I've noticed a pattern in the Schiavo case that I think has a parallel with the Iraqi War - increasingly, for those in power, the facts can be bent to achieve a desired end, and even if the public is not necessarily convinced of these facts, they will assent so long as they agree with the end.
We've all heard from a variety of sources that there's been some kind of massive conspiracy to misrepresent Schiavo's true condition - that "consciousness" lurks somewhere within her, just as WMDs lurked within Iraq.
I, for one, find this baffling. Putting aside Schiavo's husband - and the character assassination that has been perpetrated on him has been a sorry thing to watch - What possible motivation could Schiavo's doctors or a federal court judge have for wanting her dead?
Is Truth steadily on the decline? Are we becoming a "nudge-wink" society - where it's acceptable to obscure the facts in order to get what we want? Am I just being naive?
(Oh, and, I don't want to this necessarily to turn this into a right-left issue - JFK, Lyndon Johnson (I'm thinking of the Rand Corporation here) and of course Silly Billy pretty effectively took away that particular moral high ground from the left.)
We've all heard from a variety of sources that there's been some kind of massive conspiracy to misrepresent Schiavo's true condition - that "consciousness" lurks somewhere within her, just as WMDs lurked within Iraq.
I, for one, find this baffling. Putting aside Schiavo's husband - and the character assassination that has been perpetrated on him has been a sorry thing to watch - What possible motivation could Schiavo's doctors or a federal court judge have for wanting her dead?
Is Truth steadily on the decline? Are we becoming a "nudge-wink" society - where it's acceptable to obscure the facts in order to get what we want? Am I just being naive?
(Oh, and, I don't want to this necessarily to turn this into a right-left issue - JFK, Lyndon Johnson (I'm thinking of the Rand Corporation here) and of course Silly Billy pretty effectively took away that particular moral high ground from the left.)