sfexpat2000 's post about Andy appears on Bellaciao and OpEdNews

[MelissaB]

Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_elizabet_050714_the_stalking_of_andy.htm




Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7020

The Stalking of Andy Stephenson

Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?

by Elizabeth Ferrari

http://www.opednews.com

I have lived for the last ten weeks with Andy Stephenson’s cancer. And in the most useless way. I couldn’t take it away, couldn’t relieve him of it, couldn’t mind it for a few hours so he could be freed to do the election reform work he so loved.

Andy was one of the most luminous people I have never met, because we never shared room temperature. I read his posts to a discussion board, then exchanged email with him. Later, when he was casting around for access to medical care, we had phone contact, increasingly as his situation became more obviously urgent.

And through the unfolding of our friendship, I understood that this being on the other side of the keyboard or the phone line was remarkable, was a gift walking among us. Sometimes a prickly gift or a demanding one but, all gifts have their peculiar qualities, if only to soften brilliance that laid bare would be blinding for most eyes.

I've heard Andy jubilant and terrified, laughing and sobbing. Playful and petulant. My deepest regret is that I won’t hear him again.

More at links above.

[Stephanie]

1. Good.

Let the world know. I want to shine the light on these cockroaches.

[applegrove]

2. I really hope this story goes national. By attacking Andy in a time of

need they just showed themselves to be even more afraid of progressive icons, health care issues and the importance of electoral transparency to the first modern democracy on the planet.

Thanks for posting.

[bleever]

3. Rec'd. Here's another glimpse at the "Culture of Life".

Jesus said, "Love thine enemies".

These people hide behind Jesus, while chuckling about letting their political opponents die from delayed medical care.

Talk about taking the Lord's name in vain. May god have mercy on their benighted souls.

[EFerrari]

4. It's getting out and as predicted, the ghouls are attacking it and me.

Good. Let them illustrate the story everywhere possible.

Maybe Skinner will let me change my user name to "baghdadbeth".

[bobbieinok]

5. kick

:kick:

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. Some of the story is also being reported in three articles on Andy in

Seattle Weekly. In this thread, the opening post excerpts the third article, and the first two are linked to in the first paragraph of the excerpt:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4150261