Terri Schiavo e o império da legislação

Ainda que não refute as posições contrárias fundamentadas no federalismo (correctamente entendido), recomendo a leitura do post Shiavo, Jefferson, and Lawyers, por Thomas DiLorenzo.

All the lawyers in black robes who have decided that Terry Shiavo should die strike me as petty, bureaucratic imbeciles and enemies of civilization. Unfortunately, they wield a tremendous amount of governmental power. It comes down to this: Seven years after Terry was hospitalized her husband claims, without any proof at all, that she once told him she would want to pull the plug if she ever ended up in such a state. As her guardian, he thus decided that she should die. Some guardian.###

What all these judges have said, in essence, is that this is an indisputable truth, never to be questioned under any circumstances, no matter how much conflicting evidence is presented in any court. Terry must die if we are to remain "a nation of laws." Not God's laws, mind you, or the law of the Constitution, but the petty, bureaucratic, impossible-to-understand "laws" passed by the small-time crooks, conmen and political hacks known as "state legislators."