Have we Lost our Minds?

I have a hard time believing what I am hearing on TV news these days. The president wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to, supposedly, save money and at the same time, give the prisoners there a "fair" trial.

He and most of his supporters are against interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration to get information out of terrorists even though the information they got may have saved thousands of lives. We should be kind to terrorists, they are kind to our soldiers and reporters. They just cut off their heads. That's less painful than waterboarding.

At the same time, the president has made it very plain that he is in favor of and will EAGERLY sign a bill to take all restrictions off of abortion.
Protect the terrorists.
Kill the babies.
Sounds insane to me!

Then, there is the young boy who has some form of cancer and his mother, in an effort to protect him from being destroyed by chemotherapy, has fled with him to seek alternative help to make her son well. Chemo has a consistent record of terminating people through it's poisoning of their bodies. Granted, it has been improved, but in my opinion, it is still dangerous and I would not take it myself. My dad had cancer, and the oncologist he went to told him that chemo would do him "no good" and would only cause the remainder of his life to be miserable, instead of relatively comfortable without chemo. He said, you are going to die either way. My dad chose to not have the chemo. His body was full of cancer, and he died within a couple of years, but fairly pain free.

There now exist, in Mexico, hospitals that use natural means to cure cancer. They have a very good track record of thousands cured, yet the government of the United States will not allow them to function in this country, so people have to flee from their own country to get proper nutritional help in conquering cancer.

Meantime, we are burning and poisoning our people who get cancer just to make the big bucks. Whose business is it to decide what treatment your child should have to get him well? Is it the government's business. I say NOT! Is it the medical establishments? I say NO! As long as the parents are acting in the child's best interest, let them see what can be done instead of sentencing their child to death by Chemo.

I don't know what religion these people are, that is not the issue here although the TV news always mentions that they are affiliated with a "religious" group. The life of their son IS the issue. A large number of wealthy people in this country go to Mexico, or to Europe to get rid of cancer. Michael Landon was seeking help from the alternative community when he was dying from cancer. His doctors reportedly told him to stay away from "those quacks, they'll kill you." I guess his doctors were wrong. He died a short time later, under their "care."

Our founding father's, in the Declaration of Independence, wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal, that they are ENDOWED by THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness."

The above two stories have a common thread. Babies have a right to be born, that's called "LIFE." Families have a right to make decisions concerning their children, among other things, that is called "LIBERTY." The parents of the young boy with cancer are being denied theirs. In my opinion, this is tyranny.
Jay