- Two stories scream out for national attention,
both coming from small Illinois country towns and both demonstrating man's
inhumanity to man.
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- The first involves Kim Stubblefield,
a 48-year-old woman who worked all her life and who has been left to die
in a ragged, rundown hotel room, turned away from hospitals because she
can't afford health insurance.
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- The second involves Darrel Hanson, a
51-year-old man who is being left in jail to rot after recently being convicted
for threatening public officials by email over an attempted city "land
grab" of his property. For his email violation, he faces a 10 year
prison term.
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- Both stories are incredibly sad. But
both stories indicate how incredibly out of control things have become
in 21st century America.
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- How can a woman on the verge of dying
of throat cancer and bleeding from her mouth be thrown out of hospital
after hospital because she can't afford health insurance?
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- And how can a man be jailed and convicted
as an imminent threat to public officials for sending an email when he
claims his life was in danger and his property was systematically being
stolen?
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- Although both stories are difficult to
swallow, friends of the victims tried to shed some light on the stories
while pushing back tears.
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- "How could this happen in modern
day America," said Jo Linton, holding back tears as she told Stubblefield's
story this week on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal.
Stubblefield also made a brief cameo broadcast as she talked faintly using
an artificial audio box.
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- For rest of story and more informative
articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com
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