More Extremes

Now the brother is back on CNN claiming that all of this with his sister is about Michael wanting to silence Terri before she can tell the world how he beat her (something the courts found specious and for which no information was presented until Mr. Schindler became upset about money – go read the court papers). The brother kept using the words “kill” and “murder”. I wonder if he feels his grandmother was killed, murdered when his father terminated life support. Lots of 79-year-olds, even after a week on a ventilator, survive pneumonia using the argument from the “wrong to life” crowd wave tirelessly.

While I understand their grief, they set in motion – deliberately, through the approach to Randall Terry and Pat Robertson and the strangely named Franciscan Brothers of Peace others who have been known to whip not-extremely-bright-people into a tizzy from which they cannot be quieted – a series of maneuvers and actions and solicited “expert” testimony from non-experts (most of whom were tossed out of court) that bring their credibility into question.
Bob Schindler had the right to choose termination of life support for his mother. Tom DeLay had the right to choose life support withdrawal for his father. The Franciscan Brothers of Peace chose to terminate life support for their “spiritual founder”. But we’re supposed to believe that they had the best interests of their loved ones in mind while Michael Schiavo does not. Nor was there a single claim of “domestic violence” until Terri was in a persistent vegetative state for three years.