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.
Nope, but mine's nearly identical. I call her "The CounteSS", as she was named by some FReepers after I bought her. She's everything she looks like, and more.
"No thank you" says the woman "we have shared stuff all our life and we're used to it"
"But why aren't you eating anything?" asks the man, "what are you waiting for?"
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"The teeth"
LOL!!! That is a good one.
I know that, and you know that.
But there are people on the main forum posting the vilest lies about us.
He trys and trys, but can't make them normal again. Finally he gets the idea to take them to the hospital. Quickly he puts them in the back of his truck and goes as fast as he can to the emergency room.
After explaining the situation to the doctors they are wisked off to be worked on.
Several hours later a tired surgeon emerges from the hospital room. The man jups up and walks over.
"How are they?" he asks
"Comfortable."
And a new suit would go forward only if the reviewing court determined that there had been procedural due process violations and the reviewing court exercised its discretion to remedy those violations with an effective new trial.
Are you being intentionally obtuse?
"The "hospice" should be razed and converted to a park with Terri's shrine."
As much as people like to think it, Terri Shiavo is not a saint. She had good qualities, and she had bad qualities, she wasn't sinless. She is not completely innocent, it's true she was helpless, but she wasn't an angel.
You better watch it - you could get banned, or worse, for saying something like that.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that this is being uttered by a chest cracker (heart surgeon)?
If I get banned for saying that, then I'm not sure I would care any more.
It is rather odd. But then, so was the off-the-cuff diagnosis based upon a few minutes of edited videotape.
Go Ahead...make my day!...sonsab*tches! ;^)
Yeah - I can understand how John Q. Public can see the edited video and think "she's responsive!" but for a physician to do so is totally ignoring his training and catering only to politics. I've already mentioned how pi$$*d Mayo was (a friend is a nurse there) at the doc there who claimed she could be rehabilitated based on the same videotape and "documents" from Hemmesfahr or the like.
I got an X-box for christmas. Haven't even opened it yet.
LOL! Cute.
lame, you mean.
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Posted on 03/31/2005 8:09:51 PM PST by txradioguy
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txradioguy served in Iraq and is now in Korea.
I think we can all agree to help now.
The "debate" can wait, THIS is going on right now.
Ursella...SS Trooper. Remember reading the paperback back in the 60s.
I need to do a mini essay on the life of John Locke for U.S. Government, anybody know of a good place to get info?
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