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Along with T'wit's tagline, not just the nazis but the World Socialists join the fray right along with our resident trolls and freeper sleepers who have been swarming about in recent days agitated about who-knows-what. If the swarms of trolls all as a body are for Rudy, what does that say about Rudy?

The WSWS has written extensively on another issue, the Terry Schiavo case. In that case in 2005, Congress and the Bush administration intervened against the wishes of Terry Schiavo’s husband to draft a bill to halt the removal of her feeding tube—the course of action she had indicated she would want if she ever ended up in such an irreversible vegetative state.

The emergency bill rammed through Congress had nothing to do with concern for Terry’s life, but was carried out at the instigation of the Christian fundamentalist base of the Republican right. As we noted at the time, the overwhelming majority of Americans looked on at this invasion into the most intimate sphere of private family life with disgust. Opinion polls showed that there was relatively little public support for their actions.

An exchange of letters on the role of religion in the US

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Bobby Schindler's recent talk at Cornell sure stirred up the beehive in these parts. His comments are repeated in an article today, as well.

“Please make no mistake, this was a court-ordered murder issued by Circuit Court Judge George Greer,” Bobby Schindler says of the “right-to-die” movement’s agenda to kill the disabled. “Terri’s life ended after two weeks of suffering without food and water and without receiving ice chips to help ease some of the pain she was suffering.” Devoting his life to educating the public about end-of-life issues and offering support to those with disabilities, Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, will speak on campus Wednesday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m. in Goldwin Smith’s HEC Auditorium. Hosted by the Cornell Coalition for Life, he will tell “Terri’s Story” followed by a question and answer session. With new laws defining the subjective diagnosis of the persistent vegetative state (PVS), this diagnosis is now being used to determine whose life has value to society, and more troubling still, whether or not an individual has the right to life.

Judicial Homicide

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[T'wit]

>> If the swarms of trolls all as a body are for Rudy, what does that say about Rudy?

The swarms of media in Pinellas Park were against Terri, so what does that say about us? I wear their scorn with delighted pride.

[BykrBayb]

Do journalists have competitions to see who can fit the most lies into a given space? This one must have won some kind of award.