Terri Schiavo and the Bushes' Cowardice
Today's email message from Michael Peroutka, the man who received my vote in the 2004 presidential election, had this title:
I might not have used the verb "murder," but I share Mr. Peroutka's disgust at the hypocrisy of the Bushes in this matter. No sooner had the polls been conducted, and it determined that a large majority of Terri Schiavo's fellow citizens had no problem with her being de-hydrated to death, than the "pro-life" Bushes abandoned this poor woman to her cruel, unusual, and horrifying fate.
There was no mention of executive orders, as were issued in the Elián González case or in the school desegregation of the 1950s and '60s. Our "leaders" are the ones being led, by the polls, not by their convictions, if they can even be said to have any.
What we have now is mobocracy: plain, simple, and barbaric.
Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo keeps fighting for her life. Here's more:
Today's email message from Michael Peroutka, the man who received my vote in the 2004 presidential election, had this title:
- The Governor and the President Have Murdered Terri Schiavo - Somebody has to say it!
I might not have used the verb "murder," but I share Mr. Peroutka's disgust at the hypocrisy of the Bushes in this matter. No sooner had the polls been conducted, and it determined that a large majority of Terri Schiavo's fellow citizens had no problem with her being de-hydrated to death, than the "pro-life" Bushes abandoned this poor woman to her cruel, unusual, and horrifying fate.
There was no mention of executive orders, as were issued in the Elián González case or in the school desegregation of the 1950s and '60s. Our "leaders" are the ones being led, by the polls, not by their convictions, if they can even be said to have any.
What we have now is mobocracy: plain, simple, and barbaric.
Meanwhile, Terri Schiavo keeps fighting for her life. Here's more:
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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