Posted on 03/21/2005 3:26:05 PM PST by goldstategop
The Los Angeles Times today, folks, has one of the most vicious, angry, bitter editorials I can recall in that paper in a long time. "Republican leaders, eyeing an opportunity to appease their radical right-wing constituents--" And you radical right-wingers out there know who you are, "--convened Congress over the weekend to shamelessly interject the federal government into the wrenching Schiavo family dispute. They brushed aside our federalist system of government, which assigns the resolution of such disputes to state law, and state judges. Even President Bush flew back from his ranch to Washington on Sunday to be in on what amounts to a constitutional coup d'etat." The LA Times calls this a constitutional coup d'etat. Now, if that's true, if this is a constitutional coup d'etat, that means that the legal system is the Florida judiciary. The Florida judiciary has become the government of the United States, I'm just taking them at their word here. Of course, this is not the case, but a coup d'etat is the overthrow of government. And here's the left, the LA Times will write in favor of federalism at all options that they have except this, when the subject is life and death, and the subject of life and death forces them to compromise their own true belief about federalism. They want federalism on everything.
They want the federal government in charge of everything. They're liberals. They wanted the federal government involved in a steroid case, for crying out loud. Let me ask you, folks, which really is a more relevant and substantive issue? That shebang of a hearing that we had on Thursday, that circus, or what's going on now with this woman's life, given the constitutional charter that the government here has. Next paragraph of the LA Times editorial: "Conservatives are the historical defenders of states' rights, and the supposed proponents of keeping big government out of people's lives, but this case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country." Let me tell you what's Stalinist about this. What's Stalinist about this is saying she's brain dead. What's Stalinist about this is saying that she's in a coma. What's Stalinist about this is lying about the woman's circumstances. That's what's Stalinist about it and then creating a media machine that keeps pumping out the lies so that a false fiction continues to build and build and build thereby whipping up emotions in people. Same thing's happening in global warming.
The whole global warming mess, the whole sudden climate change, all that is an example of how Stalinism takes over a society, creates perpetual fear so that people are always worried about some crisis. And the notion here that this is Stalinist, this is constitutional. The US Constitution allows -- the Congress didn't put the feeding tube back in. Congress did nothing of the sort. "So breathtaking was this attempted usurpation of power, wresting jurisdiction over a right-to-die case away from Florida's judiciary, that Republican leaders in the end had to agree to limit this legislation's applicability to the Schiavo case." This is not a right-to-die case. That's another example here of how this is all burgeoning out of control. This is a right-to-live case. You might call it a right-to-kill case or a right-to-live case, but right to die it's not. Right to die is if she had expressed wishes that were being denied, wishes that were in document, in court, in a living will or what have you and if her own wishes were being denied then it would be a right to die case. That's not what this is. This is a right to kill, a right to terminate, whatever, or right to live story when you get down to the brass tacks. So the next paragraph is, "In other words, according to the bill passed by the Senate Sunday afternoon, and which the House passed after midnight, among all the cases of patients in a persistent vegetative state nationwide [which she is not] Terri Schiavo's case is the only one in which parents are able to have a federal court review state court rulings on the fate of their loved one."
It's an amazing thing to see the anger. They say, "This is the family law equivalent of the constitutionally banned 'bill of attainder,' legislation that seeks to convict someone of a crime." Yeah, it's just like a bill of attainder, the only difference being that, well, it isn't a bill of attainder. You know, the anger that the left mounts over this is. There are efforts here to save a woman's life, and what about the parents who are behaving more as parents than the husband is a husband? And the anger, the vitriol that's coming from these people, it's as though they can recognize -- I'll tell you what's bothering them, they're just as mad over this as they were over the success of The Passion of the Christ. They get angry and paranoid when they bear witness to the size of the majority in this country who are on the side of life. That's what bugs them. What bugs them is this story, this episode has once again shown them how small a minority they are a member of. And they're mad, and they're mad at the people who are making them a minority. They're mad, folks. It's what I've said all along. As they continue to lose, as they continue to show evidence that they're losing, they are losing touch. They take away the masks, they take away the disguises and who they really are comes out, and who they really are shows up on the editorial page of the LA Times today and a number of other places over the weekend and elsewhere today as well.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
I want to make one more point about this hysterical and unhinged LA Times lead editorial. "This case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country." That is the most -- I don't know what the word is -- insane. It's literally insane, it's paranoid. It is hysterical. And especially for these dopes, these lame-brains, these idiots who write editorials at the LA Times, does anyone know what Stalin did, among other things? Josef Stalin was pro-choice. Josef Stalin murdered over 25 million Russian, Ukraine citizens, and how did he do it? Starvation. He created a massive famine. Josef Stalin starved 20 to 30 million, some put the figure as high as 40 million Russians to death during his reign of terror.
A New York Times reporter, Walter Durante, got a Pulitzer prize for his reporting denying this had taken place. But the proof was conclusive and inescapable years later. So for the LA Times to come up now and say that it is Stalinist, "the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country." What is that morality? That we all have a right to life, and that's Stalinist? I don't know where these people at the LA Times went to school, I don't even know who they are, but they ought to be embarrassed as they can be over this when somebody points out that they are accusing the United States Congress of being Stalinist when it's just the exact opposite.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Did they just lift the editorial right out of DU, or what? The Slimes is far beyond biased anymore.
Funny. As I recall, Stalin used his power to murder people; Republicans used theirs to try to save a life.
Isn't Michael Kinsley one of the top editors there now...
End of story
Well if the left is comparing Republicans to Stalin then I take that as a compliment being that the left worships and adores Stalin.
I've seen similar comments right here on FR by posters (trolls, or whatever). It's interesting that the editors or the LA Times look at the issues swirling around Terri Schiavo, and the only "evil" they can see is "radical right-wing" Republicans. We "right-wingers" have been saying for forty years that when the acknowledgement of God is unceremonially dumped as a foundation of our society, monsterous evils are possible. That's what we're seeing in Florida -- a monsterous evil -- and the LA Times is oblivious to it.
The investigation into that reveals they have been doing that since 1995.
No claims by the Tribune Group can be accepted since they have been demonstrated to be liars.
This has to be the EXTREME-left saying this. I can't imagine such nonsense coming from even the mainstream liberals...
The Times editor is probably a frequent poster to DU.
Read my # 7 post. The Tribune Group, which includes the LA TIMES, is a criminal operation. They are provably evil.
The Great Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is rolling over in his grave...
Well, yeah, I guess they realized that the Hitler comparison is like, so overdone, you know, it's like so Wal-Mart.
"Good" is "bad," "doing what is right" is "wrong," and "Republicans" are "Stalin." Wasn't this last charge, btw, right out of Michael Schiavo's talking points last Friday?
I wouldn't doubt that in the least. There was a time, not too awful many years ago that that paper was pretty decent, wasn't there?
Yeah, I had the same thought. "Hitler" has been so over-done it's a worthless analogy (either that, or they're keeping the Hitler allusions for Bush). "Bush is Hitler" and "Bush supporters are Stalin." We obviously need some new villians. How about, "The LA Times is Pol Pot."
They used to endorse Republicans about 40 years ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.