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And decrease the surplus population [Schiavo now, who's next?]
Bucks County Courier Times ^
| March 24, 2005
| J. D. Mullane
Posted on 03/30/2005 9:07:57 PM PST by syriacus
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I was doing a search on the Dickens quote about decreasing the surplus population and came across this.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:08:00 PM PST
by
syriacus
To: syriacus
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:08:36 PM PST
by
m87339
(If you could see what a drag it is to see you.)
To: syriacus
we're all gonna die!!! NOOOOO!!!!
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:10:38 PM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(Terri is going to die and then the mob is going to blame both Bush brothers. Realism is dead on FR)
To: m87339
Dickens could have written a best-selling novel about Terri.
All the elements are present. Evil lawyer helping evil husband. Loyal but powerless family members. A legal system that can grind people to meal.
I've even got a title for the book
Terri Schiavo-field.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:14:16 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
To: syriacus
To: MikeinIraq
we're all gonna die!!! You're wrong....the Judges won't die.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:16:01 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
To: MikeinIraq
Why, yes we all are. Does that bother you? Why show such bravado in the face of the death of an innocent woman? Why make light of it? Why not just stop reading the articles about Terri? Why not just move on and find another subject on FR to read?
Are you a buzzard circling the dying?
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:18:14 PM PST
by
Lion in Winter
(LIFE SPRINGS ETERNAL!!)
To: syriacus
I'd rather have her story written by Victor Hugo. He knew what was what when it came to the injustic of the courts, the law, and the ruling elites.
To: syriacus
So first it's people like Terri, then the Alzheimer's sufferers, then perhaps end-stage cancer victims, and so forth. The post asks who's next. The answer is simple - you and I. And everyone else who gets sick...that's most of us. Should be an interesting time ahead.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:18:46 PM PST
by
neutrino
(Globalization “is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.” (173))
To: syriacus
I keep thinking of the phrase "there, but for the grace of God, go I." Those sanctioning Terri's murder by means of starvation and dehydration, better hope it doesn't become their fate. Who knows when a car accident or some other unfortunate circumstance befalls any of us. This clamor for death makes me wonder how far we've come since the days at the Roman Colosseum. I'm appalled.
To: MikeinIraq
we're all gonna die!!! NOOOOO!!!!Never fear.....Here's a hint for survival -- just make sure you keep your classification as a person with constitutional rights.
From the article:
Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist whose medical opinion was key to a Florida judge ordering Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, was on TV this week candidly admitting he doesn't believe Alzheimer's patients have constitutional rights.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:23:33 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
To: syriacus
I liked this writer's candor. She told us what happened when she wrote about Terri. I am not surprised at what happened when she did. America as become a more hateful and rude place for the disabled of which I am one. And, from the looks of the situation with Terri... for anybody who is an avocate for the disabled.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:28:49 PM PST
by
Lion in Winter
(LIFE SPRINGS ETERNAL!!)
To: ExTexasRedhead
It seems we may well be headed for the Roman days again... if we are handicapped or less than perfect in a physical way.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:32:38 PM PST
by
Lion in Winter
(LIFE SPRINGS ETERNAL!!)
To: ExTexasRedhead
This clamor for death makes me wonder how far we've come since the days at the Roman Colosseum. I'm appalled.I remember how shocked we schoolchildren were, when we heard that Spartans left their unhealthy babies on Mount Taygetus to die. It was hard to imagine anyone being that cruel.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:34:06 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
To: Lion in Winter
I liked this writer's candor.Me, too. Mullane wrote in the straightforward way of someone who is telling the truth.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:36:50 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
To: ExTexasRedhead
"I keep thinking of the phrase "there, but for the grace of God, go I." "
I have thought this since I first heard of this case. In 1991 my then husband (now ex husband) tried to strangle me to death in the middle of the night. Unable to take a breath or speak, I began to say prayers in my mind. Miraculously, my ex lost his grip on my throat and I was able to get away.
Everything I read about MS reminds me of my ex husband. I could have easily been Terri, but for the grace of God go I. Now I pray for Terri, that God will grant her the same relief that he granted to me.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:36:57 PM PST
by
Flamenco Lady
(Pray for a miracle for Terri and her family!)
To: syriacus
Who's next ?? ... anyone who is economically inconvenient
This country WILL reap what it has sown
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:38:27 PM PST
by
clamper1797
(This Vietnam Vet ain't Fonda Kerry)
To: syriacus
"If they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." It is quite interesting you picked this Charles Dickens quote. My teen daughter came home from school telling us they had discussion in class where a teen in class argued that Terri should die. My daughter kept asking why can't she be allowed to live? But, he couldn't come up with an intelligent answer. My daughter seeing the same spirit in this young man she saw in Scrooge(and who is a great fan of the Christmas Carol) quoted your quote, "If they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
.... we are living in a nation of ugly, money hungry, greedy, spiteful, uncharitable, unmerciful Scrooges.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:39:00 PM PST
by
glory2
To: syriacus
A neurologist from New Jersey sent me this: "I fear that our culture will push the line further as to who should live and who should die. I fear for the old, the young, the sick and the helpless. I fear becoming one of the helpless. - Maria Choy, M.D.In a word, immigration. asap.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:40:29 PM PST
by
MarMema
("America may have won the battles, but the Nazis won the war." Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall)
To: marsh_of_mists
I'd rather have her story written by Victor Hugo...Good points.
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posted on
03/30/2005 9:41:00 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Liberals + logic - these two don't mix. Post kindly + carry a BIG font. We musn't starve bulimics)
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