- Dear America -
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- Up until today, I have been a dispassionate and passive
observer in the life and death of Terri Schiavo, as most Americans have.
I am not a citizen of this nation but I live and work here. As an outsider
and foreigner looking in, I offer my perspective on this pivotal issue
of whether Terri Schiavo lives or dies. As I write on March 23, the chance
of Terri surviving much longer without her feeding tube being reinserted
is quickly diminishing.
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- Let me state the facts and not the spins and half-truths
of those who have a vested interest in the death of Terri Schiavo. Terri
is a person who is not on life support and she is not a comatose patient
kept alive by artificial or mechanical means. Terri is a disable person
who requires food and water to survive--just as all of us do. But she
needs extra help because she is disabled. Terri is capable of saying "Mommy"
and "Help Me." Terri can breathe on her own. These irrefutable
facts are not the signs of a "vegetable," "brain dead,"
or "comatose" person that the mainstream media keeps repeating
over and over again as though their spin is reality. (ABC Caught: Schiavo
Poll Distorted by Michelle Malkin)
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- Has over 30 years of Americans aborting their unwanted,
unborn children so desensitized them that they can no longer determine
right from wrong? Where is the compassion for the disabled? Will Terri's
death be the starting point on that slippery sliding slope in the euthanasia
of the disabled and unwanted people in America?
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- Has America become a giant football/reality show where
people in the Red States think and believe one thing and those in the Blue
States the other--neither sides seeking the truth? Have Americans become
so brainwashed by the mainstream media and the two political parties that
everything becomes a political football of whose side you are on? Not
about what is the right thing to do in a particular situation? Not about
what is the right thing to do in Terri Schiavo's plight?
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- Has the rule of law in America become so hollow and so
brittle? Where is the "compassionate conservatism"? Where is
the "bleeding heart liberalism"? Has the application of the
laws in America become like those of Nazi Germany where the police and
courts are just taking orders and following the law? Where will this end
up?
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- Has the president of the greatest and most powerful nation
on this planet become so impotent and so powerless as to not be able to
save the life of one individual in America? Do we honestly believe that
if Jenna or Barbara, the twin daughters of President Bush, were in the
exact situation as Terri Schiavo is now that President Bush wouldn't "kick
some butt"to save them?
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- Finally, have the American people forgotten the admonishment
from Moses: "I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse;
therefore choose life."
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- If Terri Schiavo dies at the hands of her husband and
the court system of America, I am afraid that her death will mark the beginning
of the end of America as that beacon of hope and freedom and liberty for
this world. What a sad day that shall be.
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- Most regretfully yours,
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- David Chu
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