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Hello,

Thank you for your reply. The main thing that gives me hope is that we know of this case at all. Despite my concerns of how we as a society will react to Terri's death (should it come to that, as I fear it will), the fact that we have a tool now to spread info that in years past would have remained secret, gives me hope. You see, good men can do nothing to fight evil when the evil is hidden. You describe a man discussing this issue in 1967, in that year, would you or I even be aware of this? With the media then (and now), I doubt it. For all we know, stuff like this happened then as well, but no one knew.

However, my question stands, how will we respond to the murder of an innocent, who was denied due process, should she die at the hands of the state? Time will tell...

Glad to be here, MOgirl

Thank you for your reply. The main thing that gives me hope is that we know of this case at all. Despite my concerns of how we as a society will react to Terri's death (should it come to that, as I fear it will), the fact that we have a tool now to spread info that in years past would have remained secret, gives me hope. You see, good men can do nothing to fight evil when the evil is hidden. You describe a man discussing this issue in 1967, in that year, would you or I even be aware of this? With the media then (and now), I doubt it. For all we know, stuff like this happened then as well, but no one knew.

Well, it really wasn't about this issue but it was how, at the time where the Democrats send us to war and other such things as well as the general battle between good and evil. I don't know if this issue would have been in the forefront in 1967 or not, I would say not because even then, we were not as far down the abyss as we are now although it was getting its start then. I see Mort Sahl's comment as part of the general war of good vs. evil, a sort of like a 1967 version of Sean Hannity's "Deliver Us From Evil" about whati s at stake and who is behind it in a nutshell. Still whether it is an unjust (as Bosnia was) war or a noble but bungled up war (Vietnam), abortion, Terri Schiavo, etc., I think Sahl's statement could apply.

However, my question stands, how will we respond to the murder of an innocent, who was denied due process, should she die at the hands of the state? Time will tell...

I don't know. There is a lot of rage, anger and sadness out there. I don't like inaction. I commend President Bush, Congress, Governor Bush and others but time and Terri is wasting away while another judge sits on his butt. If I was President, I'd be sending in troops like the Israelis did during the raid on Entebbe or the Soviets in "Red Dawn" all over the area where the hospice is.

You know what is amazing? The libs cry for due process if it was a murderer on death row, like that Mumia guy here in Pennsylvania for killing a cop in 1981. Well, I guess I can't argue too much, I mean before execution, it is good to dot all "I's" and cross all "T's" before proceeding but Terri is being denied even that although she should not be killed at all. Or think about this, if Terri was some poor, Colored girl being denied access to her local school in 1955 Mississippi, troops would be rushed in and rightly so. I work developing photos in a drugstore and ran into one of the local bigwigs of the Republican Party here and I told him about me writing my Congress Critters and stating that if this goes on, we as a society are no better than Nazi Germany or Al Qaida and he agreed with me.