Finally, Terri Schiavo has passed away.

I’ve specifically have not said anything about this subject because I felt that it was a family matter and none of my business. But in the last 13 days, I’ve been subject to debate after endless debate (or whining in some cases) about her and how “unfair” it was.

I’ve sat in wonder at the huge idiocy that was Congress and the White House, who interfered with special “one time only” legislation for the family of Terri, in what was absolutely no business of Theirs. And I’ve sat and watched people use Terri Shiavo to push their “anti abortion” politics. I couldn’t believe the lunacy of a woman in a wheel chair, protesting the removal of the feeding tube with the slogan, “we’re disabled, not dead”. I couldn’t even see how this woman thought her situation was even close to Terri’s. NO offense people, but if Terri was able to sit up unaided in a wheetchair and yell “I’m not dead”, we wouldn’t be having this debate.

I watched people claim that automatic nerve impulses to stimuli were proof that She was “communicating”. Despite the fact that the hospice workers and doctors were saying otherwise. Thanks to my father’s passing, my sister being a CNA and dealing with hospice, I know that these are hard working people who do EVERYTHING they can for a person. They don’t bull**** with people and give them false hope. They tell it like it is.

And I watched people try to railroad the judicial system. That really bugged me. I consider the branches of our government a bit warped by corruption as it is. I’ve watched in disgust as fundamentalists on both sides of the fense try to force their various views on the rest of us who stand in the middle. And while we have some stupid judges, like the one who used the ten commandments for media attention to help his career, there are still are a few good people out there willing to call it when things go to far. My link this morning is to an article that praises the courage of Judge Birch for telling Congress what it could do with it’s special unconstitutional legislation.

Here’s a snippet of the article: “In resolving the Schiavo controversy,” Judge Birch wrote, “it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers’ blueprint for the governance of a free people - our Constitution.”

Because the special legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Bush “constitutes legislative dictation of how a federal court should exercise its judicial functions (known as a ‘rule of decision’) the Act invades the province of the judiciary and violates the seperation of powers principle.” To hold otherwise, Judge Birch concluded, would be to act in a manner consistent with the label “activist judge.” Touché.

I have already sat down with my own children and made it painfully clear that if I’m declared brain dead, pull the plug. I do not want the medical bill nightmare placed upon my family. A nightmare that won’t be paid by Terri’s family, but by the florida taxpayers. Good going guys.

Terri and the Constitution

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