[AntiGuv]

I am not comparing Terri Schiavo to a criminal. People not accused of crimes go into courthouses for all sorts of reasons (divorce, bankruptcy, etc). Otherwise, I didn't mean to suggest anything more than that the obstacle to those seeking to prevent Terri's death seems to me to be the law itself, not the judges applying it. Although, that's actually somewhat unclear now since there hasn't yet been a ruling (that I'm aware of) on the law that was passed last year.

I have no real opinion to speak of on the Terri Schiavo case; I haven't even followed the issue but in passing. I just happened to stumble into this thread and that first comment on due process struck me as odd.

[gooleyman]

I am not comparing Terri Schiavo to a criminal.

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Perhaps I WAS a bit too harsh in that comment. Permit me to appologize.

I HAVE followed this issue from the day it hit FreeRepublic and the push to save her began. There was once a time when threads about her ran into the many-hundreds of comments within a couple of hours of being posted. If you search for her name and look at the earliest posts, you'll see some of the knock-down-drag-out fights we all had. Lately, they only wind up with 10 or 20 comments (like this one.) There have been many opinions ranging the full spectrum and some of them have compared her to people on death row. I thought you were yet another. I came loaded for BEAR. Sorry.

[T'wit]

I didn't take your comments amiss at all. I just wanted to refer to a litany of half-truths and lies from hostile media. Terri is regularly referred to as brain dead (no), comatose (no), PVS (no), hopeless (no), and so on. They make it sound as if it is just pulling the plug on a person on life support; but she's never been on life support. They mention all the 19 judges, but don't mention these are not reviews of the actual facts in the case or (so to speak) retrials of the case. They are routine affirmations of another judge's findings, which are about impossible to change, even if they are lies -- as they are in Terri's case. Finally, they always call it a "right-to-die" case, but this is a treatable, disabled woman with many years to live. She's not dying. She is being put to death.

The real irony of the case is that her husband has been using his legal guardianship to kill her -- when we have every reason to suspect she is brain damaged from him trying to strangle her in a domestic fight 14 years ago. The courts are going to finish murdering her for him.

If you want to bone up on the case, Freeper posts have been very informative. It's fascinating (and heartbreaking).