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LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION |
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by Kenn Thomas Dear Editor: Writer Jim Auchmutey used very little of what I told him about Ron Bonds' unusual death ("Widow: 'All we did was go out to eat'" Atlanta Journal-Consititution, 6/9/02 -- web only?). He ignored, for instance, the interesting fact that a series of similar deaths happened in Minnesota last November, due to closteridium bacteria traced to a tainted tissue bank called Cryolife in Kennesaw, just twenty miles north of Atlanta. These deaths resulted from knee-surgery, a procedure halted for a while in Minnesota while they traced the cause. The chief author working for Bonds' IllumiNet Press, Jim Keith, died of complications after knee surgery. It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to acknowledge the questions that remain in the deaths of both Bonds and Keith. I also thought it was a bit unfair for Bonds' widow to characterize him as "laughing all the way to the bank" over the books he published. Perhaps it was a misquote. Ron, his writers and his audience maybe laughed together at some of the absurdities of parapolitics and conspiracy, but my impression was that he had great respect for the material. Sincerely, Kenn Thomas
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