There was a very important diary posted here last night through much of today on the death of Hiu Lui Ng. It was by Gorette, and if you missed it: http://www.dailykos.com/...
You should also check out the original New York Times article on this incident, which is one of the most horrific stories of human cruelty I've heard in a long time: http://www.nytimes.com/...
Keith Olbermann addressed this awhile ago on his show, and his words--dripping with anger--summed up how I felt about this last night. Here is my original comment in that diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here are Olbermann's words on the subject:
Death Sentence by Inertia-Gate:
For at least the third time a man being held by the Bush Administration's ICE Unit--Immigrations & Customs Enforcement--is dead. Hiu Liu Ng, a New York computer engineer who had lived in this country for 16 years, dead at the age of 34.
He had gone to Immigration headquarters for a final interview on his green card last summer. That's when somebody noticed he had overstayed a Visa, years earlier. Instead of an interview he was immediately arrested and put in jail since. In April, he complained of excrutiating back pain. By last month he could neither walk nor stand.
Now, he is dead. Cancer concludes the coroner. Cancer that was never diagnosed by prison doctors. And when, Mr. Ng's lawyers say, when he told prison officials how sick he was, they denied him an independent medical evaluation, they accused him of faking his condition, and last month, they shackled him--his body broken by the cancer--they shackled him to a chair while an ICE official demanded he withdraw his appeal and accept deportation.
They murdered him. We the people in George Bush's America-we murdered him.
This is the sort of story where I like to see the anchor get angry. I think it's important to get angry. Some things our country does for "our sake" are so horrifying, you want to bellow at the moon. You wonder if there's any good left in people at all.
A short diary, but I thought Olbermann's words were fairly well put.
What happened to this man was a crime, and someone or many someones who did this to this man must be prosecuted.
UPDATE: It's #1 on this MSNBC Countdown Video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
The video does it more justice than my transcription.