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12-18-2007, 02:47 PM
A feast of schadenfreude yesterday when a court ruled the Sabhnanis of Long Island guilty of all the charges against them. Earlier in the day there was a new comment for the poem The Sorrows of Pooja, posted ever so long ago when the case first hit the news. I thought the comment a crank piece of spam, being in a foggy state. I do get such spams that are tacked on to very old postings. Some words seem to act as magnets for such span, and I thought "Pooja" had been such a trigger. Now I realize it was sincere and from someone with a long memory; to whom my apologies. Anyhow the guilty verdict triggered a classic, all-purpose Statement of Innocence-in-Guilt from Dakshina, one of the three Sabhnani daughters: "We didn't do anything to anybody. How could this happen to us?" That has to be worthy of consideration for the next edition of Bartlett.
For those who don't remember them, the Sabhnanis imported, enslaved, tortured, starved, and imprisoned two Indonesion women who were their servants. They were millionaires in the perfume business, and they didn't do anything to anybody. Indonesian scullions, after all, are nobodies.
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For those who don't remember them, the Sabhnanis imported, enslaved, tortured, starved, and imprisoned two Indonesion women who were their servants. They were millionaires in the perfume business, and they didn't do anything to anybody. Indonesian scullions, after all, are nobodies.
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