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Dakota Voice ^ | 1/29/2007 | Carrie K. Hutchens

[T'wit]

Do you who used to do the jails and skid row? The crooks in Arkansas who got blood plasma from prisoners and bums. They gave narcotics to the cons to get the plasma, and made millions for themselves. (In time the diseased blood business spread to every state that didn't illegalize these practices, most of them in the south.) That was the "Blood Trail" story we followed for years. Spiritual leaders of that pack were, of course, Bill and Hillary. Paymaster for them was Vincent W. Foster. My, things get interesting in Arkansas.

This is more of a parallel here than may be obvious. Blood transfusions are a kind of organ transplant. The whole field of transplants attracts the crooks, doesn't it? From the Chicoms to our hospital "bioethicists" to the Clintons and the Dixie Mafia. Follow the money trail.

[BykrBayb]

The Terri's Dailies threads are the richest source of information I know of regarding the ongoing practice of euthanasia. My earlier post to Pacific was just a brief overview of a handful of individuals. It doesn't even scratch the surface.

It sure would be nice if the problem was small enough to contain in a list though, wouldn't it?

[BykrBayb]

Thanks. If it hadn't been for family illness, and the snow storm alternating between knocking out the Internet and knocking out the electricity, I would have had that done days earlier. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever get it done. There was much more I would have liked to add, but I'll save that for another time.

[BykrBayb]

Sorry to be nitpicky, but the Chicoms do use prisoners for organs donations.

Exposed! China's organ-on-demand transplants
'Bloody Harvest' says prisoners kept healthy
until paying customer arrives

"Once a customer arrives into China, somebody's killed for the organ, whether it's a prisoner sentenced to death or a Falun Gong practitioner, and they just have this huge supply of people in jail waiting to be killed for organ donations," Matas told reporters at a recent news conference.

[T'wit]

>> Sorry to be nitpicky, but the Chicoms do use prisoners for organs donations.

Of course they do. My reference was to the KIND of prisoners they use (and whom they can replace more of less off the street any time they wish) -- political prisoners; enemies of the state. That way they get rid of their pesty and rebellious citizens and at the same time they get healthy organs for a hefty profit.

What Bill Clinton and crew used in Arkansas was hardened, long-term criminals -- a pool for diseased blood if there ever were one. They spread Hepatitis C and some AIDS all over the world.

[Sun]

Part of my e-mail from Terri's foundation, which I'm sure many of you received:

"His Excellency, Archbishop Burke, was then introduced and began by telling the
listeners that the tragedy of Terri's heinous death must never be forgotten.
Archbishop Burke's powerful words referenced the Beatitudes of Christ and Scripture
throughout his hour long presentation. He made it very clear that starving and
dehydrating to death persons in situations like Terri's can never be tolerated and
is not an act of love or compassion. The Archbishop also stressed that removing
Terri's food and water was contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church and
quoted from both the Catholic Catechism and Pope John Paul's 2004 allocution on Life
Sustaining Treatment.

Father Groeschel spoke next about how he survived a near fatal car crash after which
doctors gave him little chance of regaining any quality-of-life if he were to even
survive his initial injuries. Fr. Groeschel, who appears every Sunday evening on
EWTN's Sunday Night Live with Father Benedict Groeschel, told the audience that we
must always care for and love persons like Terri, and never use "quality-of-life" as
a reason to kill.

At the end of the presentations, Archbishop Burke, Father Groeschel, and Monsignor
Malanowski stayed and chatted with many who attended. It was a wonderful night,
especially to see how much my sister continues to touch so many people in such a
special way. All I kept thinking to myself throughout the evening, as I listened to
everyone speaking about my beautiful sister Terri, was how my family has been so
truly blessed by the friendship and support of those who continue to carry on her
legacy."

[T'wit]

>> Sorry

No, my comment in #319 wasn't clear on the point, so it's my apology.

[8mmMauser]

Thanks,Sun, for posting that note from Bobby Schindler and the Foundation. I wish I could have been there in the company of those fine people.

[8mmMauser]

Update on Haleigh Poutre and Rebecca Riley...

Sounds like the new governor of Massachusetts has a selective hearing and seeing problem.

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GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK'S so-called "visibility problem" threatens to become an invisibility problem.

At critical times, he is choosing invisibility on important matters that cry out for gubernatorial attention and outrage.

It's great that Patrick is in his office, hard at work on the budget.

But when a 4-year-old girl dies and the state Department of Social Services is called to answer for it, the governor's voice should be loud and clear. So far, this governor's voice is low and equivocating when it comes to addressing the sorry story of Rebecca Riley's death. She died in December of an overdose of powerful drugs administered by troubled parents under DSS supervision. The parents are now charged with first-degree murder.

Can Patrick see his visibility problem?

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[8mmMauser]

A reader underwhelmed by the efforts...

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I am appalled again to see the mistakes made by DSS in the case of the death of little Rebecca Riley, RIP.

The last time I was so appalled was when Haleigh Poutre’s case was shown on television. The then-governor of the state of Massachusetts requested a report on her case to be prepared by an independent panel, but it seems the mistakes made then are being repeated again and again by DSS. Is there no accountability in this state?

How many more children in this state have to suffer at the hands of their parents — the ones who are supposed to be taking care of them? When they fail, then the state must provide a better home for them.

We do not want to read about the death of another child. Please, Lord.

EDEL QUINN

Huron Avenue

Letter: Appalled at DSS

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[8mmMauser]

Maybe Patrick will put on some new eyes and ears...

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The future of DSS Commissioner Harry Spence remains murky as fallout from a 4-year-old’s fatal drugging lingers and Gov. Deval Patrick remains silent on whether he’ll give Spence another five years at the helm of the struggling agency.

     Patrick’s spokesman, Kyle Sullivan, said the governor would not discuss “pending personnel matters.”Spence won’t comment until Patrick makes a decision, said Denise Monteiro, Department of Social Services spokeswoman.

DSS boss’ fate remains uncertain

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[8mmMauser]

Up against that Texas Futile Caregiving: Sounds like Texas had created a death row for innocents...

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AUSTIN – Martha Rimmer is dying.

'I don't care what the doctors think. My interest is in Martha,' Dannie Rimmer said. 'And I can't tell you I would ever make the decision to pull the plug on her.'

Her doctors know it. Her family knows it. And the 66-year-old knows it too, her longtime love, Dannie Rimmer, says – despite doctors' diagnosis that she's in a vegetative state.

But Mr. Rimmer is fighting to keep her alive at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, after medical professionals there ruled she was irreversibly ill, suffering and should be removed from treatment at the hospital.

He has joined the ranks of right-to-lifers and some influential state lawmakers who are challenging a key provision in Texas' end-of-life law this session – one that allows medical professionals to end terminal patients' treatment if they can't be transferred to another facility within 10 days.

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When it was enacted, Texas' Advance Directives Act was a watershed compromise: Endorsed by doctors and right-to-life advocates alike, it gave a team of health care specialists and ethics experts final say over when to end "futile" life support. But a decade later, with the Terri Schiavo case in Florida having politicized the end-of-life debate, some of the same organizations that helped craft the 10-day transfer rule are seeking to dismantle it.

Bills challenge limits for terminal patients Legislature: Some want more time to transfer before treatment ends

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[8mmMauser]

Here Craig Shirley sees the problem and in the process brings fog to a clear day. In an attempt at RINOplasty, he blames us far right wing crazies for wanting to protect innocent life. Is it because he is blind or is wearing blinders?

Cynical politicians have manipulated the social right. Meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, banning gambling on the Internet and a constitutional amendment defining marriage have helped transform the conservative movement, which was once about the expansion of freedom, into "Big Christian Brother," which is now concerned with the expansion of virtue.

It is the height of intellectual dishonesty for a political party to say, out of one side of its mouth, overturn Roe v. Wade because it believes behavioral issues belong at the state level, while out of the other side saying it needs to federalize the private act of marriage.

The conservative movement can -- and possibly should -- survive without the Republican Party. But the GOP is a dead duck without conservatism.

The Republican Party Has Sold Out

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[wagglebee]

I agree. The Chicoms "create" convicts as the need arises, the Arkansas mafia decided that it was just as profitable to sell "get out of jail free cards" as it was to lock people up. And unlike the Chicoms, the trailer trash couldn't run the risk of their enemies making any "final statements" so deaths had to be carefully orchestrated.

[T'wit]

>> the Arkansas mafia decided that it was just as profitable to sell "get out of jail free cards" as it was to lock people up.

Them good ol' boys had the whole state up for sale -- a practice Bubba and Miz Hill continued on a far grander scale in Washington, D.C.

[T'wit]

>> Meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, banning gambling on the Internet and a constitutional amendment defining marriage have helped transform the conservative movement, which was once about the expansion of freedom, into "Big Christian Brother," which is now concerned with the expansion of virtue.

You're getting pudgy from when I knew you, Craig. Your thinking is a bit flabby in the bargain. The claim of meddling in the Terri Schiavo case is straight from political crooks via the DNC. It does not hold up to factual examination and it is an outrage to the right to life. (Remember the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution's 5th and 14th amendments, the Virginia Declaration...?)

>> the expansion of freedom, into "Big Christian Brother,"

Perhaps you haven't noticed, Mr. Shirley, but Christians and moral values are under massive frontal assault, and have been for decades. They are being pounded to pieces in the public realm. That we try to protect fundamental civilized institutions from this assault is by no means morphing into "Big Christian Brother." It is what Whittaker Chambers once called burying the fingernails of a saint before being swept away by barbarians, so that a future generation could find the truth.

There is no dichotomy between freedom and virtue. "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

[8mmMauser]

In the dark recesses of my more sinister thoughts, I ponder whether the whole grand effort to save Terri was a charade designed to fail and to be credited as a government overreaction with predictable backlash. Adjusting my new Alcoa head wrap to fit better, I imagine some meanie in a closet whispering for all to go along with a grand push sure to fail, thus locking in the whole issue as big government interference.

Usually succeeding to brush this out of my mind, I find the thought rushing back in such as this tiny excerpt from the Washington Post. I can imagine the smirk and giggles of the writer when he dripped this subtle sarcasm.

He ordered his colleagues to work on Saturday.

To the average American, this would be an inconvenience. To a senator, a Saturday vote is a hardship reserved for national crises such as impeachment or Terri Schiavo. Votes have been held on Saturday only five times in the past 10 years

Reluctantly, the Senate's Weekend Warriors

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[8mmMauser]

Are we surprised at how Crist is turning out?

Last week, The Post ran a story examining Gov. Crist's attempt to make the GOP in Florida more like the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and less like the party of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. This week, the governor suggested that the Republican Party of Florida stop helping to finance the campaign to put a same-sex marriage ban on the 2008 ballot.

Was that progressive politics? Good politics? Personal politics? It probably was a little of all three.

The governor is correct that same-sex marriage presents no threat to Florida. He also isn't the first to say it. New Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney noted during his campaign that people were leaving Florida because of sharply higher taxes and insurance costs, not the worry that a gay or lesbian couple might hold a wedding reception down the block. With the nine-week legislative session set to begin on March 6, Gov. Crist may recall how Terri Schiavo - also a hot-button issue - bottled up the Legislature for two weeks in 2005.

Happily ever after?

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[8mmMauser]

Thread from wagglebee about Jill Stanek and pro-lifers...

But there were 50 or so waving signs and chanting, “No abortion, no Obama.” Their voices might become a consistent presence as the senator makes his way around the country in his bid to win the White House.

Abortion foes in Illinois, following the lead of registered nurse Jill Stanek, are targeting Obama (D-Ill.) for a number of “present” and “no” votes he cast on anti-abortion legislation during his time in the Illinois state Senate.

Abortion foes target Obama because of his vote record on Illinois legislation

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Catholics (?) and pro-life, thread by wagglebee...

DETROIT, February 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two professors teaching ethics at the University of Detroit Mercy, a “Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions,” have made very clear they have no use for the pro-life message of the Catholic Church.

According to Catholic columnist Matt C. Abbott, Drs. Gloria H. Albrecht and Elizabeth Oljar have posted pro-abortion messages on their office doors in the Catholic university, which apparently is quite accommodating to their pro-abortion views.

Catholic University in Detroit Boasts Pro-abortion Feminists on Staff

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