Extract from the book The Codex Alarm Clock
Sister Dorothy Stang, a seventy three year old American catholic nun spent thirty years ministering in the Amazon rainforest. So alarmed at the ubiquitous corruption, the forests destruction and the loss of rights and habitat of the forest people by the corrupt officials and the cattle barons that through her energies, she was able to draw international attention to the plight of the people, the forest and its future. Not one but two murderers were hired and they shot her like a stray dog. Problem solved. An old woman, a nun, unconcerned with the bright trappings of modern civilisation or her own comforts and safety. She was fighting the good fight, trying to save one of the planets last great lungs, while drawing attention to the plight of the powerless, and to herself, for a time, the focus of endemic and wicked corruption. Is there a more graphic example for us, of the age old battle, than this principled, staunch old woman, her energies directed outside of herself, lying alone, shot dead, her valuable life stolen, her face in the mud of a dirty Anapu street?