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MANIFESTO OF THE WPPFF/WILD TURKEYS/COALITION OF THE SANE
Me. | 29MARCH05 | Long Cut

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.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antifreepers; antimilitary; bloodlust; cary; clownposse; du; eugenics; euthanasia; forcedexit; moles; murder; nazi; singer; trolls; wildturkeys; wppff; zot
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To: malakhi
I disagree entirely with your analysis. In practice these seemingly fair rules are not equitably applied, giving an unfair result. Having seen these same types of reasonable guidelines before from the liberals, and then the result that they are applied only where a conservative says something a liberal doesn't like, the abstract fairness of the guidelines is moot. And, having seen that such guidelines are regularly implemented with this as the intended result, it is reasonable to suspect that these guidelines, too, will be adjudicated in the same way.

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.

381 posted on 03/29/2005 10:51:05 AM PST by thoughtomator (Order "Judges Gone Wild!" Only $19.95 have your credit card handy!)
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To: retrokitten
This is like a different place lately.

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.

382 posted on 03/29/2005 10:51:06 AM PST by cyncooper (I see pod people)
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To: malakhi

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.


383 posted on 03/29/2005 10:52:24 AM PST by thoughtomator (Order "Judges Gone Wild!" Only $19.95 have your credit card handy!)
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To: retrokitten

Know and cherish before the new tone took hold...


384 posted on 03/29/2005 10:52:32 AM PST by cyncooper (I see pod people)
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To: Indy Pendance; Chad Fairbanks

Chad, I am giving you a standing ovation in the living room.


385 posted on 03/29/2005 10:52:49 AM PST by MKM1960 (Now I know how Tom Daschle felt: "I'm saddened, deeply saddened")
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To: Chad Fairbanks
So screw them all. The only one who should matter is Terri, but instead the poor woman has to suffer while everyone who claims to love her argues over "who's right"...

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....

386 posted on 03/29/2005 10:52:56 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: mountaineer
Your comments are reprehensible.

Which?

387 posted on 03/29/2005 10:53:10 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Ghoul Power!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Well stated Chad. Amen.


388 posted on 03/29/2005 10:53:30 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (I'm in the WPPFF)
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To: Drango
I believe you laid that out most correctly.

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. ;)

389 posted on 03/29/2005 10:53:39 AM PST by G.Mason (If you get upset when I ignore you, my plan is working)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

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.


390 posted on 03/29/2005 10:54:08 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: thoughtomator
Yeah, speaking of judicial activism, how, I wonder, did that perennial concern just totally disappear from the minds of the rational, the logical, and the sane?

Yup.

391 posted on 03/29/2005 10:54:09 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Hear, hear!


392 posted on 03/29/2005 10:54:51 AM PST by G.Mason (If you get upset when I ignore you, my plan is working)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

BTTT


393 posted on 03/29/2005 10:55:36 AM PST by Bella_Bru (You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
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To: hobbes1
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.

I don't disagree with that, either.

394 posted on 03/29/2005 10:56:04 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

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.


395 posted on 03/29/2005 10:56:10 AM PST by Long Cut (WPPFF Member.)
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To: mercy
I think YOU are inhumane. I see those who don't mind torturing poor innocents as more inhumane than those who are willing to put a bullet in their head.

Are all diabled persons "living death", as you call it?

Where do you draw that line?

396 posted on 03/29/2005 10:56:25 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Ghoul Power!)
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To: Long Cut

Here, here! Excellent work. Can I join?


397 posted on 03/29/2005 10:56:35 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
The only one who should matter is Terri,

Bravo. I pray that God's will and Terri's will be done.

398 posted on 03/29/2005 10:57:01 AM PST by Drango (My tag line is takin' a nap. Please come back later.)
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To: Long Cut
Hi,

I'm in the FR WPP!

399 posted on 03/29/2005 10:57:16 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I'm in the WPPFF)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife; Howlin

SURE! Welcome to the party.


400 posted on 03/29/2005 10:57:29 AM PST by Long Cut (WPPFF Member.)
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