Posted on 10/25/2006 10:21:35 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Michael J. Fox is a famous TV and movie star. He is witty. He is charming. A few years ago, we learned he has Parkinson's disease.
PD is a slowly progressive neurological disorder, characterized by tremors, shuffling gait, a masklike facial expression, "pill rolling" of the fingers, drooling, intolerance to heat, oily skin, emotional instability and defective judgment (although intelligence is rarely impaired).
PD is currently incurable, although there are several methods to slow its advancement, including drug therapy and surgery.
PD is tragic, particularly in Fox's case, because it rarely afflicts persons under 60 years old.
Yet everyone faces tragedy at one time or another, in one form or another. A person's moral fiber is revealed in tragedy.
So we learned through Fox's affliction that he has either extremely poor judgment or a diabolical character flaw. He supports human embryonic stem-cell experimentation, thus contending that some humans are subhuman and expendable for others' personal gain.
We know there is nothing new under the sun. So Fox's character flaw is not new, just a variation of the worst of human behavior throughout history.
Slaveholders thought those whose lives and deaths they controlled were "property," as the U.S. Supreme Court determined in the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Hitler thought Jews were evolutionary mistakes. The Islamic government of Sudan currently has it in for black Christians.
Different day, different holocaust.
As is always the case, the powerful determine the fate of the powerless, and if the powerful don't hold the view that all humans are created equal, then the powerless end up enslaved or dead.
Some may think I'm going over the top to compare Fox to slave owners or Hitler or the Sudanese government. "Fox is a nice guy, and he's sick. Be nice."
If you think that, your sympathies are misplaced. Fox advocates killing certain people to experiment on them "for the greater good" simply because those people don't look like we do – yet. This is odd, because some day Fox won't look like most people either.
If Fox wanted to kill a football stadium full of toddlers to experiment on them, I doubt anyone would think he was normal, and I doubt anyone would bear with his barbaric rambling to be nice.
But using Fox's logic, experimentation of 2-year-olds should be acceptable. Toddlers are certainly far less developed on the human continuum and don't look at all normal by adult standards. The reason they are called "toddlers" in the first place is because their oversized heads and bellies cause them to "toddle" when they walk.
Scientifically speaking, a human is a human from the instant of fertilization, no matter what phase of development. "Take that single cell of the just conceived zygote, put it next to a chimpanzee cell, and 'a geneticist could easily identify the human. Its humanity is already that strikingly apparent,'" said Randy Alcorn in his newly released book, "Why Pro-Life?," quoting from "Preview of a Birth."
I'll worry about Fox's feelings after he stops using his considerable influence to convince the American public to support taxpayer-funded human embryonic stem-cell experimentation. Fox is not only pushing an ideology on me that advocates the destruction of human life, but he also wants to force me to pay for it. What gall.
I feel sorry for Fox's kids. Flashing them either forward or backward in one of Fox's "Back to the Future" movies, they are in lose-lose situations.
The future Fox wants to create for his three daughters looks bleak. No longer will only hens lay eggs for human consumption if Fox has his way. His daughters will be exploited for their eggs, too, because the only source of these pre-embryos is women. It is foolish to think technology will be sated by the availability of today's orphaned embryos, as is now the spin.
And in an altered past, Fox would have allowed the dissection of his days-old embryonic children so he could surgically ingest them in an effort to cure his own ailments – high tech cannibalism.
It's funny that Fox calls himself a vegetarian.
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I would not doubt, for a moment, that they would alter a video ad to help their agenda.
It is a certain stage in human development, kind of like a four-and-a-half year-old.
Agreed, I think there's a lot of people who really let their true ugly selves show in some of the comments we see about this - probably be better to keep that side of personalities hidden.
I guess, if you don't mind living with a body ridden of cancerous growth.
The embryonic stem cell movement is an adjunct to the abortion industry. To fund one is to keep the other in business.
I spotted it yesterday
This morning I watched it much more carefully
Very crudely edited
The telltale is the eyes
Watch his eyes
They overdid the removal of frames
More subtle editing might have slipped by me and others
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But the MSM and DNC will ignore this and call it a smear
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It appears to be a Rathergate scam to me
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I could be wrong
I doubt that I am wrong
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Sean Hannity is following this up now
Rush Limbaugh was smeared by ABC's "forgetful" Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America" today -
Michael J. Fox had told Diane Sawyer several years ago in a TV interview that he deliberately stops taking his medication before appearance so that his shaking and jerking from Parkinson's Disease will be more evident and dramatic.
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Listen to Michael Fox's rather smooth voice in the TV ads - you can hear the dramatic pauses of a professional actor - acting
Acting
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"....without medication....
-- Michael J. Fox [his quote in his book]
Other rich hollywood types could throw in a few thousand to show their concern as well.'
Don't you just hate being pimped by these folks? I mean if you really believe in a project use your own money. Have a tele thon comes up for embryonic stem cell research funding and see who supports it. George Soros can fund all the research he wants.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5977
"The plain fact is that embryonic stem cell research is proving to be a bust. There are currently 72 therapies showing human benefits using adult stem cells and zero using embryonic stem cells. Scientifically-minded readers can review this medical journal article on the status of adult stem cell research. Adult stem cell therapies are already being advertised and promoted while no such treatments are even remotely in prospect for embryonic stem cell research."
Glad to hear Hannity is following up on it. I used to like Michael Fox.
Maybe someone will name a new dance after him "SARC"
I'm not so sure that morality has anything to do with the inflated expectations at this point; immortality, as a goal is a vain enterprise, at best.
A blastocyst is a pre-implanted embryo. At this point the embryo is shaped like a hollow ball, with an inner and an outer layer of cells which will continue to differentiate through the individual's lifespan --- however long a human lives.
One more actor with a list of movies I can't see anymore.
carolyn
I just learned why they are called toddlers.
Now that's good stuff!
Then there never has been a civilized world in all of human history.
Well, so much for searching FR for references to "PD"......
Damn.
I don't know about anybody else, but when I see that Michael J. Fox Democrap ad, I want to put on some salsa music.
Best article I have read so far on this matter. Thank you for posting. She nailed it 100%!
If you slaughter your pig, it's legal. If you slaughter your neighbor's pig without permission, it's not legal.
If you destroy a fertilized egg that's your own, it's legal. If you destroy a fertilized egg that's not your own, it's illegal.
Is that concept difficult to understand?
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