This morning I hear that a condemned man was still alive because two anesthesiologists honored our the values of our ancient calling and refused to participate in murder.
Tonight the BBC tells me the execution has been postponed indefinitely because the State of California "could not find a California licensed health professionals who would help carry out the sentence."
The condemned prisoner has been convicted of heinous offenses; many say such a person deserves death.
When I served as a consultant with an oncology teams and transplantation services I often hear people say that those who died deserved to live.
I believe that.
And I believe that Tolkien - after he survived the trenches of the "Great War" to find "by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead" - saw death and horror beyond the grasp of those now slathering at the prospect of yet another ritual murder in San Quentin.
And I think of Tolkien' s vison and wisdom, in the person of Gandalf's reply to the observation that the murderer Gollum deserved death.
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve death. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
I just heard the BBC repeat that the State of California - the iconic home of the world's sixth (or seventh) largest economy has indefinitely postponed an execution because among twenty-four million people the State "could not find a California licensed health professionals who would help carry out the sentence."
Arnold and his blood-soaked handlers from the Rove camp have scant claim to wisdom - and you can bet they didn't see this stunning rebuke coming. Arnold still hasn't finished choking down the fist sandwich the California nurses gave him when they tore him a new one and fed him the remnants of his ass in last fall's referendum.
Now Arnold - running on the Nixon-era "law and order" program the GOP trundles out with Libby as a backdrop - will approach an election as the Teutonic spokesperson for official murder conducted in the most sterile and efficient manner.
Arnold will attempt to do this while avoiding the "entitled arrogant rich bastard above the law" label (despite motorcycling without a license for decades) and embracing the meme of "crime fighter".
Who knows - maybe Arnold will start sleuthing to find what Cheney was really drinking when he shot a 78 year old man in the face?
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