[joanie-f]

I’ve said many times before here on this forum that many, if not most, of the ills of our republic are caused by the fact that justice and truth, and moral right and wrong, have been purposefully obscured by people who have also purposefully attempted to see to it that our citizenry is personally incapable of seeing through the sickening haze (by a concerted dumbing down of our education system, and a concerted re-directing of our attention away from meaningful concerns and toward meaningless superficialities).

The only way to tear through the obfuscations and reach the truth is to seek simplicity.

Your post does exactly that at least as well as, and probably better than, anything else I have seen written on this dreadful subject. A heartfelt thank you!

Abominations such as partial birth abortion have been condoned in part because they are actually performed ‘in private’ and because the re-directed attention mentioned above chooses to focus elsewhere (to focus instead on the use of steroids by professional baseball players, or who should be the next American Idol ... ).

Terri Schiavo’s case is different. Even those who have been unaware of her plight for the past fifteen years have been dragged into the fray because their President and congress have become involved (although I believe the majority of Americans are still ignorantly unaware of Michael Schiavo’s probable motives and wicked past behaviors). But the media can no longer ignore her premeditated murder. There are now three hundred million witnesses to it. And yet we all sit by, impotent to come to her rescue because, as you so eloquently observed, unelected, unaccountable judicial tyrants are either too lazy or too agenda-driven to look Terri, and her murderer, square in the face. And their questionable ‘decisions’ have trumped those of our own elected representatives.

I believe that, once Terri’s murder has been accomplished, the average American will crawl back into his comfortable cocoon (if indeed he chose to emerge at all), return to concentrating on bread and circuses, and the judicial tyrants and their accomplices on the Hill and in the media and academia will continue to claim increasing malevolent power over all of our lives, and, if terrorists from outside of our borders don’t drive the final nail, homegrown ignorance and apathy may.

That is not to say that those of us who still seek to know His will for this republic should throw in the towel. Not by a long shot. Man has free will, but God is, and always will be, in control. He will allow our evil choices, but His love for the faithful is eternal. His power is infinite, but His patience with evil is not. And the evil represented by this example of ‘American justice’ may be without precedent.

~ joanie

[Jeff Head]

That is not to say that those of us who still seek to know His will for this republic should throw in the towel. Not by a long shot. Man has free will, but God is, and always will be, in control. He will allow our evil choices, but His love for the faithful is eternal. His power is infinite, but His patience with evil is not. And the evil represented by this example of ‘American justice’ may be without precedent.

Amen Joanie, as always, very well said.

[Minuteman23]

Thank you all for wading through all the "garbage" with your intelligent, common sense comments. You have said it all.