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The cops are aware the Terri is being murdered, and they are actively preventing anyone from taking a glass of water into the hospice. They are, in other words, assisting in a murder. They are accomplices to the murder of Terri Schiavo.

There are no separate rules of morality for government employees and non-government employees. To assist in making sure that a murder succeeds is criminal behavior, whether one receives a government paycheck or not.

I am horrified that even well-meaning, kindly people like you can be so woolly-headed when it comes to seeing the precise moral character of the actions that are taking place right before your eyes.

It is very telling that you attribute my words to "anger." My words are all objective, accurate descriptions of the crimes that are being committed, by the governor, by the cops, and by others. It is typical of our age that you reflexively attribute expressions of moral outrage to "anger" or some other emotion. Our age does not concede that moral language has any objective referent. Our age holds that moral language is only an expression of feelings. I urge you to free yourself from the evil age you live in. As you said, We all swim in the same polluted water. Free yourself from the intellectual pollution, at least.

Arthur, The point of my post is that these arguments are irrelevant; what is necessary is to save Terri- which can only now be done by a bipartisan Mercy Coalition to garner public support for all the politicians to have cover.

However, to address your well thought out argument, the assumption that one must first accept is that the police know its "murder- or feel its "murder". You have to accept the fact that the majority of Americans DON'T feel that way. They feel that the matter went through State and Federal Courts, and even the Supreme Court rejected review. The Conservative 11th Circuit voted 10-2 against. Are ALL these judges, up and down the line, murderers- or condoner's of murder?

To you it's murder- and concededly, to me its murder. I hate the husband. But, to that police officer, who has to do his duty to enforce the law, how can you expect a lay person, no legal experience, to assume he's condoning murder when a predominantly conservative Supreme Court, including Scalia and Thomas, tell him its not.

I understand your passion, but I can't lay it on the police- or the nurses in the hospice- or any one else involved in this tragedy; and expect them to make a unilateral decision that this is murder when the Supreme Court has told them otherwise.
Honestly, I wish it were otherwise. But, at end point, if it's any satisfaction to you, if I were a cop in the room on night duty, I'd have plenty of ice chips on hand.

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