List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm (punishment, America)

jamaesi · #1 03-29-2005, 03:08 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/po...print&position=

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WASHINGTON, March 28 - The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.

"These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri," says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father. "These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!"

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish.

"I think it's amusing," said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant. "I think it's absolutely classic America. Everything is for sale in America, every type of personal information."

I find it ironic that people say Terri's husband is just in this for the money.

Jaymes · #2 03-29-2005, 03:14 PM

The irony, it burns!

Feathers in Hair · #3 03-29-2005, 03:41 PM

Ugh, just ugh.

Scuba Pete · #4 03-29-2005, 06:14 PM

This was about Terry alright.

fromthe heart · #5 03-29-2005, 06:19 PM

I can't say I would take that article on blind faith that it's the complete truth. I don't trust the medias take on most things because sensationalism is their game. If Terri's best interest had been served by her husband she would have been turned over -custody wise- to her parents but he seem to be into this power thing of having to be the only one who has any say in what happens to her. I saw her father yesterday on CNN pleading for her life as if she were a death row criminal...being a parent it hurt that the folks who brought her into this world had no way of keeping their child alive because they feel she is still after 11 days responding to them....it all just amazes me...if it were my child I'd probably be in jail...I'd have kidnapped her and run off with her to try to save her and not taken it to the courts who have no family connection in what happens to her. I just find it all horrible and painful to watch.

I'm sorry for the wasted thoughts but it hurts to see this girl die this way.

linwood · #6 03-29-2005, 06:23 PM

Why am I not surprised?

Have the Schindlers given any response as to the reason for this capitalism?

Majikthise · #7 03-29-2005, 06:28 PM

Amazing. At least things can't go any lower.

Majikthise · #8 03-29-2005, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fromthe heart

I can't say I would take that article on blind faith that it's the complete truth. I don't trust the medias take on most things because sensationalism is their game.

Oh, but you believe everything they say about Michel Shiavo.

fromthe heart · #9 03-29-2005, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Majikthise

Oh, but you believe everything they say about Michel Shiavo.

I didn't say that...I don't know who is doing what but I do know a lot of what is said is a bunch of BS...It's just a shame that that girls agony and pain is broadcasted to the world...it's not enough she has been through pure Hell in her short life...I was speaking about what I would have done had she been MY child. I don't side with anyone but that girl laying there dying. Can YOU tell me why she doesn't have the right to try to live??? Perhaps I'm just a stupid person who doesn't understand but her brain stem is healthy and she is NOT brain dead...so why are they KILLING her???