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I'm sorry, DoG fans, for writing about Terri Schiavo all day and all night. I see right-wing hypocrisy and I'm unable to control myself. And here's Fox News' John Gibson forcing my hand again:

I think Jeb Bush should give serious thought to storming the Bastille.

By that I mean he should think about telling his cops to go over to Terri Schiavo's hospice, go inside, put her on a gurney and load her into an ambulance. They could take her to a hospital, revive her, and reattach her feeding tube. It wouldn't save Terri exactly; she'd still be in the same rotten shape she was in before they disconnected the feeding tube.

But the point is, the temple of the law is so sacrosanct that an occasional chief executive cannot flaunt it once in a while, sort of drop his drawers on the courthouse steps and moon the judges, as a way to protest the complete disregard courts and judges have shown here, in this case, for facts outside the law.

So this is what he wants? An executive branch that can take the law into its own hands whenever it damn well chooses? Good God, John, use your brain for just one second! Is the rule of law so sacrosanct? We're a nation of laws. What if we elect a president who thinks we should just round up people randomly and throw them into inhumane prisons in order to torture them for information they may or may not possess?

Uh... Scrap that. But you get my point. Unless you hate America and the foundation upon which she is based, you can't honestly be advocating for disregarding the Constitution, can you?

...any woman in America can see Michael Schiavo and Terri Schiavo are not really married anymore. But judge after judge after judge after judge still nods his or her head and mutters, married? Yup, they're married?

This is important because as husband, Michael Schiavo is her guardian and allowed to say what happens to her, how the money in her estate is spent, and so forth.

What were they like 15 years ago when you people started fucking with the sanctity of their marriage? Man, this poor family. Can you imagine what these people have had to suffer through, both this deeply personal tragedy and being a political football for religious zealots?

I know lawyers and judges don't think that way, but real people do.

Oh John, you're not saying judges aren't real people, are you?

Well, judging by what happened here, I'd say yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

So Jeb, call out the troops, storm the Bastille and tell 'em I sent you.

Too bad they went to law school and learned our country's laws, while you went to douchebag school and learned how to be a fake journalist. Even your precious Scalia and Thomas agree with those non-persons whom you so disdain. Can you arrest someone for advocating the violent overthrow of the government?

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