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Topic: Terri Schiavo Speaks!
Posted By: newport
Subject: Terri Schiavo Speaks!
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:54am
http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/ - Amazing Story


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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:55am
BAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHYA.

If this was serious I was going to make the comment along the lines of "She should just die already, shes wasting time."


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well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30.


Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:12am
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:24am
Originally posted by bluemunky42 bluemunky42 wrote:

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They should remove your feeding tube.


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sporx wrote:
well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30.


Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:37am
hahahahahaahahaha...




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Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:38am
they should not
-edit- wait a minute i have no feeding tube i eat like a real person

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Posted By: rockerdoode
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:48am
i think thats kinda twisted...i mean...its wrong...funny as hell, but wrong...

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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 2:22am
Originally posted by bluemunky42 bluemunky42 wrote:

they should not
-edit- wait a minute i have no feeding tube i eat like a real person


They should give you a feeding tube just to remove it.


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sporx wrote:
well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30.


Posted By: Strife_17
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 5:56am

Originally posted by rockerdoode rockerdoode wrote:

i think thats kinda twisted...i mean...its wrong...funny as hell, but wrong...

indeed it is wrong...



Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:38am
^ Softies

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Posted By: HITMAN 4 HIRE
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:56am
she never spoke at all and never will, the doctors are monitoring her brain functions with a computer system.  the doctors are wasting there time... they're keeping alive a vegetable and thats it.  they can't help her anymore.  except end her life.  it's sad, but true.  god bless her.


Posted By: Fatman Lash
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 7:04am
Originally posted by HITMAN 4 HIRE HITMAN 4 HIRE wrote:

she never spoke at all and never will, the doctors are monitoring her brain functions with a computer system.  the doctors are wasting there time... they're keeping alive a vegetable and thats it.  they can't help her anymore.  except end her life.  it's sad, but true.  god bless her.

She spoke 15 years ago..... anyway. Its funny ut I think ill be seeing you through flames in 20 years for that one lol.

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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 7:37am


Posted By: ScarFace22
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 8:41am
Wow that is so retarded.

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Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 8:42am
Originally posted by The Pope The Pope wrote:

Looks like a 3 way race between me, Terri and that Falwell phony to see who's gonna die first. Who's gonna get to the Pearly Gates first? I'll race ya!





Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:22am
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20050331/ap_on_re_us/brain_damaged_woman_88 - now shes dead

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Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:29am
Originally posted by bluemunky42 bluemunky42 wrote:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20050331/ap_on_re_us/brain_damaged_woman_88 - now shes dead


Kinda puts a whole new view to this thread, doesn't it?


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Posted By: whoknowswho
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:33am
Bet you all feel bad now.


Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:44am
Originally posted by whoknowswho whoknowswho wrote:

Bet you all feel bad now.


Nope.


Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:47am
Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by whoknowswho whoknowswho wrote:

Bet you all feel bad now.


Nope.

Thats cause you all **edited**holes


Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:48am
Originally posted by WGP guy WGP guy wrote:

Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by whoknowswho whoknowswho wrote:

Bet you all feel bad now.


Nope.

Thats cause you all **edited**holes


Nope.




Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 10:53am
Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by WGP guy WGP guy wrote:

Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by whoknowswho whoknowswho wrote:

Bet you all feel bad now.


Nope.

Thats cause you all **edited**holes


Nope.




Let me rephrase that: Most of you arel **edited** morons.


Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:27am
Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by WGP guy WGP guy wrote:

Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Originally posted by whoknowswho whoknowswho wrote:

Bet you all feel bad now.


Nope.

Thats cause you all **edited**holes


Nope.




Well, WGP may have changed his statment.  But ill be the first say your an eff'in moron.


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Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:29am
Why? For being glad that someone who has been rotting away for 15 years finally passed on? Too bad some geniuses had to let her drag on for 13 more days before giving her peace. Good logic.


Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:34am
Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Why? For being glad that someone who has been rotting away for 15 years finally passed on? Too bad some geniuses had to let her drag on for 13 more days before giving her peace. Good logic.


Or maybe somebody who couldn't have the verbal skills to communicate or move was put to death because someone didn't want to deal with her anymore.  Even if it was true, the people making those blog's are moron's just as much as the people that laughed at it, such as you.


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Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:41am
Someone didn't want to deal with her anymore? Good job figuring that one out! If it was me, I'm fairly certain that after 15 years, I would want her to have a peaceful end, and allow everyone else to move on in life.

You are just too far up your own ass to realize that everyone and their brother doesn't have to drop what they're doing and become solemn and cry because someone half a world away was finally put to rest after fifteen years.




Posted By: chettacheez
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:52am
Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:


Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Why? For being glad that someone who has been rotting away for 15 years
finally passed on? Too bad some geniuses had to let her drag on for 13
more days before giving her peace. Good logic.


Or maybe somebody who couldn't have the verbal skills to communicate or
move was put to death because someone didn't want to deal with her
anymore. Even if it was true, the people making those blog's are
moron's just as much as the people that laughed at it, such as you.



Oh shut up.

"Didnt have verbal skills and couldnt move... put to death"

She was brain dead! over 150 doctors diagnosed that she couldnot feel a thing and didnt know what was going on.

How would you like to sit in a bed for 15 years crapping and pissing yourself...How would you like to be the husband that has to watch his wife piss and crap herself.

First off when you marry someone its their opinion if they want to pull the plug, NOT the parents.

The parents just couldnt accept the fact that their daughter was a breathing rock. The husband had to watch his wife suffer for 15 years not to mention he is probably so far in debt from medical bills he probably eats scraps from the garbage.

I am sick of all these protesters whining and crying...Life sucks, deal with it. She was never going to recover, what do you think shes going magically to wake up someday and go to starbucks and get a latte...I think not.







Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:56am
Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making fun of her and then laugh?  Have some respect, and try to say put to rest after you were just making fun of her.....

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Posted By: chettacheez
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:58am
Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making
fun of her and then laugh? Have some respect, and try to say put
to rest after you were just making fun of her.....


Laughing...When did I once laugh?


Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:59am
Originally posted by chettacheez chettacheez wrote:

Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making
fun of her and then laugh? Have some respect, and try to say put
to rest after you were just making fun of her.....


Laughing...When did I once laugh?


aye, chetta was being quite respectful to the cucumber.



dont stab me! rest her soul.


Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:59am
Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Originally posted by Frozen Balls Frozen Balls wrote:

Why? For being glad that someone who has been rotting away for 15 years finally passed on? Too bad some geniuses had to let her drag on for 13 more days before giving her peace. Good logic.


Or maybe somebody who couldn't have the verbal skills to communicate or move was put to death because someone didn't want to deal with her anymore.  Even if it was true, the people making those blog's are moron's just as much as the people that laughed at it, such as you.


her brain was mush... she wasn't supposed to be alive... for 15 years money was just pissed away at keeping a cucumber breathing and keeping her parents happy cause they thought that random nerves firing and making her eyes move and her had grabbing things meant that she was still aware of the things around her!  take a newborn baby and put your finger in its hand... it will grab it... you know why... reflexes... they made the right decision by taking out the feeding tube. 




Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:04pm
Originally posted by chettacheez chettacheez wrote:

Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making
fun of her and then laugh? Have some respect, and try to say put
to rest after you were just making fun of her.....


Laughing...When did I once laugh?


Speaking more towards frozen.  It's one thing to have you views, but then to make fun of a dying (now dead) person is just what makes you human waste.


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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:06pm
a dead person that should have been dead 15 years ago...

edit:  you know what... just come to chat... save us the trouble of posting... i'm in the mood for a good debate.... http://www.paintballchat.net%20 - www.paintballchat.net


Posted By: chettacheez
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:08pm
Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:


Originally posted by chettacheez chettacheez wrote:

Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making
fun of her and then laugh? Have some respect, and try to say put
to rest after you were just making fun of her.....


Laughing...When did I once laugh?


Speaking more towards frozen. It's one thing to have you views,
but then to make fun of a dying (now dead) person is just what makes
you human waste.


You like pissing people off, dont you.

Why am I human waste? You best have a good explanation for this.


Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:26pm
Originally posted by chettacheez chettacheez wrote:

Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:


Originally posted by chettacheez chettacheez wrote:

Originally posted by Heres To You Heres To You wrote:

Even if both of you are right, is that a reason to post a blog making
fun of her and then laugh? Have some respect, and try to say put
to rest after you were just making fun of her.....


Laughing...When did I once laugh?


Speaking more towards frozen. It's one thing to have you views,
but then to make fun of a dying (now dead) person is just what makes
you human waste.


You like pissing people off, dont you.

Why am I human waste? You best have a good explanation for this.


I was talking to frozen, my fault for the miswording.

Why should I come to chat?  So I can get teamed up on by the Tippmann Fraternity?  I've tried having relgious debates in chat, they go nowhere.  All chat is is a club that is slowly trying to rule over the forums.  Look at the forum cops, all the cops with the exception of one or two were all members of chat.  There were people on the "cops" list that didnt keep the language rules themself.  One in particular, if you disputed him with just say **edited** you. 

Either way, I really don't feel like coming into a place where I know whats going to happen.  I actually semi-already agree with you Procarbine.  It's just that when people show no respect to a dying lady and place cruel jokes and laugh, it just starts an argument.


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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:30pm
i just wanted to save the trouble of refreshing the page waiting for a reply... just... easier...

even i let out a giggle when i read the blog... this crap happens too much and honestly shouldn't even be on the news.  And now that she's dead... we're going to hear an uproar of hardcore righties and die-hard christians yelling and screaming that its a human life and blah blah blah...

gg media!

this whole thing was blown out of proportion and its nice to see someone making light of the situation.  is it morally right... no... is it somewhat humorous... yes


Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:30pm
she died today douche bags.

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Posted By: chettacheez
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:35pm
Originally posted by procarbinefreak procarbinefreak wrote:

i just wanted to save the trouble of refreshing the page waiting for a reply... just... easier...

even i let out a giggle when i read the blog... this crap happens too
much and honestly shouldn't even be on the news. And now that
she's dead... we're going to hear an uproar of hardcore righties and
die-hard christians yelling and screaming that its a human life and
blah blah blah...

gg media!

this whole thing was blown out of proportion and its nice to see
someone making light of the situation. is it morally right...
no... is it somewhat humorous... yes



That was the only thing that has made sense in this thread


Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:50pm
Originally posted by oreomann33 oreomann33 wrote:

she died today douche bags.


Yes we know. Read the first page.


Posted By: Dune
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 12:54pm
Wow, she died today...and so did a bunch of other people for many other reasons. I don't see any of them getting a special backing by millions of people and the government.


Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:06pm
Me and my friend iced her, Boondock Saints style. Just like we kill everyone who whores media.

If it wasn't for us, the OJ Simpson trial would probably still be going.

Before you call me human waste, scum of the earth, TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME, etc. Keep in mind that I don't care.


Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:14pm

All I know is that this whole episode confirms my belief that Tom DeLay is not only a partisan hack and a douche, but a hypocrite as well.

Tom DeLay makes even Michael Moore look honest.

(edited to avoid stupid partisan discussion)

(d'oh - too late - quoted!!)



Posted By: Dune
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:14pm
Originally posted by Clark Kent Clark Kent wrote:

All I know is that this whole episode confirms my belief that Tom DeLay is not only a partisan hack and a douche, but a hypocrite as well.

Tom DeLay makes even Bill Frist look honest.

Ouch....count it!



Posted By: Ilovepaintball1
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:17pm
I'm glad she passed on.  Who would want to live like that?  Like others said before, she should have died 15 years ago.

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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:21pm
I would even go so far as to say that she DID die 15 years ago. 


Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:32pm

Ok - look at the top of this poster in the pic.  Anybody else think that is overstating the case, no matter how you feel about this?



Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:35pm


Posted By: chettacheez
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:37pm
Hahaha, So wrong......yet soooo funny!


Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 1:41pm




Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 2:27pm
Those pics are great! I am glad she is gone.

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Posted By: cockersrule
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:20pm
***Removed for Content***

Find another forum to use that language on.


Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:35pm

Originally posted by cockersrule cockersrule wrote:

Some of you guys are......


How did you get that through the filter?



Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:39pm
maybe the stupid <butt> filter is gone?

Hmmm... Wierd, maybe the filter is broken like the star system is...


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Posted By: Bango
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:50pm

**edited**

Nope it's still working.



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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:51pm

Go TT!

 - still curious how he did that...



Posted By: 98c Dude13
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 5:19pm
 Well she didn't talk thats for sure thats probaly just the way the protesters wanted to try and inspire people to put the tube back in. But I am glad she is gone that way she doesn't have to suffer.

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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 5:43pm
Have you ever seen pictures of her before she was brain damaged? Total....hottie.

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Posted By: HITMAN 4 HIRE
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:46pm
Originally posted by Fatman Lash Fatman Lash wrote:

Originally posted by HITMAN 4 HIRE HITMAN 4 HIRE wrote:

she never spoke at all and never will, the doctors are monitoring her brain functions with a computer system.  the doctors are wasting there time... they're keeping alive a vegetable and thats it.  they can't help her anymore.  except end her life.  it's sad, but true.  god bless her.

She spoke 15 years ago..... anyway. Its funny ut I think ill be seeing you through flames in 20 years for that one lol.
i never meant to be barbaric but that was 15 years ago, pal. since then she's been stuck between heaven and earth... it was time for her to move on... get the drift.  i forgive you. 

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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:49pm
Originally posted by BLand BLand wrote:

Have you ever seen pictures of her before she was brain damaged? Total....hottie.


i'd hit it


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Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.


Posted By: HITMAN 4 HIRE
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:53pm
thats sick and twisted

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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:55pm
so **edited**ing a hot chick is sick and twisted

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Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.


Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 6:55pm
HITMAN4HIRE...

Originally posted by xteam02001 xteam02001 wrote:

Originally posted by BLand BLand wrote:

Have you ever seen pictures of her before she was brain damaged? Total....hottie.


i'd hit it


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Posted By: Badsmitty
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 7:56pm

Blast you Koolit, you're stealing from Fark.  Just like I do.



Posted By: TruePaintballer
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 8:00pm
that is so mean...yet I can't stop laughing

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Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 8:03pm
Haha, the girl is looking at the guy with the expression of, He is right...

What does Scott Petersen and OJ have to do with Terry?

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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 8:12pm
the posterboard companies must have been happy when this happened.

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Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.


Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 9:09pm

I am glad that the media coverage will finally die down.

Yes, it is sad, but why should i care?  This happens to hundreds of people everyday.

Remenber Elian Gonzalez?



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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 9:14pm
Originally posted by travis75 travis75 wrote:

 

Remenber Elian Gonzalez?

Apples to oranges?



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Posted By: Da Best
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 8:23am

You guys are sick, other than that I'm speechless about your replies. (and I don't mean sick in the good way)

 



Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 9:15am

The other thing I learned from was that South Park really really rocks.

(ok, I already knew that, but it was thoroughly reinforced)



Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 9:26am
Yeah. I caught that epsiode the other night and I was surprised at how/relavant current it was. Also funny.

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Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 9:53am
To add injury to insult, her parents are selling off the information of everyone who donated to their cause.

For some reason, this doesn't surprise me at all.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/31/schiavo_parents_to_s.html - Link to boingboing article.

The yahoo article cited is pretty much useless, but I couldn't get to the NYTimes article. Could someone here that is registered with them give a summary?


Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 10:21am

NYT Article - ignore stupid formatting.

 

List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: March 29, 2005

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Terri Schiavo's father, Robert Schindler, said he had visited his daughter Monday. At right is Ms. Schiavo's brother, Robert Schindler Jr.

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WASHINGTON, March 28 - The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.

"These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri," says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father. "These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!"

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish.

"I think it's amusing," said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant. "I think it's absolutely classic America. Everything is for sale in America, every type of personal information."

Executives of Response Unlimited declined to comment. Gary McCullough, director of the Christian Communication Network and a spokesman for Ms. Schiavo's parents, confirmed that Mr. Schindler had agreed to let Response Unlimited rent out the list as part of a deal for the firm to send an e-mail solicitation raising money on the family's behalf.

The Schindlers have waged a lengthy legal battle against their son-in-law Michael Schiavo to prevent the removal of the feeding tube from their daughter, who doctors say is in a persistent vegetative state.

Mr. McCullough said he was present when Mr. Schindler agreed to the arrangement in a conversation with Phil Sheldon, the co-founder of a conservative online marketing organization, http://rightmarch.com/" target=_>RightMarch.com , who acted as a broker for Response Unlimited.

"So the Schindlers do know the details," Mr. McCullough said on Monday. How much attention they paid to the matter is hard to assess, he added. "The Schindlers right now know that their daughter is starving to death, and if I ask about anything else, they say, 'I don't want to hear about it.' "

Direct mail and mass e-mailings are ubiquitous fund-raising tools of interest groups on the left as well as the right, and others in the direct-mail business defended the sale of lists like the roster of donors to the Schindlers as a useful way for potential donors to learn of causes that might appeal to them.

Pamela Hennessy, an unpaid spokeswoman for the Schindlers, said she was initially appalled when she learned of the list's existence.

"It is possibly the most distasteful thing I have ever seen," Ms. Hennessy said. "Everybody is making a buck off of her."

Ms. Hennessy, who operates the Schindlers' Web site, http://www.terrisfight.org/" target=_>www.terrisfight.org , said the family had not released any of the names or e-mail addresses gathered there. "Obviously these people are enterprising, and they are taking advantage of this very desperate father," she said.

On Sunday, as the Schindlers gave up on their legal battle and their daughter passed her 10th day without food, others continued to rally supporters and solicit money in an effort to restore the feeding tube.

"This time, we have a real chance to break through the 'roadblocks' that the enemies of life have been putting up in front of us," said a mass e-mailing from RightMarch.com, asking supporters to urge Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene somehow.

The message added: "We're asking you to give a donation to help with our activism efforts to save Terri's life. Battles cost money; resources cost money; media costs money; we could go on, but you get the picture."

Mr. Sheldon - whose father, the Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, has also sent appeals urging support for Ms. Schiavo - apparently played a dual role as a partner in RightMarch.com, which is working with the anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, and as a broker for Response Unlimited. Mr. Sheldon did not respond to phone calls yesterday.

"I think it sounds a little unusual right now because of the situation where she is in the process of dying," said Richard Viguerie, another major conservative direct-mail operator. "If you came across this information six months or a year from now, I don't think you would give it too much thought."




Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 10:29am
Huh, huh, he said assess... Huh, huh.

I need to buy that e-mail list and send them all fake ebay e-mails telling them to give me their bank account numbers.

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Posted By: slacker guy
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 10:36am
funny funny

horray for going to hell

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Posted By: Dune
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 11:47am
Just wait until her parents sign the movie deal that portrays her husband as Satan and her as a martyr.


Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 11:49am
Full of abuse, and the money and the affairs he was having. All fictional, and on the DVD there will be a deleted scene of Mr.Schiavo EATING BABIES!

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Posted By: Dune
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 11:50am
Hahaha, yeah I'll be sure to pick it up. In the extended version there will be scenes of him comparing her to carrots, celery, and other assorted vegetables.


Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 11:56am
But before the accident...

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Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 12:02pm
Thanks, Clark. And yes, I was looking at you when I said that ;-)

You know, there is a bad 'Schindler's List' pun in there somewhere. Ah well, I'm sure Leno will flush it out.


Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 12:04pm
Mhmm.. I looked at that and said. "His name is schindler, its open season on this guy."

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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 7:56pm
Originally posted by Tae Kwon Do Tae Kwon Do wrote:

Originally posted by travis75 travis75 wrote:


 


Remenber Elian Gonzalez?



Apples to oranges?



What do you mean, apples to oranges?


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