Our society is going mad...

A 17 year old boy shoots up his school and kills himself. A teacher is accused of sexual relations with a student. A sexual predator was not pinned down and prevented from raping and murdering a child. Some 6 million illegal immigrants traipse into our country, and nothing is done because the liberal media would frown on any action taken. A woman is slowly and tortuously starved to death, while Scott Peterson gets his share of hearings and Michael Jackson's contempt for the court is overlooked.

We are going mad. How is it that a judge can honestly say he is upholding the law, when upholding the strict letter of the law means shedding innocent blood? Is the law, which is enacted to the defense of innocent life, to be preferred over preserving that life? The law is made to serve the citizens of this country, not the other way around. Every time I hear this inane argument that Terri ought to die because it's the legal thing to do, I wonder what the Founding Fathers would have said. What horror, what disgust, would they have felt! They might even have said, this is the very sort of tyrannical "rule of law" we wished to overthrow. Are we to sacrifice innocent life on the altar of the law, spill innocent blood in the name of justice? How can that be justified? It is utter chaos.

The purpose of law is to provide justice. What justice is there in the barbaric torture of someone too helpless to defend themselves? The purpose of the law is to be that defender for those who cannot defend themselves. Is it suddenly permissible to withhold a bottle from an infant, because the baby would die without it anyway? Depriving a dog of water is criminal, and yet the judges and lawyers sniff peremptorily and declare they can do nothing on behalf of a human life, because the action is "in accordance with the law." If it cannot protect even these innocent ones, then it is no law at all.