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• Friday, February 9, 2007 12:18 PM

  Protecting The Right to Privacy is the Issue

  What amazes me is that the same people who will protest the family's decision, and organize campaigns to shame them, are the same folks who are in favor of wars where thousands of innocents are killed for the oil industry, and say those who protest it are unpatriotic.

  I think it's time for liberals to start to fight back against these morons. They have basically been running the country for the last fifty years by default, i.e. decent folks who don't want to live in hypocracy are fed up and don't vote.

  I've emailed the letter writer (not a subscriber) who used salon to put out their message of shame that I resent their attempts to intrude upon my right to choose what is best for myself and my family. If their "heart goes out" to the family--why don't they leave them alone?

  In my book, they are primitive, arrogant, ignorant and hypocritical--and don't know what they are talking about until it happens to them and they are faced with some similar decision. Meanwhile, don't try to force your agenda down my throat, or those who are currently faced with such a decision.

  It is already evident from some of the posts what this family is exposed to by nature of the case being made public, and while I don't think that can or probably should be restricted, I think this reactionary "movement" needs to be fought by those who know better, or they will try to extend their control further in matters that are personal, and need to be protected in a civil society.

  I am not sure any other issue makes me more angry, or I think is of greater importance in serving the rights of the individual at this time in this country.

  —Ben Sen Read Ben Sen's other letters
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