Reply #139: You are not alone [View All]

And to name some names I will tell you who among my progressive, bleeding heart liberal friends are as disgusted with this spectacle as I am.

Noiretblu
Indiana Green
Eloriel
Tinoire
DemocratSinceBirth
Pastiche
Cheswick
KG
DemBonesDemBones
and others sprinkled throughout the forum whose names escape me right now because this thread is very upsetting
and others who won't even post anymore

(and just to satisfy the post police, I'll alert each and everyone of those people that I mentioned their names in my post)

I've used their names but not in vain and this is NOT calling out because each of those posters has made their opinion clear in threads, in private PMs, and/or on the phone AND none of them are wilting lilies afraid to be referred to.

You want to know why so many are being so quiet?

We're not being quiet- we're disgusted and appalled at

- the revolting lack of empathy from too many posters
- the freeper-cold tomato jokes of which even one is too many
- the acceptance that if her owner-husband said so after he cashed $2.25 million, well it must be true
- the refusal to give her parents even a chance to know that they did everything humanly possible to rehabilitate her
- the hypocritical callousness that thinks it's ok to starve a human without even the mercy of a shot of morphine so that we can pretend nature did it
- the refusal to try to examine that this woman may be sentient and to consider that if she breathes on her own, her kidneys, her heart function and that all she needs is help eating and drinking, she qualifies as a life
- the callousness with which we endorse her OWNER cutting the family off from his chattel
- the callousness with which we accept the court's decision that she may not be filmed so that the parents can make their case that their daughter is NOT DEAD.

This list goes on and on on why so many are keeping quiet or rather not wallowing in the cesspool. It HURT US. And it HURTS us to see the pain of disabled DUers who are shocked at what the so-called Liberals really think about whose life is worth living and whose isn't.

Lebensunwertes Leben. It should mean something to more of us than it seems to. History repeating itself and nobody, nobody even alarmed about it. Bush wins EITHER way. But what's sad is that for the most evil way, it seems he's going to win with our help.

No; it's not about Terri Schiavo. And it hasn't been for quite awhile.

It's about us.

It's about each of us who thinks "I wouldn't want to live if I were a vegetable." It's about each one of us who thinks, as one blogger wrote, that Michael Schiavo has been "chained to a drooling shitbag for 15 years."

But it's also about those of us who are those vegetables, those drooling shitbags. Those of us who want to live but know we're a burden to our families. Those of us who fear "do not resuscitate" orders. Those of us who use ventilators, and who use feeding tubes. And those of us who can communicate with clarity only through artificial means.

How can the two groups of us -- those of us who live with severe disabilities, and those of us who fear such a fate more than death -- come to some common ground?
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0322-20.htm

You are not alone DrDon. You may have been on a different sheet of music in I/P out of an understandable emotional attachment that I don't agree with am able to understandable but if there's one thing I didn't fault you for it's hypocrisy.

You are not alone and I hope that one of my good disabled DU friends who is too heart-sick to step foot in this forum comes back and starts kicking people's asses over the callousness, lack of empathy, stupid knee-jerk reaction that if Bush said A well then it must be B that has overtaken this forum lately. yeah, Rove's too stupid to realize that they just need to say A to get exactly what they want.

Who's next Liberals? They're already in full gear shutting up the Intellectuals. They already came for the Muslims. We're now at Aktion T4's Lebensunwertes Leben. Congratulations America. And we thought the Germans were evil because if it had been us, we would have stopped it. Hah. We refuse to recognize it because they changed the order a little but the Intellectuals recognize it, the Muslims recognize it and now the Disabled recognize it.

The clue everyone should pick up on is that the same Right-Wing Supreme Court that gave us this regime refused to get involved. Ask yourselves why. It's because they knew that all they had to say was "A" to get "B".