VaBthang4, you should know that you are important to us, too, and if someone had beaten you to the point where you became disabled from the beating, and if you were being threatened with having your feeding tube removed so you could be slowly and painfully starved to death, and you were unable to speak for yourself, many of us, most of us, maybe all of us would be starting threads like these on your behalf. I would hope that no one would bop onto any of the threads telling us to get over ourselves.
It's not really about us, it's about someone who's helpless, someone literally being held prisoner by a malevolent person for reasons that are without honor. It's about saving a life that is conscious--disabled, but that does not mean it is a life without value.
No I am not. You do not know me.
"and if someone had..."
If someone tried they'd have been dealt with along time ago as I and those around me live our lives right before God. Those responsible for me know how to do more than offer legal petitions and lawsuits or vain words. They know how to approach the God of all creation...in spirit and in truth [as He is not as they want Him to be] and intercede [with Him] on my behalf so that He can then move.
This Woman has individuals responsible for her. If something as cheesy as the authority of Man is hindering them from obeying God then they have an advocate. Now, if they are not living a life that is pleasing in God's sight then they should repent and turn to that advocate. God is no respector of persons. Regardless, they can still call on His grace and he may well interced for them. However, no flesh will glory in His sight. And there is a strong Man to be dealt with first...something of which none of the "on fire for schiavo" freepers seem remotely aware of.
All of this empty bandwidth 90% of which accomplishes zero.
"It's not really about us..."
Oh I strongly disagree. The majority of folks I have read here involved|interested in this story are in it because of their own projections.
It is both sad...and laughable. I understand how Elijah felt when he mocked the prophets of Baal. All this wailing and carrying on.
Prayer bump for Terri and her family.
If they would just give her her voice back I'm sure she would tell the jerks trying to kill her to buzz off.