Posted on 03/31/2005 6:55:11 AM PST by Eurotwit
Breaking now on CNN
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Interesting observation...
"Terri's with God, and the Schindlers are finally free of the monster she married. "
Yes, it looks like Michael has lost the WHIP he used freely on the Schindler's - the life of their beloved daughter! What will he do now to torment them? Use the dead body to whip them some more!
Just burning candles. Nothing left to do. But you're right that there's seriously something wrong with how this played out.
Ah, I see. How apropos to make themselves out to be victims, not vultures.
Now the biker's tagline makes more sense as well.
Thank you, Doc.
Terri’s torment has served to reveal the truth about the hearts of many people.
It has unmasked those who claim to act out of love and a respect for truth and justice, but whose hearts, when exposed, reveal something entirely different -- a dark, penetrating ugliness. We know that, unless they learn to comprehend the malevolence of their actions and earnestly seek His forgiveness, they will one day stand before Him and know that their eternity has been sealed by their own self-serving treachery, and the evil it has wrought on an innocent woman.
Terri’s ordeal has unmasked those who claim to be leaders and teachers of men, but who have been found wanting in occupying those exalted positions. (Not many of you should presume to be teachers … because you know that those who teach will be judged more strictly … Jas 3:1). Obeying unjust laws, or turning away from gross injustice, is not the mark of a leader or teacher of men. Not one of our national leaders did more than offer public lip service during Terri’s entire ordeal. (Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats … and places of honor. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely … Mark 12:38-40).
Public oratory often serves as a subterfuge that disguises the fact that the speaker lacks the courage to move beyond words and into action. I don’t believe we have ever witnessed more ‘brave words’ in combination with a sickening lack of comensurate ‘brave actions’ than we have over the past two weeks of symbolic outrage on the part of our national leadership. The special session of congress that was called two weekends ago may go down in history as one of the most appalling examples of meaningless political theatrics ever concocted by leaders whose outrage is skin deep, at best, and who value charisma and facade infinitely more than character.
Cleverly crafted words are also among the most powerful tools capable of shaping public policy and public opinion. This morning’s FoxNews opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believe that the removal of Terri’s source of food and hydration was ‘an act of mercy’. Terri’s murder has also separated those who seek to inform themselves about issues of substance and consequence by poring over all of what passes for ‘information’ from those who are unwilling to expend the time and energy to separate truth from lies of convenience, often formulated in order to further an insidious ideology. I truly believe that this morning’s poll, and most others regarding Terri Schiavo’s fate, rather than exhibiting the fact that the large majority of Americans favored killing Terri, instead illustrate that a large majority of Americans are ignorant of many of the basic facts that caused, colored, and finalized her planned demise.
Scripture tells us that a faithful remnant will continue to remain true to His original truths and laws, despite ever-increasing apostasy and opposition to truth. That they will be a people of unshakable integrity who value truth more than that which poses as truth. I believe that Terri Schiavo’s plight has brought many of those faithful out from the shadows, while also shining an unflattering light on many who claim to value truth, justice, and life itself, but whose agenda in fact often precludes all three.
As marron so beautifully observed more than a week ago:
I am sick at my stomach, to be frank. I'm not afraid for her, death isn't the end, and death isn't to be feared. I am more afraid for what this means, for what this case reveals about the moral state of affairs among the living … Its odd, the attack on 9/11 was a kind of watershed, an event that forced people to choose where they stood on some very key issues. People who I had previously admired, or tolerated, who chose wrong I have been unable to ever again see in the same light, I have lost respect for individuals and institutions and whole countries because of it.
This is another such event. People are forced to choose, to defend her, or to be complicit in her death, and those who choose wrong, and those who have refused to choose, are marked in my eyes, I will not be able to look at them in the same light again.
There is something almost biblical in the way the entire world stands by to watch this woman's death as we approach Easter, as men in suits studiously wash their hands of her and turn away.
Those who are determined to cling steadfastly to God’s truths cannot allow Terri’s murder, and the identities of those who were either actively or passively complicit in it, to fade from our memories. We need to remember who Terri’s enemies were -- both those who actively sought her demise, and those who had the power to save her and yet did not choose to venture far from their own emotional comfort zones. Terri’s death is a watershed event that portends dark, perilous times for our republic, unless we now begin to work to unmask the evil and the indolent among the ranks of our ‘leadership’, and work to remove them from their positions of power. Unless Terri’s death serves as a wake-up call, it will set a precedent for future life-ending, and life-demeaning, judicial decisions, and continued legislative cowardice and impotence. And it will embolden those who believe that man’s self-absorbed caprice has a right to decide, cavalierly, which lives (especially the unborn, the infirm, and the elderly) are of value and which deserve to be extinguished.
Praying daily for Terri’s faithful, courageous, beleaguered family – that they might find refuge in the wisdom, comfort and strength that only He can provide.
~ joanie
Then, the whole state government should be Black Flagged.
"Both Bushes turned a blind eye to the murder of an innocent human being and that's okay with the lemming mindset. Oh but I forgot, they're both bible thumping Christian CON-servatives so that makes it all fine too, vomit."
Member since March 26, 2005, I see.
Not part of the publically-stated Dim effort to infiltrate FreeRepublic, pretend to be conservative, spout dis-information, and try to drive a wedge into the grassroot conservative movement, are you?
Sorry you've been banned. I love watching idiots.
That's really my final question in all of this today, this 30th of March, 2005 and for Michael Schiavo. If Michael Schiavo cannot answer THAT one, then I guess we have to conclude, that it turns out he had no moral authority to have stood for Terri and her 'wishes' when she was alive, all along.
"Wouldn't it be more accurate to ask if you would want your spouse to make a decision like that based on a throw-away, emotional remark that you made after a family member's funeral when you were 23 years old?"
I would expect to know my spouses wishes regarding this marriage after so many years of marriage. I have only been seeing my girlfriend for 5 years and I know for sure how she would like to be treated should such a tragedy occur. I would definitely think that the husband has a much better understanding of his wife than 3rd party second guessers who have never even met her.
I agree with the general gist of those points too.
I do understand that there are those who are going over the top etc. I see it as their need to vent and I just ignore them. I try to respond to those where rational discourse can happen.
And yeah, I have a bit of anger that I am expressing, but for the most part, it is no more than I have on other threads about other issues.
Just call me a mean ole' cranky gal. ;)
You'd have to read their thread, or at least the first post. Until I saw that thread, I thought they really were callous enough that it meant what people on the opposite side from them said it meant. I would repeat that, but I've seen at least one person suspended for doing so.
If Terri had been on a machine it would have been different.
The american left have ensured that Terry die.
Now they can turn their attention to California's death row...of course to make sure Scott Peterson live.
Rush Limbaugh
STARVATION: DAY 14
Mel Gibson on Schiavo: It's modern crucifixion
'Passion' director appalled by 'cruel execution,' rips state-sanctioned murder, pro-death agenda
March 31, 2005
http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43576
By Joe Kovacs
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Mel Gibson, the Hollywood star who directed "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."
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."
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."
"For all the blame being cast on Jebb, we ought to step back a moment and recognize that if any are to blame as much as Mr. Shiavo and his usurpatious legal henchmen, THE MEDIA ARE TO BLAME. In covering Terri's plight, (on the whole of what I've seen) they have shown a most ugly bias, and an incredible indifference to seek readily available information."
YES YES YES YES
What a miserable job they've done, and could it still be a surprise that MSM sucks up and thrives on the culture of death? If it bleeds, it leads, and they grease the tracks for the crash.
"May God have mercy on Michael Shiavo"
No, I really hope he doesn't.
I thought victimology was the playground of the Democrats?
I think the left is taking little comfort in this pyric victory of theirs. The courts may have be united in a us vs them stance, but they still had to put down a mother and father who never gave up legal efforts even in the last hours.
It speaks volumes that probably scares democrats. I see the MSM now desperatly trying to make this a non-democrat republican issue. Not so, despite the pathetic trolls here, the republicans were for the substantive part very united. It was the democrat party that was divided on this. They leadership and celebs were M.I.A. (where was hollyweird activists? do the "beautiful people" hate the helpless?)
We have only STARTED to see the MSM leftist spin on this judicial travesty.
Not for nothing, the libertarians have been dead wrong on this issue. They have not been supportive of Terri.
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