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The implication of this horrid crime - the snuffing of Terri Schiavo in a way we wouldn't put down a soulless animal - goes beyond the cause of the infirm.

Think about this.

You have a judge making a decision of life or death on an innocent woman - a judge who is up to his comb-over in conflicts of interest:

1. Political conttibutions from the lawyer
2. Wife on the hospice board
3. Proclivity toward Scientology attitudes toward the utilitarian nature of a human being

No.1 should have stopped this dead in its tracks; if that doesn't work, No. 2 MUST be the showstopper, right? - how could it not be? Even No. 3 implies a decided bias based on religious beliefs - the same "bias" that Democrats have for many years cried about from the rooftops regarding abortion and "equal rights.

Here we are. Terri Schiavo's dehydrating to death. We have a landmark case - a case of life and death - and the futures of thousands of nameless, faceless invalids may hang in the balance. We have a hospice residency that violates the very definition of what a hospice stay is supposed to entail - PEOPLE ARE SENT TO HOSPICES TO DIE - they are NOT sent to be treated. No doctor signed off Terri's admission to hospice? None.

Are you kidding me? Has NONE of this struck the powers that be in Florida as corrupt? Suspicious? Hell, "oddly amusing"? ANYTHING??? A woman is dying. There's no documentation that she EVER said she wanted to be put down (and certainly not by dehy/starvation). The lawyer has a conflict of interest, the judge has at least TWO major conflicts of interest, the "husband" has a overt conflict of interest going on for fifteen years now, and no one - NO ONE in Florida government or Washington D.C. is looking at this and saying - "Wait - this stinks to high heaven - first and foremost, Greer cannot be impartial, the lawyer cannot be impartial, Michael Schiavo has already proven he wants only one outcome ---

WHERE ARE OUR ELECTED LEADERS!????

WHERE!!!!!????

I'm sorry, folks. I hate to use hyperbole, but there is a cancer eating away at every branch of government. We've lived with corruption - we've accepted that government is a place of bribes and infidelity and huge egoes that offer a neverending amount of lipservice about the Constitution and civic duty and patriotism and "the people".

I expected Democrats to look away (and not all of them did - some came to their senses), but what I didn't expect was that my party - the Republican party - inhabited by a legendary crew of weak sisters - would let Terri Schiavo go to her death with all of this evidence of impartiality - at the minimum, the PREPONDERANCE of impartiality - at their fingertips. Given that this is a matter of life and death, at the very LEAST, Judge Greer should have recused himself from the matter. Since that did not happen, it fell to the legistlative and executive branches of government to at LEAST step in, point out the pink elephant in the room, and say - "get it outta here". They did NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING.

NOTHING.

We have no Constitution. We have no one to fend for our lives. Will they even fend for our shores? The constitution is dead.

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