Simply sick.

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out...

--The Reverend Martin Niemoeller

It started with the unborn. Then it turned out to be any comotose person with a close relative with a financial interest in seeing her dead, and who was willing provide hearsay evidence that she had ever expressed a desire to be "allowed to die*" if in need of life support.

Next, it will be the profoundly retarded and the elderly- all those whom it's easy to dismiss as non-contributing drains on the resources of society. How quickly human life seems to depreciate in value when a society forgets God, and decides that it can transcend the Law which Paul tells is inscribed on the hearts of believers and unbelievers alike!

Thomas Lopez, Jonah Goldberg of NRO reports, was a 21-year-old lifeguard in southern Florida.

The operative word is was.

On July 2, Lopez saw a man drowning 1,500 feet from his designated zone. He helped rescue the man- and was fired for it. Liability issues, you see.

Last year, in Alameda, California, a man walked into San Francisco Bay, intent on drowning himself. The police and fire departments were there in plenty of time to save him. But instead, they let him drown.

Union rules.

The fire chief was asked what he would have done if it had been a child that was drowning. His answer? If he'd been on duty, he would have let the kid drown. But if he'd been off duty, he would have saved him.

Ours is truly a sick society. From my watching of TV's Law and Order, I have learned that in New York State this sort of thing is against the law. It's called "depraved indifference."

But it seems that in Northern California and Southern Florida, not exhibiting depraved indifference can get you fired. Or in trouble with the union. Or sued. Or something.

Yes, ours is indeed a sick society. All I can say is thank God for people like Thomas
Lopez, who dared not only to speak out, but to act, for that drowning human being who supposedly wasn't his responsibility.

*In the United States, "life support" legally includes hydration and nutrition. As a result, "letting someone die" is actually a euphemism for killing that person by starvation and dehydration.


HT: Rev. Christopher Esget