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I disagree .. as this scarring wound continues to ooze in the consciousness of the electorate, I believe its impact will grow .. not lessen.
I think you're probably a well-schooled practicioner or student of the processes of the law .. but I have yet to see a compassionate heart expressed in all your missives... to the contrary, many of your comments have been flippant and insensitive, in light of the grief most of us feel. Anyone ever tell you that sometimes, we can be too "smart" for our own good?
I believe this dark and excruciating (literally) chapter has forever martyred and memorialized Terri's needless killing for years to come -- a precious, innocent, disabled life .. you just can't trifle or preach process successfuly with something that touches people so profoundly.
And, with that .. I bid you adieu.
Flippant? Not at all. I do not wish to see this scene repeated, and hence I am compelled to do what I can to persuade people to take a course of action that will prevent it. If I seem insensitive, it may be because the sort of rhetoric I have seen employed all too often lately is completely counterproductive. I am here, while folks are still present and sweeping up their leftover swastikas and Nazi epithets and conspiracy theories - none of which made a damn bit of difference, I should add - to present another way of getting things done, a way less reliant on overwrought, hyperemetic rhetoric. That way starts by recognizing the real culprits here, and it ain't the courts, not in this case.