Post #116194 by Bamboo Dude on Wed, Sep 22, 2004 8:25 PM

Thanks, Turbogod, for stepping in for me...you got it exactly right. I have never felt that a huge distinction between investigative reporting and bullshit has ever existed...nothing personal johntiki.

When I was in high school, my father, a pediatrician, witnessed another doctor, an ob-gyn, suffocate an infant who survived an attempted saline abortion performed on the 17 year old daughter of a local high school principal. The pregnacy was in the third trimester. Because it is so easy to block an infants airway while 'pretending' to check for a pulse, the infant died before my father realized what had happened. My father decided to do the right thing and go to the authorities with his accusation, something that just was not done at the time...doctors do not 'rat out' other doctors...and the whole thing became a national debate over abortion rights. Sometime before the trial, Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, interviewed my father, as I watched on, for an expose' on the case. Instead of the episode being about an ob-gyn who had attempted an illegal abortion, AND WHO, SUBSEQUENTLY, STRANGLED THE SURVING INFANT TO DEATH, the 'spin' became: "Isn't someone who contracts with a doctor for an abortion entitled to a dead baby?" The experience left me with little trust of the media.

I know this was long winded, and not on topic, so let me say this about Cat Stevens...he is a person who has made choices in his life based on strong personal convictions. His music was born while in prison, and his message has always been about peace and human understanding...not too much different from our beloved John Lennon. I am amazed that people on this forum are in a rush to condemn a man who they probably know only via this recent episode while trying to enter the country. All I can say is that I encourage you all, in light of the above story, to withhold judgement until all the facts eventually come out.

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