Doug McBurney protesting for Terri
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Yorzhik said:
Personally I'm disinterested in this fellowship week BS, as I don't really "fellowship" with anybody here. (Those I do kinda fellowship with are the outcasts, as it were, so we're already "fellows." Oddfellows, anyway.) If a cat has your tongue, get rid of the **** in boots and say what's on your mind.
Dread Helm said:
Oh. Well have very, patronizingly generous of you.
How much more attention does this tragedy really need? For crying out loud, Dread, it's frontpage and has been that way for a very long time. The last thing it needs is attention. The story has gotten overhyped, people are saturated with it.
Disregarding the Schindler's wishes just shows that these protestors and loud mouths care about their agenda, not about Terri's parents. They will accomplish nothing but make themselves look like the attention-grabbing windbags they already are, and are upsetting Terri's parents even more than they were before (if possible). These idiots with signs getting arrested are red meat, that's it. Sops. And Terri's parents realize they are doing no good whatsoever. They've asked the crowd to simmer down. The crowd refuses to.
That, my friend, means the lunatics are running the asylum.
granite1010 said:Oh. Well have very, patronizingly generous of you.
How much more attention does this tragedy really need? For crying out loud, Dread, it's frontpage and has been that way for a very long time. The last thing it needs is attention. The story has gotten overhyped, people are saturated with it.
Disregarding the Schindler's wishes just shows that these protestors and loud mouths care about their agenda, not about Terri's parents. They will accomplish nothing but make themselves look like the attention-grabbing windbags they already are, and are upsetting Terri's parents even more than they were before (if possible). These idiots with signs getting arrested are red meat, that's it. Sops. And Terri's parents realize they are doing no good whatsoever. They've asked the crowd to simmer down. The crowd refuses to.
It is obvious that you do not care about Terri, but are you saying that YOU care about Terri's parents?
Shimei said:
Shimei, I am not going to repeat myself here regarding what I think should happen with Terri. (Fine, I'll break down; for the umpteenth time her parents should take over her care.)
This disregard for the Schindler's pleas to chill out just shows the most important thing to Randall Terry and Company is getting fifteen minutes. That's pretty callous, and pretty selfish.
wholearmor
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Originally Posted by Zakath
I am also of the opinion that if McBurney didn't have a chance of getting on camera, he probably wouldn't be there.
WA:
If this situation had not been unfolding on camera, Doug McBurney wouldn't have even known about it. I'm pretty sure he wasn't sitting in a director's chair telling the camera operators who to shoot and when.
I am also of the opinion that if McBurney didn't have a chance of getting on camera, he probably wouldn't be there.
WA:
If this situation had not been unfolding on camera, Doug McBurney wouldn't have even known about it. I'm pretty sure he wasn't sitting in a director's chair telling the camera operators who to shoot and when.
wholearmor
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granite1010 said:
The Schindler's not doing more to save their daughter is pretty callous and pretty selfish.
JoyfulRook
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Enough attention so that Terri is no longer in danger.granite1010 said:
They care about Terri more than they care for her parents. To my knowledge her parents and siblings are not being slowly murdered.
I'm sorry her parents are upset but if 300 protestors with dixie cups would have rushed the building, maybe someone could have made a difference. Again, Randall Terry, Doug, and Karl, are not trying to bring attention to themselves, they are trying to bring attention to this poor woman gruesome plight.
First, I'm not your friend. I'm just some guy you debate on the internet with. Second, You are right: Lunatics are running the Hospice (which is what you meant to say
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JoyfulRook
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As I and Shimei have already stated from personal experience, Doug did not do it for the camera. He brought 300 dixie cups and gallons of water for all the protestors to try to take Terri. Doug got arrested for trying to take her water like other before him, and the cameras took pictures of him. It was a good thing he got attention.Zakath said:
JoyfulRook
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I realize that.Zakath said:
Maybe he was.
wholearmor
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Zakath said:
I really don't think that's truly your opinion. You just don't like Doug McBurney from afar. He wasn't mugging for the cameras in the true sense of the word. He agreed with his daughter that someone should give Terri water and he went down there to do just that. Nothing more, nothing less.
Zakath
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In your opinion...Dread Helm said:
How nice of him.
So he watched someone else get arrested on camera, and then jumped at the opportunity for a bit of national media coverage... sounds just like what I was saying, doesn't it?
Why was it a good thing that he got attention rather than Terri Schaivo or the Shindlers?
Zak wrote:
Wouldn't you bring attention to yourself to stop Terri's murder?
Because Terri is being murdered, and nothing so far has stopped her murder. Obviously, the attention Terri is getting isn't the right kind, so how do we change the attention that Terri is getting without bring attention to ourselves? If it could be done, we would do it. But it cannot, so it is good that someone was able to.
Wouldn't you bring attention to yourself to stop Terri's murder?
JoyfulRook
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I would, but Zak's attitude seems to be that he'd jump at the chance to kill her himself.Yorzhik said: