Good question. They had time for TV and radio appearances during the week.
I've been watching this issue trying to maintain some sanity. We have a planet with 6 billion people on it. Hundreds of thousands are dying regularly in conflicts and genocidal events. Political prisoners are tortured in many parts of the world. Our brave soldiers are hunting down bad guys all over the world. They die regularly in Iraq in a great effort to inject liberty into a region that has precious little of it.
Day in, day out the world is happening to us.
Day in, day out 90% of the postings on FR are about Terri Schiavo. This is most definitely a very sad situation for all parties. No one wants this to happen.
Who is paying for all of this?
I don't like criminals testing the legal system to the tune of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Of course, they are convicted criminals.
Terri has done nothing wrong. But this situation is costing taxpayers what I suspect is millions of dollars. I don't know the answer to this question, but I suspect some of you diehards do - who is to pay for her medical attention after the last trickle of settlement money runs out in April 2005?
The world is about difficult choices. Efficiency (that little engine that has driven capitalism, development, and general progress) dictates that at times uncomfortable decisions must be made. We assign value to lives in law suits. We don't intervene in every country that needs intervention. We eat our vegetables. We even put down animals. Choices. If our new paradigm is "life at all costs," then all of you should pick up those peace protestor placards and head to the next antiwar protest.
This holier than thou thing with this case is unsavory. For awhile I thought holy cow this guy has another family and is ignoring her parents. That's all Freepers talk about. I had no idea her family encouraged him to get out and on with his life. Whatever the truth is, its not the mantra so many folks on FR are proposing it is.
People should write down what they want done in this situation. When that's not done, someone else will necessarily decide. Those others may disagree.
We can't stop the world when there is a disagreement. I've read many of the rantings and ravings of people here who are disgusted about what is happening. Well, I for one am disgusted that most of those I thought to be my ideological compatriots are so whacked out that they are willing to toss logic out the window over a case in which the facts are very heavily in dispute. I thought the right to lifers who bombed clinics were the fringe lunatics.
If FR, talk radio, and conservative columnists are any indication, I may have been wrong. What in the world convinced so many of you to toss out thinking of the world, Iraq, the issues of the day and in lieu focus all on what amounts to a political ploy which is taking advantage of a terrible situation?
Terri may or may not have wanted to have lived in her condition. I find it hard to believe she would want her legacy to this world to have been the image of a helpless woman in her current state who people used for a political agenda. It's gross. And a terrible and dishonorable way to have spent the last of her days here.
I don't know what the Schindlers are doing today but I certainly hope they're sitting at her side loving her. I fear they are taking copious notes for their movie deal.
Besides, its all in His hands. For some reason I don't think moving the political crosshairs onto men like George Bush helps, does it?
All of this evidence was in the record that the federal judge (Whittemore) was to review _de novo_. _He_ claimed that they did not adequately make the case for a de novo review, but that's his CYA effort. If Judge Whittemore had done what Congresss asked him to do, all the nurse affidavits, all the counter-Michael testimony that _was already introduced_ in the 2000-2003 court proceedings but simply brushed aside by Greer, would have been taken seriously. Judge Whittemoree punted. Terri's death is his fault, Greer's fault, Felos's fault. Let's keep focused.
It bothers me considerably that, in our justified anger and frustration at the sheer criminality of what has been done to Terri Schiavo we lash out at our own side, at Jeb Bush, at the Schindler lawyers.
Look, a great evil was done by George Greer, Michael Schiavo, George Felos. The article to which this thread responds point that out--the Schindlers were outlawyered by evil people, dishonest people, liars. Place the blame there, where it belongs so that we can keep our focus on what needs to be done to change things.
Blaming the victim only permits the perps to walk free and do it again. Yes, we are frustrated, yes, we are tempted to say, "if only so and so had done this and this." Perhaps, yes, it might have made a difference. But the real villains here are Greer, Felos and the MSM, the RINOs in the legislatures etc. Let's keep the drumbeat there, where it belongs