Friday, December 19, 2008

The Prisoner of Kay St.

He sits alone, looking through the bars and the mesh at the world outside. He contemplates the meaning of words like "freedom," "emancipation," and "dadadadadadadada!" He dreams of the day when he may free himself from the bondage of infancy. Standing up would be a good start. Or even crawling forward.

Yoni Speizer is something of a martyr. With few intelligible words, he speaks a language we all understand. Sometimes.

He is a prisoner... yet he is pampered. Literally. He wears size 3 pampers, and he is spoon-fed. One wonders who is actually in control, the captive or the captors? I recently interviewed Mr. Speizer about his placement in a new containment facility. Here is what he had to say.

He subsequently took my shoe and began to eat it:

I can only assume he is not well-fed by his captors. It is hard to imagine that people are treated this way on a daily basis. You can see how such treatment has turned Yoni Speizer from a kind, sweet child into this:

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