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all associated links are here: http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/schiavo-gate.htmlFive protesters were arrested outside Schiavo's hospice on Easter Sunday (3/27) for various criminal acts; Protestors traveled to the home of Michael Schiavo on Easter to throw flowers on his lawn, also a crime (albeit a victimless one); The Guardian is now reporting that Terri Schiavo's father, Robert, who has expressed nothing but contempt for his son-in-law Michael, in fact made the same decision as Michael in pulling the plug on his own mother after only a week (not fifteen years) of illness; according to The Guardian, "given the vehemence with which he has been fighting to prolong Terri's life, it is a little surprising to learn that Robert decided to turn off the life-support system for his mother. She was 79 at the time, and had been ill with pneumonia for a week..."; As reported by The Nashua Advocate, a boxcutter-wielding religious fanatic was arrested in Seminole, Florida for armed robbery of a gun store; the man's plan had been to use firearms from the robbery to "save Terri Schiavo"; A North Carolina religious fanatic was charged by the F.B.I. with offering money for murder in the Schiavo case; the man, Richard Alan Meywes, offered "a $250,000 bounty for the murder of Michael Schiavo... a $50,000 bounty for the death of a judge in the case";
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that when the Congressional ring-leader of the Schiavo fiasco, Texas Representative Tom DeLay (R), was faced with the same decision as the Schiavo family, he pulled the plug, an act which he now describes as one of barbarism;
The Miami Herald is reporting that Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) secretly green-lighted a plan to have state officials kidnap Schiavo from her hospice, an act which not only ran contrary to (and was a patent attempt to contravene) the clear intentions of the Circuit Judge overseeing the Schiavo case, but also risked, according to The Herald, "a constitutional crisis and a standoff between dueling lawmen," a crisis which had one local police official concerned about violence at the hospice, and "whether had enough officers to hold off the National Guard";
In an act which stunned medical ethicists the nation over, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (R-TN), a doctor, diagnosed Terri Schiavo publicly after merely seeing a videotape of her in her hospice bed; many wondered how and why Frist was allowed to keep his medical license after this black eye to doctors everywhere (perhaps it's because he was overshadowed by the bevy of radical Republican doctors who publicly proclaimed that it was and is possible to "rehab" a liquified cerebral cortex);
It took President Bush more than four days to say anything publicly about the murder of ten Minnesotans, including five schoolchildren by an armed juvenile assailant, but he was able to leave his bed at 1:11 A.M. to sign an unconstitutional bill of attainder granting Terri Schiavo special rights unavailable to any other American (it has also been pointed out that Bush's proposed policies on tort reform and Medicaid would have led to Schiavo's death fourteen years ago, making the President's sudden concern for the brain-dead woman incalculably crass and craven);
Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer, a devout Southern Baptist and the primary trial court judge in the Schiavo affair, was thrown out of his church by his pastor due to his legal decisions in the Schiavo case; The Buffalo News is reporting also that Greer has received death threats and has been under the protection of armed guards for some time, due to countless threats from religious zealots;
Randall Terry, the radical anti-abortion activist who is, oddly, acting as the Schindler's personal spokesman, has called the Pinellas police "Nazis" and, according to NBC, is organizing a "march on Washington" for Monday (3/28);
Hal Turner, a conservative radio talk show host and former G.O.P. County Chair (in New Jersey) has issued a statement which includes the following incitement and solicitation of murder: "I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue";
Radical conservative media outlets, as well as protestors outside Schiavo's hospice, are publicly proclaiming the brain-dead Florida woman to be the second coming of Christ, and comparing Michael Schiavo to Judas and Florida Governor Jeb Bush to Pontius Pilate (see also here, here, and here, for more heretical deification of the 41 year-old Florida woman, and here for our favorite article, "Terri Schiavo Is Dying for Our Sins," which advocates "limiting judicial powers, reorganizing courts, and impeaching judicial tyrants");
The infamous and controversial website, GOPUSA.com, is publicly advocating the immediate impeachment of any and all U.S. judges, at both the state and federal levels, who do not believe Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be forcibly reinserted against her explicit pre-hospitalization wishes; the site describes pro-right-to-die judges as "Grim Reapers in black robes";
MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan implied that the doctors who removed Schiavo's feeding tube should be "put on trial for crimes against humanity" in a manner no different than Nazi-era doctors; radical conservative radio host Michael Savage (who, amazingly, has never yet been arrested for criminal solicitation to violence, or sued civilly for incitement to violence) had this to say: "the radical Democratic left is an army of soulless ghouls. Being of the living dead, they live in a world of death and try to impose it on we the living...what is difficult for we the living to comprehend is the reason they can engage in such anti-life abominations is because they have no souls...they can rip an emerging child from the womb, murder it, and call this a compassionate act. Like Mengele--the doctor of death from the Nazi concentration camps--the radical, soulless Democrats keep referring to 'the doctors,' as if a medical degree guaranteed humanity." |
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