I loathe Randal Terry but he is merely showboating and isn't doing anything like the harm I expected he'd do. The American public are gradually getting more facts about this.
Look at Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice--his is the best piece I've read on this because he isn't a conservative, though he has some conservative views, and his anti-torture and anti-death penalty credentials are impeccable, so he can't be attacked by the left. He lays it out very clearly that this is an execution, of someone who never committed a crime.
A week ago I thought this might hurt the right, but I am getting a sense that over at DU, a lot of those vile grins are being wiped away as the American people, who thought (as I did at first) that this was a "take her off life support" story, instead of it being about starving and dehydrating a sick woman to death for the convenience of her husband, whose motives are questionable at best.
Quite so, as Terri is refusing to die quick.
No, I believe you have it right. Even Barney Franks was apparently back tracking somewhat. They aren't as confidant today, as they were 3 days ago, this will backfire in Reps' faces.
IMO, they believed she would die in 2-3 days tops, and that we'd cease speaking of this. Well neither has occured. Terri is now on her 12th day, and we have no intention of allowing the lies repeated by the MSM to stand.
As I said in the beginning we cannot defeat the MSM's propaganda in a period of a few days, nor can public opinion be transformed in so short a time. But over the long haul? The MSM no longer are that powerful.
This is going to explode in numerous fronts. Judicial, Cultural, euthansia... This is only the beginning of the Fight.
That is a great article he wrote. I have a lot of liberal friends who initially wanted to make this a right to die issue but have come to realize that it's nothing of the sort. It saddens me to see some here take the media bait and see this as bunch of religious extremists, who embarrass them, interfering with private family matter. It seems so plainly obvious to me that has been pulled from the same bag of attacks used on the President, his judicial nominees, those who rejected the judicial rulings on gay marriage, etc. etc. etc.
I heard Christopher Hitchens attack the religious extremists, claiming that religion had no role in the courts in this decision. He is right, it isn't up to the court to impose their religious beliefs but it isn't their right to prohibit the free exercise of religion either.
Bump that, Darkwolf, although I am a DU virgin so can't comment on what goes on over at The Dark Side. :-)
Nice sentence fragment--that's what I get for writing long sentences and getting lost in them.
More precisely, I think the American people are seeing that this is not a "take her off life support" story, but the story of a strange man starving and dehydrating a sick woman to death.