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SDR
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 Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: Terri Schiavo, Pat Buchanan, George W Bush |
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"Editor -- After Terri Schiavo died, President Bush said, 'The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak.'
"Because he believes this is his obligation, let him put the feeding tube back into all the public health, education and envoronmental programs he's cut off.
"Let him withdraw the feeding tube from big oil and his buddies who are not weak, who need little subsidy and who hobble the middle and lower classes.
"Let him reattach the drip to Social Security.
"Bush finds it OK to force government down out throats when it supports his immoral imperatives, but he finds it excessive when government aid might support our disadvantaged.
"Frankly, his food-for-the-wealthy program has put our long-term financial well-being into a coma and has created despair at home and bitterness abroad."
GABBY HYMAN, Sacramento [CA] SF Chronicle, 4/1/05
For a differing view of the Terri Schiavo matter, see conservative columnist Pat Buchanan:
www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsNam=pbu
An updated version of this piece appeared yesterday, 4/1/05
This mean-spirited, holier-than-thou "moralist" should be asked this question: "What would you have wish to be done, if you were to find yourself in exactly the situation that Mrs Schiavo was in, before she was allowed to expire?" Any person who would wish to be kept alive indefinitely, under those circumstances, would seem to me to be either dishonest (to himself and to others) or delusional.
In writing about the so-called "culture of life," Alex Epstein writes, "The religious conservtives do not value actual human life; they are consistent followers of the Christian ideal that human life is properly lived in sacrifice to God, and that suffering is proof of virtue. A prominent religious conservative, Larry Kudlow, commented on the Schiavo case in National Review Oline, 'Terri Schiavo. . .is suffering in obedience to God's will.' He added: 'Isn't suffering in pursuit of God's will the exact center of religious life?'
"This is the culture of death - of living death."
SDR
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SDR
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The link given is to an unrelated column by the wonderful Molly Ivins.
the correct link, to the Pat Buchanan column, is:
www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=pbu
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SDR
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And then, of course, we have Senator Tom DeLay, who had hoped to convince the high courts to review (once again, ad nauseum) the refusal of lower courts to order the re-insertion of Mrs Schiavo's feeding tube. Although emergency legislation was passed last weekend and signed by the president, the courts declined to intervene in the case. In a continuing effort to use this matter (as some have said) to distact from his own political difficulties, former Texas pest eradication contractor/back-room bully DeLay is calling for a panel to examine why the courts did not do his bidding.
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040205D.shtml
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," said Mr DeLay. He said he wants to "look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbs their nose at Congress and the president."
To quote Peewee Herman, ". . .I know you are, but what am I?"
The tendency for the guilty to accuse others of their own behavior, verbatim, is one of the funniest and saddest traits of man. . .
SDR
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