Mar 24 2008
Serial Killer Jack Kevorkian Runs for Congress
Consummate publicity whore and serial killer Dr Jack Kevorkian is running for congress. He wants to represent the murder capitol of Detroit, Michigan as an Independent.
Kevorkian, an Independent, has only been out of prison for a few months and is running for the congressional seat presently held by Republican incumbent Joe Knollenberg.
The 79-year-old pathologist announced his bid to run as an independent less than a year after being released from prison where he served eight years for second-degree murder.
“I have no ties, no fetters. I am free,” Kevorkian told reporters, adding that he planned to run against the “tyranny” of the U.S. Supreme Court which he said has robbed Americans of their rights.
In the 1990s Kevorkian became one of the most prominent and polarizing figures in the debate over euthanasia by assisting in some 130 suicides and for his outspoken advocacy of the “right to die.”
Kevorkian, who was paroled in 2007, said he will run as an independent for a congressional seat representing the Detroit suburbs, near the area where he presided at dozens of suicides in cheap hotel rooms and the back of his rusty van.
He was convicted after a CBS news program aired a video showing Kevorkian administering lethal drugs to a 52-year-old man suffering from debilitating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. (Source: Reuters)
Dr Kevorkian loves to be in the limelight. His antics during many trials demonstrated his megalomania. He came to court in costumes and stocks. But then what the hell, at least we know what we’d be getting with Kevorkian. A killer.
Hell, Jack, why settle for congress? Why not run with Ralph Nader for Vice President? We can guarantee that ticket would be dead on arrival.
your artical is vage and extremly bias. you have no right to call him a murderer if the people alowed him to help them.
You are an idiot. He just got out of prison for killing people. He was judged by a court and convicted by a jury of his peers.
Great rebuttal “you are an idiot.” Are you five?
Yes he went to prison for killing someone (not people) but that doesn’t mean that he didn’t do the right thing. He would not have been convicted if he didn’t air it on CBS..even so, assisting in suicides (which are painless and you go out with some sense of dignity, rather than maybe choking on your own spit) for chronically and terminally ill people who go to you for help is hardly viable for the term Serial Killer.
leave the man alone I fully support him. He didnj’t kill people he let them put themselfs out of their pain, he would give them the button to push and they decided when they wanted to end their own pain. I think he is a brilliant man and would be a great choice for congress.
See I live in Detroit Michigan and one of my best friends was one of those 130 people that Dr. Jack helped. Tom was in horrible pain and was slowly slipping away because of a tumor in his brain, so he acked Dr. Jack to help him out of the pain and Tom got what he wanted.
lol @ calling him a serial killer. Try talking to someone with a terminal illness & see if they want to live with it.