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Pandora's Box Is Now Wide Open (Terri)
HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Posted Mar 31, 2005 | by Christopher Flickinger

Posted on 03/31/2005 4:03:02 PM PST by restornu

Terri Schiavo's battle for life is over, and as a result, our nation will forever be changed. Her murder, or as Michael Schiavo would say, "Her slow, painless and peaceful death" clears the way for others, who do not believe in a person's "right to life" or the notion that life is divinely inspired by God, to start killing at will.

While Terri's pain has ended, our children's suffering and pain has just begun. Our nation's youth got an earful within the last month and the messages being delivered by parents, teachers, television and Terri's husband were clear: A handicapped or disabled life is a life not fit for living. In fact, it is a wasted life. Those who do not have the ability to think, reason or possess enough cognitive ability to interact "meaningfully" with the world--as so many said of Terri--should not go on living. A life that is found not to be worthwhile needs to be extinguished. Withholding food and water from someone is not torturous, barbaric or murderous. Rather, it is merciful and gracious of those who are killing the unfortunate soul. Those whose bodies and brains are not up to par should step aside and quit being a burden on the rest of us. We are inconvenienced daily by providing food, water, time, money and companionship to these human parasites.

These are the messages our children will take away from Terri Schiavo's death. Her passing will go down in the books as another landmark event devaluing human life and setting the stage for more radical and heinous acts. In 1973, when abortion was legalized in Roe v. Wade, the religious right cringed and claimed killing a fetus only a few weeks old was murder. At the time, no one knew the court's decision in that case would blossom into what we now know as abortion on demand. Not only do we kill a fetus just days or weeks old, but we now suck the brain out of a baby's head just weeks before its birth. The slippery slope our nation started down because of Roe v. Wade will be seen again as a consequence of Terri Schiavo's death.

What can we expect? For those citizens with handicaps or disabilities, you are forewarned--someone may have his eye on you. If you're blind, deaf, mute, in a wheelchair, on crutches, use a walker or a cane, walk with a limp or have an appendage missing, you better mind your P's and Q's. One little slip-up, just one, and someone could deem your life unfit for living, take away your wheelchair, put you in a hospice center and starve you to death. His excuse would be: "Well, they're worthless shells of a human. Those cripples have been draining my pocketbook for years--all those ramps and elevators and special parking spots. Forget about legislation in order to fix Social Security. I'll fix it myself by lightening our load."

If you think this sounds ridiculous, you're underestimating the significance of Terri's death. I doubt even those who were for abortion in 1973 went as far as to think that one day we'd be aborting babies in the last trimester. This is where we are headed--cheapening the value of life. It started with Terri Schiavo and it ends with . . . well who knows?

A pregnant woman who learns her unborn child will go through life with a severe handicap now has a couple of options. She could abort the baby altogether, but that's a costly procedure in terms of both money and health! So now she can choose to deliver the child, starve it to death (a cheaper option), and be innocent in a court of law. Her defense: "Who would want to go through life with a severe handicap? It was a wasted life. Not to mention, taking care of and providing for that child would have consumed me and then my life would be wasted. So really, when you think about it, all I was doing was saving a life--my own!"

As our nation embraces social Darwinism, don't be fooled into believing its kiss of death pertains only to those with physical handicaps and disabilities. It also includes the unintelligent, ignorant, idiotic, mindless, illogical, moronic scatterbrains we have to deal with everyday. Remember, one of the most widely used arguments against Terri was that she did not possess enough cognitive ability to reason, think or analyze the events unfolding around her. So, with this in mind, we no longer have to put up with those idiots we run into at work, school or behind the cash register at the mall. We can just eliminate them. Even though we might have a problem defining who's stupid and who's not since such a classification would be relative from person to person, I'm sure we'll figure it out.

A young boy in the 3rd grade can't seem to get the hang of his multiplication tables. He's been struggling all year while the other boys and girls were learning long division. The teacher calls in the boy's parents for a conference and explains the situation: "Your son just doesn't understand multiplication. He can't grasp the concept, and I doubt he ever will. All of the other children are well beyond him. To be honest, I don't think he possess enough cognitive ability to analyze these simple mathematic equations. I'm sorry, but tomorrow I'm going to have to send him to the nurse's office where he'll be starved to death. Don't worry about a thing mom and dad. Given his inferior intellect and inability to reason, I'm sure he won't feel a thing."

Some of you probably disagree with me about the impact Terri Schiavo's death will have on our nation. But, come to think about it, it's not that you disagree with me as much as it is you don't possess enough cognitive ability to understand what's occurring in the world around you. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to kill all of those who can't comprehend my analysis. It's what you would want me to do if only you had enough smarts to realize it.

Listen-up world! If you think this only pertains to the United States, think again. Our country has fed you long enough. We've appointed a new secretary of agriculture. His name is George Felos, and he's a very intelligent man. In fact, he's got this new idea as to how you can all look more beautiful--starvation. Trust me when I say he knows from experience. In a testimonial, Mr. Felos revealed that during Terri's Schiavo's starvation, "In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I've never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her." It worked for Terri, and it will work for you.

With this new social Darwinism sweeping the nation, there's no end to the possibilities. In a way, we'll pick-up where Hitler failed. Forget about a master race. We're more interested in preserving the lives of those who can win the race. And as for everyone else, Pandora's box is now wide open.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; anotherterrithread; enoughalready; goodanotherterripost; keepthemcoming; schiavorepublic; terri
As our nation embraces social Darwinism, don't be fooled into believing its kiss of death pertains only to those with physical handicaps and disabilities......

Well Said

1 posted on 03/31/2005 4:03:03 PM PST by restornu
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To: restornu

Now that they've established you don't have to be dying, we can see court-approved medically-supervised murder for people who are just depressed...


2 posted on 03/31/2005 4:07:19 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: restornu

bump


3 posted on 03/31/2005 4:23:12 PM PST by Lady Eileen (Where there is Life there is Hope -- TERRI.)
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To: restornu

This morning on FOX, right after a segment on Terri they said congress has now determined that anyone 40 or above is OLD. Yep, we're old and as such we aren't in perfect physical health and aren't as good looking as we once were. Wasn't there a movie once about killing off anyone over a certain age. Hey, it'll help the Social Security crisis and eliminate the drainage on our health system. Hey, why not throw in those with brown eyes or those who merely need glasses? Where does it stop?


4 posted on 03/31/2005 4:25:58 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: restornu

Right to Die, pretty soon it will be a campaign issue for the left, We care so much for you that ending your life should be your choice.


5 posted on 03/31/2005 4:39:46 PM PST by Duke Wayne
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To: restornu
These are the messages our children will take away from Terri Schiavo's death.

These are the messages that will be REINFORCED to our children in school. They have been taught the message for 2-3 decades now, subliminally.

How many of you have heard about the "Lifeboat Game"? It's taught to all our young school-kids. 'Goes like this:

..."There;s been a shipwreck. You have escaped with 6-8 others in a small lifeboat. It's too small to support everyone. It has two too many. A decision must be made."

(they are then given a rundown on the people in the boat - which always includes, say, an old person, a very sick one, etc...then they are to decide who gets tossed overboard. There's no moral lessons mentioned. They are TAUGHT who - in society - is less worthy of dying - being killed. the lesson is taught by latent imprinted. They grow up with this "lesson" hidden in the back of their mind. So it's not a far stretch for them to think first, that people like Terri are better off being thrown overboard - but indeed, have a duty to go 'peacefully' overboard, indeed, had "the duty to die."

The following is what I posted a bit ago on another thread - it goes with this one also. (We sleep at our peril.)

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We can make sure there's a strong

Terri's Law passed - that stop's this madness now. We must see that our school children are taught History - so that they are aware where such evil leads. (The euthanasia/murder of the innocents - the "inconvenients", the handicapped, was the first step the Hitler took - and after the citizenry accepted that, it wasn't very far to slip into the rest of it...) We must keep in constant contact with our Senators and Congressmen and see that the laws are changed, not only a Terri's Law, but the activist's judges get cut off at the knees. And we must lobby, relentlessly, our state reps to make sure these laws are changed in our individual states = for this is what allowed them to murder Terri. They got a "feeding tube" added to the list of "life support" in Florida - in their slow, methodical quest to kill her. But make no mistake, not just her - we are all on their list. - Read Felos's book. It puts a chill up your spine. He would've been on the right hand side of Hitler - his willing partner - an angel of death. We must tuck our naivete into our back pockets and remember that these people - the Michael Schiavo's, the Felos's, the Greer's - live in every society, every country, every age. The only thing that keeps them in check is good laws kept strong by good men. They will always look for a chink in the walls, for they believe they are superior to their fellow man - that they know best and they should rule and decide for all of us. Problem is, their minds are twisted, their souls shriven and black. they walk in darkness. But if we remember that darkness has no independent source, we can defeat them! Darkness can only exist in the absence of Light. Think about it. Light has many sources - the sun, the stars, fire, light bulbs. Turn on a light and darkness is defeated, cowering like a guilty thing in the night. We are the Light. There is no "bulb" or other source that turns on the dark. It has NO POWER SOURCE. Light always wins - but it must be turned on. And we are the LIGHT. So if we do not do our part - the dark side wins by default - our fault. And we must keep tract of what laws are being passed in our states. This was their first paving stones. And mark my word, it will get worse. I believe an investigation will link the medical profession and the HMO's complicit in lowering the bar - to save money. (And how many did we see complaisant that Terri should go because she was costing tax payer's money - "money out of MY pocket" - these people would pull the plug on us in a NY minute) Make a note of this: I predict the dark side will use Terri's struggle to make a case for removing family and discounting living wills, because of the bitter division there was here - and move the decision to the Dr.s, the hospital "ethics committees" and the judges. We must not let down our guard, keeping in mind that if we do, we could be the next parents going thru' what the Schindlers are. Our children could see us hastened off in a "peaceful death". Our children and grandchildren could suffer the same fate. And, like Nazi Germany, once one segment of society is accepted for extermination - it's a short step to another group, and on... Turn the heat on - shine the Light on this and do not stop. This is what we can do about it. For Terri and for our own...Then Terri will not have suffered in vain. Terri will never be forgotten. But for today, as I took a nap, a comforting thought came to me: Terri is now free. She can talk. She can walk. She is free and in loving care.

6 posted on 03/31/2005 4:59:06 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: mtbopfuyn
congress has now determined that anyone 40 or above is OLD

NO - not the Congress.

Much more dangerous.

THE SUPREME COURT

7 posted on 03/31/2005 5:01:55 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: Duke Wayne
Right to Die, pretty soon it will be a campaign issue for the left, We care so much for you that ending your life should be your choice.

it will slip into "The DUTY to die"

8 posted on 03/31/2005 5:03:04 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: restornu

They'll get my little girl over my dead body!


9 posted on 04/02/2005 11:36:29 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown; Duke Wayne; atomicpossum

My observation on this....

We are too be objective to Michael....when everything he does is to shove it in the Americans face, not only the Schindlers!

Michael Schiavo has locked hands with this Global Ethici/Bioethic aka Hemlock Society, Humanist Manifesto, look it up on the net their agenda....Global Humanity and when you do also include one of our notorious lefty and see how they endorse this "Ogreish Future Governemnt!"

It is important that us God fearing and those who also abide by the Law identify our enemy! Not so we can name call....but to know how we need to hold our own ground!

They want to divide and conqueror thinking they can call us Angry White Men.....our enemy wants to lable us and to demean us....that way we won't matter anymore than the weak disable Terri was, they claim she was bulimic and did this to her self so she has no one to blame but herself,
her rights as a citizen was usurp from her by a necrophiliac!

Many among us are Law abiding citizen who don't hold our religious views BUT DO WANT to live in a community that is SECURE for ALL of US!

This Global Humanist group which is a Ghoulish Religion some are humanist, some are satanist, some even claim to be from various religions of the world which is a mockery etc.

Run a check your doctor, lawyer, politicians, courts, Universties etc!

How many are in your life and you do not even know?

Yes some we have to do business with some, but we should know who we are dealing with THEY SURE KNOW US they have no quams about who we are and what they THINK about us, see how many endorse the Global Code of Ethics!

I see a story today where the BBC is upset with America for letting Terri starve...but who are they blaming one of the Global ethic friend, no! They are blaming the conservative right who stood up for Terri!


10 posted on 04/02/2005 12:05:38 PM PST by restornu (Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.)
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To: restornu; All
In Honor of Terri Schiavo.

Please let load -- it's 11 mb.

Have headphones or sound on.

11 posted on 04/02/2005 12:13:13 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (God rest Terri Schiavo. God save the rest of us.)
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