social issues: Token Terri Schiavo entry

I was going to stay off the subject. Really I was. My whole contention this whole time has been that it's a private family matter in which none of us have any business butting.

Wouldn't you know it, the American Family Association never fails to get my dander up. So in a way I love getting their e-mails. Endless fodder for ranting!

They headline it thusly: "Terri's Case: The Roe v. Wade of Euthanasia". Subtitle? "Terri's father says the courts are in control of this country".

It opens: "Now that the courts have ruled that a disabled person--Terri Schiavo--must die ... "

Um. Dozens of judges have ruled the same way. For years. You jump on the bandwagon now, you spineless creeps.

Disabled.

Dis-fricking-abled.

Michael J. Fox is disabled. Thousands of returning Iraq war veterans are disabled.

Terri Schiavo has no cerebral cortex to speak of. She's way beyond disabled. She's not there anymore.

"Liberals have been salivating over a case like Terri Schiavo's to use in pushing euthanasia."

If you think anyone is deriving pleasure from Mrs. Schiavo's condition, you're sadly mistaken. You're some truly sick, sick people, to even think that.

One more paragraph.

"How arrogant and powerful have activist judges become? Here is what Robert Schindler, Terri’s father, said about the judicial system that sentenced his daughter to a slow, agonizing death by starvation: 'What I think you're seeing now is a display where the judicial system is…flexing their muscles. They're showing who's in command of this country. And we're not. The public is not, and the people you elect to Congress are not. The judges are. And woe to this country with those people in power. We've lost control.'"

Not one word that comes out of this mercenary bastard's mouth is worth a tinker's damn to me. Until today, I had some sympathy for everyone involved, even if I personally felt the Schindlers were having some trouble letting go. Now, I think they let go a long time ago, but they're trying to milk this for all they can and it sickens me.

Who's profiting from this tragedy? Michael? That money's gone, friends.

Robert Schindler? Tom DeLay? Merchandising tragedy, using it as a smokescreen for criminal behavior.

But then we see what the true point of the e-mail is as we come to the bottom.

"The only body that can stop liberal activist judges from controlling this country is the U.S. Senate. In a few days the Senate will vote on ending the liberals' filibuster of conservative judges who see their sole responsibility to be that of interpreting the Constitution."

Apparently, interfering in private matters and undermining the sanctity of marriage got written into the Constitution when I wasn't looking. Silly me.

These people are utterly shameless in their willingness to use Mrs. Schiavo ... to use her as messily and unthinkingly as a facial tissue, to be wadded up and thrown out as soon as they're through.

As Randi often says, when someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

It all comes 'round again, bastards. Karma's a bitch.