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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Tom DeLay on the Terri Schiavo's Death (Translation)

Thursday March 31, 2005
CNN quotes House Majority leader Tom DeLay on Terri Schiavo's death: "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," the Texas Republican said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

Translation: "We know who you are, those of you who didn't back our theocratic plan, and we're going to get you. Maybe not today and maybe not next week, but your names are on our lists and we will be coming for you. Sleep lightly." A Republican leader making threats like this is sickening.

"I never thought I'd see the day when a U.S. judge stopped feeding a living American so that they took 14 days to die." Well, how about the day when a man refused to let his father go on dialysis and let him die? You know, like Tom DeLay did with his own father, just before he participated in a lawsuit against the corporation he claimed was responsible for his father's accident? He managed to see that day.

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