Reichert Revisited

Opening morning of the 2008 Republican State Convention, Dave Reichert gave a speech specifically designed to taunt Ron Paul supporters, claiming, over and over again, loudly, that the Party was united behind Illegal Amnesty and Environmentalist Energy Rationing (Cap and Trade) proponent John McCain (who had not yet been nominated, even illegally). He first drew boos. Liking that, he repeated himself, working to drive a wedge into the heart of the Party. Then a chant of simply “RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL” shook the convention floor. The chant was so loud, audio of the event was altered by officials of the State Party prior to public posting to erase the record.

But who, besides a taunter/divider, is former Democrat-supporting (Ron Sims for instance) Dave Reichert?

We re-publish the following article to referesh your memory:

“I helped starve Terri Schiavo to death!” Dave Reichert brags.

I’ve really tried to hold my peace about Dave Reichert’s 8th Congressional District race. But the man himself just made that impossible. In TV advertising trying to defend himself against Darcy Burner’s revelation that he is an unprincipled pragmatist, Mr. Reichert now opens his mouth and removes all doubt. But it is much worse than that.

“I opposed Bush on Schiavo” is how it is worded in the ad. He means it to separate himself from the President, as if running in a Democrat district. He’s making it a Democrat district. On March 20, 2005 Dave Reichert voted to remove unconvicted (indeed, even un-accused) Terri Schiavo’s Constitutional right to a trial before her execution and to allow her to be forcefully prevented from eating or drinking until she died. Had she actually been convicted of something, she would have been treated more mercifully. What Dave did to Terri was, beyond all doubt, cruel and unusual, even if she had been a murderer. But Terri was innocent of any crime. Dave Reichert is now bragging about this to win re-election to the U.S. Congress. Terri was sacrificed on the altar of her husbands desire to pocket the rest of her insurance settlement and live it up with his adulterous girlfriend – and the desire of Death Faction legal advocates to profit financially by facilitating that murderous endeavor.    How could such a thing happen in America? The facts: A mysterious accident, the details of which are known only to the husband, Michael Schiavo, resulted in a head injury (and 13 fractures) that reduced Terri to a mentally retarded woman who could not speak nor swallow. Care and rehabilitation of such victims is routine. Killing such a person is explicitly prohibited by Florida law. Nevertheless, a judge in the pocket of the Death for Profit Lobby, George Greer, in clear violation of State and Federal Law, ordered her to be killed, slowly and painfully, at the behest of her avaricious husband. Her other family fought the system desperately and Terri’s cause became the central conflict between the Life and Death political factions of America. Attempts to stop the pissant judge and give Terri her lawful due process went all the way to the U.S. Congress. Dave Reichert was one of only 5 (out of 232) Republicans in the House to vote for the slow execution. He was, however, saluted for this service by far-left Democrat sites like this.      What finally happened to Terri? Terri Schiavo was tortured to death, as Reichert had voted, over about a two-week period. The last friends to see her found her desperate, reaching out for help and in agony, until her torture/executioners even found it necessary to bar her loved ones from seeing her, attempting to keep the horrific details concealed. But since Terri died of thirst it is no secret what Dave Reichert intended to do to her based on medical study : First, Terri’s saliva became thick and foul-tasting; her tongue clinging irritatingly to her teeth and the roof of her mouth …. A lump formed in her throat … She felt severe pain in her head and neck. Her face felt full due to the shrinking of her skin. Her hearing was affected, and she may have begun to hallucinate… but she had been robbed of speech and cound not tell anyone. Then came the agonies of a mouth that ceased to generate saliva. The tongue hardened into what some have described as “a senseless weight, swinging on the still-soft root and striking foreignly against the teeth.” Teri, the literal prisoner of Reichert and his liberal allies, could just rock and moan. Next came the “blood sweats” phase, involving “a progressive mummification of her initially living body.” Her tongue swelled to such proportions that it squeezed past her jaws. Her eyelids cracked and her eyeballs began to weep tears of blood. Her throat became so swollen that breathing became difficult, creating an incongruous yet terrifying sense of drowning. Finally … there was a kind of living death. “Her lips disappeared as if amputated, leaving low edges of blackened tissue; her teeth and gums projected like those of a skinned animal, but the flesh was black and dry as a hank of jerky; her nose was withered and shrunken to half its length, and the nostril-lining showing black; her eyes became set in a winkless stare, with surrounding skin so contracted as to expose the conjunctiva, itself as black as the gums…; her skin generally turned a ghastly purplish yet ashen gray, with great livid blotches and streaks. One day Dave Reichert will stand, probably next to Gary Ridgeway, and answer for this atrocity to a much higher authority. But today he should have to give account to Republican voters. If there ever was a single act by a politician that deserved to guide a righteous voter, this is it. This was not an abortion. This was a 41 year old woman who wanted life in a State where even voluntary euthanasia was illegal. When he ran for his House seat just two years ago Dave Reichert told us he was “pro-life.” Bill Clinton, himself, never told a bigger whopper. It remains as I wrote in 2005. For those of us who have undertaken battle, in the political sphere, to overthrow the scourge of killing-for-profit there is a clear mandate, at the very least, to place a mark on the advocates of homicide. Mark them. David Reichert, I mark you. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” The afternoon of Friday, March 18, 2005, at the behest of her murderer husband and Dave Reichert, killers began on Terri Schiavo a method of slow torturous execution that is illegal to use on a dog. Let us never forget what they have said and done. They must not prevail in the war for our nation’s spirit. Moreover, they must not prevail in the war for the heart of the Republican Party. The Schiavo Murder: Autopsy Cover-up Terri Schiavo died in agony Remove My Tube! Being “brain-dead”

Updated  October 21, 2006   Written by Doug Parris

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