Hypocrites! Liars! Frauds and Bastards!
See this baby?
George Bush, when governor of Texas, signed a law that would let hospitals pull the plugs on anyone who didn’t have insurance or a trust fund. This week, while the Republicans were masturbating all over themselves at a chance to slaver over the liquefied brain of Terri Schaivo, not one…NOT ONE of them mentioned the fact that Wanda Hudson was fighting to keep her baby on life support. Not one of them mentioned that hospitals have the right to turn off equipment if you’re poor and don’t have insurance. Just like they’ve not mentioned the fact that they’ve eliminated Medicaid and Medicare payments for people in this child’s or Terry Schaivo’s condition. Sucks to be poor in this country. Like the beach signs about shoes and service, the new American motto has become: No insurance, no cash, no healthcare.
So, the rule seems to be, if you can’t be a working, productive slave of the system, the system should be able to “free up your space”. But, if you’re continuing to push money into the system, via an insane insurance racket, well, then surely…we’ll keep your corpse fed and breathing for ya. And considering that the parents in the Schaivo case are being managed by Randall Terry, the man who pickled a fetus, put it in a dress and would wave it in the faces of rape victims on the way into abortion clinics, I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised about his twisted little video where they puppeteer an inanimate body in makeup and parade muscle tics as consciousness.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that disconnecting Sun Hudson may not have been the right thing to do. What I am suggesting is that it’s the height of hypocrisy for these politicians to be beating their chests about the Schaivo case, while ignoring the fact that they and their very own Dear Leader proposed, got and signed legislation that that allows hospitals to overrule parents, guardians, etc if the hospital isn’t going to make a profit on the patient in question.
Wanda Hudson herself said, “the sun that shines in the sky has come down in a flesh and blood body just like yours and mine…Sun is the creator of Sun’s body. Sun came down here looking the way he did for a reason, so man cannot get the glory.”
And then she was committed against her will by hospital staff.
Well, I’d probably be a little unhinged too, considering the week she’s had.
I find it ironic that over 100,000 people a year, and it’s been going on for many, many years, are disconnected from life-support and allowed to die. I don’t get what this Schiavo case has that those 100,000 others don’t have.
I feel the main problem here is that not enough lawyers, politicians and judges get shot every year for sticking their noses in other people’s personal business. It seems to have a sobering effect on those types in Iraq. Stick your nose in, get it shot off.
Amerika! Fuck Yeah!
i’m not ordinarily in favor of the death penalty, but if we’re using it to overhaul the government and judicial system i say it’s high time we got around to some capital punishment!
Yeah, that’s why I keep telling people that this case isn’t about “saving terri”. Those bumlickers in congress couldn’t give a rat’s ass about this woman…but this is a great case to push the “pro-life” agenda. And what a life they want her to have huh? Dead, but fed. Yay.
And yet, try and get some compassion in the right to die cases. Witness what these same bastards did to Dr. Kevorkian. Man, I swear, if something like this, gods forbid, ever happens to me, I fully expect one of my friends to step in and bubble up my IV or something…this is just sick.
I’m right there with you, my brother…right fucking there.
Shakespeare was wrong…the first ones to go are the politicians. Then the lawyers. (Although, in many cases, it will be redundant.)
Yet the newspapers ~ the ones I’ve seen at least ~ say that there has been NO rush of younger people to file Medical Directives and nominate family members or others to serve as legal guardians in the event of just such a situation.
I was very lucky when I had my Big Scare in June ‘99. I had put a DNR (do not resuscitate) on my sign-in form ~ though I have no memory of doing so, it was MY handwriting and quite legible ~ and my family had to call in our family doctor to testify to the hospital staff that we had discussed (he and I) such a situation. He said that nothing I was suffering from at the time couldn’t be treated and largely alleviated, so that I would have good ‘quality of life’ with proper care.
That consultation surely saved my life, and the Medical Directive and Medical Power of Attorney made out shortly afterward kept me perking in 2003. I’m a believer!
Still, the idea of being fought over, like a pack of feral dogs with with a juicy blind calf in their midst, violates all that I deem human and compassionate. With this new set of ‘guidelines’ and mandates taking away ever more of our humaneness, maybe I’ll reconsider the wording and conditions of my Medical Directive someday soon.
Thanks for posting that.
Yeah, given the precedent of this case, I think I’ll have to reword mine as well. Primarily because mine identifies the Harvard criteria for brain death, but it doesn’t really go into a situation like Terri’s.
But I’m glad that doctor was there too!
I’ve just been made so angry by the the right-wing pundits who are just babbling nonsense and the big media who is just feeding the beast. It’s insane. So, um…you’re welcome.
heh.