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.
She's a former attorney.
My wife has POA to be sure no one ever obligates me to be their brain dead pet martyr
I'd appreciate a loaner. When someone here is incoherent and blames it on the reader, they obviously didn't do well in speech class in college.
Catherine was great...poor Sean and Jay, trying to gang up on her on one time, and she let them both have it...they showed their true colors...bullies when they think they can get away with it, and wimps when they are exposed...go Catherine...
I've only heard her twice and she didn't describe it that way, but that's not to say she hasn't in the past. I've had the television off for most of these last two weeks unless freepers tell me to turn it on for some reason.
There is, in one of the links I've posted in the last half hour or so, a link that shows that the Schindlers and their attorney admitted they were never denied any reports and specifically the bone scan report.
They say on television that the weren't given access to it, but under oath, they admit they had access to it all along.
It's the same thing with Terri being PVS. On television they say they know she can benefit from therapy, etc. But under oath her parents admitted they know she's PVS.
I got creamed on a different board wherein the dems wished my son would be killed in Iraq.
You forgot Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.
I can't help it. This just is too funny for me! The witche poo group here at FR is trying to lecture the rest of us and all of the above on what's it like to be 'real' conservatives.
I think she was also a judge at one time also...are am I mistaken?...I get mixed up, trying to keep everyone straight...
Unreal, isn't it...
I have to go...could you give us a report later?
Hmmm. Maybe you are right. We'll go with that assumption. :)
Please thank your son, from me, for his service.
I saw it as a TKO by Jay. Catherine was bleeding from the lip and was knocked to the canvas three times. She was wobbly. ;-)
Seriously, that was quite a fight wasn't it.
Anytime. Feel free to borrow.
Where?
Well, you've been here for almost the entier 10,000 posts on both threads, what's your excuse?
Keep giving Greta updates, please. I'm doing ebay and following 2 threads and talking to my son and the same time...
Never emotional!? She blew her stack tonight!
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