A George Bailey Moment
The attempt to hear both sides in the Schiavo atrocity ought to be one long George Bailey moment -- that moment in It's a Wonderful Life when he comes to his senses about the job offer from the putrid Mr. Potter. No, dammit -- there is only one "right" here!
If you don't have a sick feeling in your stomach over this one, I pity you.
Terri Schiavo was killed horrendously, in a manner that would land you in jail if you did it to your pet. Not only was the tube providing her food and water removed, but -- by court order -- her poor parents, and anybody else who cared, were barred from attempting to feed her or give her water normally, BECAUSE SHE MIGHT CHOKE!
The long and short of this case is that you have no right to life. If Michael Schiavo -- who had "moved on," fathering children with another woman despite his continuing marriage -- had, with a mere allusion to a supposed comment by his wife some twenty years ago, the full weight of the Florida and US judiciaries behind his quest to murder his wife because she had become inconvenient to him, nobody is safe.
What's more, the left that shrilly and ceaselessly cried "Constitutional crisis" over efforts to hold President Clinton to any legal accountability is utterly silent about the court trampling of legislative mandate in this case, a trampling boasted of by the judges themselves! From the original judge who never saw fit even to visit Mrs. Shiavo for himself, to the federal courts that openly defied the law passed requiring them to review the case anew, we have a full-blown crisis of authority underway. Unelected judges have now placed themselves as final arbiters over everything, your life included, and the clear letter of the law be damned. This is chilling.
We failed Terri Schiavo. What a sad day for our nation.
Will we also fail to reclaim the liberty we've lost to these lawless, arrogant, totalitarian monsters of the courts?
Read Nat Hentoff for more.
UPDATE 3/31: Also read this by William Anderson.
If you don't have a sick feeling in your stomach over this one, I pity you.
Terri Schiavo was killed horrendously, in a manner that would land you in jail if you did it to your pet. Not only was the tube providing her food and water removed, but -- by court order -- her poor parents, and anybody else who cared, were barred from attempting to feed her or give her water normally, BECAUSE SHE MIGHT CHOKE!
The long and short of this case is that you have no right to life. If Michael Schiavo -- who had "moved on," fathering children with another woman despite his continuing marriage -- had, with a mere allusion to a supposed comment by his wife some twenty years ago, the full weight of the Florida and US judiciaries behind his quest to murder his wife because she had become inconvenient to him, nobody is safe.
What's more, the left that shrilly and ceaselessly cried "Constitutional crisis" over efforts to hold President Clinton to any legal accountability is utterly silent about the court trampling of legislative mandate in this case, a trampling boasted of by the judges themselves! From the original judge who never saw fit even to visit Mrs. Shiavo for himself, to the federal courts that openly defied the law passed requiring them to review the case anew, we have a full-blown crisis of authority underway. Unelected judges have now placed themselves as final arbiters over everything, your life included, and the clear letter of the law be damned. This is chilling.
We failed Terri Schiavo. What a sad day for our nation.
Will we also fail to reclaim the liberty we've lost to these lawless, arrogant, totalitarian monsters of the courts?
Read Nat Hentoff for more.
UPDATE 3/31: Also read this by William Anderson.
posted by Steady Earl at 8:11 PM
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