Terri Schiavo

This whole thing is a horrible mess that I don't have time to talk about in full. Let me make one comment. Have you noticed that there was a weird alliance of people on Terri's side? How in the world can Jesse Jackson and numerous Clinton operatives be right along side every prominent conservative in supporting Terri and her parents and opposing Michael?

I saw an article that I thought was insightful. The writer said that the lines are drawn between those that have checked out the facts of this case and those that haven't. Any one who takes any time to find out some of the facts not reported in the mainstream media became, almost without fail, and regardless of general political philosophy and overall worldview, violently opposed to what was happening to Terri. This was a horrible miscarriage of justice that was so heinous that I am sure it will have effects on our culture for years to come. The more I read the more my skin crawls at how evil and sick this whole deal was.

By the standard applied in this case, thousands of people in this country should be put to death immediately, including my mother. My mother is MUCH closer to death, medically, than Terri was. Terri could breath unaided, something my mother can not do. My mother is not on a respirator but does need oxygen 100% of the time. If her oxygen supply were cut off she would die in rougly the same amount of time it would take a healthy person to drown or suffocate. If someone turned off her oxygen it would be murder just as much if they held a pillow over my face or my head under water. I don't understand why this is so confusing to people.

Some will consider this over the top but I don't. We are not that far from the thinking employed by the Nazi's. We may not get there next year but it will not shock me if people with profound medically issues are routinely put to death within the next 10 years. This is a sad, dark chapter in American history

Reasonable people can disagree about the use of "heroic" or "extraordinary" means. Even as a conservative Christian I have no quarrel with people that turn off a respirator or heart/lung machine. That is a tough call and I am not sure what I think of that just yet. I think there is some wiggle room on that based on individual circumstances. That is NOT what happened here. If you have that impression or even 1% of that impression, I would encourage you to do some reading. The power of the internet. When you can actually read the word for word sworn testimony of various medical professionals you start to see how utterly full of crap most of the media is.

My hope is that this case, along with some others, will spur us on as a culture to get our judiciary under control. We are rapidly becoming a government of the judges, by the judges and for the judges. Frankly, I find that trend terrifying. If that continues Terri Schiavo will be just the tip of the iceberg.