Oh man, I told you guys and gals that being on the wrong side of the Schiavo case was bad for Immortalism. It may even be aiding the enemy. By enemy I mean anyone that would stand in the way of Immortalism and any intrinsic component thereof. To wit, in this case both Stem Cell and all Cloning related research and therapies and Right to Die [needed in cryonics if identity is threatened by brain disorder advance]. I'm probably forgetting something else these scumbags threaten.
I'm a member of PFAW "People for the American Way". I know, the name itself is a Sweeping Generalization, but I didn't give them their name. It's a progressive politics group trying to keep the reigns on out of control radical right wing extremism.
I was looking over their site tonight while getting ready to donate some money to help them with an ad campaign so I clicked on "Right Wing Watch" one of their features. I found this scary as hell shit!
Go here for the whole story.
http://www.pfaw.org/....aspx?oid=18300I've excerpted points below for comment, mine.
Right Wing Watch Online 2005
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April: The Right’s Crusade Against the Independent Judiciary
There can be little doubt that the case of Terri Schiavo inflamed passion throughout the country. And those passions, rather than cooling following her death, have fueled a frightening escalation in attacks on the independence of the federal judiciary by far-right groups who have seized it as an opportunity to pressure Senate Republicans into destroying the filibuster and 200 years of Senate tradition.
Beginning on April 7, 2005 the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration hosted a two-day event entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.” Though the JCCCR is a relatively new organization, it is overseen by well-establish right wing figures such as Jerry Falwell, Rick Scarborough, and Phyllis Schlafly. Befitting its pedigree, the conference attracted a myriad of right wing activists and even several members of Congress who all share a passion for, and a mission to, impose their ideology on the federal court system.
Though the Schiavo case was at the forefront of the panelist’s complaints, it soon became clear that they saw it as merely the most recent act of “judicial tyranny” which has thwarted their agenda.
Tom Delay delivered a tape recorded message to open the conference in which he declared that the judiciary has “run amok” and poses a threat to self-government. He went on to warn that Congress must take action to reign in the judiciary and that such actions must be “more than rhetoric.” [end excerpt]
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Self government? How outrageous! It is the actions of these nutballs that go against the "Grand Ole Party's" historical stance on Self Governance and that relation to States Rights of autonomy! Mr. Lincoln would be thoroughly ashamed, in fact he'd be a Democrat.
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Edwin Vieira, speaking on a panel focused on “Remedies to Judicial Tyranny,” told the audience that Justice Kennedy need to be impeached for his majority opinion in Lawrence vs. Texas because it "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law." Vieira then drew “on the wisdom of [Joseph] Stalin,” noting that Stalin “had a slogan and it worked very well for him whenever he ran into difficulty: 'No man, no problem.'" As the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank pointed out, the full quote is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."
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This punk is alluding to assassinating judges that don't conform to their narrow minded agenda! This is dangerous. Some carzy fool out there will try it. This compounds the verbal incitement from a Republican Senator saying much the same thing this week. This crap has got to be stopped!
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Against a Hostile Backdrop
The “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith” conference was, in many ways, the culmination of weeks of increasingly hostile attacks launched by the Right against the judiciary. Shortly after Schiavo died, right wing figures took to the airwaves to decry the “judicial tyranny” they claimed killed her. Congressman Tom DeLay remarked that Schiavo was the victim of an “arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary” and ominously warned that “the time will come for the [judges] responsible for this to answer for their behavior.”
Others took their outrage one step further and openly accused the court system of murdering Schiavo. The Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly claimed that Florida Probate Judge George Greer had “ruled like a dictator over Terri” and compared him to Dr. Jack Kevorkian while Schiavo’s parents’ attorney declared that “the courts killed her.” The director of Operation Rescue alleged that “the courts of this land have become a tool, in the hands of the devil, by which the culture of death has found access” and failed presidential and Senate candidate Alan Keyes declared that “the judiciary is the focus of evil” in the country today.
James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, also railed against the various courts decisions, noting that “the courts are killing us. Not only with regard to Terri Schiavo, where they literally did kill a person, but what they're doing to democracy.” In a lengthy April newsletter, Dobson compared the courts’ actions to Nazism: “It is eerily similar to what the Nazis did in the 1930s. They began by ‘euthanizing’ the mentally retarded, and from there, it was a small step to mass murder.” A short time later, Dobson went on to compare the Supreme Court to the Ku Klux Klan:
"I heard a minister the other day talking about the great injustice and evil of the men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan, that roamed the country in the South, and they did great wrong to civil rights and to morality. And now we have black-robed men, and that's what you're talking about."Dobson and his allies are not content merely to complain and are demanding action, including deploying the “nuclear option” in the Senate and impeaching judges who issue decisions with which they disagree. In the earlier mentioned newsletter, Dobson called Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy “the most dangerous man in America,” and demanded that he be impeached “along with [Justices] O’Connor, Ginsberg, Souter, Breyer, and Stevens.” He went on to declare that “the makeup of the federal judiciary in the coming years will play a key role” in furthering the ultra-conservative agenda and that, as such, “this fight to end obstruction and restore Senate tradition is critical!” [end excerpt]
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This one probably bugs me the most. One will have to read the following, and forgive me but it is very long, understand my outrage at these, here's a hint, incredibly hypocritical comments. It may require reading at least half of it.
http://www.insider-m...istianMafia.htmHere is good source for intelligence on what the immoral majority are up to:
http://www.yuricarep...mInAmerica.htmlI hope this gets people to understand just how serious the situation is with the current state of affairs in US government. The barbarians aren't "at the gates", they've been inside for years while we've been sleeping. If we don't wake up soon and get this country back on a rational course we'll wake up to the gurgle of our cut throats.
I don't think it's any longer possible to hope that bipartisan support will exist for bringing Immortalism to the mainstream and that everyone will naturally want it. I'm afriad that is naive and does not take into account the hopelessly irrational ideations of a huge number of people American people. These people actually believe they can speed up Bible prohecy by supporting Israel in a manner that will allow for the rebuilding of the temple which the Bible says if rebuilt will herald Christ's return. Such people cannot be reasoned with. Anyone impeding this process is to them in league with he devil. Even suggesting to them they are wrong makes you an agent of Satan. I don't know if any of you have a clue what that means but I've had someone accuse me of such and and it's not a nice place to be. In an instant you are stripped of your humanity, you are made less worthy than an animal and to their thinking death is too good for you.
James
Edited by FutureQ, 15 April 2005 - 07:15 AM.