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

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?

My thoughts and feelings exactly. This is the worst thing I've seen in my 60 years on this planet. I thought my tears had dried up years ago, but this last two weeks I've cried buckets. I believe that the retribution for this most foul murder by the United States government will come quickly and make the fall of the towers look like child's play. We were warned, we were weighed in the balance, we were found wanting. The powerful ones who caused and permitted this atrocity should be very afraid. Those of us who see the global and cosmic implications of such an act of pure evil know that the pale horse and his rider are here, and I for one will spend my remaining days in sackcloth and ashes. This betrayal, this desecration, will not be forgiven, judgment will be swift, divine vengeance will be terrible. There are still a few voices crying in the wilderness. I can only hope and pray that we will be heard.

In some ways this must be much more painful for you, because you are 20 years older than I am; therefore, you have many more memories of the way America used to be. I have memories of an innocent, safe, and good America too, but only from my childhood. That America no longer exists, and it tears me to pieces to see what we've now become. I'm not an America-basher and never have been, but the America I remember would've never allowed such a terrible injustice to occur. The America I remember is gone, and this was the final death blow.

I want to clarify that my grief is not solely for our country; I did and do grieve for Terri. I imagined myself in her shoes. I imagined what it would be like to be aware, but helplessly unable to speak. I imagined what it would be like to be betrayed and discarded like garbage by the man who'd vowed to love and protect me in sickness and in health. I imagined what it would be like to die so slowly and agonizingly, knowing the entire time that this was all being done to me "legally". I grieve for Terri, her parents & siblings, and all who truly loved her, as well as grieving for what America has become. And, I grieve for all those who will now be murdered as she was thanks to the precedent that's been set.

You've mentioned twice that America was weighed in the balance and found wanting. Perhaps, you are already aware of what I'm about to point out:

"Mene mene tekel upharsin" is what was written on the wall by the hand of God the night Babylon fell. (The prophet Daniel's interpretation was: Mene--God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. Tekel--You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting. Upharsin--Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.)

Many people scratch their heads and wonder why a country as great, powerful, and influential as America is not mentioned at all in any of the prophetic books of the Bible. But, I think America is mentioned, hundreds of times. The ancient prophecies of the end time country the Bible refers to as Babylon perfectly describe what can only be one nation: America. No other nation in the world fits these prophecies of modern day Babylon; Iraq certainly doesn't. Only America does.

This modern day Babylon is prophecied to burn. It will be entirely destroyed by fire, and it will be destroyed in one hour. God warns His people who still remain in Babylon to flee. He says, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities."

My household doesn't need to flee, because we've already been moved overseas. We'd never planned to move, it just sort of happened due to rapidly changing and completely unanticipated circumstances that literally pushed us out of the country. Several months ago, doors of opportunity began to quickly open and close in such a way that within 2 days we went from never imagining in our wildest dreams that we'd ever leave America to packing our bags. It was really strange the way it all happened.

I'll probably be ridiculed by some FReepers for what I've just said and get accused of being an America-hater or a lib, even though I'm an old school, Founding Fathers/U.S. Constitution-loving, conservative American. I have never in my life cheered for the demise of America. What I've seen our great nation become makes me weep. My heart is shattered and I've shed enough tears to fill bucket after bucket, because it's never been more clear to me than now that the America I knew in my youth is gone.

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

Thanks. My mom and aunt are Democrats, too, and they're horrified by all this. We've had PVS patients in our family -- *real* PVS patients, not brain-damaged people being labeled PVS. Let me tell you, none of those people were anywhere near as responsive as Terri.

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.

I agree. Judge Greer was enemy #1 of Terri Schiavo, and the other judges IMHO pretty much just backed him up to cover for him.

The problem is, are the Democrats who are outraged by this murder going to speak up?

This Democrat is. I'm furious that my Party has failed to fight for the basic human rights of a handicapped person.

Is Ralph Nader going to pursue this as passionately as protecting the environment?

I don't doubt that he is. Nader has always fought hard for what he believes in, even if it isn't "popular" at the time. Public opinion polls don't dictate his actions, thank God.

Is Jesse Jackson going to stick around the way he would if she were black?

I don't think we'll ever know, because the media's more concerned with his involvement with Michael Jackson. They'll always choose a freak show over real issues.

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?

As a mildly disabled person who has a handicapped parking permit (and sees fully able-bodied people illegally take up handicapped parking every day), I'd like to point out that attitudes about the latter are what create an environment for tragedies like Terri Schiavo's to happen. Disabled people are considered a nuisance, something that gets in the way of getting a good parking place...a "burden"...less than human. Once society strips you of your humanity, it's just one step from being a "burden" to being "disposable". Terri was the first to cross that barrier, and that's a dangerous precedent.

What's really bad is that, because of how so many people have sided in with Michael (all the better to justify removing Grandma's feeding tube when it becomes a pain in the neck to visit her in hospice), the handicapped rights advocates will face a difficult decision. Do they take up Terri's cause, and risk public opinion turning against ALL handicapped people? Or can they somehow turn public opinion, to make people realize what has been done? Which leads to....

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

If only more moderates and progressives would have the guts to cross that line, then mainstream America would realize that it's not just "fanatic right-wingers" who were trying to keep a brain-dead woman alive against her will. (And that's what people mistakenly believe, hence the public opinion poll results.) They base their opinions on sound bites they hear on the six o'clock news, and the fact that all the people speaking out on Terri's behalf (before Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, I mean) are on the far right. So people concluded, "These right-wingers want outsiders to make private decisions for us!" Of course, they didn't realize that this is precisely what was allowed to happen: Outsiders mandated that Terri's feeding tube be removed.

Because of their preconceived notions about Pat Robertson, et.al., people made snap judgements based on brief news stories. Instead, they should have been going to Terri's family's web site and reading the actual court documents and such for themselves.

What's really bad is that even news-junkie Democrats who might normally side with the cause of a profoundly handicapped woman are so blinded by the sight of people like Randall Terry, that they just have a knee-jerk reaction: "Randall Terry = bad". Beyond that point, rational thinking comes to an abrupt halt.

As far as politicians go, I do think that some Democrats should have crossed the party line, for that would have lent credibility to the Schindlers' cause -- making it a bipartisan effort, not just a right-wing effort. But then, that would require Democratic politicians to develop a spine, and we've all seen repeatedly that they're genetically incapable of doing so.

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