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Feb. 1, 2005 Wow! The e-mails supporting my position on the attempts to kill Terri Schindler Schiavo have come pouring in. Thank all who wrote. However, let me make a suggestion that may solve the problem once and for all. There seem to be some suspicious circumstances surrounding Terri's injuries, but, that aside, why doesn't the Florida legislature simply pass a law BANNING "euthanasia" via starvation or dehydration? Those of you who live in Florida should get on the phone immediately with your respective State legislators and DEMAND such a law be passed as soon as possible--even if the legislature must meet in special session to do so. The Florida court system seems to have gone bat- nuts, as so many others have as left-leaning attorneys have invaded our courthouses in record numbers in recent decades. I mean, after all, nearly every one of the Florida State Supreme Court Justices--even those appointed by Governor Bush--seems bent on judicial activism, making new law by bizarre "interpretations" of the State's constitution. For example, the FSC basically ruled in 2000 that Florida's constitution was immaterial if it meant that Al Gore had not received enough of the popular vote to win there and that re-counts could apparently go on indefinitely until enough votes for him to win WERE found. (Of course, they didn't couch their opinion in those terms, but that was the effect of their ruling.) That's not unique to Florida, apparently, since the same sort of thing went on in Washington this past election. If the governor of any State doesn't have the right or authority to protect the State's most vulnerable citizens as the appeals court ruled in Terri's case, who does? Giving a spouse, who has an obvious, transparently self-serving interest, the right to decide if a partner should be killed is insane. Michael Schiavo's protestations that he wants Terri to die because, "That's what she'd want," is patently silly and one would expect any rational judge to recognize that. Unfortunately, the trial judge seems to think that HE'S some sort of deity with the power of life and death over Florida citizens. Frankly, if I lived in Florida, which has a large elderly population, I'd be getting pretty nervous about now. If the courts won't protect me because they've decided my "quality of life" is poor, I too could be neglected to death "legally." It may be that the only way to save Terri Schiavo from an agonizing death by dehydration or starvation is to get the State legislature to pass that law outlawing the withholding of food and water from a patient as a means of euthanasia. We need to so petition the legislature--and it needs to be done immediately or it'll be too late for this poor, neglected woman. ------------ About the author: David A. Jared is a news junkie, semi-retired and an avid golfer who's been writing his first book, "4000 years of chopsticks" for the last 20 years. Email: Pappadave@sbcglobal.net ------------- All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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