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"Terri Schiavo doesn't mean beans to the Republic - shes a turnip"

Pulpatime, if you can learn to write inspite of your limited resources, just think what Terri can do with a little therapy, considering how much more cerebral power she has. - Don't be jealous, be magnanamous ( or just human would be a step in the right direction).

This is a spiritual battle, and those such as yourself who are unable to imagine, let alone function at the spiritual level cannot be expected to understand.

Flatlanders!

Email received from Paul Finch, Advocacy Center in Fla:

Re: Terri Schiavo

Thank you for your thoughtfulness and interest regarding Ms. Schiavo and the complex ethical issues that she represents. It benefits us all for people such as you to enter into the dialogue about disability issues.

Since the initial withdrawal of hydration and nourishment from Terri Schiavo on Wednesday October 15, 2003 The Advocacy Center has received numerous complaints of possible neglect concerning Ms. Schiavo. Additionally we have received reports that there may have been a change in circumstance regarding Ms. Schiavo's condition since the last full review in State Court.

It is The Advocacy Center's federal mandate (pursuant to 29 U.S.C. §794(a) (doc 1) and 42 U.S.C.§1504 3(a)(2)(B) as the designated Protection and Advocacy Agency for the State of Florida to investigate complaints of abuse and/or neglect against persons with disabilities.

The Center is presently making demands in order to acquire reports and records necessary to undertake a thorough and impartial investigation of complaints we have received.

In order to preserve the integrity of our investigation during its pendency no further statement will be made to the public/ Press.

Ed, the last time One_Particular_Palpatine was losing an argument in regard to the Schiavo case, he posted a hysterical thread opining that anyone critical of Michael Schiavo might well be setting themselves up for a libel action.

He went so far as to present his opinion in that matter as a 'gift' to the forum, and was blathering about being a lawyer himself. The trouble is, he was lying and used the post to try to silence people who opposed his opinon on the Schiavo thread. And though his ego was gratified by hundreds upon hundreds of posts, and though some initially took him seriously, his lie was eventually exposed.

On the same thread, some FReepers, including me, began to suspect that One_Particular_Palpatine was in fact posting under an alias, and had in fact once been a controversial member of FR whose voluminous (and self serving) posts were somehow expunged from FR under mysterious circumstances.

Attempts to get OPP to confirm or deny this fact were met with silence: he fled the thread, like a schoolgirl.

I was then showered with abusive FReepmail by his cohorts (or, perhaps even by OPP himself under an alias, I can't be sure), and eventually got from him a two word, sexually suggestive vulgarity in response to my repeated insistence that he 'come clean'.

The point is that One_Particular_Palpatine must not be taken seriously. His posts are meant to incite and inflame and come from no intellectual basis. As evidenced by my referenced thread above, the guy will do anything to win an argument including posting a factually and intellectually vacant scare-piece to shout down his opponents.

Oh yeah, he also mocked the CBS Boycott of the Reagan movie and posted a thread trying to stop it.

I invite you to ping your list to this post so that all may see who and what this person is, and make their own judgment down the road as to how they will deal with One_Particular_Palpatine.