Terri Schiavo Before dehydration
Posted on 03/30/2005 11:16:30 PM PST by goldstategop
Mel Gibson, the Hollywood star who directed of "The Passion of the Christ," says the case of Terri Schiavo is a modern-day crucifixion with a pro-death agenda driving it.
"It's just completely wrong to deprive this poor woman of food and water," Gibson said on Sean Hannity's national radio show yesterday. "It's a prolonged and cruel execution."
Gibson continues contact with the family of the brain-injured Florida woman who has been starving since her feeding tube was removed by court order March 18.
"I'm appalled and stunned that we've gotten to this," Gibson said. "I just sit here watching this whole scenario play out in front of me with my mouth hanging wide open, that our country has come to this. I think it's really a dark, black day. And I think that this final appeal – it's too little too late. It's an attempt [by] the powers that be to sort of really just cover their a-- later on so they can say we tried, but in fact, they're not trying real hard. ...
"What happened to just being a human being, you know? It's nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. All the big guys, they all have their hands tied up by some tinhorn judge down there. Come on, when they want to whip a judge, they got no problem doing that. Look what they did to [Ten Commandments proponent Roy Moore] in a heartbeat. So they can do it if they want. They just don't want to."
Gibson, whose films include the "Mad Max" trilogy, "Braveheart," "The Patriot," and the "Lethal Weapon" series, acknowledges Schiavo has "some brain damage," but adds "she's not a vegetable," noting the debate over whether or not she's in a persistent vegetative state is not resolved.
"It hasn't had a fair going-over yet, so to just go right to this crucifixion of this woman ... even a dog has more rights. You do this to an animal, they'll lock you up, but this is a human being we're doing this to."
'Passion of The Christ' director Mel Gibson compares Terri Schiavo's starvation to crucifixion (courtesy Icon Distribution)
Calling it completely merciless, Gibson said there's a pro-death agenda being pushed on the public with this case.
"It's a precedent that they set," he said. "We may be able to save a few Social Security dollars later on down the track simply by pulling the plug on the infirmed or the disabled or the aged. It's the inevitability of gradualism. ... There is an agenda, and people say 'Well, they can't all be in it together,' but there's no other way to explain this behavior."
For all the ugliness Gibson sees in the starvation of Schiavo, he warned, "We'll see worse than this."
Sean Hannity
When Hannity pointed out the case is a defining moment for society, Gibson responded, "A lot depends on it. If she does travel into the next dimension, hopefully it will mean something and we'll learn from it, and something positive will come from it. It's just a terrible tragedy to watch state-sanctioned murder."
Excellent point! Can someone please explain to me why Roy Moore was told where to get off in short order, but no one seems to be able to get a handle on Greer?
"Mel Gibson On Schiavo: "Its A Modern Crucifixion"
And it is.
The enemies of Christianity and Jesus are hard at work to destroy our culture, and hence our people.
Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I heard him on Sean today. Hollywood is the tower of Babel, but Mel is perfectly clear, honest, accurate.
Mel is right, I think it's even worse than he says, the people who push the 'pro-death' agenda are neo Nazis.
Not only is it not resolved, it is not even relevant.
Remember what Jesus told the women of Jerusalem who wept as He passed, carrying His cross? "Weep not for me but for your children." Who are their children but us, born generations later. "For if they do these things in the green wood what do you think they will do in the dry?"
Terri is in the dry wood. Her treatment is inexcusable. We are living in a time when her rights being protected are the foundation of our country. And this is "what they do" to her: crucify her in cold blood under the color of law.
No. By birth he is American, born in NY or NJ, but his parents emigrated to Australia in Mel's youth.
God Bless him many times over for having the courage to speak up, to take a side - and to have it be (again) the right one.
Another name to add to the "honour roll" list of thise who value human life, and are on "our" side - "Everybody Loves Raymond" starring actress, Patricia Heaton. Patricia came down hard and repeatedly on the murderous death cultists surrounding/including Michael Schiavo, during an interview broadcast last week during prime time network television. She was clearly personally passionate and principled about her stand - not choosing a side with an eye towards a future sound bite, or favorable self-promotion.
I like her!
A.A.C.
Yup, he gets it:
***For all the ugliness Gibson sees in the starvation of Schiavo, he warned, "We'll see worse than this."
Maybe a new Holywood needs to be started. We could leave Hollywood in the dust.
Now, there's a person who can keep this situation in front of the publics eye long after Terri has passed.
This whole Terri Schiavo case has enlightened me quite a bit. I had never given much thought to the euthenasia issue here in the US. I'm alot less naive now, realizing most of the politicians that I thought had big cahones really don't. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a Republican candidate for 2008 that really turns me on. .....was that a Freudian slip?
Mel Gibson has it all! Good looks, charisma, influence & the guts to say it like it is. He is reminding me of a young Ronald Reagan. I'd vote for him for President. YEAH!
Yes, indeed, this is just the highly publicized and dramatic opening salvo. Watching Scarborough last night, I was fascinated by Catherine Crier, who is herself a judge and very much in support of this gruesome execution. Although she is an attractive woman, I could almost see the demons changing her face as she raged. She insists that this kind of thing "happens all the time". Does she expect me to believe that 2 week long starvation executions are routine hospital procedures and that the rest of us are just too stupid and ill-informed to know it?
I'm going to make a prediction here: Soon, the pro-death ones will be "taking the moral high ground" by saying that those of us who oppose this thing are the ones responsible for Terri's suffering because our "silly and outdated morality" prevented them from just giving Ms. Schiavo a lethal injection. That's where they seek to gain an advantage from this woman's slow and painful death - by using it to push for quick, drug-induced deaths.
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