[lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video"

[Michael Dawson]

> For many of us the Schaivo case was only an interesting debate topic;
> Marta Russell sees it literally as a matter of life-and-death.  I think
> Marta believes it it is a small step from the authorities pulling the
> feeding tube on Terri Schiavo, for whatever reasons they did so, to
> those same authorities doing away with Marta Russell because it has
> become too costly to some hospital corporation to keep her alive.

Which makes her reaction all the more unfathomable.  She sides with the very
forces that want to excise all "non-market" not-for-profit spending.  They
aren't rallying around Terri to preserve the sanctity of life.  They are
doing it to further confuse the bubbas.  Read that Republican memo, for
crying out loud!

Michael Schiavo is probably a dirtball, but his side is the one that stands
for individual rights and choice, to the very small extent this case has
anything whatsoever to do with Marta's other disability work.