martha Stewart invoked the name of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's persecuted anti-apartheid hero, saying "many, many good people have gone to prison"" (CNN). 

  It's a great example for the rest of the "world" to see we're not going to tolerate this. But at the same time I think we took one of the smaller fish in the "cooperate sea" and made her the example instead of going after one of the monster "cooperate fish" in our cooperate world.

  Nice to see a little justice. Me dos centavos.

  God bless,
  Lance
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  -- gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net wrote:
  On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:51:10AM -0700, gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net wrote:

  What do you think about Martha's sentence? Too much? Too
  little?

  Thanx,
  John
  Captain of Starship GCFL

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