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Ärende: Terry Schiavo & the hypocrites
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 From Capitol Hill Blue

The Rant
A political feeding frenzy over a feeding tube
By DOUG THOMPSON
Mar 21, 2005, 07:09

With a cold, callous political ploy, the harpies who call themselves
conservatives and Republicans have taken hypocrisy to a new level by
interfering with Terry Shiavio’s right to die with some dignity.

Forget the bullshit spilling out of the halls of Congress and the West Wing of
the White House. Sunday’s incredible actions to prolong the shameful saga of a
brain-damaged woman who has been on feeding tube since 1990. This has nothing
to do with compassion. It has everything to do with advancing the repressive,
right-wing agenda of the zealots who have taken over the United States
government.

If George W. Bush had a single compassionate bone in his hypocritical body, he
would not have sent 1500-plus Americans to their deaths in Iraq, along with the
untold thousands of innocent Iraqis who have died in his illegal war, one
rubber-stamped by his co-conspirators in Congress.

Now we are supposed to believe this klavern of murderers gives a rat’s ass
about whether or not a feeding tube is re-inserted into a woman’s body in
Florida?

It ain’t about life. It’s about control. It ain’t about compassion, it’s about
seizing on a political opportunity to advance a conservative agenda that will
give the government more domination over all our lives.

Before the seizure that left her hopelessly brain-damaged, Terry Shavio told
her husband she did not want to be kept alive if something like this ever
happened to her. In most societies, this is called free will.

But free will cannot exist in a political world dominated by the hypocrites in
Congress and the hypocrite-in-chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The laws of
the land mean nothing to those who put their own agendas above an American’s
right to determine their own destiny.

Bush is a goddamned liar when he claims this issue is about life. So are the
wingnuts who control Congress. The Republican Party used to preach states’
rights. The state courts made their decision in the Shiavio case but now the
GOP opportunists want to make this a federal case with emergency legislation
that requires the federal court to intervene.

Christ almighty, has any one of these fucking idiots looked at themselves in a
mirror lately and realized what fools they have made of themselves, not to
mention the mockery that the U.S. government has become?

How can a party that sends Americans to die in illegal wars and supports
expansion of the death penalty say, with a straight face, that they care one
iota about human life? They don’t. These despots don’t give a shit about
rights. At one time, they did, but not any more. Once the holy rollers and
religious hypocrites hijacked the Republican Party, any hope for fairness,
decency and honesty went right out the window.

Hopefully, a federal judge will tell Bush and his harpies to take a hike and
allow Terry Shiavio to die in peace.

Perhaps it is a good thing that Terry Shiavio is unaware of the political
circus surrounding her right to die. It’s bad enough that the rest of us have
to endure the stench from the putrid, rotting corpse of the dinosaur called the
Republican Party.

ÿ Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

Amen brother!

 
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