The Other Press Mailbag

Dear Editor,

Brandon Ferguson's thoughtful article, “Religion on
Trial for Murder,” is timely considering March 8th is
International Women’s Day. The murder of
Amandeep Atwal should not be passed off as some-
thing that happens only in backwater religions or
cultures. Violence against women is common in our
own North American culture. Alex Neve of Amnesty
International writes: “And we cannot fool ourselves
into believing that this [violence against women] is
not a pressing problem in Canada. For it is—and the
women who were killed at the Pickton Farm, or at
Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, and women like
Gillian Hadley and Arlene May, murdered by their
husbands and boyfriends, remind us just how pressing
it is.”

Visit

www.amnesty.ca/stoptheviolence/
alexneve_opinion1.php

We still have a lot of work to do in our own country.
Thanks,

Josie Padro

Hello and good day,

I am writing in regards to your (Amanda Aikman)
article on the good doctor, Hunter S. Thompson. You
end this with quotes, one in particular interests me
and has for sometime ever since I heard it: “There he
goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of
high-powered mutant...” I have since only heard it in
a movie and repeated among a close circle of freaks, I
have never been able to find it in any gonzo articles,
novels, etc. So this is where yer help would be greatly
appreciated oh great editor. If you could tell me where
that quote was taken from and e-mail it to me [...] I
would owe you deeply.

Thanx,

Nathan

The quote was from Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas, thanks for writing—Amanda
Aikman

  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

 

 

TITS

March 16/2005

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