Terri Schaivo, 14 Questions

I have been silent on this whole issue since it first became the center of media attention. I won’t try to give you any should, could and if only’s. I will try to ask some questions which need to be asked:

1. Does the order of caretaker reside in legal terms “Michael or the Schindlers” or does the law of "he who cares most" decide?
2. Is Terri’s imminent death any more important in the cosmos than say the young kids gunned down in Red Lake Minnesota?
3. Are the courts who appear to carry all the decision making power in this a substitute for spineless politicians unwillingness to act?
4. In light of number 3 was Gov George Wallace’s stand at the schoolhouse door (which I didn't support) 45 years ago an act of conscience and conviction that is now absent in elected officials?
5. Are Florida law enforcement people carrying out court orders any different from Germans who worked in concentration camps who decided to do what was wrong rather than lose their jobs (which they needed too) in the early 1940’s?
6. Does the climate created by the patriot act and the 9-11 aftermath enable the drone syndrome (I don’t make the laws, I just enforce them) in law enforcement?
7. When Terri dies will the beginning of the end of respect for life be lost forever in America or even the western world?
8. Does this event have the potential of steepening a slippery slope we didn't intend to go down as a nation?
9. If you put on your most cynical glasses what WAS the big vote of congress all about last Sunday other than political grandstanding?
10. Who among elected officials wouldn’t vote against "bad things" and for "good things" if it wouldn't have any efficacy like the Schaivo vote was designed not to do?
11. If you apply the Andy of Mayberry Barney Fife test, what would Andy do? What about Barney Fife? Remember the buffoon Mayor? What do we have today in America, Andy or Barney, the Mayor (Andy we hardly knew ye)?
12. How different from Pontius Pilate are those elected officials who from core gutlessness will not take the action they know they should take if they really had the courage of their convictions?
13. Doesn’t a tail wagging poodle dog (just like our elected officials) make everyone happy but takes no action that might have potential to anger anyone?
14. If this continues how far are we from the heirs of an estate who are short of cash going to court and saying, "Mom has lived long enough, we want to end her life, her quality of life isn't much anymore"?
    

This event is no longer about Terri. It’s about who we are as a nation, who we are as Christians, what our judicial system really is, who our politicians really are, and what do we want to do about it.

I am pretty sick of it all. I’m sick of the grandstanding. I’m sick of the opportunists on all sides of the fence. I’m sick of the blatant pocket lining already started as an offshoot of this tragedy. As a fairly visible Christian I am already being bombarded with requests for $ to fight this sort of thing.

I’m not too sick of it all to vote and lobby for people of conviction. I hope I’m able to identify who they are. It's not the people we have.

So, Gene, Someone makes you king. What you gonna do? Arrest all judges not following the mandate of a subpoena from congress. PUT THEM IN JAIL. National Guard shows up and takes all law enforcement people into custody under the command of Jeb Bush. Terri (Who may not make it anyway) is transported to hospital at once. President issues an executive order. Let the liberal press whine. They hate us anyway. Take a stand for GOD"S sake.

If that happens get ready to say President Bush for 8 more years beyond GW. JEB.

Otherwise I think we are in for a long sad drift.

This is a rare opportunity that is about to be lost. I grieve.


PS: It's Easter Sunday. I have had a chance to reflect on what I wrote. 13 of the 14 questions asked above are questioning the moral compass / ethical center of the people involved. It's a symptom of a lost generation. A lost generation beginning with nearly all of our elected officials. Few truly principled leaders tune into God's wavelength and are instead tuned to WIFM (What's in it for ME). That's why they poll before they speak.

The real benefit of a spiritual awakening it will be the restoration of confidence in God rather than in man. Let it come soon.