The Lone Ranger Rides Again!!! (Latest on Schiavo) An extremely brave and creative move by Robert Herring. While the legalistic system continues its evil and inexorable grinding toward murder, Herring breaks out of legalism and reverts to an earlier, more personal form of law and justice. By making the offer a round million, Herring puts the husband in a true bind. If he refuses, he can continue to make the argument -- fooling only himself -- that he is acting on Terri's wishes; but the rest of the world will know better, and Terri's actual death will show what he's really about. If he accepts, he loses the argument, but also stops trying to kill his wife, and returns to (relatively wealthy) obscurity.

I suspect the husband's paramour will play a fairly significant part in all this.

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Gloria Allred's participation is interesting, to say the least. Shows that she's acting on a non-foolish consistency: a concern for all women who suffer from bad husbands, not just a need to make feminist points. By taking part in this action, Allred denies a prime directive of feminist dogma: "The wife is not the property of the husband." Herring's offer of money for surrender of rights clearly implies that the rights are in fact a kind of property that can be deeded. Because the legalistic mechanism has failed to separate the "right" to kill from the other rights, Herring had to break out of the mechanism and purchase the rights on behalf of Terri's parents, so that they can rip that particular "right" out of the package. Of course Allred is also swimming against the feminist tide in two more obvious ways.
(1) A feminist's main purpose is to maximize profits of the abortion industry; toward that end she must oppose all laws and trends that will hurt the industry. This case makes people think twice about the "right" to kill a helpless adult, and while they are thinking, some of them will also rethink the "right" to kill a helpless infant.
(2) As part of the grand cause of Lenin [now allied with Mohammed], feminists are required to hate Christians above all. Terri's side of this case is just packed with those awful Inquisitors and Crusaders, so Allred has soiled her leftist credentials badly by throwing in with their side.

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UPDATE 3/16

Well, the husband refused the offer. I'm truly surprised and, of course, disappointed. One news item said that he had earlier refused a $10 million offer from someone else! Can we spell "premeditated"?

I *still* don't understand why Terri's parents haven't moved to another state, like Kansas or Idaho, where the right to live takes precedence over the "right" to kill. If nothing else, it would force the husband to start over.  ¶ 7:42 PM