When she dies I will find fault.
The Florida legislative branch, dominated by Republicans, could have put a stop to this. They didn't because of REPUBLICAN holdouts.
The Florida executive branch could have put a stop to this. But the REPUBLICAN Governor stood by at the end.
The US Congress could have put a stop to this. The REPUBLICAN dominated body did much too little much too late.
The federal executive branch could have put a stop to this. But the REPUBLICAN President didn't think that federal marshals upholding a congressional subpoena was wise.
The state and federal judicial branches could have put a stop to this. But REPUBLICAN appointed judges saw no need to protect Terri.
Right now I am disgusted with the lot of them.
She's dead already. Those around here and her parent's don't understand that all that 'lives' in the Floridian hospice is a body whose autonomic functions are intact. Nothing else. No cerebral cortex, only a soup of cerebral spinal fluid. No electric impulses. No consciousness, no pain, no thought. Nothing. The individual known as Terri's been dead for fifteen years.
I hope her body's granted peace very, very soon.
The Congress never intended to 'rescue' her. They acted impotently as a means of playing a political card ahead of the 2006 mid-term elections. They want to be able to rant about 'activist judges' and a 'culture of death' and 'liberals on the bench'. Why not change current law? Why not make removal of feeding tubes more difficult? Why no act before the tube was removed rather than after? They *want* her body to die so they can use her as a political martyr, a talking point to rally the fundamentalists and pander to religious blacks. Don't believe it? Do you think for a second it's coincidence Jesse Jackson's come done on the side of keeping Terri's body artificially fed and hydrated?
Well, that's a nice rant only completely irrational.
They did all they could under the Constititution. IF they did as you say, send marshalls or the national guard, have you considered the consequences? You seem to think her life would then be spared. You'd be absolutely wrong.
The people are against her right to Live. They'd demand she be turned back over to Michael. They'd demand impeachment if this didn't occur. The President and many of these people would be removed during a period when we are at war, the country torn in two and Terri would be returned to Michael at the end to be killed.
That is what would happen, making vigilantism on the Part of the President, the Governor or anyone else in elected power meaningless.