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Opposing hysteria, name-calling and slander is not the same as wanting someone else to die. Disagreement is not fighting. It's sad that you seem incapable of seeing the illogic of your allegation. You are not Terri and never, ever represented her interests. To believe you or anyone else posting here at FR did is pure delusion.

You've said it better than I could. I've tried to make it clear that I thought it was wrong to remove Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube (I didn't know her, so I don't feel that I'm on a first name basis with her). And yet, those of us who think that way are referred to as the Kill Terri First crowd, Michael Schiavo supporters, Death Ghouls and all the rest, apparently because we don't think it's right to just make stuff up about those involved, call for violence, or demand that the President of the United States do something such as issue an executive order for which he has no authority under the US constitution. You know, things like that. I find it particularly interesting that people who didn't want the feeding tube removed but objected to calls to murder others involved in the case referred to as "Death Ghouls". Oh, and btw, we're not "dancing on Terri's grave", either.

Most people calling for the intervention in this Florida fiasco were not well informed about the Constitutional limits set upon state's rights issues. Most remember the federal intervention in the school segregation problem during the 1960s. They were hoping that there was some way the federal government could intervene in the Schiavo case. The ability of Schiavo to remove the feeding tube was made legal by legislation that slipped through with very little understanding by the typical Floridian of its implications. This law passed in the 1999 Florida Legislative Session in the provision entitled END-OF-LIFE CARE — CS/CS/SB 2228 (Klein), HB 2131 (Argenziano and including George Felos) allowed for feeding tubes to be removed. Notice that Schiavos lawyer George Felos lobbied and co-wrote for the bill's passage. The people of Florida are probably working now on striking down this law in coming sessions. This law may have looked good on the surface; especially to the large senior citizen population in Florida. However, when it has been shown to have potential for abuse, there are many who see this law as one which opens up involuntary euthanasia (which is a euphemism for homicide). Now that the law has been put through a road test, it is good to say that this law flunks.

It is too bad that the citizens of Florida were not alert when the law was first proposed. If it had been stopped, Terri Schiavo would be alive today.