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Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 7:53am.
A new website supporting the innocence of convicted murderer Mechele Linehan is now available.

Free Mechele: A positive place to share in the journey of bringing Mechele Linehan home, is run by friends and family of the former Olympian and wife and mother. Besides updates the site allows supporters to donate assistance to the Linehan family. Merchandise, including shirts and buttons, is also available for sale.

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Wow... no mention of her former profession

Neither your post, Merwyn, nor the website mention her former profession. That's a first!
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So she was a stripper

 Big whoop.  Everyone has the right to take such employment as they desire. 

Some even call me mad! And why? Because I dared to dream …of my own race of atomic monsters! Atomic supermen with octagonal-shaped bodies that suck blood out of...--Professor Farnsworth
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That's not what I was referring to

She used to work for the Washington State Executive Ethics Board, here in Olympia. I was just surprised no one brought that up.
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Whether she did it or not -

Whether she did it or not - whether there's evidence pointing to her guilt or not - I was pissed that the mere fact she was once a stripper was considered proof positive she was a bad person capable of murder.

I was friends with a Preacher's Kid who once earned her income in the South Carolina strip scene - when her father's co-workers (well-respected God-fearing employees of the church) came in for some fun and recreation she made an agreement not to tell their wives if they didn't tell her father.

You can blow out a candle / But you can't blow out a fire / Once the flames begin to catch / The wind will blow it higher

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Now that is suspicious

Isn't a state ethics board an oxymoron?  :-p

Some even call me mad! And why? Because I dared to dream …of my own race of atomic monsters! Atomic supermen with octagonal-shaped bodies that suck blood out of...--Professor Farnsworth
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