The World's Superpower and Champion of Human Rights around the globe is starving and dehydrating a disabled woman to death and underage children who bring her water are being handcuffed and arrested.
Does that sum it up? Did I miss anything?
If China decides to put a bullet in the brain of all their retarded school children tomorrow, what can we say or do?
Next time we want to whine because Libya or Egypt is on the United Nations human rights council we better learn to bite our lip.
There is your perspective from overseas.
I'll add only that the same people who want Terri Schiavo dead are also the first to scream about the imposition of the death penalty against people who commit first degree murders and other capital crimes. To them, life is only worth defending if it is the lives of those who deliberately deprive others of life. "Culture of death" is the exact term that applies to these people.
The philosopher Edmund Burke said in the 18th century: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I believe the struggle for Terri Schiavo's life to be a spiritual battle. This is an epic struggle between the powers of Light and those of Darkness, one that will have sober consequences for this nation.
We do ALL have a vested interest in Terri's case.
Given the right (wrong?) circumstances, any one of us could find ourselves in the same position.
This is a precedent the consequences of which are both far-reaching and horrific.