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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:39 AM
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this is so completely irresponsible of the media
to still be covering the schaivo case like this. and they've totally stopped talking to any actual medical experts they just keep giving the extremists a voice. and keep emphasizing how much pressure there is on the governor. what pressure? he says he's not running for gov or pres next time (for whatever that's worht but...)I can't even stand this anymore. Our congress who started this shit needs to step in and say "we tried all legal avenues and now it's time to respect the courts and the rule of law" this is building to a riot level fervor and they are partially responsible for giving the extremists false hope. They'll go ballistic if Jeb or GW don't step up as their savior.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:41 AM
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1. It's time to start writing them
and tearing them a new one. Gloves off, too; call them the biased, opportunistic, sick vultures they are.
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:45 AM
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2. Give a man enough rope. . . n/t
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:51 AM
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3. Here's a good media contact site:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111

(Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:04 AM
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4. Oh, Jebby IS running for Prez in 08
make no mistake about it.
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:12 AM
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5. Good - let em' riot
let them taste the pepper spray for once.
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:17 AM
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6. CNN was actively INCITING violence yesterday.
Kira Phillips(?) was aggressively pushing Jeb's "authority" to ignore the Court orders to refrain from taking Terri BY FORCE. Then, they had Pat Robertson on, who called the judge a murderer, and said this is "Judicial Murder". They WANT the violence; why else would they keep equating Terri to Elian???
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:19 AM
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7. Law-on-demand. It's been bizarre and scary. And MSMs facilitated it.
The test will come after her death when the fanatics won't let this go. How far will the MSMs go to allow the medical and legal lies to continue and statements about the damnation of her soul.

MSMs did virtually NOTHING to dispel the lies. Only a few people spoke up (surprisingly....Tweety....some of the time.)

They did diddly about finding second and third opinions. They used the same old 'experts' over and over. You knew what they were going to say. The narrowness of guests was stifling.

Watch the spin to come - fanatical lies are going to go off the charts and I fear for the variety of attacks on the sinners who did this to the Schindlers.



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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:25 AM
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9. Law on demand--exactly. Goes right to why this matter is important
far beyond an unfortunate, ill, young woman.

That is the perfect phrase. Gets right to why this case is scaring so many on both sides of the political fence.

If they succeed with their goals in this case, they will go after individuals like this all over the place.

You have nailed it, and now I'm more scared than ever about what all this means.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:50 AM
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12. I don't see a difference between religious fanatics/right wing and the
wild west or enslaved east when a posse could be gathered in minutes or a rope hung over a tree limb in the dead of night. A group of people decided.

With Goss and Gonzales...the target may be us. Because that is what is happening with Muslims who are labeled enemy combatants. No different from Michael Schiavo who is accused of causing the problem through strangulation and now 'rushing' to death after fifteen years.

What really got me was using a law for government administration and trying to use it against the husband.

At least with abortion, they are saying that the law is no good and they want to change it, but they don't want to punish the female or the doctor who does break their law.

Religion CAN BE a drug that confuses the mind - for some.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:23 AM
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8. This is a runaway train.
Let them all continue! Maybe something will finally break to show this "movement" for what it is, and Americans will then have to remember the value of the separation of church and state.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:25 AM
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10. The term Media Circus has become redundant...
kinda like Illegal Murder...
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:32 AM
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11. I've decided to pull the plug...
Any higher functions ceased some time ago...

Most of it's brain has been replaced with
fluid...

Many Doctors (Alterman for instance) are advising
it's a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)...

The fact it's alive at all is due to a feeding
tube which supplies it with beer commercials
and soap ad revenue...

Yup, sad to say, it's time to end it's misery.

So long TeeVee... My old friend. May you go to
a better place.

No one better try to stop me.




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