A Few of FR's Finest Every Day....03-30-05..Democrats still unhinged over Schiavo case

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Democrats still unhinged over Schiavo case

by JohnHuang2

In a sign of how unhinged liberals have all become over Terri, I just finished reading the gazillionth story about how unhinged the GOP has become over Terri. And about the joys of starving to death, the hottest new craze sweeping the Nation magazine. (The incredible thrill of going malnourished never leaves you.) Millions of Zimbabweans live on the brink of starvation, so they've never had it so good.

Yet, fact is, it is illegal to starve a cow, which is precisely why it's illegal to stop feeding Michael Moore. Renowned medical professionals like Robert Wexler, who has diagnosed Terri from the studios of CNN, says her case isn't unique, that there are hundreds of thousands of cases like hers, where government decides to withhold food and water -- but enough about the Sudan.

Liberals, trying to win their noble life-and-death fight to keep Terri from being fed, offer a motley of asinine reasons the Asinine Party says justifies killing Terri (then getting her registered to vote). If I get the gist of their "argument," they say Terri's incapable of feeling pain, so they give her morphine to ease the tremendous euphoria of dehydrating to death which you couldn't do to ol' Barney no matter how 'slow' ol' Barney gets but Terri is not a Scottish terrier so there's no need to treat her humanely. Besides, she's been dead for 15 years, so you don't want to hurt her by doing things like keeping her alive through artificial means like food and water which prolong her suffering since she's unconscious and people in a 'Persistent Vegetative State' feel no pain or suffering, which means Terri's just a corpse, so Michael's marriage to her is alive and his efforts to end the corpse's life shows that he honors the sanctity of marriage. Michael says Terri has spent the last 15 years dead so it's time to let her die. And time for her parents to 'honor' their daughter's wish -- dying at the hands of her loving husband who found another honey after she became ill. It takes a 'right-wing' fanatic to think the philandering cad's priorities are not in Terri's best interest.

Such clear, coherent thinking is also amply displayed by Andrew Sullivan in his latest piece, cryptically titled, Terri is the dying martyr the Republican right can use. Regarding the killing of a disabled woman, Sullivan goes straight to the heart of the problem: People who go to church. And vote.

"Those of us who long worried that unleashing religious fundamentalism into the bloodstream of American politics would lead to disaster can feel only that our fears have now come true," writes Sullivan, his jaws shivering, his body trembling with horror. Our society prides itself as open and tolerant. So why do we let people like Jerry Falwell vote? Religious fundamentalists, using secret infrared rays, have taken control of the GOP, Congress, and the Presidency, Sullivan writes, gasping for breath. With their nifty wireless remotes, they got Congress and the President to intervene in a family matter -- in effect, giving "government" a "final say" in decisions which belong to private individuals, such as judge George Greer. It "strikes me as grossly inappropriate," notes Sullivan, adding: "You want proof that the religious right runs the Republican Party?"

But then, in paragraph #18 of Sullivan's piece, we learn that the Prez, rather than being under the control of pro-life 'fanatics' as he had been in the preceding 17 paragraphs, is really a pro-death fanatic who "signed countless death warrants as governor of Texas, with the most cursory of legal reviews." So, Bush is a pro-life fanatic and a pro-death fanatic meddling in a judge's decision to pull Terri's feeding tube -- a decision upheld by the U.S. Supremes, half of whom are on feeding tubes.

(Liberals insist there was no justification for intervention by Republicans in Congress, pointing to federal courts which reviewed the case to make sure judge Greer was right in ruling Terri's brain to be only three-fifths human.)

Greer determined that Terri would want to dehydrate based on the Clear and Convincing standard of hear-say table-talk. Terri's still alive after going without food and water for almost two weeks -- that's how badly she wanted to die.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, professor, cardiologist and former Director of the Institutes of Health, told Hardball Tuesday that "in terms of a quality of mercy in this case, I do not believe that it has occurred at the level of giving (Terri) a fair medical examination. I'm speaking about her as a patient; I'm not speaking about her as a law case; I'm not speaking about her at the Supreme Court. I'm talking about the fact that no one should die without a state-of-the-art medical evaluation. (Terri) did not have a doctor evaluating her since 2002. The most recent neurologist to see her said she thought she was not a vegetable."

Yet, "When I saw" Terri, with her sunken eyes, parched skin, seared lips, caked mouth and swollen tongue, "she looked beautiful," George Felos told reporters Saturday. "In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo," she's never looked better than after a week of dehydrating. He said that what he saw, as her nose bled, bladder burned and brain cells dried out, was the "look of beauty". Since this little sick maggot is Michael's insane lawyer, I presume Michael also thinks now that his wife is in the process of being drained of body fluid in that wonderful slaughter house called a 'hospice', she's never looked hotter. (Felos is so fascinated with death, he calls visits to the cemetery, 'Happy Hour'. In the morning, happiness is coffee, eggs, sausage and the obits.) Killing the brain-damaged, the mentally impaired, the disabled, the 'undesirables', the unborn -- Hitler would be a Democrat today.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[mjtobias]

Terri Schiavo Before dehydration

God Bless you Terri in your hour of death

Let everyone who said your beautiful smile was fake be haunted by it for the rest of their days.

[Lexinom]

I wish I could do more.

[adam_az]

"This will come up when they campaign in 2006. Their opponents will bring it up, count on it. How can they answer?"

The 'rats will say, "how can you be pro-life but support the death penalty?"

That is because they lack the ethical guidance to see the difference between the innocent and the criminal.

[speed_addiction]

The 'rats will say, "how can you be pro-life but support the death penalty?"

Well there is no getting around this one, they supported the death penalty in Terri's case. If I ran against any of them that is the exact wording I would use.

[adam_az]

Great observation

[Brad’s Gramma]

P.S. Warning...this thread deals with Terri...speical prayers for Terri and her family and also for Pope John Paul.

Thank you. Both. Keith, pinging you to John's two cents...

Good night everyone, with prayers for this country.

[poobear]

The tyrannical court judges are in control.

[poobear]

"It is God who will have the last say on this one."

No doubt.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep.

I've been watching the atrocity from up close. It's like nothing I've ever seen.

But I fear that it is only the beginning of even worse things to come.

The fruit of our political class bowing at the feet of the false god of judicial supremecy could only be tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson and others clearly warned us of this exact thing, but we as a people have forgotten that wisdom and those words.

Now we are paying a horrific price for that forgetfulness.

[Lancey Howard]

The tyrannical court judges are in control.

Yes, control was acceded to the corrupt judges by virtue of the fact that when "somebody" had a chance to tell them to go pound sand, "somebody" decided instead to shrug his shoulders, hold up his palms, and say there was nothing he could do. "Somebody" was the Governor of Florida and he was backed down by a stinking county probate judge. God help us all.

All the parsing of words, and the wringing of hands, and the flipping through law books, consulting with lawyers, filing appeal after appeal after appeal, and passing new laws (or trying to), does absolutely nothing to save the fellow human being who is being systematically and barbarically murdered by order of the courts. It is excruciating to watch, day after day.

A leader needed to step up, take real action, and simply get it done, one way or the other.
But nobody showed up.

Meanwhile....

[Aeronaut]

Good morning dutchess.

[poobear]

These laws have been eradicated and tweaked for decades. No governor or legislator can jump in these days like superman and save the day. There is no ONE person to blame except ourselves who have blatantly stood by for generations and allowed these laws to be bent to such a degree that now there is nothing anyone can do but sit on our hands and watch these atrocities. It's the 1940's all over again. "What we do not learn from history...."

[AmericaUnited]

just wait until she passes...you will see an Fr like you have never seen...and it will be pathetic....

No Mike! What's been pathetic and absolutely appalling is the display coldness, callousness, and indifference, shown by some as a healthy, innocent women is being put to death in a most cruel and heinous manner.

And all these freaking idiots care about are things such as "people are getting emotional over this".

[AmericaUnited]

Here is Barry Goldwater's rebuke, to all of those who care more about whether people are getting 'excited' or 'emotional' because an innocent women is getting cruelly put to death.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

[shezza]

Some are more outraged over the outrage over the outrage than at the outrage itself.

And that, my FRiend, is an outrage.

[shezza]

Hey, Ike...are you equating the untimely death of a perfectly innocent woman sentenced by a county probate judge and the capital punishment of a murderer on Death Row, sentenced by a jury for crimes against humanity?

[GailA]

Good morning. JH2 another excellent thoughtful piece.

[NautiNurse]

Nice illustration of the contradictions. Thanks!

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"Nice illustration of the contradictions. Thanks"

Indeed!!