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• Tuesday, December 5, 2006 06:13 AM

  Patricia,

  A lot of heat, zero light. Does either of you have a f***ing clue as to who actually killed Litvinenko ?

  No? Didn't think so.

  -- wmsberry

  I know why I hate OC so much. My father was a Teamster who tried to stand up to the Mafia when they infected his local. My life was threatened and I had to spend a week home from school, not allowed to open doors or curtains, answer the phone or stand next to windows.

  And my father had to give in and that was a terrible thing for a daughter to see -- her father made into a slave, nothing close to a human being.

  It ruined our whole family and it was the beginning of the end of him as a man.

  I'm sorry about that episode of your life, though it seems you had forgotten about it, even though it was so important.

  You and I can never agree on this now. Because I hate OC so much, you're off limits for me now. You're radioactive in my mind, to be honest.

  This has been an interesting discussion.

  I had forgotten about the Teamsters episode. That's why I don't believe anything Litvinenko said. The Mafia is slavery. How can you believe a slave?

  (1) What is "OC"?

  (2) What did i say that was so objectionable that you're calling me "radioactive" and "off limits"? That i support civil rights?

  You experienced one form of oppression, from the Mafia, and I experienced another, from the government. It doesn't make one any better than the other.

  If you don't believe anything Litvinenko said, why believe anything Putin says? To me, they're all about equally credible, except Putin is a lot scarier because he acts under color of law -- he has the resources and authority of a country behind him.

  (3) How can I believe a slave? Slaves are people too, you know.

  (4) Being a teamster could be seen as slavery too. You're part of a union, you have little individual identity, the union makes decisions for you, etc.

  You're over-dramatizing this discussion and I don't understand why.

  —LeCastor Read LeCastor's other letters
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