again, i don’t want to get drawn into the terry schiavo debate.
it makes me sad and uncomfortable that politicians have
taken this incredibly personal and tragic story and turned
it into a political football.
but listening to a lot of the rhetoric coming from the extreme
right makes me hope that some modern day jonathan swift will
write a book/script wherein it becomes illegal to die.
maybe a good title would be ‘chamber of jains’.
i do marvel(in a bad way)at the fact that politicians who are
interested in protecting the sanctity of life would pass legislation
to keep a profoundly brain-damaged woman alive at the same
time that kids have legal access to guns and are shooting each other to
death
in public schools.
my note to the far-right would be: you can’t have it both ways.
if you genuinely believe in the sanctity of life then you cannot support
the death penalty and you cannot allow people to buy automatic
assault weapons and you cannot support wars that result in the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
and if you genuinely believe in states rights then you can’t
pass intrusive federal legislation when the states do things that you
arbitrarily disagree with.
sorry to be back on politics, but this issue is very disturbing.
-moby
