Thursday, January 26, 2012

ACT: Letter, Re: ‘Pretend disabled’ rea lly ARE sick (The Sun, 26 January 201 2)

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The Sun Letters.

Rod Liddle is on my list of, "Nasty Pieces of Work" (others on it are
Victor Lewis-Smith and Ricky Gervais), so named because it aptly
describes both the person and the material which they write about people
who have an illness they don't understand, especially M.E. (Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis).

Rod will probably be too busy, fortunately for him in the rudest of
health, plying his vindictive trade, able to make a pile out of his
victims but perhaps you would like to send an independent journalist to
visit a few people who have been a little "bit peaky" ('Pretend
disabled=92 really ARE sick, The Sun, 26 January 2012 --
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/smartphonecolumnists/article4087911.=
ece)
from M.E. for a decade or two and give the same space and prominence,
which he has had, to tell it as it really is.

Unlike some fellow M.E. sufferers, who say such sadistic people need to
have it themselves - just a week or two would do - to know how
devastating M.E. really is, I have always said that I would never wish
this on my worst enemy; my resolve is slipping and, in Rod's case, I may
be prepared to make an exception.

Yours sincerely
drjohngreensmith@mecommunitytrust.org
Dr John H Greensmith
ME Community Trust.org

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