![]() ![]() I must say that we are even more disturbed by your response to us than by your comments to a Southam newspaper.ġ) If you follow the media then you must realize that pro Latimer people (like you) and groups are even more cited than the contra Latimer people.Ģ) If speaking to the media by us is "meddling in the case" then you are meddling in as much as you also speak to the media.ģ) If you go onto the internet (i.e. Gregor Wolbring Responds to Marilynne Seguin of Death with Dignity and Reveals Their Ableist Bias The group met with CBC's Regional Director Jane Chalmers to present the letter which calls for the apology. The group is outraged by the unbalanced interview which was shown on CBC's The National on Tuesday evening. Winnipeg-On Thursday, 27 November 1997, a group of Winnipegers with disabilities visited the Winnipeg CBC offices to present a letter of protest demanding an apology for a recently aired broadcast of an interview with Robert and Laura Latimer. Winnipegers With Disabilities Protest CBC Robert Latimer Interview Canadians who are concerned about the CBC's portrayal of this issue are encouraged to contact CBC. Derksen has forwarded his concerns to the CBC. ![]() We have been helped Tracy Latimer has been murdered. Those of us with tracheotomies so that we can breath with mechanical assistance, with gastrotomies so that we can eat through feeding tubes, with skeletons surgically altered so that we can live in health without pain, say to Robert Latimer that we are not mutilated, not tormented, not terrorized. Where were the voices of people who have experienced forms of disability and surgeries similar to those of Tracy Latimer? Where were the voices of persons who have benefited from the hip joint and feeding tube surgeries Tracy's murderer denied her based on his own prejudice against such treatments? Surely such representatives are more legitimate representatives of Tracy Latimer's interests than her murderous father! I would like to know why the CBC National Magazine allowed the murderer to represent the best interests of his victim. Why has CBC given this child murderer such an opportunity? The CBC would surely not give a murderous spousal abuser, or gay basher, a 20 minute national podium from which to persuade the Canadian public his/her rationalizations for his/her crimes were valid. It is unfortunate, for the target group of disabled people, and for us all, that, unlike a hate crime, this kind of broadcast is perfectly legal. In its outcome the interview is similar to a hate crime. The National Magazine interview with Robert and Laura Latimer will have the effect of promulgating and supporting values, attitudes and a social climate conducive to acts of violence against a target group of devalued people. The facts as established in the trial included that Tracy Latimer's pain was intermittent and situational, rather than "constant" as the interviewer and the Latimers erroneously described it. (28 November 1997) - It is unfortunate Hana Gartner was not at the Latimer Trial so that her questions could have been grounded in the facts of the case rather than misinformation. JTracy Latimer, the Victim Robert Latimer, the MurdererįebruAn Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper OctoCCD to Launch Tracy Latimer Archives and Facebook Page ![]()
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