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.
To prove this I point to my removed comment #2, and the many, many ad hominem attacks against me on this thread that were not removed.
That is the bottom line of that thread and now we seek to return FR to the tone we've all come to know and cherish.
Oh, by the way, I have not called anyone on this thread either "pro-death" or "Nazi". The "Good Germans" weren't Nazis, they were the average volk who went along to get along and didn't raise a stink about the stink of burning bodies.
Know and cherish before the new tone took hold...
Chad, I am giving you a standing ovation in the living room.
See while I understand your line of reasoning, all I am saying is that as a Country, we should start seeing exactly how far we have let the courts go into becoming a monster we may not be able to deal with.
There is no reason, in fact it flies in the face of wisdom that there was no reason to have the courts bring in its own (and thus independent) experts, so that a repsonsible decision could have been made.
Instead we have a Probate court judge with acting dubiously at best, and a Federal Court ignoring the law of the land because it feels like it, while someone lay dying....
Which?
Well stated Chad. Amen.
There that huge Paper-wasp nest was just hanging there, minding it's own business, and ... whack!
Last thing I heard was screaming and hollering as the whole right side of the aisle ran for the lake. ;)
There was certainly a breakdown, Chad.
I think Bob Schindler losing his mom had something to do with it as well. Whether it was over money or control, there was a breakdown in a family, and a conflict between two determined people.
But when these types of cases make the news, there almost always is a family breakdown.
And it's sad to see, like a custody fight in a bitter divorce.
Yup.
Hear, hear!
BTTT
I don't disagree with that, either.
Great post, Chad. I'd only add that the supreme reason this case reached the levels it did was because of Randall Terry and some other political parasites who sold the Schindlers a false bill of goods.
Are all diabled persons "living death", as you call it?
Where do you draw that line?
Here, here! Excellent work. Can I join?
Bravo. I pray that God's will and Terri's will be done.
I'm in the FR WPP!
SURE! Welcome to the party.
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