RadioActive Chief

I fail to see the difference between what's happening in the Terri Schiavo case, and the Nazi Reich killing off the disabled and handicapped as "useless eaters". We bend over backwards to protect threatened insects. We have mandatory appeals ad infinitum for convicts who have committed gruesome murders. But we seem incapable of protecting the life of an innocent and disabled woman. If this continues as is, we will establish that our society is well down the path trod previously by the Nazis.

Attorney: Terri cried at news -
Claims brain-injured woman said she wants to live.
Not exactly what I would call a "persistant vegetative state".

Barbarity in America
Don't take my word for it - listen to the Rabbi:

The humanity of every society is determined first and foremost by how it treats its most helpless citizens, and a nation that is prepared to murder a feeble and vulnerable woman who can breathe but not eat on her own must take a deeper look at the source of its ethics. Before Hitler came for the Jews and the gypsies, he first came after the mentally handicapped. He offered this rationale for euthanasia: "In nature, there is no pity for the lesser creatures when they are destroyed so that the fittest may survive. Going against nature brings ruin to man. It is only Jewish impudence to demand that we overcome nature." Hitler, who was a committed evolutionist and applied the ruthless principals of natural selection to the human species, opposed "artificial" means of keeping the infirm alive. The species was strengthened when its weakest constituents perished, just as nature decreed.

Read the whole thing - it'll be good for you!

Feeding Tube Removed: GOP House Members Seek Re-insertion
Current state of events in this sad, sad case. In the body of the article it notes that GOP House members have attempted a number of strategies to prevent this killing. Meanwhile, Democratic Cong. Henry "Nose" Waxman (CA) has called attempts to save Terri's life "a flagrent abuse of power". Hey, Henry, if the attitude that wants to kill off an innocent woman had won WW-II, you would be a lampshade or a bar of soap!

By the way, the bit about the Florida judge deciding to ignore Congressional subpoenas - another example of the exalted position that the judiciary has assumed, at least in it's own mind.

GOP Hurt by Schiavo Case?
Peggy Noonan thinks that the GOP will pay a political price if Terri Schiavo is killed. I don't agree - it's only been Republicans who have tried to do anything at all to help in this sad situation, while a number of leading Dems have supported this act of judicial murder. Could more have been done? Possibly - but given the current state of the judiciary, I'm not sure how this could have been done, short of possibly violent civil disobedience. (Maybe the time for that is not far off.)