It's not about Terri (Indy Star op-ed piece)

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Great piece in today's Star by Dan Carpenter. Even in the Bible thumping Red State of Indiana there are some people who get it.


It's not about Terri


March 23, 2005


According to the best medical opinion and the appropriate courts, Terri Schiavo is existing in a realm that is below human living and beyond hope of it.

But for men who can never score enough points in the glorified wrestling smackdown that is American politics, her tragic case is a live one.

When President Bush proclaimed on Sunday that he and his allies had rushed to Washington from their vacations to "stand on the side of those defending life for all Americans, including those with disabilities," he knew only his half of America could cheer such an absurdity. Polls give him even less than that; but how did this get to be a popularity contest anyway?

Contest, and crusade. Just as every referee's call against Our Side is an outrage, so could any legal or moral objection to Our Side's groundless exploitation of a high-profile family's misery be dismissed as coldblooded atheistic indifference to life.

(con't) http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/231178-9534-021.html

[kliljedahl]

1. He's the only columnist I usually agree with

Don't usually read the Indy Star, except on Sunday when I need the TV section, but Dan Carpenter is ththe only columnist who seems to have a scintilla of rationality.


http://www.kliljedahl.net

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. Well he hit the nail on the head with this one.

n/t

[Jdemsindiana]

3. The media wasted sooo much time with this

All of going to say is that congress set a dangerious precident here
leave the courts alone you crooked hypocrite Tom DeLay