The Day the American Eagle Was Castrated-(Powerful!-no man-on-white-horse for Terri Schaivo)

RIGHT2THINK.COM ^ | APRIL 1, 2005 | KERRY L. MARSALA

[CHARLITE]

How do you start an article on the subject that is so surreal that it has to be unbelievable? Government-sanctioned murder of an innocent woman has just completed its course. What are we going to do? Tyranny by our judicial system has just executed what I never thought could happen in the United States of America. A woman, who was brain-damaged, not dying, was murdered. It’s true our country has completed its journey into the “Orwellian” state.

Help me understand this; we have a president who can enact war upon another country without congressional blessing, but President Bush couldn’t intervene and stop a murder of an innocent life? Do our current judicial, executive and legislative branches have any moral fiber left within their bones? Where was congress? Where was the governor of Florida? Where were the human rights organizations? Where were the women’s rights organizations? Where, tell me where? Where was the hero? Where were Terri’s constitutional rights? I can tell you where everyone and everything was… they were laying under the knife of cowardice castration… our American government officials and our courts haven’t any balls.

Today I am ashamed to be called an American… I am ashamed of our country… and I am ashamed of the human race. What does the murder of Terri Schiavo really say about our morality and us? Think about it…

American officials, your running and hiding speaks volumes about who you are and what you’ve become, it would appear you've become cowards. F.Y.I .American officials… frankly most of the American people don’t walk in lock step with you and your heartless cruelty.

We weren’t talking of a person who was dying, other than swallowing food and liquid, Terri’s bodily functions were in full working order. We weren’t talking of “unplugging” a person who was living within their last few days. We just allowed our government to murder an innocent human being, because she was an inconvenience to her estranged husband and a judicial system caught up in the power of their long flowing black robes.

We have denied an innocent food and water, but we’ll fight to give food and water to illegal aliens who cross our borders. We give food and water to those at Guantanamo Bay. Even now, we are giving food and water to Saddam…a tyrannical, murderous thug.

What are we going to do as a nation? Are we going to warehouse Terri’s death, like our judicial system and government has done? Will her unjustifiable murder become merely a footnote at the bottom of our history books?

Minutemen are rising to defend our borders against those who are pouring into our country illegally… where are the “Minutemen” for the innocent. For all that is just, true and right, we cannot let this ever happen again. It should have never occurred in the first place. Are we really willing to shelve this event as nothing more than a “private family matter?”

When did defending another human being from murder become a matter known just as a private family matter? If defending another living human being from murder is just private, then why did we go to court over the Scott, Laci and Connor Peterson case? If Scott Peterson wanted to rid himself of a burden, so he could continue his fling, what business was it of ours? Live and let DIE…!! this is our judiciary’s new motto.

I really don’t want to see this issue become a tool for the divisive political drawing of sides. This issue of killing an innocent life cannot become a political or religious issue. A person who hasn’t written expressed instructions, who isn’t dying and who isn’t brain dead doesn’t deserve the liberals or the conservatives turning this issue into a mangled mess of political fodder. Due to this horrific occurrence though, I have to ask all of those who say they serve the people, how can you look at yourselves in the mirror and like what you’ve become?

If President Bush truly means that the, “essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak and in cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in favor of life,” then there is much work that needs to be done. Our reformation not only needs to take place in the oval office but within the halls of justice and across our land. There was anything dignified in the murder of an innocent woman.

There should be dignity in our passing…Terri Schiavo wasn’t allowed that dignity. She wasn’t even allowed last communion, nor the comforting hands of a mother’s love to caress her cold, limp hand as she passed from this injustice into the arms of the Creator.

Terri has been murdered and others like her are now in grave danger. Its past time to move the masses to change what has become anarchist judiciary terrorism. The age of the “Black Robes” needs to be reigned in and our system must demand the balance of government to come back and regain itself to the status of what our founding fathers set forth under the United States Constitution.

We must put a stop to the castrating of our American Eagle and the abuse of our freedoms that we say we all hold so dear. What are we the people going to do about this now?

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"Today I am ashamed to be called an American…"

No, it just happened here. And it was lowlife, subhuman, liberal-progressive-demokkkRAT-commie-nazi-fascist garbage, hate-America, left-wing wacko filth, who did it. Conservatives were totally outgunned; we know who the enemy really is, now, C.

(((:::adjusting sights:::)))

"...and I am ashamed of the human race."

Refer to my previous answer.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

(((:::BOOM:::)))

[telltaleheart]

We can't unring the bell. The horse is out of the barn. The milk is spilt. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall.
Et cetera, et cetera.

An abomination has been done in the US of A. An abomination of desolation. All those of us who wanted and tried to stop it can only duck and cover, tuck and roll. The die is cast, the stage is set, the curtain opens. This country, this government, have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Woe is us.

[lainde]

bttt

[PatrioticRose]

The only way I could think of to make a statement and "say" anything about how disappointed I am in the Republican party and their complete lack of action was to call and have my name removed from their list. I am now officially listed as an Independant.
Maybe if enough Dems and Republicans are disgusted enough to make a change it might wake them up. Maybe.......

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I'm thinking about a change in registration, too, PR.

[St.VincentPaul]

Bonnie Tyler asks:

"Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where's the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?"

Sorry Bonnie, no. It seems when Ron Reagan fell to Alzheimer's, American men also forgot what it means to be a MAN.

[CHARLITE]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/rosenblum_schiavo.php3

If Michael Schiavo had met Yacov the Jerusalemite Here is a terrific comparison to the Schaivo story, by Jonathan Rosenblum from today's Jewish World Review.

Excerpt

"My only question for Michael Schiavo is: Why insist on retaining the power to kill your wife while morally compromised by your desire to remarry and your position as heir to the remainder of her $1.2 million malpractice judgment? Why not simply divorce her? But I would fear to live in a society that sets the procedural and evidentiary bar so low for the termination of life as the state of Florida has done in the case of Terry Schiavo. And I'm proud to live in a religious Jewish society in which Yacov Tabak's efforts on behalf of his beloved wife are the societal ideal.

Only a society that still believes in the human soul, in something ineffable that cannot be expressed in terms of EEG's, can produce a Yacov Tabak, or for that matter a JewishWorldReview.com's Marianne Jennings, professor of Legal and Ethical Studies at Arizona State University, who has lived for more than a decade with a daughter who depends on a feeding tube and who now has a mother in the same state. "Eliminating them," she writes here, "would mean no more diaper changes, no more feeding bags, and no more '1-2-3 lift!' as we struggle to rotate their positions. But if I lost my Claire or my mother, I would spend a lifetime longing to be of service again, to have just one more time to feel the warmth of those neurologically curled fingers."

And a society which defines life only in terms of the capacity to experience a certain set of pleasures is on the road towards elimination of those who lack a certain societally determined "quality of life." Indeed the killing by starvation of a sentient, responsive woman, who requires no more life support than an infant, is already well down the road.

[PatrioticRose]

I thought about it last night and DID it today. If enough people make the change in the next week or so, maybe it will make both parties take a look and realize they royally screwed up.

[mjtobias]

Section 2 of the constitution of the state of Florida states :

All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty ... No person shall be deprived of any right because of ... physical disability.

Jeb Bush had all the authority he needed to remove Terri from those who would kill her and save her life. Indeed, his oath of office requires it :

I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the state of Florida ...

[harpo11]

Michael Schiavo got awarded $300K for his loss of consortion.

I wonder what Terri Schindler Schiavo got for her loss of consortion?

The only answer I can come up with is state sactioned torturous murder.

[kaos]

Though I'm a lifelong, third-generation Democrat, I share your outrage at this horrific "imposed death" (to use the terminology of Ralph Nader, one of the few lefties who had the spine to take a stand on this issue). I used to frequent a lot of left-leaning forums, but I just can't take it anymore, because so many people are flaming those of us who see Michael Schiavo for the demon he is.

I can't stomach witnessing my fellow Democrats being so NON-Democratic. Sticking up for a man doing such horrible things to a disabled woman and her family is NOT Democratic. The patriarchal attitude that a man should be able to decide whether a woman lives or dies is NOT a feminist attitude.

And that's why this article inspired me to create an account here. These words ring so very true: "Where were the human rights organizations? Where were the women’s rights organizations?" I would add, where are the disabled people's rights organizations? Is Ralph Nader the only man among us, who cares about the rights of a profoundly disabled person?

Though I support a person's wishes IF they wish to die, I don't support death being enforced upon a patient. I believe that each American's right to make his/her own decisions should be protected, NOT put into the hands of a judge or a spouse who wishes to dispose of you.

[kaos]

And it was lowlife, subhuman, liberal-progressive-demokkkRAT-commie-nazi-fascist garbage, hate-America, left-wing wacko filth, who did it. Conservatives were totally outgunned; we know who the enemy really is, now

In all fairness, there are a lot of us Democrats who are completely appalled by this...even though a lot of Democrats have also been taken in by Michael Schiavo's B.S. The judge who mandated this is, IIRC, a Conservative...even though a lot of Conservatives are outraged by his actions.

In other words, there are people on both sides of the aisle who are guilty, and that's why we need people on both sides of the aisle to fight together, toward making sure this never happens to anyone again.

[kaos]

The only way I could think of to make a statement and "say" anything about how disappointed I am in the Republican party and their complete lack of action was to call and have my name removed from their list. I am now officially listed as an Independant. Maybe if enough Dems and Republicans are disgusted enough to make a change it might wake them up.

I'm in the process of doing the same thing, registering as an Independent. The cowardice on the part of both parties was truly contemptible.

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Then... you're the first one I've ever met, k.

Still skeptical you're not a troll.

Feh.

[Dubya_4ever_USA]

This is sad and shameful that neither the Executive branch nor the governor of Florida, both members of the party in favor of life, would take direct action on this matter. You're right, we feed and shelter terrorists, but won't save Terri.

[Eastbound]

"An abomination has been done in the US of A. An abomination of desolation."

With the tacit approval of all three branches of the federal government and the government of the state of florida.

We just lost the torch.

[schmelvin]

An abomination has been done in the US of A. An abomination of desolation. All those of us who wanted and tried to stop it can only duck and cover, tuck and roll. The die is cast, the stage is set, the curtain opens. This country, this government, have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Woe is us.

I spent the last two weeks physically sick and crying my eyes out over Terri. This wasn't just compassionate grief either, it was something much, much deeper than that. It was a grieving in my spirit. (And, for the record, I am no crybaby.)

I couldn't shake this very strong impression that this was a test directly from God, and that it was our final test... and we failed. I thought I was the only one who felt this way, until I began surfing around the net and saw that many others got the same impression. A number of people, even non-religious ones, said they were overwhelmed with grief and dread beyond anything they'd ever experienced before. They firmly believe that America's fate and Terri's fate were somehow linked, and that the moment she passed away God pulled the plug on us and will now allow America to slowly & painfully waste away and die too.

Some Christians are saying "because America's so in love with death, now death is what God will give us". They also say that since we judged by the law with no mercy, our nation is no longer under grace, and from now on God will judge America by His Law with no mercy.

I know there are also people who think this kind of talk is hysterical nonsense. They say, "Get a grip. She wasn't Jesus Christ or the Pope or Christopher Reeves or anyone who really mattered." But, Terri did matter. She mattered very much to God. And, I really do believe that what happened to her was the last and final straw that made God finally wash His hands of America, just like all those who played Pontius Pilot here tried to wash their hands of Terri.

I don't think it was any accident that this occurred during Easter. I don't think it's any accident that the Pope was placed on a feeding tube at this particular time. I don't think it's any accident that Terri's plight received so much news coverage that you'd have to be living in a cave not to be aware of it. This was a loud and clear, in-our-face, test with our very survival as a nation hanging in the balance, IMHO.

I also think Satan was well aware of the stakes and did everything he could to end her life. The forces aligned against Terri were unbelievably powerful. And, American Christians were not in any way prepared to do battle; the "Church of Laodicea" got thrown around like a rag doll and stomped.

Like many others I'm not only angry with Michael Schiavo, Felos, Greer, the Dems, the euthanasia proponents, and the police who spent two weeks playing concentration camp guard, I'm also very angry with the Bush brothers, Congress, the higher courts, the media, and my apathetic fellow Americans who didn't even bother to investigate the facts.

In fact, I'm actually more angry with those who should've known better, than I am with "the usual suspects".

[DameAutour]

I believe you kaos. My Dad who is a Democrat feels the same way you do.

Quite frankly, there were a lot of conservatives along the way who failed Terri. Judge Greer, by all accounts "conservative". Judge Birch. Congress and to a certain extent, Jeb Bush.

The problem is, are the Democrats who are outraged by this murder going to speak up? Is Ralph Nader going to pursue this as passionately as protecting the environment? Is Jesse Jackson going to stick around the way he would if she were black? Are the disabled groups going to make this their cause celebre, or are they going to go back to persecuting small town bars that don't have handicapped parking?

I know the pro-lifers and other conservatives are going to stay on this. But who is going to cross the party lines?

[An American Patriot]

"have my name removed from their list. I am now officially listed as an Independant.


Beat you to it--by about 30 years. But of course, I don't know how old you are.

When we "bugged out" of Vietnam and that spineless (President) Ford refused to help our Vietnam allies (as he was obligated to do according to the Peace Accords) and the North (Vietnamese) overran the South, leading (directly and indirectly, when once includes the genocide that took place in Cambodia) to the imprisonment, torture, wholesale slaughter, etc, of over a million people) I tore up (symbolically) my "R" card and have since then, been an “I.”

I spent 18 months there in Military Intelligence, and counted as "friends and acquaintances" many, many Vietnamese. I'll never know what happened to them--although, as they were working with ("cooperating," don't you know) us, I fear, the worst.

The "R's" caved to political pressure from the MSM, Anti-War Movement, (including and in no small part to that “Traitor,” Kerry), Libs, etc. and that was the "birth" of the Modern Liberal Movement and their power trip, until Newt came along.

Nevertheless, in spite of (after 40 years of wandering in the desert) "we" finally got control of both Senate/House and Pres., many, if not most, "R's" continue to act as if they were still in the minority and at the first sign of demagoguery from the MSM and libs, they run and cower under their beds.

That is not to mean that they should exert their power as the Dims did and simply steamroll any opposition or act in an arrogant fashion, but, they need to begin to reflect the will of the people (who they claim to represent) and ignore the "nattering nabobs of negativism."

While it is true that there are a "few" conservative Dims (Lieberman to a degree and Zeller, for sure) it appears that there are a lot more "mods" and downright libs in the Republican Party: Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Chris Shays, and yes, most of the time, John McCain, to name a few).

I experienced this first-hand, living in Vermont and having as our delegation, not only Pat Leahy (whose voting records is most of the time, as bad or worst than, Kennedy’s) and the only avowed Socialist in Congress, Bernie Sanders, but the "Piece de Résistance," jump in Jim Jeffords.

That is why I am, first and foremost, an American; a patriot; and last but not least, a conservative.

If there were more conservatives who refused to be labeled either/or, it would give pause for thought in both parties and might, require "them" to approach an issue (such as we saw over the past few weeks in Pinellas Park) based upon what is "right and wrong," as opposed to putting their fingers to the wind (i.e., polls) and acting in a manner designed simply to affect the possibility of their continued reelection.

Sadly, my Mom passed away in January. Additionally, I had to make an "efforts to revive" decision, and thus the Terri situation hit close to home and though I did not know how I would manage financially, (nursing home: $3,000/mo.) and though my Mother was going on 93, I chose "life." Unfortunately, due to complications from her stroke, she did not survive but 3 weeks.

Thus, as I no longer have any duty or obligation to remain in this bastion of liberalism (I would count VT in the top 10 most liberal states) as has been the case for the past 15 years, I will soon pack and move elsewhere; somewhere in the South, I think--but NOT, Florida, although, I believe in my heart of hearts, there are some good conservatives there as well. LOL.

Peace and God Bless all Conservatives.