Reply #48: Thank you. [View All]

[H2O Man]

Again, I recognize that there are a variety of interpretations of the numerous scientific studies involved here. What concerned me, in large part, was the rather obvious anti-Robert emotional trash that might keep some from being objective.

I note that one of the responses to the article linked on the OP was titled "A Kennedy Lawyer That Knows More Than MDs," and stated, "How interesting. What's in this for the young Kennedy? Perhaps he should have checked with Ted before opening his sewer." Now there's a wonderful mixture of class and intelligence.

Even on this thread, one human being wrote, "Seriously, Kennedy should be strung up for that article." Only slightly less obvious than the first example as an example of someone who would disagree with Robert on anything and everything.

In Robert's newest book, "Crimes Against Nature," there is information about how certain industries are taking aggressive actions to attack Robert's positions, and it includes having people trail and attempt to intimidate him. Surely, that doesn't mean everyone who disagrees with him falls into that group. But it does mean that anyone who writes an article that attacks him as an individual, questions his motives, and notes that lawsuits threaten the pharmaceutical industry deserves to have his/her motivation considered.

This is about children. It's about the quality of life. There is a lot of emotion involved. Again, I am not fully objective. As I've noted on other threads, in 1998 one of my nephews and a friend were the victims of a vicious gang assault. On 7-2-98, Robert wrote to NYS Attorney General Dennis Vacco "in reference to an incident of racially motivated violence .... in which two men .... were badly injured. I hope your office will investigate the circumstances of this incident and take appropriate action.

"The incdent occured as (the two) were leaving the General Clinton canoe Regatta, a popular event. After first baiting (my nephew) with racial epitets, a group of young men ambushed (the two) as they walked to their cars. (They were attacked from behind), knocked unconscious, severely beaten and left lying in the parking lot. Both boys were hospitalized, and (my nephew) has suffered permanent hearing loss and nerve damage."

Vacco, of course, ignored Robert's letter. But my point is that a family is appreciative of Robert's advocating for justice in cases that involve one of their children. And even if Mr. Allen says our family loves Robert because of his interest in the river the canoe regatta navigates, it does not decrease the value of what Robert has done.