Posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:55 PM PST by freespirited
Exactly right.
Hitchens simply and clearly knows who and what he is. Considering his formidable skill and talent, that's good when he's on your side, like defending Saddam's demise, but not so good when he's not on your side, like tagging Terri Shindler as brain dead.
HITCHENS: I‘m a materialist. We don‘t have bodies. We are bodies. When the brain is gone, you are gone. No physician who‘s attended her in any capacity has said that she‘s anything but totally brain-dead. She‘s not disabled. She‘s gone.
Here, I do not agree with Hitchens, but listening closely to his argument, delivered with his typically crisp and crystal clear rhetoric, ought to help us make our own arguments stronger.
You're right. Donahue was no match for Hitchens, not because right was not on Donahue's side, but because Histchens' was and is simply that good.
Never mind that she is a living breathing human.
Soon people like Hitchen won't have to look at Terri's imperfections any longer and the world will be rid of one more unsightly reminder of what is too for much for their egos to comprehend.
Hitchens is a member of the all smarts and no hearts club. Their church is intellect and it's built on quicksand.
I think it's a miracle that David Bois is actually on the right to life side.
Please tell, what did Juan say?
Actually, lawyers are the only group guaranteed to benefit from the new right-to-life for zombies legislation being proposed.
He has been in trouble in Florida. Forget the details but he was sanctioned big time.
Anyone that argues that it's sensible to kill this woman is themselves capable of anything in my view. People like Hillary and some in the US Senate figured this out. That's why they didn't stand and be counted. It says so much about them. And they know it. You can't hide from this discussion. Either you are for the good or the bad.
I never ever thought I'd see something like this in America. We have devised our own way of taking a woman out into the middle of the soccer field and shooting her in the back of the head while people cheer.
This week America looks as mean and evil as the worst backwards third world country we have pointed at in the past and by doing so declare out moral authority. If this women dies at the hand of our judicial system we are just a banana republic. And our "emperor" has no clothes.
One ...Terri isn't walking and two.... she's not dead yet.
It would be neat after she does die for all those that sentenced her to death to be visited during their sleep hours by walking dead Terri zombies though.
You said it, and you're right.
Excellent post.
He bleated that Bewy had wied to hims.
Oh boo hoo.
Now Hitchens trumpets that he's a materialist--so if you're such a ma-teeer-ialist, what's your problem with a lie?
A lie is just more material--c'mon, Christopher, material: a lie, a handful of dirt, a human being--it's all just compost, just material.
Whence cometh this poof's problem with Clintonian deceit?
Death is just as good as life, there is no spirit, so lies are just as good as truth.
He's another lost soul clinging to any bit of flotsam or jetsam, which isn't hygenic in the current biohazard culture.
Read it 3 times and don't think Hitchens was condescending, just thoughtfully exasperated and pained by a lot of this. Even Matthews has been almost human this past week...I think he's grappling..some of the other media are too..got home tonight in time to hear andrea mitchell refer to starvation as a loaded term..she represents the backwater..
These stories bring out ALL the nuts!
Some people will say you are wrong because Terri had due process.
I am not one of those people. People are rationalizing killing a disabled woman. And yes, those kinds of people can rationalize anything, are capable of anything, and I think that we will start seeing that.
Matthews assertion that she cannot swallow, as if it isn't in dispute and that is what makes the nurse a liar, is utterly unreal. If she couldn't swallow, she would be drooling all over herself and choking on her own saliva.
She isn't nececessarily on the tube because she can't swallow, but possibly because initially it was very time consuming to feed her. But we'll never know, because the almighty judge has ruled for years that she not be fed by mouth which will now result in her death.
Sometimes I like Hitchens and I used to think he was bright but wrong, but I am not so sure about his intelligence any longer. How can you argue with such arrogance as he does when your facts are completely wrong? Not your opinions, but your facts. He said her EKG was flat and that all of the doctors had agreed and that she was brain dead. He is wrong. Only Cranford said that on television the other night. If she was brain dead, she would be on total life support because her brain could not maintain her bodily functions including all of her organs.
Also, his militant atheism has to go. I am not religious but he is rabid in his hatred for religious people.
If Matthews is grappling so hard, he should stop calling her brain dead instead of brain damaged. He has been corrected and he keeps going with it. Just keeping with the agenda I suppose.
And Hitchens is always condescending - it is part of his appeal. I actually enjoy it - it's good fun.
It frightens me to imagine the world Hitchens would consider just.
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