FREEP NEEDED - Should Terri Schindler Schiavos feeding tube be removed? FREEPERS, Let's go!!

Tampa Bay Online ^ | 9-15-03 | some very sick florida news station

[MarMema]

Please freep the poll as a show of force against the sickos at the station who are asking people if Terri's feeding tube should be removed.

Thanks for your help. It is at the bottom right.

[MarMema]

Just voted.

Yes 974 42%
No 1313 57%

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Done!

[MarMema]

Thanks, come and vote again if and when you can.

We want to send a message that killing people like this is not ok.

Yes 974 42%
No 1321 57%

[Deo volente]

Great results coming in from West Coast voters. Reminds me of the Harry Truman victory in 1948.
The President had already gone to sleep around midnight, thinking that he lost in a rout, and woke up the next morning to find that he won! West Coast and Midwest made the difference.
Back then, everything was counted by hand. They didn't have computers that could disconnect/reconnect like we do. :-)

[MarMema]

Let's hope for another turn-around tomorrow with the hearing...

[Deo volente]

"Look at me! I'm voting, and voting, and voting....and voting....zzzzzzzz(WAKE UP!!!)
AND VOTING.................zzzzzzzzz....time to brew some coffee......and voting......"

[Deo volente]

I'm losing track of all the hearings.

What happened to today's FEDERAL before Lazzara?

If not today, when is it?

[MarMema]

I am far from the person to reply to this question....sorry I don't know any more than you do.

[MarMema]

Yes 974 42%
No 1324 57%

[MarMema]

Thank you for your vote....

Yes 976 42%
No 1325 57%

[MarMema]

Yes 984 41%
No 1369 57%

Voted.

[MarMema]

If you have the chance to try to help keep this baby at least even in the morning.....thanks...though we look good now.

[katnip]

BTTT

[katnip]

Yes 1062 41%
No 1492 58%

[Tantumergo]

No - 1,618 57%
Yes- 1,184 43%

[MarMema]

Voted.

Yes 1201 41%
No 1646 57%

[MarMema]

Yes 1229 42%
No 1678 57%

[Front 242]

First off, I hope that all of you who have participated in stuffing the results of this poll take the time to print out a copy of it from the television station's website. You now have the little red "NO" line longer than the little blue "YES" line. Print it out on a nice laserjet printer (preferably on some nice heavy stock certificate paper), take it to a custom picture framer, get a nice matting job done (maybe in red and blue to make the columns of the poll really stand out well), pick out an expensive garish frame (so whenever you look at it, you will know that you did well in your efforts), and then put it up in a prominent place so that everyone who enters your house or place of business will know that you fought the good fight for Terri and all of your efforts boiled down to altering the length of a little red line in a lame poll. With regard to my comment on the station not being "very sick" in posting this poll, I merely am stating that it is trying to offer a sounding board to members of the public as to what they think of the issue of Terri's plight. You call the station "very sick" for posting this poll. Would you consider CNN, BBC news, Fox Television, or maybe some religious organization "very sick" for posting this poll? Probably. The issue is not the poll itself. It has NO significance whatsoever. You are merely attatching a larger meaning to it than it can ever possibly convey. The poll has no margin of error, is not scientific, is open to ambiguity in its wording by not conveying whether the person voting is voting in favor of Terri dying or is in favor of her living. It merely presents a question of "Should Terri's feeding tube be removed?" That is it. It didn't state, "Should Terri's feeding tube be removed if the possibility of her survival is guaranteed?" or "Should Terri's feeding tube be removed so that she can die via her husband's warped control over her custody of care?" Desperate people who feel bound by their inability to make an impact (as in the case of Terri) resort to desperate measures to feel as though they are contributing or making a difference ... that is what is being shown in the seeding of this poll. Furthermore Katnip, the poll is not a "fun" little poll for me. Neither do I work for the television station. I am merely stating that I do not like to see hypocrisy in any form ... be it by Michael Schiavo's sinister ulterior motives of his wife's plight, or by a bunch of people obsessively stuffing the results of an online poll. Furthermore, in a previous post on this thread, MarMema stated that she is voting en masse for those who are unable to vote. Does she sit down to a buffet at the local cafe and eat numerous plates of food in order to compensate for the people who go hungry in the world? Maybe if she has one more serving of whatever is on the menu, then possibly the homeless guy living behind a dumpster will feel it in his belly tonight and sleep soundly (he may even burp). Maybe eating that extra slice of cheesecake will help that kid living in a hillbilly trailer in rural West Virginia feel good when his parents are unable to put food on the table. That is EXACTLY what is going on here with regard to the obsessive, almost manical, stuffing of the online poll as fostered by MarMema. I know that my comments sound cold and indifferent, but folks, you need to get a grip here. Do something positive on this issue. This online poll will be taken down eventually by the station after it has run its course and be replaced by another one and this one will fade into obscurity. Terri's plight is in God's hands and that of Judge Greer right now. Let's just pray that purer hearts and intents will prevail, and that God's Will shall be done.

With no regrets and no apologies, I bid you PEACE.

Front 242

[MarMema]

I'm voting for all the homeless people in NYC who can't afford their own laptops, only their own cell phones.

You know I finally understand what your post was about, after listening to talk radio yesterday afternoon. LOL.

[MarMema]

cast my vote jic...

Yes 1245 42%
No 1698 57%