Terri Shiavo and the Rapture Right
For, oh, about the 19th time courts have ruled in favor of Michael Shiavo's legal authority to order his wife's feeeding tube removed. The neo-conservative movement has done a 180 on their belief system. Gone are the days of state's rights, small government, personal responsibility, privacy, and civil liberties. They are ushering in a new version of America and if something doesn't go their way they'll gather at midnight and invent a law to make it so.
They have resorted to some disgusting tactics; issuing a subpoena for a woman in a persistive vegetative state and standing on the Senate floor proclaiming she could me moments away from speaking. Seeing as how her cerebral cortex has liquified her recovery is a physical impossibility. Here are the two talking points distributed on the Senate floor during debate:
A few radical "right-to-life" activists were arrested for trespassing while trying to bring her water and bread. They must be as little more than confused. She can't swallow. She can't eat. That is why she was on a feeding tube. Were they trying to choke her? These people are comparing her husband and hospice workers to murderers openly, with a Florida conservative radio host remarking that Michael Shiavo is another Scott Peterson.
I usually dismiss people like this-the "Rapture Right" end-of-timers who don't believe in evolution or the fact that the Earth is older than 5,000 years- But, apparently they have captured our legislative body.
The issue is bigger than this one woman and your opinions on assisted living. It is about the government getting more intrusive and authoritarian. There is nothing they don't seem to want to take away. They are starting withacademic freedoms, and going after reproductive rights, destroying Social Security, Civil Liberties, and invading our most private affairs. What's next?
They have resorted to some disgusting tactics; issuing a subpoena for a woman in a persistive vegetative state and standing on the Senate floor proclaiming she could me moments away from speaking. Seeing as how her cerebral cortex has liquified her recovery is a physical impossibility. Here are the two talking points distributed on the Senate floor during debate:
-This is an important moral issue and the pro-life base will be excited that the Senate is debating this important issue.
-This is a great political issue, because Senator Nelson of Florida has already refused to become a cosponsor and this is a tough issue for Democrats.
A few radical "right-to-life" activists were arrested for trespassing while trying to bring her water and bread. They must be as little more than confused. She can't swallow. She can't eat. That is why she was on a feeding tube. Were they trying to choke her? These people are comparing her husband and hospice workers to murderers openly, with a Florida conservative radio host remarking that Michael Shiavo is another Scott Peterson.
I usually dismiss people like this-the "Rapture Right" end-of-timers who don't believe in evolution or the fact that the Earth is older than 5,000 years- But, apparently they have captured our legislative body.
The issue is bigger than this one woman and your opinions on assisted living. It is about the government getting more intrusive and authoritarian. There is nothing they don't seem to want to take away. They are starting withacademic freedoms, and going after reproductive rights, destroying Social Security, Civil Liberties, and invading our most private affairs. What's next?
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