{"id":3848,"date":"2005-03-29T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3848.html"},"modified":"2005-03-29T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T17:08:15","slug":"probably-not-what-supporters-had-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/probably-not-what-supporters-had-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Probably not what supporters had in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult not to sympathize with the pain Terri Schiavo’s parents are feeling; losing a child must cause anguish that I can’t even imagine. Having said that, this<\/a> hardly seems like the appropriate way to deal with their sorrow.<\/p>\n

The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.<\/p>\n

“These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler’s legal battle to keep Terri’s estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri,” says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo’s father. “These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!” <\/p>\n

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s amusing,” said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant. “I think it’s absolutely classic America. Everything is for sale in America, every type of personal information.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The family probably has legal bills and expenses. Fine. But well-intentioned people have opened their hearts and their wallets to this family, and few of them expected to have their personal information sold.<\/p>\n

Pamela Hennessy, the Schindlers’ unpaid spokesperson, said, “It is possibly the most distasteful thing I have ever seen. Everybody is making a buck off of her.” While I sympathize with the family’s loss, it’s hard not to disagree with Hennessy’s disgust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult not to sympathize with the pain Terri Schiavo’s parents are feeling; losing a child must cause anguish that I can’t even imagine. Having said that, this hardly seems like the appropriate way to deal with their sorrow. The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}