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.
I was reluctant to come to that conclusion, but the more I read, the more I believe it to be true as well. Sadly.
No problem.
Yeah.
It's sad and SICK.
the accepted mentality
If you were not wearing that short skirts....you wouldn't yourself gotten raped
It did not practiced bulimia you...they would not have to die...now it time to pull your feeding tube
I understand that. I read the book.
My point was the irony of it all. Considering that HRC is going to be moving into the White House in January of 2009.
See my tag line. It makes about much sense as the Hitch Hikers Trilogy (All 5 books). It kind of sums up the hole thing, IMO. You'll love it.
Starvation at a state level, equals the lone case of Terri Schiavo? Explain how that works. You CAN'T be serious comparing Terri Schiavo to the holocaust. What about Hugh Finn? Karen Quinlan? Nancy Cruzan? Shouldn't you do your homework and lament about them, too?
Hey, that sort of thing can get you suspended around here.
I didn't think there was such a prize for medicine.
stttrrreeeeettttccccchhhhhh.
Ahhh, unshackled.
They are SELLING the list, not GIVING it, if you can believe that. Yet we are not allowed to question their motives.
But a girl can try - can't she????????????
I just learn about this when I was doing research on the Gen-X
Generations: Dealing with Boomers, Gen-X, and Beyond
http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_print.cfm?pagename=pm_a_20030801_genx
According to the late author Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the following rules describe our reactions to technology:
"Anything that is in the world when you were born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural way the world works."
"Anything that is invented between the time when you are 15 to 35 is new, revolutionary, and exciting, and you can possibly get a career in it."
"Anything invented after you are 35 is against the natural order of things."
Whoa! What the heck is that supposed to mean? I think the doctor might just possibly be saying that she may have gotten some of the bone scan abnormalities at the rehab center or at the center in California or while being transported. But I do know he's saying they occurred after her arrest. People do get dropped or injured at nursing homes etc.
Sean Hannity has some woman on with him and he is shouting her down as usual, because she won't agree with him.
Time for me to go to bed.
Ughhh.
Too bad about the admin Mod leaving so soon.
"People do get dropped or injured at nursing homes etc."
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True.....but do they also get choked?
Some thought it might have been scars caused by choking, but it is hard to tell unless more test or done to clarify all these loose ends!
Oh yeah, a big one:
Welcome back, ya big glowing green rock :)
Yes, I see. I must be thinking of something else. My error. I apologize.
That might have been the shortest suspension in FR history. How'd you pull that off?
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