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Crazy Christians & Terri Schiavo
Ant:
The Crazed Christian Coalition (dubcc member Trauma) has gone completely wacko over Schiavo and is now issuing death threats against anyone involved in the story. The right side of america seems to revel in hypocrisy.
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TAMPA - As Terri Schiavo weakens and legal remedies peter out, tension here is intensifying.
Some activists are making ugly threats, making up "Wanted" posters for lawmakers and handing out the home addresses of judges who rejected legal appeals to keep Schiavo alive.
"I am afraid," said state Sen. Frederica Wilson (D-Miami), who has received numerous death threats by phone and mail because she voted against a measure to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube. "We're talking about the sanctity of life, and [they're] threatening my life."
The nine Republican lawmakers who voted against the measure showed up on anonymous "Wanted" posters that appeared in the state capitol in Tallahassee. State Sen. Nancy Argenziano said one of the "un-Christian" voice mails she's received wished stomach cancer on her.
Guards have been posted outside the politicians' offices.
Police won't discuss their security measures, but Michael Schiavo and Judge George Greer, who has consistently upheld Schiavo's requests to end his wife's life, are under around-the-clock protection and staying out of sight. Both have been the targets of a flood of fury, branding them corrupt and abusive murderers who are flouting God.
"Various law enforcement agencies are aware of the emotions in this case and have taken appropriate actions," said Wayne Shelor, spokesman for the police in Clearwater, Fla., where Michael Schiavo lives.
Popular right-wing Web sites have had to post prominent warnings against threats of violence on their discussion boards after calls for the armed "liberation" of Terri Schiavo from her hospice and comments suggesting that if her husband were taken out of the picture, guardianship would revert to her parents, who want to keep her alive.
People on Schiavo's street in Clearwater have received anonymous postcards saying: "Your neighbor Michael Schiavo is trying to murder his wife."
Gov. Jeb Bush was alarmed enough to call for calm.
"There have been some reports that people are making threatening declarations if this process doesn't go their way," he said. "I urge all who want to help Terri Schiavo to honor her by remaining calm and acting peacefully, even though we are all very distressed by what's happening."
"Even though we may disagree with the courts," he added, "there is no justification for violent acts."
ShadyGuru:
this whole situation is one sticky mess, i'm glad i have no part of it. i think its a shame that so many people are involving themselves in it. Would be a lot simpler if it were just the family in charge
Ant:
finally someone speaks some truth:
Jimmy Cash2120:
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lmao
Sikoticâ„¢:
Seriously man, these people that are compelled to go out and picket and protest are crazy. Do they have lives? It's insanity.
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