Palin recently posted the following on her Facebook account; the headline is courtesy of Talking Points Memo. Palin's lies are becoming typical of the wingnut anti-healthcare crowd but this one goes beyond the pale.

Palin: Obama's "Death Panel" Could Kill My Down Syndrome Baby

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."

Her comments reach much farther than just the crazy rhetoric. I have a twin sister that was born with Profound Down's Syndrome; the worst type there is. Since my parents deaths over the last 15 years I have become her sole guardian.

I recently testified for the Federal Department of Justice in a contempt hearing against the State of Tennessee for their treatment of mentally retarded citizens. Yes, it took the Federal Government prosecuting Tennessee (where my sister lives) for the last 17 YEARS to protect the civil rights of the mentally retarded within that State.  This doesn't sound like the Federal Death Committee which Palin has conjured out of thin air. Without the Federal Government fighting for the rights of mentally retarded citizens, many States would have completely ignored the civil rights of these individuals.

Palin's irresponsible statements strike at the fear of every parent or sibling of a severely mentally retarded person; that the State will abandon the services that allow for a decent life for these citizens. I know the frustration of dealing with these issues. I know the fear of responsibility for someone that needs extensive care beyond what a family can provide. To be responsible for such a family member is an overwhelming emotional burden.

Thankfully, the Federal Courts and the Federal Government are there for the protection of everyone's civil rights.

Now we have a new heartbreak to deal with; someone as crazy as Palin making outrageous statements conjuring the threat of death to our loved ones. Could we possibly add more fear and emotional burden onto the loved ones of the mentally retarded?

Palin is exploiting her child for personal and political gain. This goes well beyond the boundaries of acceptable social behavior. Where are the outraged mainstream media at someone that could even contemplate making such mean, hateful, sociopathic comments on a national stage?

Have we become a country where the mainstream media actually rewards people for crazier and crazier behavior just to spice up the mainstream media ratings? Our journalists should be calling out the Palins and Limbaughs of the world for their patent lies and distortions and abhorrent behavior. In most cases, the media mentions the statements without comment or correction of the facts.

To only find solace from Palin's rant from a very few well read and informed people is not very reassuring about our society. Where are the huge numbers of our citizens crying out against her behavior?  Then, of course, we have the wingnut media sites like FOX News that support her behavior and actually perpetuate the lies and distortions of the truth.

Yes, I am feeling offended and emotionally attacked but imagine how my sister would react if she only could do so. What words would she speak to condemn Palin and Limbaugh to the hell that they deserve? Would the town hall meeting crazies say to her face what they are shouting now in anonymity?

 Where then can I find some measure that would impose the suffering onto Sara Palin that she so deserves for her behavior?