A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day....03-24-05..."Death by forced dehydration very peaceful. Trust us"

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[dutchess]

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by JohnHuang2

So, from all the break-neck developments this past week, I gather that Democrats favor waging an unrelenting War on Terror . . . excuse me, I meant a War on Terri. The War on Terror is the one they favor rolling back. Liberals passionately believe that delicate decisions like ending the life of a family member should be a personal family matter, a position strongly backed by Scott Peterson and O.J. Simpson.

Liberals vociferously oppose the death penalty except in cases where people can't feed themselves. Which is why Democrats can't wait to kill Terri. They even want to kill the Rain Man, but he's just a movie character. (In fairness, Liberals heatedly deny any killing is involved since people denied food and water die on their own.)

Since Terri is not a failed government program in Washington, the liberal approach to her is, 'End it, don't mend it'. Tax payers will shell out over $10 million so Scott Peterson can avoid lethal injection, but liberals are perfectly comfortable slow-killing a woman convicted of having a low I.Q.

Before Congress passed the new law Sunday, Terri had no right to federal court, since she's not a black-tailed prairie dog, terror suspect at Gitmo, serial killer, illegal alien, or Arab Muslim being starved and dehydrated by a "Christian" named Michael and a racist Southern judge. Democrats insist that Terri, who suffered brain damage when her breathing stopped temporarily, is in a 'persistent vegetative state' and is kept alive only by extraordinary means -- sorta like the U.N. These extraordinary means consist of food and water. Both are delivered via a super high-tech device called a feeding tube.

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Liberals maintain there's no chance of her coming out of her incapacitated state, that 15 years is a long time -- unlike the U.N., incapacitated for 60 years (lots of hope there!). The difference between being 'brain-dead' versus Terri's condition has been patiently explained to liberals about 256 million times, but the concept is just too hard for liberals to grasp (they also confuse 'right-to-die' with right-to-due-process) which makes me wonder who's really brain-dead here.

Terri laughs, tries to talk, reacts to playful attention from mom and dad, opens and shuts her eyes on command, can track a balloon and flashing lights, her head turns towards the speaker -- things any cucumber can do.

Neurologist William Hammesfahr, nominated for a Nobel Prize in medicine and among the doctors who actually treated Terri, told MSNBC Monday that, far from being in a persistent vegetative state, Terri is not even as bad off as kids with Cerebral Palsy you see in Malls riding in wheelchairs and using electronic straws. Dr. Hammesfahr noted Terri's condition is similar to cases in which patients can "stand up, or sit up" and "moan and make sounds that get their wishes known." He said that's Terri's condition right now -- a conclusion refuted by world renown physician, Robert Wexler.

Dr. Hammesfahr further noted that, in a persistent vegetative state, a "subset of coma," a "person looks like they're awake," but "is completely unaware of their surroundings," and utterly oblivious to reality -- a condition not unlike Dan Rather's.

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The move by Congress to pass a bill -- initially stalled by loving and caring Democrats -- that let's Terri's parents ask a federal judge to keep their daughter from dehydrating to death was nothing more than "arrogance of unchecked power" by a Congress bloated with power, said Jerry Nadler, the bloated Congressman from New York.

"Congressional leaders have no business substituting their judgment for that of multiple state courts," complained legendary States' Rights advocate, Nancy Pelosi.

"I don't know who's right and who's wrong" in this battle, "but that's the point: Neither do my colleagues," said James Moran, a severely brain-damaged moron in Congress. When there's a dispute as to the best interests of an innocent person in a life and death case and there's no Living Will, we ought to err on the side of killing and avoid all the hassles, say liberals. Congress has no right to intervene. Government should mind its own business, like telling us whether to smoke, when to smoke, where to smoke, what to eat, how much, what to drive, regulating toilet size, managing Baseball, running family farms, handing out condoms, taking down the Ten Commandments.

Liberals say people living on feeding tubes have no quality of life and ought to die -- a position I'm sure will be popular with seniors in Florida.

Terri did not write a Living Will, but Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer miraculously divined her true wishes not to remain on life-support which she isn't on. He did this by using the same experts who 'divined' voter intent in the Florida recount. And relying on what Michael says were Terri's wishes -- after all, he is her husband and Congress should respect the marriage contract. It's so heartening to see liberals suddenly discover the sanctity of marriage. Maybe now we can pass a Constitutional Amendment. Liberals now profoundly believe in the sanctity of marriage. Just like Michael, who loves marriage so much, he ran off with some skank just so he can have another one.

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To help him reach an impartial decision, Judge Greer relied on medical testimony by euthanasia fans like Minnesota University neurologist Ronald Cranford, who asserted Terri has no conscience, so people with conscience should get rid of her. Cransford told Fox News on Tuesday that Alzheimer's patients need to go, too.

Judge Greer is legally blind and he's never actually visited Terri, even though he could do so with help from his seeing-eye dog, Michael Schiavo.

Days after the feeding tube was yanked and after an extraordinary session of Congress capped by the President flying back to Washington to sign the measure into law, U.S. District Court Judge James Whittemore treated the case with the urgency it deserves by putting off a hearing until the afternoon of the following day -- Monday (it was too late to cancel his date at the Golf course). Doctors say Terri could live up to two weeks before she dehydrates and starves to death -- a death the MSM assure us will be painless, even peaceful. Unlike the excruciating torture of experiencing a panty on your head at Abu Ghraib, the experience of being starved and dehydrated "is really pretty benign," Dr. Joanne Lynn, a hospice physician, told ABC News. Dr. Fred Mirarchi, assistant clinical professor at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, noted that the "process of starving (someone) to death" only seems "barbaric but in actuality is very peaceful," a view staunchly backed by noted medical authorities like Mengele, Oberheuser, Clauberg, Kremer and Brandt -- the NAZI "healers".

Nothing like dehydration and starvation if you wanna get 'high'.
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As you know, Judge Whittemore ultimately ruled against the Schindlers, refusing to order reinsertion of Terri's feeding tube and refusing Congress's request for a plenary review of the case. The ruling by this Clinton-appointee came after holding a brief, hour-long hearing, followed by feverish activity involving a sauna, T-Bone steak, salad, apple Martinis and another round of Golf.

This morning, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta essentially rubber-stamped Whittemore's ruling. The panel, issuing their 2-1 decision, said "there's no denying the absolute tragedy that has befallen Mrs. Schiavo," but rules are rules, no feeding tube, so drop dead. Back to the Golf course!

Next step is a ruling by the full court, unless the Schindlers take it directly to the Supremes. Wasn't clear at press time.

Democrats say they fervently pray for Terri. If she loses her battle and her parents are left to bury her, those "prayers" will be "answered". But it'll be a Pyrrhic victory. Taking Terri off Schindler's list only comes at a steep price politically. Write that down.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[dutchess]

It's Thursday at the Finest... This has been a tough, sad, angry time around FR and the country because of the Terri case. There has been lots of spin all over...stop in and read Johns2Cents. The guy always seems to get it right!!!!

[conservative cat]

Bravo.. As always, he is dead on.

[luvie]

We need more people who are willing to stand up for people, not for trees and whales, etc.!

[Rabble]

Thanks for the intelligence report, John. As usual you right on target!

[microgood]

I read every word. Great post. It made me feel worse than I did already but such is the state of America Today. Its like we are back in the Coliseum in Rome and the thumb is down.

[JustAmy]

Thank you, Dutchess. A very sad thread tonight.

John ..... thank you for expressing my feelings with the words that I was unable to convey.

I join many others with my prayers for Terri and her parents.
Please, Father, hear our prayer.

[Rodentking]

John is right on, as expected. I have been so down lately about the state of our country lately, the gallows humor almost made me lose the lid of my laptop. Unfortunately, while some of it was very funny, all of it was very true.

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive to all this as a "disabled vet", but I sure have no intentions of Herr Greer determining my "Quality of Life" doesn't meet his expectations and have my food and water cut off.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Dutchess.

[GailA]

Good morning. Excellent work as usual HJ2. My only question is why have the US and FL congresses waited until the 11th hour to take up Terri's fight?

[The Mayor]

March 24, 2005

Celebrate Beginnings

Read:
Luke 1:26-38

You will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. -Luke 1:31

Bible In One Year: Judges 19-21

Many churches observe March 25 as Annunciation Day. It commemorates the angel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of Jesus, the Messiah. In our success-oriented society, this festival is a needed reminder to recognize and rejoice at the beginning of God's work in a person's life rather than holding our applause for the accomplishments.

Because we often read Luke's gospel at Christmas, we may forget that 9 months of trust and waiting separated Mary's response to Gabriel from the birth of Jesus. When we read her words of surrender in light of this timespan, they take on added meaning: "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38). Mary must have received great encouragement when her cousin Elizabeth told her, "Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord" (v.45).

We can celebrate beginnings by giving a hug or handshake to a new believer who professes faith in Christ. We can write a note of encouragement to a friend who has chosen to obey God's Word.

Let's grasp every opportunity to celebrate the beginnings of God's work in the lives of others. -David McCasland

It takes but a moment of time
And minimal energy spent
To pass an encouraging word
To one who'll be glad it was sent. -Hess

The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
How Much Does God Control?

[proud American in Canada]

"Government should mind its own business, like telling us whether to smoke, when to smoke, where to smoke, what to eat, how much, what to drive, regulating toilet size, managing Baseball, running family farms, handing out condoms, taking down the Ten Commandments."

LOL! Literally.

I've never really checked this thread out before but I love the photo album!

How nice to put a face to a name.

[FreeTheHostages]

[Aquamarine]

Excellent job you two, perfect commentary and illustrations.

I have been awed by the devotion that so many here have in saving Terri's life and support them in their noble cause. It brings back memories of a time down in Montgomery that a group of people had the same kind of passion in protecting their First Amendment Right of free exercise of religion and the judges were wrong then too.

[LadyX]

My Dear John,

Love how you zero right in to dissect a topic with biting perception and zinging - er, singing vociferously all the way!

Where, oh where, are all those stalwart Champions of Justice for the Lowly and Oppressed??
Curiously silent, they are, and two are supposedly ministers.
(Anyone ever see their credentials for the title? Perhaps correspondence courses through Head Start?)

Firstly, why have we not been subjected this winter to a 3-day filibuster by the knightly Senator Robert Byrd??
No minister, other than what he has professed in the past as his variety of "justice," wearing his "ministerial" robes of snow white with a cross.
Here he is in action:

hmmm - -

As for those conspicuously quiet ministers, I refer to these two:

The somewhat dignified Reverend Al Sharpton, who championed Tawana Brawley, doncha know, who did lie - -

and Reverend Jesse Jackson --

Nuff said ---

Oh, yes, John - the Democrats are so confused and pathetic in their trying to sort this out to play effectively with their poor, brain dead followers.

Why, I even heard a rumor that one move being considered by Nancy Pelosi and Hary Reid was to stand on the steps of The Supreme Court and demand in a petition that a real expert physician be brought in!

My thought leapt to the obvious kindly one, Joycelyn Elders --

Wrong, as she probably was too busy passing out condoms to kindergarteners somewhere in America...

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No, they thought to propose their most qualified authority --

Sad day in America, and we appreciate your keeping the finger on our pulse, JH.

Love n hugs,

~ LadyX

[The Thin Man]

You're right John, it's horrible what they're doing to Terri. Praying for a miracle to save her.

[Pippin]

Good afternoon!

Once again John is spot on!

I worry about this nation and how human life and rights are reduced to an inconvieniance.

[deadhead]

A judge who never even met Terri has ordered her death/murder by starvation/dehydration based on hearsay that her husband suddenly remembered 8 years after Terri was first admitted into the hospital. Judicial activism in this country has run amok. Michael Schiavo has moved on with his life, another woman, 2 children. They have an adulterer as Terri's guardian. He disgusts me. I am saddened by this case, my prayers for Terri and her loved ones. When I think that it has been almost a week since Terri was given nutrition, it makes me sick. This is inhuman, so very, very cruel.

Testimony by Terri's friend Diane Meyer was disregarded by Greer:

"At the 2000 trial, Greer, although initially finding Meyer's testimony 'believable,' concluded that the conversation could not have occurred in 1982, because he believed Quinlan died in 1976. At that time, Terri would have been only 11 or 12 years old and, therefore, would not have made her end-of-life wishes as an adult."

"The new motion contends it was Greer who was mistaken and not Meyer, because Quinlan did not die until 1985, about 9 years after her court case ended and her respirator was removed."

Following is an affadavit by Dr. William Cheshire 3/23/05 for those of you who have not seen it:

Affadavit

[DollyCali]

John, it is so hard to respond to this. It is of course wonderfully done as are all of your contributions.. but it is such a soulful and heartbreaking event...

Thanks to you and Dutchess for the wonderful presentation..

God's blessings to all who visit here & Prayers of love for Terri & her family & friends.

I am afraid that a certain "husband" and some judges are seriously affecting my Christianity at this point... If you know what I mean.

[luvie]

Great rant, Lady! I feel this but have run out of words! *sigh*. Goes so well with John's essay which, as usual, is very powerful!