Posted on 03/26/2005 9:10:00 AM PST by sockmonkey
Oh, I understand. There is a difference however between emotion and emotional hysteria.
Also, if you are going to talk about me, I'd appreciate the couresy of a ping. Thanks.
Which are you?
I think change can only come through confronting the judicial tyranny that grips our system.
Voters are powerless to stop this with votes.
That's what I believe. But I will admit, I'm extremely emotional right now.
If the people of the US decide that it's moral to deprive the innocent of life so that we may live as we please there won't be much of a country to worry about.
And I would be reluctant to conclude that a lot of noise on the Schiavo case means there isn't work going on on some of the other issues you mention. I hasten to add, not on all of them.
I know I am, but I was venting out of frustration at the past few days.
As I said, I ain't perfect.
The extreme religious right, a coalition of Keyes/Terry/Klayman/Gritz followers have taken over.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail after the three ring circus is over in Florida. The bomb-throwers, nutcases and constitution destroyers will move on to the next sideshow of their own making and leave the people here who don't want a dictatorship, left or right in this country!
I hope so. I really hope so.
You should do what I do, and engage them politely until you have the measure of who you are talking too. Not every one is an Internet warrior such as yourself, some are very young/old/weak/distraught and come here for comfort not debate. If you were half a smart as you think you are you would know that.
Why did he do that? Do you have a link to the order? I'm just curious as to know why he forbid water by mouth.
See my #512.
I'm dead serious.
I'm not sure I believe that, EV.
They're not going to do what you are demanding of them - they don't believe they would be within the law, and they are being advised as such by some of the best legal minds available to them, I'm guessing - so it would seem to me your campaign against them would result in just what you say you don't want.
"She managed to articulate the first two vowel sounds, first articulating AHHHHHHH and then virtually screaming WAAAAAAAA," the motion said. The incident happened in the presence of Schiavo's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo, and an aunt, according to the motion.
I remember. You're a regular Karl Rove when it comes to whipping up support for your candidates.
Have fun in the wilderness of Peroutkaville, or wherever.
They left us no choice, Daughter. That is a fact.
Calling all cars, calling all car...
A lot of other people are seeing that.
Fox showed the judge's comments but I just saw it for a second, but from what I saw, it seems that Judge Greer was saying that this new evidence should have been brought to him at the previous hearing, or something like that---
In other words, either the Schindler's lawyers are incompetent or the judge is making them "seem" incompetent!
Either way, Terri Schiavo and her family are the ones that will pay the price for this "crap" that is taking place in the Florida court system---
May you be satisfied with the result of your actions, EV.
Try being rational today rather than hysterical.
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Btw, Chad, I had a FReeper coming down real hard on Jeb Bush yesterday for being too inactive on the Terri event. He suggested that Jeb had no "courage of his convictions".
I wrote thie following to him.....
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May I comment on your words .....
The 'old media' regrettably is still greatly influential, still effective in molding and creating the opinions of the majority of Americans. For instance, look at the distorted and neatly fashioned polls on the Schiavo issue (ABC's for instance.) The questions were slanted, they were outright fraudulent polls and results. Terri's real condition was consciously misrepresented in the questions of these polls. Then there was the media not presenting Terri's condition from 1990 on, ill-treatment in the hospice, and the rest of the truth of the entire matter.
I've been studying media bias for close to 40 years and am quite aware of the evil power of that bias and the way, in the end, it can destroy a free nation. But media bias and the effectiveness of that bias has never been so clear and obvious than in the (non)coverage of the Terri Schiavo case. Never have I seen a citizenry more ignorant of the facts of a story -- never so incorrectly informed, and never has that bias been so maddening! Not even the citizens' recent ignorance of the real John Kerry or the realities of Rathergate could match this. No news story has made the power of bias more clear than this one.
What I'm trying to say (but saying poorly) is that the American people are so ignorant of the facts of this case, so disinformed that if it were true that Jeb were actually afraid of political ramifications from his actions, it would be easy to see why he were.
But "courage of convictions", as you mention, is another thing. In politics these days "courage of convictions" is nearly an impossibility, especially with a media constituted in the way that it still is today. With a continuing extremely influential left/liberal/socialist/anti-American old media still in place and keeping most of the people ignorant, any courageous act by a conservative to try to rescue Terri is tough to do. Because the media has so very effectively continually distorted Republicans' and others' motives to come to this girl's rescue, every courageous act will be colored in a political way. But that courageous act should be performed anyway, imo.
I think Jeb and the Republicans would win politically in the end if they did the moral thing.
But, is 'winning in the end' the most important thing today? Well, sadly I guess it is. 'Doing the right thing' may not be.
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