My 2 cents on the issue of the day

[darkluna]

A few things the Bush administration appears to be unaware of:

1. Terry Schiavo is not the only person in the US in a persistent vegetative state. I'd lay good money that she's not even the only one around whom a battle is raging.

2. When you want to make a law that's only going to apply to one person, not even other people in identical situations, this should be your clue that it's a Bad Idea.

3. Though it worked when you wanted to find someone to say there were WMDs so you could have your damn war, the way to govern is not to keep trying different people until you get an answer you like. Remember checks and balances?

4. It's just a wee bit inconsistent to want to outlaw abortion and go all-out to force someone to stay only technically alive when she has a stated preference to the contrary, yet be all for executing people.

I'm not saying it's not a terribly sad case. It's awful. But it should have been over about eight times by now.

If I could hit Bush with the Clue Stick, I would have it impart to him that his personal opinion should not be law. The system we have was put in place to keep any one person from having the power to make his opinion law. Know what a person whose opinion is law is called? That's right; a dictator.

A much more eloquent discussion of why the eleventh-hour intervention is a bad thing for everyone can be found here at Slate.

Comments

[toratigris.livejournal.com]

He doesn't see it as his opinion, he sees it as God's will. The scariest part is that he seems to have missed the whole part of the consitution wherein someone's idea of God's will is not supposed to be law, either. Because someone who claims that their will must be done because it is God's will is called a religious dictator, and that is exactly what Georgie wants to be.