Posted on 03/28/2005 12:05:51 PM PST by Brilliant
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
This is the first I have heard of the Not Dead Yet, but I am qualified for membership and glad to know that they are there.
"One of the women, Sunsara Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, said she and her colleague, Debra Sweet, an abortion rights activist, intended to spend two days at the site, to make sure "the other side" is heard... Ms. Sweet said she recognized several people from protests outside abortion clinics around the country. "This is their whole life," she said."
What a rip. So this communist activist recognizes someone from the prolife side and says scornfully, That's their whole life?
So what was she doing at abortion clinic protests? Maybe her whole life is agitating for death - and communism.
Bulimia is a mental illness.
Was Terri of "sound mind" at the time she allegedly said, "No tubes for me"?
People have to be "of sound mind" to write a will.
Here's another quote from the NYT, not in the article:
"Crowd Remains Outside Hospice; Terri Schiavo's family, including her father and brother, have asked supporters to remain calm."
Gee, I wonder why they did that? I'll tell you why. It's because the authorities asked them to, and they know that if they don't play ball with the authorities, then they won't themselves be welcome very long. The truth is that the Schinders are on Terri's side, but their concern is limited to Terri. They are not there defending a broader principle, as are the protesters. The authorities, though, are obviously concerned about their ability to control these protesters, or they would not be trotting the Schindlers out there to calm down the crowd.
But, in an earlier article, they were bragging that they were "ready" for thousands.
They were trying to scare them away. They obviously did not count on folks violating the order, either. They assumed they'd be good little protesters with signs--not glasses of water.
"Of course, this article was written to denigrate their efforts,"
I don't know, the article seem pretty even-handed to me. Other than the four loud men, it doesn't feature some of the more angry or bizarre people I've read about elsewhere.
This morning Matt Lauer was on (it was a bit after 7:00am, before I had switched the channel to FOX)and interviewing some ass named Savidge about the Schiavo murder-in-progress. And this ass named Savidge actually said that the ass named Mike Schiavo had insisted all along that Terri Schiavo had wanted to be euthanized. Is this true? I thought I had read that immediately following the accident, and before the ass named Mike Schiavo could collect on the malpractice money, he said NOTHING about euthanizing Terri. Am I wrong on this?
So it's okay for the liberal, anti-war, tree-hugging hippies to protest wars that they know they can't stop, but it's not okay for other people to protest something that really is a humanitarian crisis? I'll admit that neither group will change anything, but, they(the media) have protrayed those protestors in front of the hospice in the worst way.
I don't agree that they can't change anything. If enough people make a big enough pest of themselves, things will change.
Because it is her whole life, and like the self absorbed twit that she is, thinks this is all about her.
Possibly. ;)
I saw this f***ing commie c**t on Fox yesterday holding up a sign. That fact that she didn't get her ass kicked is proof that our side actually does protest peacefully. We all know what would have happened if it were the other way around.
They are letting an American citizen be starved to death and they are too weak to even try to help her.
The Bushes are rich people and do not need the money so why do they want to be our leaders when they are so weak?
The lesson in all this is not to trust your fate to the legal system, medical system, political system -- and certainly not the media, if one wants a rational outcome. It means a need for greater self-sufficiency and self-reliance, which begins of course, by making better discriminations and decisions.
Generally, it is not a good idea to marry the first and only person one ever dates. And then when the marriage goes bad, it's not a waste of the years put into it, to get out of it, at whatever cost, or it could cost you your life. There are no guarantees of a happy outcome -- no matter what the demagogues promise. We all take our best shot and make the best from what we know.
Let her will to live, inspire us to make the most of our own lives.
And what does it say about Ms. Sweets life that she was also at the abortion clinics?
With all due respect Mr. Governor, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by intervening in this appalling and shameful FLORIDA decision to murder an innocent woman by starvation.
I'm surprised Jeb took it as far as he did. He did not have a good hand to play.
The Schindlers took the case all the way up the appellate chain, and lost. The State legislature passed a bill that was certain to get thrown out on appeal, and it was. Then the US Congress passed a law that was certain to accomplish nothing, and it did.
Jeb delayed this for 2 years. The State legislature had a chance to keep her alive for another few weeks by passing another statute, but it decided not to do so.
When you've got a Constitutional struggle between two of the branches of government, it is usually the third that decides which side wins. Here, there was a struggle between the Executive and the Courts. The legislature elected to side with the Courts by voting down the last piece of proposed legislation. If Bush couldn't even count on the legislature to back him up, then there is no point in proceeding. Bush is not a dictator. He has power but not absolute power. He did everything he could have done without going to jail.
Your ire might more appropriately be directed against the RINOs in the legislature, who had a chance to give Bush more power on this dispute, but decided not to.
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