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It seems that garbage truck is flaunting that he's caught cap'n crunch's stalker VD. Needless to say, the post he is referencing was on a Terri Schaivo thread where I defended the logical propriety of a Pilate analogy made by another poster, who was being attacked for making it with straw man arguments. The other poster was being accused of elevating Terri Schaivo to be a personification of Jesus when he/she did nothing of the sort, but rather simply likened Jeb Bush's decision not to intervene against Greer to Pilate's washing of his hands. The entire point of the Pilate story, of course, was that even though he claimed his innocence in Christ's blood by announcing as much and his symbolic washing of the hands, Pilate committed the sin of omission and thus his guilt existed in spite of his claims - essentially the same thing determined at the council of Nicaea when the guilt question arose.

As the other poster indicated by way of analogy, Jeb was committing a sin of omission by failing to intervene and claiming to have exhausted his options in respect for the decrees of Judge Greer, even if they were wrong. Whatever one thinks of Jeb Bush, the analogy never intended to equate Schaivo with Jesus as was originally misrepresented and as garbage_truck continues to misrepresent today. Furthermore, the comparison of a sin of omission is sound in act, even if not in degree. It's also a likely political reality that Jeb's inaction will cost him among the pro-life base should he seek another office.

Of course knowing what we do about garbage_truck's own political beliefs, his real gripe is very likely with the fact that pro-lifers impeded the killing of Terri Schaivo for as long as they did. He did, after all, oppose the impeachment of Bill Clinton and declare that the communist party was a "legitimate political organization," so it's not at all unreasonable to expect that garbage_truck also sides with the merchants of death occupying the Michael Schiavo household and a certain Florida courtroom.

And lest we forget...

Wlat's Wrods of Wsidom II: The Apprentice Speaks

"The perjury count against Clinton was for lying about adultery in a deposition during a civil lawsuit that stemmed from an incident that occurred before he was elected President. This misconduct did not flow from his holding the office of President of the United States, in fact one could argue that the civil suit for sexual harassment was brought against him only because he was POTUS." - mac_truck, 7/14/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1631#1631

"It should become quite clear to someone who is even mildly objective, that were some serious constitutional questions about whether Clinton's crimes should be considered 'high' or 'petit'. I would further argue that recent events involving the plaintiff in that case make the 'petitness' of the misconduct even more apparent." - mac_truck, 7/14/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1631#1631

"No honest person would assert that opposing the Clinton impeachment on constitutional grounds was a left-wing or communist position." - mac_truck, 7/10/03
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1497#1457

"The World Socialist Website (WSWS) is a legitimate political organization..."- mac_truck, 7/10/03 referring to the World Socialist Web Site, a propaganda page run by a communist political party that advocates the Lenin-style revolutionary overthrow of the western world
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1497#1457

"You seem to have difficulty distinguishing the difference between a legitimate political organization like WSWS [World Socialist Web Site], which you disagree with, and other quasi-terrorist or out-right terrorist groups." - mac_truck, 7/9/03 referring to a communist political party that that advocates the Lenin-style revolutionary overthrow of the western world
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1457#1406

" I didn’t mention McPherson being an advisor to Bill Bradley because he wasn’t an advisor to Bill Bradley." - mac_truck, 7/9/03 [NOTE: McPherson was a member of a select group of academic advisors to Bill Bradley's campaigns]
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1457#1406

"BTW didn't Bradley advocate the "flat tax" back in the 1980s? Now there's a far left-wing position for you!"- mac_truck, 7/9/03, denying former liberal Democrat Senator and Pres. candidate Bill Bradley's leftist credentials
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927614/posts?page=1457#1406

"Perhaps turnabout is fair play. After all, large chunks of the United States once belonged to Mexico." - mac_truck, 2/22/05, responding to another freeper's concerns that Mexico is trying to annex part of the United States through illegal immigration
SOURCE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348699/posts?page=56#56

He did, after all, oppose the impeachment of Bill Clinton and declare that the communist party was a "legitimate political organization," so it's not at all unreasonable to expect that garbage_truck also sides with the merchants of death....

Oh, I didn't know that Garbage_truck was a Clinton defender. I was aware of that in Wlat's case. Interesting.

Sin of omission bump.......seems that the Clinton defenders' sin was of a similar kind, if not the same order of gravity, as Pilate's washing of the hands. Claiming that the high crimes and misdemeanors were, in Arlen Specter's very learned usage, "not proven", is rather akin to washing one's hands in a case in which one is burdened with better knowledge.

Or, in Pilate's case, at least a warning from his wife.