Posted on 01/31/2015 3:01:48 PM PST by EveningStar
How about we just send you there
Say again...
Huh?
Thank you for the link.
My post, however, should not be construed in any way as a defense of Jeb Bush. He was, in his way, just as wrong as Michael Schiavo. As far as I’m concerned, he let Terri die.
He told Judge Greer et al. he was coming to get her. Then they called out their own cops so they couldn’t. He underestimates the wickedness of the opposition.
In answer to your question:
Governor Bush was the chief law enforcement officer in the State of Florida.
In the case of Terri Schindler Schiavo, he utterly failed to enforce the supreme law of the State of Florida, and the supreme law of the United States, both of which he had sworn an oath to support and defend.
Florida Constitution
Article One
SECTION 2. Basic rights. — All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property; except that the ownership, inheritance, disposition and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or prohibited by law. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.
The U.S. Constitution
Fifth Amendment
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
The Fourteenth Amendment
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The idea that the local cops would have lifted a finger to stop state troopers with an order from the Governor and a medical team to take her out of there is laughable. That was a stupid myth invented by Jeb Bush hacks as cover for their boy.
In answer to your question:
Governor Bush was the chief law enforcement officer in the State of Florida.
In the case of Terri Schindler Schiavo, he utterly failed to enforce the supreme law of the State of Florida, and the supreme law of the United States, both of which he had sworn an oath to support and defend.
Florida Constitution
Article One
SECTION 2. Basic rights. — All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property; except that the ownership, inheritance, disposition and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or prohibited by law. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.
The U.S. Constitution
Fifth Amendment
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
The Fourteenth Amendment
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
It was a living hell......stick around guy, you haven’t even had a glimpse of the real one yet....
“...brain-dead woman...”
A lie.
Oh good grief, what an asinine comment. The only thing that he didn't do is feed her himself....
just a tad unrealistic don't you think???
The more that you post, the more ludicrous that you become!!
Wrong. The only thing he failed to do is protect her, as he had sworn to do.
Article One, Section 2 of the Florida Constitution and the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution explicitly and imperatively require the equal protection of the right to life of every innocent person.
As for your terming it “the Schiavo issue”:
Her name was Terri Schiavo.
She was cruelly and inhumanely executed by court order in the State of Florida via dehydration and starvation.
She was not actively dying from any terminal disease or physical disorder, nor was she kept on artificial life support measures.
She needed food and water, as do all living beings.
No penal institution in the USA, then or now, would be allowed to execute a convicted death row prisoner in like manner.
Terri Schiavo did not commit any crime, yet she was executed by court orders.
Why?
Because it pleased her husband, his new best friends in the euthanasia movement, and the government who decided to give themselves the power to decide she had no right to live in a physically disabled state.
Again, she was not on any artificial life supporting medical machines, merely a tube that provided food and water. She was not dying from anything, until her access to food and water was ordered to be forcibly denied.
It took several weeks for her court ordered painfilled execution to be successfully accomplished.
Michael Schiavo and Jeb Bush can hold hands in hell forever together along with the lawyers and judges and all those who openly advocated for her execution.IMNSHO.
No wonder Jeb Bush is so pro-illegal immigrant.
He needs an entirely new and mostly ignorant and/or criminal voter base to have any chance at the office he now seeks.
Don’t think I am being sassy here, but I have a question.
The courts have the power to take innocent life at will and we don’t see governors and presidents over ruling the courts. The Federal and State courts are always violating the constitution, naming it a “living constitution.” Why don’t Governors and Presidents over rule them if they have that power?
I’m glad at least a few people on here still will stick up for the Bushs, thank you much!
But given the unanimous FL SC decision that declared the state legislation unconstituional, pray tell how could he have legally stopped it? Can any of the state governor’s stopped gay marriage? abortion?
Jeb Bush should never receive the nomination for a number of reasons, but I can’t see why because of the Terri Schiavo case.
Your problem is that Jeb Bush is not God and he couldn’t wave magic wand and do what you wanted
There was huge fight in the courts which is where this was fought and the side Jeb Bush was on lost.
Sometimes that happens (Believe it or not he fought on your side)
If you don’t see it that way to could be because you are delusional
Thank you, sarasmom. I suspect that as 2016 draws near and especially after the GOP convention, when, as I fear, ol’ Jebbie will be crowned the nominee, we’ll be flooded with posts from the GOP trolls telling us to just “let it go” about “that Schiavo thing”.
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