Great letter.
Everyone who cares should contact all elected representatives.
If they will not act, we should run for office ourselves.
We must act.
I'm resigned to the fact that Terri Schiavo is gonna die, my hope is that we pass laws to make sure this never happens again, and I would like to see the legislation be named after Terri Schaivo.
I'm bummed out over this, I can't believe this could happen in this great country. My thoughts and prayers are with the Schindler's and of course Terri.
Nice Letter...but it would be better sent to someone who's opinion is different from your own. Mr. Bush is pro-life.
Governor Jeb Bush,
I weep as I type this final good bye email to you. I have fought long and hard for Terri Schiavo. It appears tonight that you have no intention whatsoever of risking your governorship to save her life. A sad day for sure in America.
We have lost our liberty, our land and our freedom. No longer will we trust those in authority. No longer will we be able to sing " God Bless America.". How can He bless us any more.
One of His own is being denied Holy Communion at this very hour. Her religious freedom has been trampled on by our government.Powerless, you sit by and watch. Powerless President Bush sits by and watches also.A freedom has been taken, our religous freedom.
We send our boys to foreign soil to give their precious lives to fight so that we might be free. Fight, may I ask for WHAT? This?? This land that sits back and watches a innocent disabled woman be starved to death?? We have already heard from many who have fought for our freedom that this will not go unnoticed. You , a Governor, unwilling to risk your postition to do what is right.Brave, you are not!! What a shame. You could have ordered the National Gaurd in there and did what Janet Reno and President Clinton did with Elian Gonzales. But no. You chose just to let a perverse and crooked judicial system mock and laugh at our entire nation. My tears cannot stop flowing. I will not be able again to sing " My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet land of Liberty" any more. How can I . I would see the face of Terri Schiavo and her parents pleading for mercy , only to find none.
We lost this battle on our own soil. We are a disgrace to the countries of the world after preaching freedom and liberty, and yet being hypocritcal with " I did all I can do for you Terri" " Sorry sweetie pie, you must die" . It is out of my control"..........
My heart is crushed. My hopes are dashed. We have turned a corner that unless God grants us a measure of mercy , we will never be the same. America , the America I knew and love , died tonight.
I am a long time Republican. I have a cousin that has just retired as a Republican senator. I have another cousin that is a Republican Assemblyman. This night, my husband and I are leaving the Republican party that we have loved, and joining up with the Constitution party. We will probably be losing for several elections, but we will at least be voting for the principles that we believe in.
May God Bless the Schindler family and God Help Terri. America let Terri down. She might as well have been in the old Iraq with Sadaam as leader.
Bobby has told those at the hospice now to go on home. Be with their families. Heartwrenching Mr. Governor. He can't be with HIS during these last hours. Michael has won, he will see Terri to her death and cremation. The case now will close. Michael, Attorney Felos, Judge Greer, Whittmore and all will dance their death dance now. Why not? they have won. They should.
The preamble used to say " We the people, in order to form a more perfect union...............no Mr. Governor. Not any more. It is " We the COURTS.....in order to control the destiny of this land"...........Sorry George Washington, Sorry Abraham Lincoln.You got it wrong. There is no more liberty. America died tonight.
Beautiful letter. I too, am in Massachusetts but plan to move to the midwest within the year. I am heart broken over so much in this country. I thought the election would help but I can't help but think alot of this is directed at the Bushes. As Rush Limbaugh says, the liberals become much more dangerous when they are out of power.
Excellent letters--the two together express the full range of emotions many of us feel right now.
A monstrous evil has been unleashed in our land. We let a county probate judge order the starvation death of a non terminal incapacitated woman in the face of evidence that this was not her wish.The same judge stared down a Governor of a state, who was too afraid to use his Constitutional given power to protect inalienable rights of a citizen.
The men buried at Concord and Lexington turn away in disgust.
As such, it represents the triumph of process and directed outcome over fairness and transparency. IMO A sad but predictable moment in the radical secularization of the American way of life.
That is a great letter! Very well written and right to the point.
And .. I agree - we need to keep the pressure on!!
People who blame Bush and the courts aren't thinking this through. And quit sendng hatemail to blogs who don't agree with you - conservatives are supposed to be better than that, and it makes Pro-lifers look like DU Moonbats.
From Powerline:
"This fact is of crucial importance -- and it's one often not fully appreciated by the media, who like to focus on the drama of cases going to the big, powerful appeals courts: Once a trial court enters a judgment into the record, that judgment's findings become THE FACTS of the case, and can only be overturned if the fact finder (in this case, the judge) acted capriciously (i.e., reached a conclusion that had essentially no basis in fact).
In this case, the trial judge simply chose to believe Michael Schiavo's version of the facts over the Schindlers'. Since there was evidence to support his conclusion (in the form of testimony from Michael Schiavo's siblings), it became nearly impossible for the Schindlers to overturn it. The judges who considered the case after the trial-level proceeding could make decisions only on narrow questions of law. They had no room to ask, "Hey, wait a minute, would she really want to die?" That "fact" had already been decided."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Both of the Bushes are more like Bill Clinton than George Washington if they will not act for good, polls be damned.
My support for these silver spoon-fed cowards dies with Terri.
May God have mercy on their souls.