Comment from a friend: > Sid. Thanks so much for sending this--it's the most hilarious thing > Amiel has ever written. Could it possibly be the result of whatever > kind of drugs she is taking for whatever physical condition she's > suffering from ( as yet undisclosed by Frank magazine.) It just goes to > show, that if you own the papers ( you or someone in your immediate > family,) you can get any kind of drivel printed. > > By her reasoning, Sicily ought to be a model deomcracy by now since that > country has had at least since the end of the second world war to move > through their necessary-Us imposed-mafia stage to democratic freedoms > and free markets. > > If we ever wrote a letter with capitalism and robber barons, in the same > sentence, or even better, comparing energetic entrepreneurs to the > mafia, it would never get printed. Hey, Babs tells it like it is about > the capitalists. What a howler. > > Let me share with you, in case you missed it, the letter in the Globe > and mail this morning, about my favourite hobby-horse, "Mother" Theresa, > friend of dictators, manipulator of the poor. Some guy wrote in to > quote Camara, the Brazilian priest and activist who was killed by the > military, who said " When I bring food to the poor as an act of charity, > they call me a saint; but when I start to ask WHY the people I am > feeding are poor they call me a Communist" As the letter writer pointed > out, Mother Theresa was pretty careful never to ask the question. > > Good thing too or her friends Baby Doc and Ceauscescu would probably > have had her hauled away. > Sid Shniad
