Give this country another five or ten years down the road it's presently on and this kid would have ended up in a death camp. Except that in our sanctified hypocrisy, we would have called it something else.
Yeah, IMHO, the latest brand of spirit-poison from the Right is selling that well. I'm sure I'm not telling Jesse anything he doesn't already know, because I suspect he tracks this shit better than I do.
But most of the rest of us had better say and do what we can. Starting with the insides of our own heads. The "freeloader" meme and the "taking our jobs" meme are as infectious as smallpox.
Oh, and while I'm thinking about this ...
Immigration policy in this country has ALWAYS been as racist as a convention of sheetheads since the late nineteenth century.
Are you saying that if this was a poor undocumented Canuck that they wouldn't have shipped him off to Canada?
LOL.
Oxymoron. Why on earth would an undocumented Canuck bother with second-rate American medicine when he can do better just by going home?
This is a real easy problem to fix, general amnisty to every one, any one who askes for citizanship gets it. document and legilize eevery one...make sure they are on the tax rolls and give the ma satke in the country...can't make thsi place any worse.
So much for "First, do no harm ..." Or maybe the nuns were thinking of Der Jesus saying, "Suffer the little children ..."
I know I shouldn't be piping up on this topic, but 50% of why Gilly is in the Big All-Day Summer Lawn Party in the Sky was the color of his skin...
...if you can't get a taxi WTF makes anyone think that he could get the proper attention, from the proper people?
Nuns.
I got nothing else.
Oh dear god....
The "good" nuns knowingly sent a boy to his death.
Between the unrelenting institutionalized racism, the war on working people, and the rapidly enlarging police state, I fear for my country. It's a very evil place that banishes a boy to a certain death.
Faith-based compassion, my ass.
THIS is why religious institutions should be taxed and given NO special treatment by our government.
This institution's actions were racist, hatefilled, and not anything that I would associate with Christian love. But then again, so much of what the religious "right" does these days has very little do with the message of their savior. It's all about the money they can raise from their beleeevers, and from the government.
This is another Republican failing, pure and simple.
I have NO respect for the church, for any religion any longer, when church members can do shit like this and get away with it.
Goddamn racist nuns.
this is exactly one of the reasons i am no longer a catholic...the most important reason however is the boy loving priests and what they have done to these boy-men...utterly sickening and yet they have been awarded by the popes in rome...utterly beyond belief..
What does Jen mean?
It sounds like I missed half Gilly's story, and...I thought I'd read everything. What?
Don't dare miss the Schiavo aspect to this story.
Human life is sacred!*
(*Unless non-white, non-Christianist, non-wealthy, or otherwise non-approved.)
tata,
Racism is institutionalized in this country and Gilly was as much a victim of it as every other person of color. Would he have gotten better and more timely health care if he'd been a white guy? Why do you think I'm asking?
Then we can talk about the hoops women have to go through to be taken seriously by male doctors......
Melanie, cut the condescension. Jen seemed to be referring to specific events, and a specific story. I thought I'd read every word on Gilly's illness as it was published but apparently not.
So...what happened?
Out of respect and at the wishes of the Gilliard Family, the Group News Blog has nothing further to say on the issue of Steve Gilliard's death.
Bona fide media inquiries may be directed to me.
Further background information may be found at Another Loss...
We respectfully ask that people not take this conversation any further. We've lost him. We all miss him. It continues to hurt and will no doubt hurt for a long time to come.
Ask yourself -- would knowing more about the details of Steve's death make your pain any less?
There wasn't ANYTHING any of you could have done. Everything that the people on the spot at the time felt could be done was done.
At least two to three times a week -- it used to be two to three times a day -- the overwhelming sense of our loss hits me. And I use the word hits because it feels precisely as if I've been struck.
Breathe. Take a deep breath. Hold it. Then let it out, slowly. Then breathe again. Hold it. Let it out, slowly. Now one more time, breathe in deeply. Hold it. Slowly, breathe out.
It helps to do this with your arms extended straight out to your sides even with your shoulders, palms facing up to the sky. Something about that physical position of having your arms extended outwards to your sides and your palms facing up while breathing slowly and mindfully, forces your body to slow down and you to come back to yourself.
It is the fastest, quickest way to become semi-sane again I know. Works on damn near anyone in three, I say again, three breaths.
So... go ahead. Put your arms out to your side more or less even with your shoulders (my elbows usually end up a little crooked) and your palms facing up. Now slowly, three deep breaths in, and three out.
*waits*
k.
Thank you.
I, Jen, and the rest of us here at GNB thank you for caring so much. But there's nothing we can tell you now. Right now what is needed is time, time for Gilly's family to heal.
Some day I imagine everything will be told. Till then...
Thanks again,
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