Dude! Ick.
Stolen Bunny bangs his head at you.
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.
They are clearly out of their minds with grief, grasping at straws. My heart is just breaking for them. For Michael Shiavo too.
HEADS UP EVERYBODY:
Dan Abrams reported on MSNBC that the Schindlers will send you a photograph of their daughter in her hospital bed, wasting away. If you send them $100.
Yes. You heard that right. $100 for a picture of a dying Terri.
785 posted on 03/29/2005 3:15:31 PM PST by Peach (I'm in the WPPFF.)
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MY GOD!
SPEECHLESS!
Dan Abrams reported on MSNBC that the Schindlers will send you a photograph of their daughter in her hospital bed, wasting away. If you send them $100.
The Schindlers are Death Merchants, too.
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Thanks. I wish I had some good answers.
Awesome post, I just came upon it. Thank you for this.
Back to the melee.
It was reported last night. Not deathbed video. Same clips everyone has already seen.
I'm getting the impression that Dan Abrams has the same stature here that Alan Keyes has elsewhere. lol :)
Just the once. Other than the bye bye, I just posted the standard boiler plate. Kryptonite said he was leaving, and I just couldn't resist waving goodbye. *blush*
Oh, and I hope you didn't see my very early post to you as "getting on you". If I was heavy handed, I apologize.
I don't think this video thing is thru Terrisfight. It's another foundation, I do not recall which one.
Yo, G. EveningStar is one of the good guys, whom I consider a friend - just FYI :)
“Theresa spent two and a half months as an inpatient at Humana Northside Hospital, eventually emerging from her coma state, but not recovering consciousness. On 12 May 1990, following extensive testing, therapy and observation, she was discharged to the College Park skilled care and rehabilitation facility. Forty-nine days later, she was transferred again to Bayfront Hospital for additional, aggressive rehabilitation efforts. . .
The clinical records . . . show . . . She received regular and intense physical, occupational and speech therapies. . .
In late Autumn [sic} of 1990, following months of therapy and testing . . . Michael took Theresa to California, where she received an experimental thalamic stimulator implant in her brain . . . in January 1991 . . . Theresa was transferred to the Mediplex Rehabilitation Center . . . where she received . . . physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapies.
On 19 July 1991, Theresa was transferred to the Sable Palms . . . facility. . . . (where she received) regular and aggressive physical, occupational and speech therapy . . . through 1994.
I’d say she had a tad bit of therapy.
Excuse me? Where did that come from?
Just as a memory check, it seems that I keep hearing that Michael refused to let Terri have swallowing tests. Yet, in the Wolfson report, I read that there were three early on - 1991, 1992, and 1993. Now, that should be in the medical records, so if Wolfson was making stuff up, it could be checked.
Yes, much therapy, probably past the time that doctor's were saying that she had no hope of improvement if she hadn't responded already.
They are surrounded by hucksters. I wonder whether that had anything to do with this bright idea.
Dude! Ick.
Stolen Bunny bangs his head at you.
Look, I'm not saying that Michael Schiavo shouldn't have divorced Terri long ago if he was going to build a life with someone else.
But he didn't divorce her, so he is still her husband.
Also, the way I understand it, Florida doesn't have common law marriage.
Do you know that it was Terri's parents that encouraged Michael to date?
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