The following piece is a more legitimate source for commentary than my own prior blog posts about how the Schiavo case is being misused by the politicians.

Moreover, the piece talks about how the spinwit demagogues have whipped the zealots into a bloody frenzy, so that the zealots are willing to kill the Christian Republican Judge who decided the Schiavo case using Florida law.

By the way, the Judge’s decision ahs been upheld by all other judges to hear the case on appeal. So, do the zealots truly believe that all these judges are wacko liberals who want to kill people, or who do not respect life?

Let’s let the Schiavo case serve as a motivator for a national model law regarding how to deal with those in persistent vegetative states (I realize the great and moving debate about whether Schiavo qualifies as vegetative - I oppose starvation, remember).

Each state would then enact the model law. We do this for commercial codes and criminal laws, and for other areas of law as well.

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It is an odd twist of logic: To save a brain-damaged women’s life, a zealot would take a judge’s life.

But these fanatics are not the only ones targeting judges. Conservative politicians and commentators have made a calculated decision to use the Schiavo case in their efforts to subvert an independent judiciary. For short-term political gain, they seek to undercut one of the foundations of American liberty.

This is ridiculous, because the courts are the only ones who have stuck to their job description in this case.

The courts have not sought to extend their authority beyond its legal bounds, as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did. The courts did not plan a congressional hearing in Schiavo’s hospice room. The courts did not call members back from vacation for a midnight vote to extend their authority into family matters, as Congress did.

Greer — a conservative Christian and Republican — and all the state and federal judges who have reviewed his decisions did what they are supposed to do: They made decisions based on facts and the law.