Posted on 03/26/2005 9:06:45 AM PST by newsgatherer
Five Briefs Say Gov. Bush Has the Legal Authority to Save Terri Schiavo
Gary McCullough
Media Advisory, March 24 /Christian Wire Service/ Posted on the internet are five legal briefs that explain to Govenor Jeb Bush that he has the legal authority to save Terri Schiavo.
In an effort to save Florida citizen, Terri Schindler-Schiavo from a court ordered death by starvation, the Society for Truth and Justice requested and delivered the following legal memorandums to Governor Jeb Bush in October of 2003:
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What is Terri dying for? Insurance money? Political gain? Or is it just to show how much the pro-deathers hate all and anything Christian?
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Their crime? Trying to bring water to a woman sentenced to death by dehydration.
Pray to God that they are not brought before judge Greer.
To the boys we would say:
A plain reading of Article II, section 2 would give Jeb's brother the executive balance to the morally deranged and derailed judiciary, as per letter below:
Re: Terri Sciavo's pardon
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
3/23/2005
Mr. President,
Lebens unwertes leben: lives unworthy of life, those deemed to have lost their innate God-given right to life – a word coined by the eugenic movement in Germany and adopted by the Nazis as justification for their barbaric medical experiments and eradication of all those they chose to so label.
Allied liberation of the death camps found millions of walking human skeletons starving to death. From that grim scene arose a determined cry that this abomination would occur “Never again!” Indeed, they say - never again.
Despised by the horrified America of 60 years ago, has “lives unworthy of life” become the moral perspective of the United States today? Has a hospice in Florida become America’s Auschwitz, Mr. President?
At the Nuremberg trials, war criminals lamely justified their acts of inhumanity with the stock defense of passing the buck: “But we were only following orders.” We dismissed their attempts then to excuse inaction and condemned them to death or prison.
Now, if we allow Terri Schiavo to die while we sit idly by, are we not also condemned by our very words and judgments from Nuremberg?
My seventh grade class, normally full of enthusiasm and love of life, sat silent and shocked when we discussed the case. To their questions of “Why?” and “How did this happen?”, we had no answer.
We could only encourage them to remember her suffering with each drink and meal of their own, accepting a small deprivation of food in communion with our sister in Christ suffering her death agony one thousand miles away.
Remember, we said, that two thousand years ago in Jerusalem, also during Passion week, the antetype of this innocent woman hung on a cross and said in His agony, ”I thirst”.
Mr. President, we thirst for moral justice. Is this legal atrocity what is meant by American liberty – the license to starve the innocent to death? Is this callous brutality the message of American freedom to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan – to the world?
If the courts set legal precedent by sentencing Terri to a death sentence for “lebens unwertes leben”, cannot a president committed to a right to life set his own precedent in the face of manifested twisted justice? If the guilty can be pardoned in the name of mercy, why not the innocent? Why not, Mr. President?
Some say that presidents should only follow historical precedents. Is that what Lincoln did in proclaiming emancipation of the slaves? And Andrew Johnson in granting a blanket pardon for all Southerners for any Civil War actions against the Union?
As mere citizens we are powerless to stop our morally derailed and deranged judiciary. We do applaud the conscience of our legislators in attempting to halt the determined assault on innocent life, but recognize that a law passed by hundreds is easily and immediately set aside by judicial fiat, issued by as few as one.
Yet in the wisdom of the founding fathers, a counter balance to the courts’ unbridled arrogance was provided through a juxtaposed executive power granted under the Constitution to the president under Article II, section 2 -
the power to correct outrageous errors in the legal system, to temper justice with mercy.
Mr. President, I ask – I implore – I beg you:
Exercise your valid and broad Constitutional power to issue executive orders and presidential pardons in the case of Terri Schiavo:
Release her immediately from the cruel and inhuman death she has been sentenced to.
The eyes of the world, the country and, yes, Texas are upon you.
God bless America, Mr. President. Else, God help us all.
Robert Bennett
Seventh grade teacher
Mary Help of Christians School
New York NY
Thank you.
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