settlement - ludicrous!

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

What is wrong with our judicial system? This case, and the 
aftermath is a mockery. Granted, there is an issue of consent, but 
where is the damage, and if one considers non-information as 
damage, what about proportionality? From the article regarding the 
settlement:

Article: 
All but one of the plaintiffs has died. The defendants never 
conceded that the experiments contributed to the deaths of the 
patients, who already had advanced cases of cancer when they 
underwent experimentation.  

Observation:
These individuals all had advanced cases of cancer. Yet only one 
has died, a woman at the ripe old age of 82.

Article: 
The agreement approved Tuesday gives each of the families about 
$50,000, plus the right to have the patient from their family listed on 
a plaque in a courtyard at the hospital.  

Observation:
A plaque? What for? For receiving $$, clogging up the courts, 
emotionally swaying the media which then agitates the general 
public? Ludicrous!

Article:
Anna Foster, a Cincinnati woman whose grandmother Parthenia 
Marshall, 82, died in 1982 after receiving the radiation  
bombardments, said Tuesday she is pleased with the settlement.

Observation:
She already had advanced stage of cancer. She lived between 10 
to 20 years after the exposure. Again, the causal effect that 
requires a cash settlement.

We can add this farce to the hundreds of millions spent on the 
likes of Monica and OJ!

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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