Posted on 03/22/2005 8:26:31 PM PST by hipaatwo
it is worth remembering that the excruciating slowness of the execution here, the incremental-ness of death, is designed by its champions to inure us to it. After the first hour, the second passes with far less fanfare, and the third less still. I've been following this closely, and I needed to remind myself today how many hours Terri Schiavo has actually been without sustenance by counting the days since Friday afternoon and multiplying by 24. How much more easily the time passes, and the world around us changes, for those following only fleetingly, or not at all.
Why should we think this is intentional? Consider, say, a month ago, before Terri's plight took center stage, if you had asked someone in the abstract: "How would you feel about starving and dehydrating a defenseless, brain-damaged woman?" The answer is easy to imagine: "Outrageous, atrocious -- something that wouldn't be done to an animal and couldn't be done to the worst convicted murderer."
But then it actually happens ... slowly. You're powerless to stop it, and ... you find your life goes on. There are kids and jobs and triumphs and tragedies and everyday just-getting-by. An atrocity becomes yet another awful thing going on in the world. After a day, or maybe two, of initial flabbergast, we're talking again about social security reform, China, North Korea, Hezbollah, etc. A woman's snail-like, gradual torture goes from savagery to just one of those sad facts of life. As is the case with other depravities once believed unthinkable, it coarsens us. We slowly, and however reluctantly, accept it. We accept it. The New York Times no doubt soon "progresses" from something like "terminating life by starvation," to "the dignity of death by starvation," to "the medical procedure that opponents refer to as starvation." And so the culture of life slides a little more. The culture of death gains a firmer foothold.
Of course, the physical needs of the body are not limited to food and water. There is also air. But no judge, even in Florida, would ever have had the nerve in Terri's case to permit "the medical procedure that opponents refer to as asphyxiation." Too crude. Too quick. Too obviously murder of a vulnerable innocent. Brazen, instant savagery might wake us from our slumber. For the culture of death, better that we sleep.
Historically, His Mercy goes to societies that remember and worship him.
The USA is no longer one of those societies.
Real Christians, Jews and Moslims together are NOT in the majority here.
To be honest, I don't know. What I do know is that as a human, one should use all power they posess (and in his case, that's a lot of power) to save the life of another. If I were one of those police officers physically guarding her from those who want to provide her with relief, I simply wouldn't be able to live with myself.
On Fox's and Friends this morning,one of Terri's nurses stated that when Terri got an infection her husband was happy,saying when is the BI--h going to die!
...and that's all I got to say about that.
Excellent explanation of what is happening to us. We are being contitioned to accept torture and murder.
Thank you for posting it.
"Historically, His Mercy goes to societies that remember and worship him."
WE are still a Nation the remembers and worships Him. WE may be a minority, but devout worship in God Almighty is alive and well in America. Keep praying! Actually, pray even harder.
He makes me nauseated.
Ok everybody -- Here's your reading assignment to help you get through the night: Ezekiel Chapter 37.
Don't ask why. Just read it. And pray.
(By the way, foxnews.com is reporting that there may not be a decision until daybreak.)
"Come out of her my people, so that you do not receive of her plagues."
When God is removed from the public square, his opposite moves in to fill the void. Political correctness is the opposite of the 10 commandments. How could a nation like that be salvaged? We've become a nation where the death of the most innocent is glorified, and supporting life is considered a mortal sin.
Executive order time. He can do that, right?
It'd cause an uproar amongst the pro-death crowd, but I'm sure he could.
There is a moral remedy.
Don't count on it FRiend. I think God is disgusted with us.
America is dying along with Terri.
Michael is scum IMHO and in a class by himself.
" Rule one way or the other, but rule! He is executing her by neglect."
" He should be impeached for dereliction resulting in cruel and inhumane treatment."
Absolutely, D-fendr. This whole sickening scene has me to the point of saying something, which I know I will regret, to those who haven't a clue as to the realisms of what feeding tubes versus breathing machines/true life supports are, and are used for, dependent on a miriad of medical situations. I'm so damned tired of the unbelievable word and situation parsing, and mumbo jumbo safe zones of people searching for a hat hang of technical crap that means absolutley *nothing* given the big, human picture. It's absolutely sickening in this day and age. And it makes me want to vomit.
The Congress can overturn a Presidential Executive Order if it conflicts with a law that they have passed. ALSO (and most unfortunately) the Supreme Court can also strike down Executive Orders if they interfere with rulings that they have made because it is an attempt to "make law"...something the Supreme Court has been doing for decades. This is not going to be a likely occurrence.
You are praising John Brown on this thread? Get a grip
With great liberties JCSS
Prophetic; no pun intended.
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