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Christians threaten Schiavo judge’s life

Selfish men are trying to make capital for themselves out of the cause of Terri Schiavo. (paraphrased) These people are well aware that her physical condition precludes any kind of recovery. Important parts of her brain are simply gone - replaced by spinal fluid, never to return.

But facts don’t matter. These are the same people who incessantly harass women entering abortion clinics, who stalk doctors and use terrorist tactics to bully others into going along with them. These sick Christian fucks who claim to hold the value of human life above all else have absolutely no problem taking innocent lives, especially when their actions might lead to a little personal infamy.

Now they’re threatening the life of Judge Greer, a man who has carefully weighed every empty objection they have thrown his way, a man who has bent over backwards to accommodate the specious arguments and self-serving pap that is oozing from the brains of these supposedly healthy cowards.

When pressed, they claim that no threat was issued, but the aspiring martyrs have gotten the message, and they will take it to heart: Kill Judge Greer, and you will be rewarded.

Remember: these are the people that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh revere as heroes. These are the folks that Jeb! and Mel Martinez implicitly endorse as they try to invade your deathbed by legislating their own perverted version of morality. These amoral twits are the ones who are held up as examples for the rest of us to emulate.

Prayer vigil for Schiavo draws crowd

They came from as far away as California, Pennsylvania and Georgia and stood along the grassy roadside in Pinellas Park, praying out loud and asking, once again, for a miracle for Terri Schiavo.

More than 100 people gathered for a seven-hour vigil on Saturday outside the Woodside Hospice where Schiavo lives. A judge has ordered her feeding tube removed on Friday.

A parade of people took turns on a makeshift stage, lined with long-stem roses and baby's breath, calling the crowd a "modern day religious Calvary." Young men and women took turns holding a wooden crucifix on stage, a rosary dangling from Jesus' neck.

Speakers, including religious leaders from Virginia and New Jersey, urged the crowd to continue writing letters to lawmakers, signing petitions for the impeachment of Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer and trying to persuade hospice nurses to refuse to participate in the "scheduled killing" of Schiavo.

In remarks to the crowd, Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski mentioned the recent killing of an Atlanta judge. Greer, Malanowski said, probably will need more security now. He said he hopes "the judge sleeps well at night. His life is in danger."

More than a few people snickered.

Later, Malanowski, who has served in Largo churches and often visited Schiavo with her parents, said he meant nothing by the comment, except that all judges, particularly Greer, likely are taking security more seriously in light of the Atlanta incident.

He said the crowd assembled Saturday was peaceful, and no one was advocating violence.