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Michael Schiavo has a new blog the liberal Daily Kos site.

Here are a few comments that Schiavo wrote on his blog regarding a convention he spoke at in Las Vegas:

"Before we even got checked in at KOS, people were hugging me and snapping pictures. That's a far cry from the hostility, anger and threats that have been directed at me and my family from our friends on the far right."

"My name is Mike Schiavo and I'm here to talk with you about privacy. I don't want to talk too long because I'd rather answer some questions and hear from you. I really just want to make three points about the right-wing and how they run our country."

"But let me begin by asking for your understanding. As you may know, I'm not a professional speaker or a politician. In fact, before anyone here knew who I was, before the right-wing made my family a political issue and before their spin and lie machine went to work to ruin my name, I was a private person."

"The right-wing politicians and fanatics will tell you they had to act because they cared about Terri.

Let me tell you as clearly as I can - I think that's a lie. Not a single one of those people ever met Terri. They didn't care about Terri until she made the front page of the paper. Most of them didn't even know how to say our name. They didn't care about Terri until they figured they could score cheap and easy political points by using her to stir-up anger in their supporters.

Comments from the Michael Schiavo supporters:

"Michael, I was sitting right up front for your talk, but I could hear the sniffles from behind me. You had us in tears."

"I simply can't imagine the hell you've been through. I hope you carry with you the love and good wishes of the vast majority of Americans (and, for that matter, people all over the world) who support you and will do what they can to protect you and others from ever having to experience that kind of horrific abuse of political power again."

>> "I simply can't imagine the hell you've been through.

Let's see. He lived off his wife's insurance while it lasted. He got a quarter of a million dollars in a phony malpractice suit. He got MUCH more (the exact amount is lost is lawyerly lies) in a second fraudulent malpractice suit. He pulled the plug on both his parents, which also presumably improved his bank account. He stole his wife's rings and made jewelry for himself. He got hundreds of thousands of dollars for "loss of consortium" even while he was cheating and getting all the consortium he wanted. He put a hit on his wife so he could inherit her estate when he married his floozy. He has book and movie rights to his wife's murder. He has a book on the market, courtesy of someone else doing the writing for him. He got financial help from the ACLU and death cult groups. He's on the speaking tour now, also financed by the Death Culture. He took 10 guests along to Las Vegas on his honeymoon on a private jet -- not bad for a tax-paid salary working in a prison.

Poor Michael. It's hard to imagine how much more hell he could go through.

Well, maybe it isn't :-)

>> "Before we even got checked in at KOS, people were hugging me and snapping pictures. That's a far cry from the hostility, anger and threats that have been directed at me and my family from our friends on the far right."

Criminals are attracted to the Left like flies to sugar.

Let a murderer say a few angry words about the "religious right" and he becomes a misunderstood social reformer. Let some terrorist write venomous tirades from his jail cell, he will be portrayed as a national savior. Let a rapist thunder against far right loonies and the Left will send him a fresh supply of women. Like Michael Schiavo, they all know the password to be protected by the Left: all you do is blast "right-wingers."

The thugs and crooks all know something else, too -- that they won't be welcome on the Right. The Right has standards. The Right asks more of you than cheap sloganeering. You have to believe in moral law and personal responsibility. You have to believe in the rights of life, liberty and property. And you'd better darned well love America!

Go snivel off to the Left, Schiavo. They can have you.

Thanks for the link. Here's what I got out of it... See if you can guess which parts I added, and which are actual quotes. There really isn't much difference.

MS: The Republicans are all out to get ME. They directed hostility, anger and threats at ME. I know a few people at YearlyKOS and many supporters on DailyKOS missed MY outstanding remarks. So I have posted them below so you can tell ME how brilliant I am. The right-wing made MY family a political issue. They violated MY rights. Their spin and lie machine went to work to ruin MY name. The right-wing in this country used the power of government to try to take away MY legally and morally protected rights to abuse and murder MY wife. They stalked ME. What was the national security interest in taking away MY rights? MY case had zero to do with Terrorism or national security. When it comes to explaining why they acted to restrict MY liberty and impose on MY rights, there was no national interest. They'd love ME to go away and shut-up. It's no wonder they keep trying to trash ME. It's because they know that they can't explain the invasion of MY privacy and MY rights by making us afraid of terrorists. They interfered in MY right to do what I wanted to do to MY wife. There are real problems in our country: lack of health care (he really said that), poverty, immigration, the environment. So, I'm pretty down on our current leadership in our country. Not only because of what they've done to ME personally, even though it was inexcusable. I need your help. Help ME spread MY propaganda, because what the right-wing did to ME and MY family is one of the clearest examples of an out of control government. They put ME through hell. ME ME ME!!!
Replies: AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Oh Michael, you are my HERO! I simply can't imagine the HELL you've been through. You are my one true love! Thanks for your courage and bravery. You suffered horribly. Michael Schiavo is a HERO right out of a Frank Capra movie. Conservatives are so evil, no, eeville, to abuse such a kind and loving husband. I got to take my mom off life support following a heart attack that destroyed her brain. I thought of the rage I would have felt if the Bush admin or the GOP or the Government or ANYBODY would have tried to stop me from killing her. You're an American hero and one of the greatest husbands ever. Terri was lucky to have you and we are all the better for you sharing your trials with us. You inspired more than a generation! grandparents, parents and children will worship you throughout eternity, because they have all had this discussion because of your fight .... thank you and I'm sorry you had to bear this weight for the rest of us. I'm listening to all the smart people in my Universe, and I'm happy to say, you're one of them. After my wife was injured in an accident, her parents were like the Schindlers, supportive at first, but when I brought out our signed living wills, and announced my plan to kill her, they mysteriously turned hostile and combative. Most of my family are reasonable, and have written down their desire to be killed, but we have a wingnut contingency in our extended family, who thinks murder is wrong. No one should have to endure what you did. My family went through such a situation with my (mother, father, sister, brother, dog, mother-in-law, father-in-law, or other useless eater.) We happily sent them to SugarCandy Mountain (see Animal Farm), where they are now frolicking with Terri. One good thing that came out of Michael's torment, I talked everyone I know into signing away their right to life. Oh, Michael, dear sweet Michael, can I sniff your panties?