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 Last night, on a radio show called "America Speaks," I heard several callers tell the host that Terri Schiavo's case was a case of murder. Ok, fine, that's their opinions. However, I also heard that her husband didn't want her to "be rehabilitated" because "he probably tried to kill her, and that's why she's in this state." In case you didn't already know, Schiavo was a bulimic, and her heart failed after she made herself vomit consistently for quite a long time. I can't say whether or not her husband ever abused her, but that's not why her freaking heart failed. Also, she has basically no cerebral cortex any more. It's all but gone. Therefore, this idea of "rehabilitating" her is pretty farcical... that's why it's ridiculous to state that he's afraid of her waking up and telling everyone what a horrible husband he was - because she can't.
I kept trying to call into the show and say, in a good redneck accent, that "I know her cerebral cortex is liquified, but I think with god and Bill Frist's help, we can rebuild her. We have the technology." It was busy every time I tried, though.
The most frightening thing I heard on the show was from the host. Apparently, the host of "America Speaks" has a petition circulating that insists the courts be barred from declaring laws unconstitutional! That's right. That's what he said. According to him, it's "frustrating" when the legislature and the President make a decision and the "activist judges" override it as unconstitutional. In response, he thinks they should, you know, not be able to so rudely "check and balance" the other two branches of government like that.
The show ended on quite a wonderful note. The very last caller, right in the last minute of the show, called and simply said "well, I think these judges killing this woman are the same ones that are trying for gay rights."
Speaking of the Schiavo case, I really don't think it's any of my business what happens to her. No, it's not the government's business either, but the government has no way to intervene now (hopefully) so we'll leave that at that. There's enough conversation going on about the details of the case that I can just let others discuss them. The interesting stuff is the morals and beliefs surrounding the case and the hypocrisy it's brought to light.
Tom Delay, one of the most outspoken critics of Schiavo's feeding tube being removed, had his own father euthanized in 1988. Tom Delay is a dirty dirty dirty liar.The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family members keeping vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center was a grieving junior congressman — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
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In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die.
"There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old widowed mother, recalled in an interview last week. "There was no way [Charles] wanted to live like that. Tom knew — we all knew — his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."
Oh, and so is Terri Schiavo's Father:But, given the vehemence with which he has been fighting to prolong Terri's life, it is a little surprising to learn that Robert decided to turn off the life-support system for his mother. She was 79 at the time, and had been ill with pneumonia for a week, when her kidneys gave out. "I can remember like yesterday the doctors said she had a good life. I asked, 'If you put her on a ventilator does she have a chance of surviving, of coming out of this thing?'" Robert says. "I was very angry with God because I didn't want to make those decisions." Local bumpkins have gotten in on the action, as well.A Buncombe County man is expected to make a first appearance before a magistrate in federal court in Asheville this morning on charges of sending an e-mail threat, allegedly offering a $250,000 bounty for Michael Schiavo's death and $50,000 for that of a judge in the case.
Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview was arrested Friday. Authorities say they believe he wrote an e-mail that claimed to pass along word that a multimillionaire was willing to finance murder for hire. Christian Activist Randal Terry, the spokesman for the Schiavo family, has been charged several times with inciting abortion clinic bombings.
CAT scan of a normal brain
CAT scan of Mrs. Schiavo's brain
Keep in mind that these people consider themselves "pro-life," and will go so far as to kill people to prove how much they love life.
This is your new America, folks.
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