BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
Joyce Marcel has done a very good job fawning over a murderer.
According to her hideously biased “reporting,” the Brattleboro Food Co-op literally forced Richard Gagnon to murder his evil boss, Michael Martin.
We're clearly supposed to feel sorry, not for the dead victim and his family but for the killer:
“It didn't matter that I was driven crazy and had no notion of right or wrong.”
“The four years during which Michael worked at the co-op were the absolute worst of my life.”
“I want to forgive Michael Martin and the others for the gross acts of unkindness they did to me.”
That's right, the killer wants to forgive the man he murdered.
The rest of Marcel's 20,000-word screed is devoted to tearing down the co-op, its staff, management and board. Good job, Joyce.
I don't know much about the co-op except as an occasional shopper, but this article literally turned my stomach.
Congratulations for publishing one of the lowest pieces of yellow journalism I have ever read.