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I'd be willing to wager that there are many Freepers on these threads right now who live less than an hour's drive from the hospice. What does that say to you? To me, it says that sitting here typing posts that do nothing to bring this case to the public eye is more important to them than engaging in a little civil disobedience. Of course, that would end up with an arrest and an hour or two in the local pokey. Very inconvenient.

I wouldn't bet against you.

My mother said to me this morning that she was glad I didn't live anywhere near the place. She said she knows she would be bailing me out of jail. My daddy used to tell me that the only way to get try to get things changed was to go to the people who made the laws even if you go alone. He said "sitting at your kitchen table bitching about it with others doesn't do a damned thing to change things". I would substitute daddy's "kitchen table" with "internet message board" and the concept still applies.

It's so easy for me or anyone else to sit here and just demand that someone do something. So easy and so convenient.

It's so easy for me or anyone else to sit here and just demand that someone do something. So easy and so convenient.

I look at it a little differently. I think posters are justifiably angry that people who have the power to do something won't do it. Freepers in Florida and Indiana don't have any power. They wouldn't make it to the hospice door.

Our politicians, on the other hand, have at least some measure of power, and yet they are refusing to use it. Not at the risk of going to jail--as a Freeper surely would--but at the risk of looking bad or getting a judicial slap on the wrist. I'm angry at those who could do something and won't, not at posters who express understandable frustration.

If this is so grandly important to humankind, the US, and morality in general, why aren't there more protesters?

And I am not by any stretch, referring to just Floridians. If people believe half of what they have been posting why aren't they selling things, pawning things, withdrawing money from their accounts, taking time off instead of using it for their vacation and hitchhiking, flying, driving, carpooling down to Pinellas Park?

This is the alternate edge of the sword as far as a web format goes. It's too easy to complain by typing into a keyboard. Terry appreciated your keystrokes, I am sure, now, off to lunch, or down the hall for a soda, etc.

I understand why the folks that are killing her are doing so. I cannot understand the unwillingness of those who say they care not doing anything truly meaningful. Calls, emails, letters, and rants don't count. That's for other things, not for when someone's life hangs in the balance.

And yes, as the old saying goes, whenever you point a finger, there are three pointing back at you. So why am I not there? I don't know, but it has really begun to disturb me.

Shakespeare said to thyne own self be true, and I don't like the excuses that I appear to be making to myself. "But, my job, my responsibilities, the hardship, the feeling of what would it really matter." I'm not buying my own excuses. I may very well find myself there tomorrow, but I just don't know..