Lone protester still takes a stand for Terri Schiavo

meegbear

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Tue May-17-05 09:49 AM
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Lone protester still takes a stand for Terri Schiavo

PINELLAS PARK - The sky was still dark Monday as Lisa Wilson walked quickly up 66th Street N toward her destination.

She carried a sign with the words "Terri Schindler was murdered" and a single-minded purpose that even she struggles to explain.

"I've never gotten up this early for a job in my life, but you do strange things when you love your job," said the 48-year-old woman as she took up her post at the intersection of 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N at 6 a.m.

Wilson is the last of the hundreds of protesters who trampled the grass outside Terri Schiavo's hospice in the days before her death March 31.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/17/Tampabay/Lone_protester_still_.shtml

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Bunny

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Tue May-17-05 09:56 AM
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1. Well, at least she's getting up early to perform her futile gesture.

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RobertSeattle

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Tue May-17-05 09:56 AM
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2. I guess it is her way of coping with her life

"Her third husband was a child molester who, when she met him, had spent five years in prison for molesting a 9-year-old girl. He killed himself with sleeping pills last July rather than be sent back to prison for trying to lure a 4-year-old out of her yard."

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"She says she's living off $100,000 she got in insurance money after her husband's death. (Some insurance policies will pay out on suicides after a two-year waiting period.)"

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Horse with no Name

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Tue May-17-05 10:39 AM
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6. The crux of this story is right in front of us

"Who in their right mind" would knowingly marry a convicted child molester?

It is painfully obvious that this woman isn't in her right mind.

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noamnety

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Tue May-17-05 09:57 AM
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3. We need some LTTE here

It's not a stand "for" Terri Schiavo. The courts ruled multiple times that was not her wish.

A stand for "her parents" or for "forcibly keeping people alive" would be more accurate.

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rocktivity

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Tue May-17-05 10:04 AM
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4. DING DING DING! Man in maroon Corvette, you're our grand prize winner!

Most people ignore her. A few honk...A man in a maroon Corvette...yelled, "Woman, mind your own business."
Couldn't agree more. And get a life while you're at it.

:headbang:
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Az_lefty

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Tue May-17-05 10:10 AM
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5. Sad case, she needs help...

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zbdent

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Tue May-17-05 10:50 AM
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7. freak her out - flush her bible

:rofl:

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Hand

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Tue May-17-05 11:45 AM
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8. Note to Lisa: Your fifteen minutes have expired.

Please return to your normal obscurity immediately. And stay there.
:boring:

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RPM

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Tue May-17-05 11:51 AM
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9. Who's Terri Schindler??? Never heard of her...

Oh - i guess the "sanctity" of her marriage is conveniently disregarded whenever necessary to advance christofascist dogma.

Fuck the protestor and her kind.

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