Posted on 03/29/2005 8:58:34 AM PST by Long Cut
We, the Witness Protection Program For Freepers, aka the Wild Turkeys, aka the Coalition of the Sane, have through mutual discussion and rigourous thought, determined that:
1. The discussion threads regarding Terri Schiavo (hereafter referred to as "TS") have become too full of innuendo, rumormongering, hyperbole, hysteria, namecalling, paranoia, and general poor behavior to warrant participation.
2. Said threads have degenerated into "echo chambers", wherein the same, common thoughts are continually posted again and again, and the same old disreputable, unconfirmed and/or false urban myths are propagated.
3. Anyone who joins in said theads with alternative viewpoints to the most extreme posts are routinely driven away with slander, accusations, and vile namecalling.
4. No data or evidence contrary to the "prevailing opinions" are accepted, considered, or discussed; and in fact are rejected outright in most instances.
5. That the continued calls for armed insurrection, military or paramilitary involvement, impeachements of politicians and judges, and death threats are embarassing, stupid, shortsighted, doomed to failure, and contrary to most if not all conservative thought prior to this case, as well as damaging in the extreme to FR and the conservative movement as a whole.
6. That such emotional, hyperbolic, and propaganda-driven hysteria is in fact contrary to all conservatives USED to stand for.
7. That the holding up of swastika and other Nazi imagery towards the police and the Bushes, the use of children as political props, and the disruption of the peace at the Woodside Hospice can only reflect badly on conservatives in general, and should be discouraged.
8. That the pursuit of this issue to the exclusion of all others by the GOP has damaged, perhaps beyond repair, the pursuit of other important issues as well as the reputation of the GOP, FR, and conservatism.
The WPPFF is NOT of one mind as to the case of TS or its correct outcome. In fact, wide disagreement exists within our little group. However, we are united in our wish that reason and sanity be respected in the discussion, as well as the rights of all parties involved or participating. We wish to discuss this as adults and intellectuals, as conservatives and as FRiends, not as children screaming past each other on some playground of hysteria. We wish for facts and evidence to be provided, discussed reasonably, and considered fairly.
We reject all accusations of Naziism, "death cultism", or other slander as methods of debate. We reject the practice of "spamming" multiple threads, of posting unending vanities, and the posting of propaganda and calls for violence. We reject, in fact, all unseemly and childish behavior which has come to characterize this case on FR.
We DO invite others to come and reasonably discuss the issue. We have no problem with FReepers who wish to debate in a rational and fair manner, and with due respect for their fellow FReepers. We have NO problem with those whose views are formed by religion; however we reject "preaching" or "being beaten with a Bible" as legitemite debate tactics. Not all of us are Believers, and such tactics only cheapen the source.
If a FReeper finds this an acceptable meansd to discuss this and other issues, they are welcome to join in and participate. Those who find pleasure in attacks, flame-baiting, slander, stalking, and personal atacks will be ignored, and their egos will go unfed.
We assume this thread to be a zone of sanity in an overheated atmosphere. Thus, a general amnesty is in effect. If posters conduct themselves within the guidlines above, we will be happy to discuss and debate with you. If a poster wishes to apologize for past slips of the tongue, or for possible "over-the-top" statements to another, it will be graciously accepted, and your company welcome.
Please bring a sense of humor; we feel that too many have been taking themselves too seriously lately.
Let the discussion begin!
Signed,
The WPPFF, aka The Wild Turkeys, aka the Coalition of the Sane.
Praying!
I also read most of the threads...but was not about to become embroiled in a name-calling, free-for-all.
She is brain damaged, not brain dead.
Well, I was just wondering if you were under house arrest......LOL.
Yes. So what does that mean?
What's the clinical difference?
It very well could mean that she didn't do it and they don't want you to see it.
plenty of difference, clinically and legally.
What does a flat EEG mean?
So the first time doesn't count?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374100/posts
They saw more of her not following ballons, music, hands, fingers, etc. than we have.
Hence, they made their decisions.
Schindlers couldn't "fool" the judges.
I'd like to see all 5 hours of those tapes.
Now you're being disengenuous; but thank you for playing.
I never suggested they were the same. I merely requested definitions of each. If you can provide a reference or a synopsis of the definitions I would appreciate it.
Tract=track
In the last week alone, there have been over a dozen articles about that tape and how misleading it is. I haven't saved them but they are on FR if you don't mind looking through the other 500 Terri articles.
The Schindlers also should stop lying. Terri's sister has been on television all week saying that Terri never had a heart attack and therefore the reason for her PVS is mysterious.
No one ever said she had a heart attack and the sister knows it. Terri had cardiac arrest, an entirely different thing.
THen the sister has gone on to talk mysteriously about broken bones and the family just wants to know about those. Terri did have one single solitary broken bone when she presented at the hospital. Not one. SHe had a hairline fracture in two places. One where EMS may have done CPR before they realized she was still breathing and the other in her neck from her fall.
Go to Trinity_Tx home page on Free Republic; it's all there. The hospital discharge summary. The doctors, neurologists, etc.
Then ask yourself, if Terri had broken bones when she got to the hospital, why didn't the doctor mention them or treat them?
If the family truly believed that Michael tried to strangle Terri, why did they wait 12 years to make the charge? Why didn't the doctors and Terri's family notice bruise marks? When the doctors were sued by Michael for malpractice, why didn't they defend themselves and say "we didn't do anything wrong, Michael tried to kill her"?
How can you explain her low potassium? Her low calcium? Her malnourished state? Her bone loss due to bulimia? Those things are NOT connected to Michael trying to kill her.
Why would all these doctors lie about her condition? Neurologist? Therapist? Terri's OWN parents admitted under oath she's PVS.
And PVS patients make spontaneous gestures and noises and eye movements.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner, who will likely be ignored.
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