Thanks for this post, Kingattax.
The murder of Terri Schiavo has been a real hurt to me.
There is no way that I can ever forget this, not as long as I live. It has taken away much of the faith that I had in my government and the rule of law.
Congress and the President tried to save her (ineffectually).
The federal courts did all they could to avoid giving her a de novo trial, ignoring Congressional intent in the process.
It was a judicial murder by the Florida state courts, and the attempt to give her a chance in the federal courts were rebuffed by those courts.
It is disgusting and an outrage.
The murder of Terri Schiavo has been a real hurt to me.
There is no way that I can ever forget this, not as long as I live. It has taken away much of the faith that I had in my government and the rule of law.
If depriving of food and water is OK until dead, why not depriving of air. A little too fast death, huh? Deprive all heat... that whole shivering until dead thing... not a pretty picture. Why use a bed to uphold and protect against gravitational forces... Yes, I'm being absurd. All these forces and natures are steps that are to be taken to survive are assumed, and that they are required, by even single cell life without a brain.
Is one required element better to deprive than another, other than to make the depriver, feel less negative toward oneself? Is that what this what this was all about? I'm going to go throw up now.