Terri Schiavo Before dehydration
May this smile haunt everyone who called it fake for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, right. All the judges on the state courts, federal courts, and U.S. Supreme Court that have ruled on this have a sadistic desire to kill this woman. Gimme a break.
You should read this excellent piece by David Limbaugh:
A turning point in the culture war (Schiavo)(by David Limbaugh)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371089/posts
What this boils down to is that our courts (and far too many in society) are so acclimated to our Culture of Death that they are erring on the side of death. Despite enormous doubts about Terri's condition, her intentions, and even her initial injury, the courts are determining that in the end, none of this matters because anyone in Terri's diminished state (no matter what it specifically is) is better off dead. It's essentially a court-ordered murder based on the court's subjective assessment of the victim's quality of life -- an assessment tainted by its diminished reverence for human life.
The decision to kill Terri Schiavo is not in deference to Terri's intentions, about which there is way too much doubt, but to godlessness, humanism and death. It is to quench society's lust for death.
This case marks a turning point in the Culture War, where society is making a giant leap toward the dark side, embracing the lie over truth and death over life. In our relentless quest to become like gods, we are crossing another sacred line, and it is hard to imagine how we might return.
And for a good analysis, read this:
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Terri Schiavo has been denied due process of law.
http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200503250823.asp
In the United States, we require proof beyond a reasonable doubt on all facts necessary to the judgment before someone is killed by the machinery of the justice system. Nothing less will do.
The main consideration is that an American is being killed by a court order based on fact-finding so palpably unreliable there cannot even be the pretense that the due-process yardstick our country has long demanded in death cases was used. No one contends the Florida court required proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Ok, then is your conclusion that Terri is a total vegatable? Are you certain? Ok, then let's just err on the side of death, and starve and dehydrate a woman, just in case she really is brain dead. She can be the first, then we can go to hospices, nursing homes, and finally hospitals, and cull out the mute patients first. Then just the ones too weak to talk, and finally we can just euthanize anyone who can't fight back hard enough.
May this smile haunt everyone who called it fake for the rest of their lives.
Give us a break. All of these judges have placed the law above justice, manipulation of legal code and jargon above the truth, and their office above the life of an innocent disabled woman.