March 22, 2005

Calling all blogs, calling all blogs : Let's join the blogswarm and help protect the US Constitution
by Liza Sabater

UPDATE : I first posted this on the 21st. I'm bumping up it up since it includes now my emails to the media.

Via Majikthise : Schiavo blogswarm

Once I finish writing my email, I'll update the post with it. Needless to say, I am finding it hard to find the words to describe how repulsive I find the political spectacle that a corrupt politician like Tom Delay is using to save his ass from the judicial inquiries into his ethics --or lack thereof-- scandal.

democracycellproject: Blogswarm on Terri Schiavo Case

The Bloggers of the Democracy Cell Project have called for a blogswarm regarding the Terri Schiavo case. Last Friday, blogger Tutterfly expressed the Schiavo case in her post which was elevated to the thread header, Giving Voice. As an update to that post, blogger Dwahzon posted this call to action on the Tom DeLay Fights To Save His Own Life thread:

It's time for a blogswarm. No one in Congress is answering their phones.

We must contact the media to put pressure on Congress to butt out of the Schiavo case. There is a real threat to the separation of powers going on, not to mention Congress making medical decisions and person decisions and the disgusting aspects of playing politics with real peoples' lives.

The Plan: Here is a media list of the majors and the news organizations that are working this weekend:

360@cnn.com, 48hours@cbsnews.com, 60II@cbsnews.com, am@cnn.com, Colmes@foxnews.com, comments@foxnews.com, crossfire@cnn.com, dateline@nbc.com, daybreak@cnn.com, earlyshow@cbs.com, evening@cbsnews.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com, insidepolitics@cnn.com, inthemoney@cnn.com, live@cnn.com, livefrom@cnn.com, newsnight@cnn.com, nightline@abcnews.com, nightly@nbc.com, rrhodes@airamericaradio.com, today@nbc.com, wam@cnn.com, wolf@cnn.com, world@msnbc.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, netaudr@abc.com

Email all of them please. Tell them from your heart what you think of what's happening and tell them they need to represent the "other" side of this story, that Tom Delay is slandering Michael Schiavo, that Congress is butting into people's personal lives, that you are disgusted by what they are doing. Tell them what you think.

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It has taken me a while to write about the Terri Schiavo case for it has encumbered me with shock, horror but above all, rage.

It is an outrage that 3 Republican senators --Frist, Martínez and Santorum-- sneaked in the middle of the night into chambers to claim unanimous passage of a bill that is a full frontal attack on the separation of government powers. It is an outrage that they did so without a quorum; clearly going against the Constitution's rules for legislation.

It is an outrage the president of the U.S. will not take the time to attend any of the funerals for our fallen soldiers in Iraq but he will fly at the hint of a political opportunity to sign a bill that clearly goes against the separation and integrity of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.

It is an outrage that Sun Hudson's life support was pulled by Texas Children's Hospital under a law that then governor Bush signed allowing hospitals to refuse life support to patients who not only showed no sign of life recovery but who were financially incapable of paying for life-sustaining care(1) .

It is even more of an outrage that Sun Hudson was the son of a black woman so poor, she had no pre-natal care and therefore no way of knowing when she was pregnant that her son was not going to make it on his own without some kind of life-sustaining care. But this woman, was too poor to pay for it. The hospital, aided and abetted by George Bush's law, saw no reason why not to pull the plug on a baby that had survived longer than most born with his rare case of dwarfism. It is an outrage Baby Sun was killed in the eyes of his mother, thanks to George Bush's law.

It is an outrage that the very people that claim to want to protect Terri Schiavo's body have no qualms in whoring it politically with make-up and video sessions. The spectacle created by her parents, aided an abetted by the likes of the anti-abortion terrorist group Operation Rescue and enabled by the Republican party, borders on the pornographic.

Still, there is not a single most outrageous fact that mass media is hell bent on spreading the myth that the fringe of demonstrators camped in front of the hospice were Michael Schiavo's wife, the wife that told him and his friends to pull the plug if she ever ended brain-dead as she is right now, are the voice of the people(2). No, those dominionists who are so eager to trample on the US Constitution not in the name of Jesus but in the name of power, are not the voice of freedom loving Americans.

63% of Americans favor the removal of the tube ---but you'd never know that in most media outlets.

75% of Americans strongly believe Congress' involvement is purely a political wedge that oversteps the boundaries between the legislative and judicial ---but you'd never know by most news media outlets.

But it is the poll's findings among the religious groups Bush is pandering to that has been sorely addressed :

Views on this issue are informed more by ideological and religious views than by political partisanship. Republicans overall look much like Democrats and independents in their opinions.

But two core Republican groups — conservatives and evangelical Protestants — are more divided: Fifty-four percent of conservatives support removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, compared with seven in 10 moderates and liberals. And evangelical Protestants divide about evenly — 46 percent are in favor of removing the tube, 44 percent opposed. Among non-evangelical Protestants, 77 percent are in favor — a huge division between evangelical and mainline Protestants.

Conservatives and evangelicals also are more likely to support federal intervention in the case, although it doesn't reach a majority in either group. Indeed, conservative Republicans oppose involving the federal courts, by 57 percent-41 percent.

These people are a fringe that one should not even call religious because they've turned into power hungry anti-democracy ideological terrorists that have taken hostage our government. By talking about this woman's body as alive and not in a vegetative state that has been medically proven and argued in court, the Democratic party is giving more power them the power they so crave.

This law is a not-so covert abuse of power and it is time to denounce it as such.

Sincerely,
Liza Sabater
Writer
www.culturekitchen.com

Sources :

(1) Baby dies after hospital removes breathing tube :
Case is the first in which a judge allowed a hospital to discontinue care
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/front/3087387

(2) Poll: No Role for Government in Schiavo Case
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=599622&page=1

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