The Wingnuts Surface

Well just as I suspected, the wingnuts are starting to surface in the rightwing extremest horde that has taken over the Schiavo supporters. See this from Oliverwillis.com. Not only is Terri in danger from these extremists, but so are the other residents of this hospice. Please people, try to remember that for some of the residents of this hospice this is the last place they will call home. Surely all of these protestors are not so crass as to not only deny Terri a peaceful passing from this life, but other people who live there also? By all that is sacred above, please think of all of them before you act!!! And of course it is not bad enough that Senator (Dr) Frisk, the ethically challenged Tom Delay along with the original hypocrite President (for life?) George Bush and his media whore brother Jeb the Gov. of Fla., got into the act. Now we have Rep.(Dr.) Tom Cobourn (R) OK. an MD who practiced Family Practice medicine, also diagnosing an illness via video tape!! The NY Times reports these comments from the hypocrite: "I don't think you have to examine her. All you have to do is look at her on TV. Any doctor with any conscience can look at her and know that she does not have a terminal disease and know that she has some function." Yet in the Tulsa World, on 7/20/98, they reported this: [In] an interview after [Coburn]'s panel appearance, he conceded the issue of caring for a terminally ill patient brings with it complex questions and is not always simple. For example, under certain circumstances when there is no hope of recovery, he said physicians should have the option of withholding nutrients and water from a dying patient. Coburn said he has done that in the past. 'If somebody does not want a feeding tube, I won't put a feeding tube down,' he said. Perhaps he took the hypocritical oath rather than the hypocratic oath! Oh how I long to see this come back an hit these rightwing republican blasphemers where it will do the most good, in the next election they face. Maybe we can also hope there is some way a malpractice suit could be brought against these people who have medical degrees that have weighed in with their from a distance diagnosis. At the very least, perhaps a medical ethics board should examine this behaviour and take away their medical licenses. The way they have mislead the Schindler's (Terri's parents) to continue this farce with court appearance after court appearance is reprehensible in the extreme.