The Terry Schiavo Issue Is Just Another In A Long Line Of Diversions

[Floogeldy]

More fucking right wing, heart-string tugging bullshit to distract us from the gouging by oil companies, the failures in Iraq, the fucking of consumers with the new bankruptcy act . . . .

Like Republicans give a flying fuck about the life of one person? You gotta be kidding me.

People are so fucking stupid I can't stand it any more.

[QC]

1. It has certainly worked around here.

Seems like there's about 100 threads on the topic here tonight.

[bahrbearian]

2. So why bring it up ????

[killbotfactory]

3. Posting another thread about this is a diversion

If you don't want to talk about, don't.

[Floogeldy]

5. I want to point out

The issue is distracting people.

[killbotfactory]

7. You and many others

From what? The repubs are exploiting a family death to trample our civil rights, should we not be concerned about this?

[Robbien]

4. Stop it. This thread is spam just as much as the Schiavo threads are spam

STOP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cynatnite]

6. There are some who do care about this, you know

We don't view it as spam, but an important issue that can have profound impacts on us in the future, not to mention the fact the regime has seen fit to ignore the courts and the rights of individuals once again.

[Robbien]

10. Then talk about the issue, But starting a new thread every two seconds

is RUDE. You are showing your disrespect to Democratic Underground by spamming it with hundreds of threads on one issue. It is spamming.

[cynatnite]

21. In that case Gannon was spamming DU then

Considering how many active members there are at DU it's no wonder that people start threads about the same subject.

If you want to go that route, how about all the threads about the Iraq war? Social Security? MSM? Need any more examples?

This issue is personal for a lot of people as well as many others such as the ones I mentioned above.

I am not going to disrespect DU or the members by saying the threads they start are spamming because of the sheer number of separate threads on the same subject.

[mondo joe]

8. I don't consider taking an axe to our civil rights as SPAM

But I'm funny that way.

[supernova]

9. Oh no it's not

It wasn't Terri's choice to have a heart attack and remain in a PVS. It is want it is.

FWIW, I hope she gets to die with dignity rather than reamin as she is.


Look, we have enough problems with the BFEE without making shit up.

[mondo joe]

11. You've got it wrong. The war is the diversion.

The attack on civil rights is the issue.

[Floogeldy]

12. No, no, no

Terry is a diversion from the war.

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[mondo joe]

13. No - you distract the people with a war and chip away their civil rights

while they're wrapped up in fear and jingoism.

While we're out there waving signs about the war they;re sealing deals to rob us of the rights we have left.

[wildfire]

14. Reply to Diversion

All issues are a diversion.  This does not make them
irrelevant.  Terry Schiavo is being murdered.  Why is it
illegal for a  person of sound mind, with a terminal illness,
to enlist a physician for assisted suicide?  This is
compassionate and humanitarian.  Yet, for Terry, who cannot
speak for herself, laws and institutions dictate a brutal
death to serve her husband's rights.  Why are choices between
life and death so feared and so reviled, yet  in order to
honor the rights of the owner (the husband) we are willing to
inflict so much pain and suffering?   Sure, the repugs are
turning this into a pro-life issue, but it really is a
pro-choice issue and the dems are sleep walking as usual.  The
invasion of the body snatchers has been a true mission
accomplished.

[mondo joe]

15. Baloney. This is not a brutal death. Look into hospice care before

you spread more disinformation.

[Horse with no Name]

18. For GOD's sake

You talk about ownership like she was a puppy.
So your idea of getting her away from ownership of her husband (whom she chose) is by giving ownership to her parents (whom she did not choose).
You are right however, it is a Pro-Choice issue.
Her husband is her legal guardian and he has made his choice to end all life support and we should support his right to choose as her legal voice since she doesn't have one anymore.
IF a woman were pregnant with a child that was in the same cognitive state as Terri, we would fight for her right to make her own decision on how she would choose to handle her pregnancy.
So why do some fight Michael Schiavo for acting as her surrogate and making the choice to terminate life support since there is no hope for recovery or a meaningful life?
If we are to embrace choice, it must be embraced at all levels of the life cycle, not just pregnancy.

[madeline_con]

16. Intersting POV

DUH-bya started a war so he could get the Patriot Act in place.

[mondo joe]

17. You got it.. Patriot act, curb the press, and eliminate any self-

determination.

The war was the greatest diversion ever.

And when we're stripped of enough rights there won't be protests anymore.

[toymachines]

19. this is true

but i do agree that there are far too many posts on this topic. i wouldnt't label it spam, but its getting into that category. dam the regime for even getting us into this situation. dam them dam them dam them.

[OneBlueSky]

20. got that right . . . and we, the sheeple, continue to do EXACTLY . . .

what they want us to do . . . which is focus all our time an energies on peripheral issues and not on the war, the economy, the environment, civil liberties, international war crimes, the truth of 9/11, chemtrails, rigged elections, and the insanity of George Bush and his entire maladministration . . . I gave up counting the Terri Schiavo threads on DU today . . . I also quit reading them early on, because this is EXACTLY what they want me to be doing . . . last week it was Michael Jackson, this week Schiavo, next week who knows what . . . but you can be sure that the media will let us know . . . big time . . .