Posted on 03/31/2005 6:55:11 AM PST by Eurotwit
Breaking now on CNN
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I sincerely hope so.
What photo?
God bless her, her family, you and everyone else who now sheds a tear for her.
Dear Ivan, besides Michael-the-fiend Schiavo and his accomplice, Felo-the-lawyer, activist judges terrified of losing power were at the root of this mess. At the end, that judge from the 11th circuit court of appeals in Atlanta, when he turned the Schindlers down, scolded congress and GW for daring to try and go against decisions prior courts had made. How dare the congress pass laws that govern the judiciary! Fie on the balance of powers! In the squabble, an innocent life was not just lost, a woman was murdered by judicial fiat. This won't go away. There will be hugh repercussions, as there should be.
=== A little while ago I might have called you an anti-abortion extremist,
Fair enough.
It's interesting to me how Condi Rice can come out and state she has a libertarian-style "mildly pro-abortion" stand. That's not a problem because most "pro-lifers" are themselves mildly pro-choice ... particularly if they cotton to the Rape/Incest exemption by which the GOP maintains the conceit that the right to life is premised on circumstances.
Can you imagine the sort of uproar that might have ensued were Rice to state that she had a libertarian-style "mildly pro-choice" stand on drug use?
ANATHEMA!!! She'd have been crucified.
All a matter of education, education, education ... such that our priorities have become totally skewed. The War on Drugs has net us a federal police force, Waco and a steady erosion of our liberties and rights to due process. But any objection to the War on Drugs is somehow subversive in a way that being "mildly pro-choice" is not.
Why?
Beyond the facts (as I've posted time again) which evidence not only the utter duplicity on the part of those passing themselves as "pro-lifers" but the self-delusion of those who think human life is a matter for compromise, I think the subject of abortion points up in a very real way how impotent and enslaved we've become.
I'm not one to pretend for a moment that (1) the War between the States had jack to do with slavery or (2) that the real Americans won that war BUT ... it is the conventional wisdom nowadays to frame the injustice of human slavery as grounds for not only breaking the law but going to war and killing those who fought on the side of the southerners, among whom were some slave owners.
It is even the conventional wisdom nowadays that it's morally justifiable to invade another nation so as to liberate it from genocidal human rights abuses such that it can be "democratized" like our nation where genocide of the unborn -- over one million each year -- is a sacrosanct right coming under the heading of "Women's Health".
I don't really understand that.
Something's not quite right with this picture. I don't think one should be labeled an extremist simply because they don't compromise the right to life like the "mildly pro-choice" First Ladies and Condi Rice.
I think we can thank those who've set themselves up as Exhibits of Extremism for (1) the instant impugning of any staunch pro-lifer and (2) the paddling-in-circles style of the utterly impotent pro-life movement as controlled by the potemkin NRLC and those who would keep pro-lifers busybusybusy passing bum legislation like "parental consent" and other pipe-dreams which neither accomplish nor change anything.
For all the good research one can find in LIME 5 and other works, I am not myself a Randall Terry fan. It's my strictly personal opinion that he -- like David Duke, for example -- is one of those charged with muddying the waters by serving as instant impeachment of just about any truth which does issue from his mouth or action he takes.
But the fact that there are Randall Terry's in this world or that plenty of pro-lifers are over-zealous in their language or actions is no reason to seek to remain "neutral" on a subject like human life. We don't pretend to do so when avenging the lives taken on 911. We have no qualms about liberating Arab women from what we're told is a uniform oppression ... measured primarily by the fact they still have normal-sized families and rear their own children.
But as much as I disagree with the pro-choice crowd and am dismayed by what I think are purposeful plants in the pro-life movement, the folks who disgust me the most are those who pride themselves on being neutral.
"Oh, it's so wrong" they cry ... but they refuse to take a stand because they don't wish to be associated with any zealots where abortion's concerned. Is there some reason this refusing to take sides with "zealots" doesn't apply to Neocons, the IRS, the War on Drugs or the Federal Police Force who've literally gotten away with coldblooded torture and murder of women and children, even?
"Mildly pro-choice."
It's interesting, the mindset they're cultivating. And, from all appearances -- such as the WPPFF thread -- it's really like taking candy from a baby ... or life from an invalid ... getting folks to cluster in the tepid middle of the Mildly Pro-Life and/or Mildly Pro-Choice where any and all extremes ... save those put to the service of the State and its Personalities ... are eschewed.
Go a couple of pages back. There is a photo of Terri that was taken 14 hours before she died. There is a link to the website.
Whomever you are, wherever you are, I agree 1000%.
The thuggish LE had to take me out of that hospice in a stretcher, but I would have planned and tried to save my baby.
Do you know this man? Where did you find this out? If not, that's jumping to conclusions. He could have been taking up the position that Terri's situation was torture. That would still be a poor argument but it doesn't equate to death-mongering.
I cannot believe the parents were not allowed to be there! Is this true!? I feel so sorry for them and the brother and sister. Is there an address or someplace to send a card? I feel so sad.
Read his book.
Thank you Meek...Bless you!
Oh, no, Americans won't be able to forget Terri. Emboldened by success, the Liberals are already tossing around terms like 'productive' people, 'quality of life', etc.. They will whine about the lack of funds for medical care and the need to cut corners. They've already sorted people out as to who gets what when they're senior citizens. If you have cancer and you're in your late sixties, maybe you won't get aggressive treatment that might possibly save your life. You'll get palliative treatment...well, actuarial table say you'll only be around maybe ten years, so be satisfied with the little you get. And they'll come for those who can't speak for themselves, the mentally retarded, spastic, ailing, profoundly handicapped, and then there are HIV infected people and those with AIDs. Although that lobby will doubtless scream loud enough so they won't be moved to the Kill list for awhile. This has incredible implications for America, the kind of people we are, and where we're headed.
I don't think that's what she meant, but maybe it was. She won't tell me.
Thank YOU. I forgot to include my Florida list! (Doh!)But I hit it now, too. :)
The b@stards let the Schindlers out of the room 15-20 min before she died. Lier Felos in his press conference said there was some kind of dispute and the Schindlers were ordered out of the room by low-life MS. Of course the lier,..er...I mean lawyer is lying. No way the Schindlers would have left the room knowing their baby was about to die...er...I mean to be killed.
She was such a beautiful young woman. Merriment sparkled from her eyes. The essence of life. How ironic and cruel this has all been, but the Pope's condition at the same time, Easter, the confluence of all this...show it was not random.
A COURT-SANCTIONED,
COURT-FACILITATED
M-U-R-D-E-R !
Where was the authority of the EXECUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE Branches of Government in all this? Why was Greer allowed to show complete disregard and contempt of Congress? Why were Greer and any other judges who heard the case over the years apparently so "struck" on Mikey Shiavo?
IMPEACH GREER for contempt of Congress and conspiring to block Terri's Constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and a FAIR hearing as the Congress obviously intended the other week when they voted.
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