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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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07 May 2005 09:27:09 AM |
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Bill Frist: Doctor Hypocrite, M.D. |
Bill Frist: Doctor Hypocrite, M.D.
May 05
By Allen Snyder
I've lived in Tennessee for just over a decade. I've watched Bill Frist go
from a filthy rich doctor who, despite being a Republican, I
uncharacteristically thought might still make a good Senator to leading the
party, in our apparently single-party system, currently presiding over the
ongoing and escalating corruption, humiliation, and destruction of
Democracy 2.0: The American Version.
Initially, I supported Frist for Senator for the same reason I did Howard
Dean for President in the last 'election' cycle. Although Frist lacks
Dean's passion and charisma, they both have lived large parts of their
lives by the same basic ethical code. Being licensed doctors forces certain
obligations and responsibilities on them, ones that are not so easy to opt
out of given the importance we and they tend to place on their profession.
Doctors are supposed to be all about caring and compassion (the real thing
here, not BushCo's perverted version), alleviating the suffering of others,
doing no harm, promoting healthy lifestyles, positive relationships,
honesty, and respect between the medical community and the patients they
serve.
You'd think that having to play that kind of role with that kind of
all-encompassing and overlapping ethics would permeate into other facets of
one's life. You know, you can't just turn the compassion and caring on and
off like a light. Sadly, Bill Frist has proved me totally wrong.
Since worming his way to the top of the dung-heap that is the neo-fascist
incarnation of the American GOP, Frist has done what many other allegedly
principled Republicans have done (think John McCain); placed Party loyalty
above all else even when it means selling their souls to the proverbial
Devil, enabling the abusers, increasing the global danger level, and
furthering the ruin of the country (well, the ruin of the middle class
anyway - rich folks are doin' just fine). Rather than stick by their
principles and speak out against policies and propaganda they know are
irrational and wrong, they hold their noses and tamely play along - hoping,
it seems, their compliance will result in political dividends.
So while BushCo murders thousands of innocents in Iraq in what are
clear-cut and unambiguous cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity
for which this whole administration should be off to The Hague for trial,
what is Dr. Frist doing?
Nothing. Like a good boy, he has wholeheartedly supported and encouraged
BushCo's Middle Eastern killing spree. For a guy who's supposed to be
concerned with human suffering, he seems not to care too much about Iraqi
suffering.
And bless his heart, Dr. Frist even found the gall to convert his
'humanitarian' trip to the tsunami site (where thousands of the poorest of
the poor had just died) into a political photo-op by ensuring the cameraman
got the destruction in the shot so he'd look like he gave a *****. What do
you wanna bet those phony photos show up just in time for the 2008
Presidential primaries?
And as BushCo forces its abstinence-only nonsense on young schoolchildren
and removes references to condoms, birth control and STDs from the NIH
website, yet again withholding important health information from the
public, what is Dr. Frist doing? Nothing. Apparently, his medical training
involved the irrelevance of these important health issues.
And when his medical training could have been of some real use, by exposing
the Terri Schiavo circus for the rank political opportunism that it is,
what was Dr. Frist doing? Well, he was busily inferring, from a biased
videotape edited by Schiavo's deluded parents, that the conclusions drawn
by every court-appointed doctor since the case began have been completely
mistaken. Apparently, Frist's medical training did not include a single
minute devoted to any controversial issues in Medical Ethics or the
inappropriateness of making long-distance diagnoses about other doctors'
patients.
In case all this isn't bad enough, Dr. Frist ensured the increased
suffering of tens of thousands of children in this country by supporting
deep funding cuts for successful social programs like Food Stamps and Head
Start that routinely benefit these poor soon-to-be serfs. Apparently,
hungry stupid children with no health care is a good thing to likes of Dr.
Frist (probably because they'll be more likely to vote Republican).
And between voting in favor of bankruptcy legislation written by the credit
card industry, (again screwing the poor to help the rich) or permitting oil
drilling in the Alaska Wildlife Reserve for its three or four barrels of
oil (yeah, that'll stop those foreign imports), or remaining silent while
prisoners are shipped overseas for torture-by-the-sea, he still finds
plenty of time to shill the odious lies that pass for BushCo's political
talking points.
Dr. Frist's medical license is just another political tool to be exploited
and propagandized for mass consumption, painting him as somebody he's not
so that the gullible brain-dead crowd who still supports BushCo will, in
2008, blindly and obediently vote to change the name to FristCo. He should
do us all a favor, give up the pretense, and forfeit his medical license.
Allen Snyder can be reached at asnyder111@bellsouth.net. This article is
copyright by Allen Snyder and originally published by opednews.com but
permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so
long as this credit is attached
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