Posted on 03/23/2005 9:46:22 AM PST by freeholland
Hey, Dems and other right-to-die advocates, listen up! Here are two pretty straightforward examples of when it is good to take a life and when it is bad to take a life:
Killing terrorists: Good...Killing healthy unborn human infants: Bad
Taking out Uday and Qusay Hussein: Good...Taking out Terri Schiavo: Bad
The presenting issue in this instance is the nasty fight over how Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo will spend her remaining time on earth. Husband Michael Schiavo long ago washed his hands of any interest but the $1.2 million he allegedly stands to receive when his all-but-comatose wife finally passes away. This bonanza is, as I understand it, the so-called "death benefit" resulting from a successful medical malpractice suit against the physicians at whose hands Terri allegedly suffered the grievous injury that has culminated in her current disability.
Displaying in his public appearances emotion and sympathy worthy of Scott Peterson with regard to his wife's condition, Terri's husband Mike has, for the moment, prevailed, even as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals debates the future of the issue, be it noted.
The question I keep asking is this: Aside from the financial upside, why is Michael Schiavo so desperately intent on killing his wife? Indeed — given the fact that Terri Schiavo is, by the video evidence we're shown on television, very much alive and very much deserving to remain alive so long as she is fed intravenously — it seems to me that what he is doing is nothing less than committing murder.
In this case, legal arguments aside, Michael Schiavo's insistence on killing his wife goes against human decency, especially given that his wife's parents and family members have offered to care for their daughter/sister at their own expense, leaving her erstwhile husband free to go on living his life with the second family he has formed since his wife was struck down.
I know that all manner of courts have reviewed every available shred of evidence and heard every nuanced presentation of expert testimony during the course of the painful decade-plus battle Michael Schiavo and the forces of death have waged against his wife Terri and her family and supporters. And I'm aware that in this case the "law," absent an unequivocal statement of Terri Schiavo's wishes with regard to what actions should be taken were she were to be disabled as she is, recognizes the husband as the one who is vested with the power to decide whether his wife lives or dies.
This has created fertile ground for any number of spokespersons who support the leftist culture of death underlying, among other things, abortion on demand and the coddling of terrorists. Teddy ("Are there two p's in Chappaquiddick?") Kennedy recently spoke out forcefully in support of the court's being the final arbiter in the Schiavo case and others like it. To which I have to say, "Well, what the hell would you expect from this degenerate left-winger?"
Kennedy's Democratic Party, despite the fact that they remain, at least in the Massachusetts Senator's delusional worldview, "the party of a majority of Americans," were soundly trounced in the November, 2004, elections. Given their political loss of power in the wake of this outcome, the courts are the only remaining instrument for the perpetuation of the left's willful misinterpretation and misapplication of the wonderful vision set forth in our Constitution.
The ongoing judicial malfeasance of leftist/liberal judges is increasingly perpetrated in order to subvert democracy to the purposes of a socialist agenda which asserts, with its every word and action and policy, that the life of the individual is of no value, that life's only value consists in further collectively empowering the state's influence over decisions that rightly belong to the individual.
Although Terri Schiavo is not able to articulate her wishes in this case, a truly wise judge would have long ago ruled as the Biblical Solomon is said to have done when he suggested cutting in half an infant whose parental custody was in dispute. Solomon quickly recognized that the couple who agreed to his suggestion were not the infant's true parents. They failed Solomon's test in no small part because they were devoid of the humanity and protective instinct that blossoms in our hearts as the parents of a child.
The case of Terri Schiavo is categorically similar. Indeed, it seems impossible that — among all those who have presided over courtrooms in which the seemingly interminable battle to decide this woman's fate has been waged — there has not been a single judge that would rule with finality against Michael Schiavo on the grounds that his position simply violates all broadly-acknowledged standards of human decency. Schiavo has been given judicially-sanctioned leave to murder his wife by removing the feeding tubes that sustain her.
Terri Schiavo's parents, like the true parents of the child in the Solomon parable, would never consent to allowing their daughter to be murdered. Because they understand the sanctity of human life, because they, being parents, feel the revulsion that all of us feel at the very thought of a heartless, inhuman reprobate's having the power of life and death over any child, let alone our own child, it is Terri's parents, and Terri herself, to whom our hearts go out as this gut-wrenching human drama unfolds.
In the event that her life is not spared, I will take cold comfort in the backlash of outrage that must accrue against those who have come out in opposition to the courts' or the Congress's intervening to spare the life of Terri Schiavo. If we are not successful in saving this woman, no legal or political punishment will be too severe for those who have conspired to perpetrate her murder.
Comments:glewis9000@aol.com
[will wake me up BIG TIME, and apparently, I have been sleeping.]
It's never too late! Better late than not at all.
"Terri needs water, but the SS legion stands in the way."
Does there come a time when the body becomes dehydrated enough that it can no longer accept water?
Im praying that all those who love freedom to show mercy and to rush to Terri now.
Several people were arrested trying to take a cup of water to Terri this morning. The first woman to approach the police cordon is a survivor of the Nazi death camps. FOX cut away just as she was beginning to deliver her impassioned speech about why she was doing this.
I was disgusted with the FOX newsman who did this...morning guy...Asman, I think.
People are trying to do that at this minute and are being arrested for it.
How is this different from what the State of Florida, and the Federal courts are now advocating?
God bless these people.
Yes, at this point she would probably have to be rehydrated with IV's.
How many can they arrest?
10, 100, 1000, 10,000?
Perhaps a Million?
We have the power
My husband and I thought about this last night. Pinellas county only has so many cops and so much jail space. Maybe if enough were trying to get in there, someone could sneak in and help that poor woman. I wish I could be down there, but I am taking care of my mother-in-law who is also an invalid.
My wife has never been interested in anything "political" (for lack of a term). She votes but that has pretty much been the extent of it. Terri's life has lit a fire under my wife...she just called me and is cashing in our air miles; we are heading for Florida in the morning.
I doubt my wife is the only person who has been awakened by this event. I will take my Blackberry and stay in touch.
THAT WOULD BE MURDER.
(it's a crazy world, ain't it?)
WE MUST MURDER HER LEGALLY.
There comes a time when the damage to the vital organs is so severe that a lake, an ocean, of fresh water will do no good. Terri is rapidly approaching that point. The only reason she hasn't expired is because she doesn't move all that much. You or I would have already reached that point.
Yes, it is a crazy world.
God bless you.
Give us a full report when you get back. God speed.
Just talked to her... flying Southwest Airlines leaving Sacramento at O'dark thirty tomorrow morning.
Hi! Sierra - sure wish I could go with you both! Do us all a favor when you get there, Please? Search out ANYONE who is going to speak in front of the cameras, and get them to STRESS that TERRI CAN SWALLOW!!! Or, if you can do it, that would be great! Please. If (hopefully) people knew that she can swallow but is being prevented, maybe, just maybe! I thank you.
Afterthought:
My sister called me this morning and couldn't understand why people were being arrested for trying to bring Terri water. She didn't know that Terri could swallow - that's how she found out. So, I wonder how many others out there don't know as well.
We have a family tradition that on Maundy Thursday we stay up and Pray from 10P.M. until 1 AM on Good Friday. Sort of our way of answering Jesus when He asked in the Garden, "Could you not watch over Me". This year we are going to Florida--thanks to the air miles we cashed in through Southwest.
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