I have resisted commenting on the Schiavo case, but can stand it no longer. Has the court system lost their collective mind? Listen to the nurse who cared for Terri for ten years or the Nobel nominated physician who specializes in cases like hers. She is responsive. She is aware. She is a disabled person who has been purposefully neglected and denied care.
Initially she was able to speak a little and walk with the assistance of parallel bars. Her husband pulled her out of therapy where she was beginning to recover and turned her into a bed-ridden patient that was denied basic medical care such as antibiotics.
The specialist I heard speak claims that she is able to chew and swallow at this point, but a previous court decision prevents her from having solid food. Now the courts are also denying her food and water. They claim she is a vegetable who cannot recover. She is not in a coma. She is now in pain and being starved to death. Imagine the horror of being trapped in a disabled body, unable to communicate, and slowly starving. The courts should not be honoring her "guardian's" wish, but instead looking into why he has such a vested interest in seeing her die. She does not have a living will. She is not being kept alive by machines. In fact, she wouldn't need to be kept alive by the tube feeding, she could eat if allowed. Maybe he's afraid that if she gets to live, gets therapy and begins to speak again that she will let the world know exactly how much of a monster he really is.
I watched Animal Precinct last night and interestingly enough both stories were about starving dogs and the arrest of their "guardians". How ironic.
Another school shooting...this one is just north of where my son goes to college. The reservation is not allowing journalists in to ask their insipid questions of neighbors and friends - a good thing in my opinion. There is nothing more insensitive than some idiot with plastic hair sticking a mic in the face of a grieving parent to ask, "How do you feel?"
It appears that the shooter was a neo-Nazi who admired Hitler. What is troubling to me is that the report I saw made much of the fact that he acquired the information online. There are those who would view this much as the gun he used. Blame the Internet and the guns rather than the underlying reason for the shooting - a very troubled person.
