March 22, 2005
Open letter to Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel and Carolyn Maloney
by Liza Sabater
To : Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinto, Charles Rangel and Carolyn Maloney
Re : The Terry Schiavo Law
It has taken me a while to write about the Terri Schiavo case for it has encumbered me with shock, horror but above all, rage.
It is an outrage that 3 Republican senators --Frist, Martínez and Santorum-- sneaked in the middle of the night into chambers to claim unanimous passage of a bill that is a full frontal attack on the separation of government powers. It is an outrage that they did so without a quorum; clearly going against the Constitution's rules for legislation.
It is an outrage the president of the U.S. will not take the time to attend any of the funerals for our fallen soldiers in Iraq but he will fly at the hint of a political opportunity to sign a bill that clearly goes against the separation and integrity of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
It is even more of an outrage that Sun Hudson was the son of a black woman so poor, she had no pre-natal care and therefore no way of knowing when she was pregnant that her son was not going to make it on his own without some kind of life-sustaining care. But this woman, was too poor to pay for it. The hospital, aided and abetted by George Bush's law, saw no reason why not to pull the plug on a baby that had survived longer than most born with his rare case of dwarfism. It is an outrage Baby Sun was killed in the eyes of his mother, thanks to George Bush's law.
It is an outrage that the very people that claim to want to protect Terri Schiavo's body have no qualms in whoring it politically with make-up and video sessions. The spectacle created by her parents, aided an abetted by the likes of the anti-abortion terrorist group Operation Rescue and enabled by the Republican party, borders on the pornographic.
Still, there is not a single most outrageous fact that mass media is hell bent on spreading the myth that the fringe of demonstrators camped in front of the hospice were Michael Schiavo's wife, the wife that told him and his friends to pull the plug if she ever ended brain-dead as she is right now, are the voice of the people. No, those dominionists who are so eager to trample on the US Constitution not in the name of Jesus but in the name of power, are not the voice of freedom loving Americans.
63% of Americans favor the removal of the tube ---but you'd never know that in most media outlets.
75% of Americans strongly believe Congress' involvement is purely a political wedge that oversteps the boundaries between the legislative and judicial ---but you'd never know by most news media outlets.
But it is the poll's findings among the religious groups Bush is pandering to that has been sorely addressed :
Views on this issue are informed more by ideological and religious views than by political partisanship. Republicans overall look much like Democrats and independents in their opinions.But two core Republican groups — conservatives and evangelical Protestants — are more divided: Fifty-four percent of conservatives support removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, compared with seven in 10 moderates and liberals. And evangelical Protestants divide about evenly — 46 percent are in favor of removing the tube, 44 percent opposed. Among non-evangelical Protestants, 77 percent are in favor — a huge division between evangelical and mainline Protestants.
Conservatives and evangelicals also are more likely to support federal intervention in the case, although it doesn't reach a majority in either group. Indeed, conservative Republicans oppose involving the federal courts, by 57 percent-41 percent.
I cannot say how ghastly disappointed I am in not hearing any denunciations of this full-frontal attack of the Constitution by any of my Democratic Senators and Congresspeople. Neither Charles Schumer nor Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel or Carolyn Maloney have come out and spoken against this bill loudly and clearly.
Where are the efforts to make sure every Democratic club, meetup gruop, online forum and community blog spreads the unequivocal condemnation of this affront to the U.S. Constitution by a fringe of the Republican party. You do have our addresses and phone numbers when it is time to ask money from us; but when it is time to mobilize for democracy those lists disappear.
These peopl are a fringe that one should not even call religious because they've turned into power hungry anti-democracy ideological terrorists that have taken hostage our government. By talking about this woman's body as alive and not in a vegetative state that has been medically proven and argued in court, the Democratic party is giving more power them the power they so crave.
This law is a not-so covert abuse of power. We need leaders in Capitol Hill to denounce it as such.
Sincerely,
Liza Sabater
Writer
www.culturekitchen.com
Sources :
(1) Baby dies after hospital removes breathing tube :
Case is the first in which a judge allowed a hospital to discontinue care
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/front/3087387
(2) Poll: No Role for Government in Schiavo Case
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=599622&page=1
Posted by Liza Sabater in Chuck Schumer, Civil Rights, Culture of Life, Democrats, Government, Hillary Clinton, New York City, Poverty, Privacy, Propaganda, Religion, Republicans, Right To Die
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