The Wall Street Journal this morning
writes a very moving report of Martha Stewart's time in prison and
the sympathy she has shown fellow inmates. I'm a Martha fan based on
this show of deep humanity on her part.
The following quote is the problem: “Her empathy for the women she soon will leave has brought her into conflict with some of her corporate advisers, according to people involved: They want the public to forget she is a convicted felon and have counseled her to talk only about future plans.”
Martha, these are the advisers who put you in prison. Fire them!
When you were first told by the press
that you had been tagged for insider trading I told you what to do:
Make a sincere publicly apology and donate several million dollars to
women's cancer as penance. You would have been a free person and very
popular.
Instead you listened to your
too-smart-by-a-half New York lawyers who told you that you could beat
this case in court.
They were wrong then, they are wrong now. Fire them.
The American public will love a Martha Stewart who cares about female prisoners' health, safety and education. We are decent people, capable of great love.