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March 28, 2005
Oh, That School Shooting.
Well, right on cue, Bush reads into the microphone about the second-deadliest school shooting since Columbine:
President Bush broke his public silence on Saturday about the deadliest U.S. school shooting in six years, touting the government's response "at this tragic time" after some American Indian leaders complained he paid little attention to the rampage.Bush's delayed public reaction to the shooting stood in contrast to his swift and high-profile intervention earlier this week to try to prolong the life of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman in Florida whose feeding tube was removed.
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Bellecourt cited Bush's decision to break off his Texas vacation to sign emergency legislation on Monday that permitted federal courts to consider appeals by Schiavo's parents to force the reconnection of the feeding tube.
"He does not have any problems flying in to restore the feeding tube to Terri Schiavo. I'm sure if this happened in some school in Texas and a bunch of white kids were shot down, he would have been there too," Bellecourt said.
Let me also predict that, given the widespread criticism of the incredibly callous initial response to the December tsunami, the U.S. will make a large pledge for the today's earthquake off of Sumatra, even if this one does not cause a tsunami, or anywhere near the damage of the first one. (Which I'm all for, as long as it is not simply a shifting of money from one set of victims to another. And while I'm really disgusted by the current hierarchy of victims, with sub-Saharan Africans being treated as the least-worthy, it does not make any of the "higher-valued" victims any less victims.)
Posted by zeynep at March 28, 2005 07:57 PM
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heres a scenario: bulimia is highly correlated with sexual abuse, especially childhood sexual abuse. the father of terri schiavo will not let his daughter die. he is perhaps consumed with guilt over something he did, and can't face that his sexual violations have essentially killed his daughter. nobody knows about this, it will never come out. in fact, i made it up myself, but im not so sure its not true.
Posted by: boohoo at March 29, 2005 02:24 PM
i predict that your predictions about US giving money for the latest earthquake victims is wrong.
:-).
Posted by: tsunami? at March 29, 2005 07:04 PM