Comments on: Heroes and Anti-Heroes http://hartfordimc.org/2010/02/20/heroes-and-anti-heroes-by-steve-thornton/ Hartford Independent Media Collective - your real alternative for news and views in central CT Tue, 17 May 2011 15:27:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: richard http://hartfordimc.org/2010/02/20/heroes-and-anti-heroes-by-steve-thornton/comment-page-1/#comment-2667 richard Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:33:30 +0000 http://hartfordimc.org/?p=4335#comment-2667 Hi Steve Thanks for this article. Over at A Few Queers On The Prowl we posted, "Torture and slow death by the refusal to give proper medical treatment to political and class war prisoners by state and federal correctional authorties must stop!" "We demand full and comprehensive medical for Avelino and all prisoners." The article in the Courant made my blood boil and my heart went out to Avelino. The bastards that would deny medical treatment to those in jail should be in the court. Hi Steve
Thanks for this article. Over at A Few Queers On The Prowl we posted, “Torture and slow death by the refusal to give proper medical treatment to political and class war prisoners by state and federal correctional authorties must stop!”

“We demand full and comprehensive medical for Avelino and all prisoners.”

The article in the Courant made my blood boil and my heart went out to Avelino. The bastards that would deny medical treatment to those in jail should be in the court.

]]> By: steve thornton http://hartfordimc.org/2010/02/20/heroes-and-anti-heroes-by-steve-thornton/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 steve thornton Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:20:38 +0000 http://hartfordimc.org/?p=4335#comment-2664 Could be. The reason I wrote this is because of what I read in the papers last week: for more than a year, the prison authorities would not allow Avelino Gonzalez-Claudio proper medical treatment. Then, a month before he returned to a Hartford court on February 5th, he got the neurological test he needed. Under a plea deal, he will face seven years in prison and a $10,000 fine for his role in the 1983 Wells Fargo robbery. I also have a distinct memory of an early-morning call sometime around 1983 to come to the Federal Building where there was a protest against the government's repressive response (maybe they were bringing in a suspect). There were military types heavily armed, in black, on the roofs of the surrounding buildings. It was the first time I had seen that in Hartford. Leaves an impression. Could be. The reason I wrote this is because of what I read in the papers last week: for more than a year, the prison authorities would not allow Avelino Gonzalez-Claudio proper medical treatment. Then, a month before he returned to a Hartford court on February 5th, he got the neurological test he needed. Under a plea deal, he will face seven years in prison and a $10,000 fine for his role in the 1983 Wells Fargo robbery.

I also have a distinct memory of an early-morning call sometime around 1983 to come to the Federal Building where there was a protest against the government’s repressive response (maybe they were bringing in a suspect).

There were military types heavily armed, in black, on the roofs of the surrounding buildings. It was the first time I had seen that in Hartford. Leaves an impression.

]]> By: meridenite http://hartfordimc.org/2010/02/20/heroes-and-anti-heroes-by-steve-thornton/comment-page-1/#comment-2652 meridenite Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:44:11 +0000 http://hartfordimc.org/?p=4335#comment-2652 Victor is in Cuba working in the sugar cane fields last I knew. Victor is in Cuba working in the sugar cane fields last I knew.

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