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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

OK, Andy - this sounds like a fit to the Electric Universe paradigm.

How about some hard facts to support your conclusions:
a list of historical periods with ALL solar activity and the corresponding terrestrial geologic or thermal response?

And, of course, citations for your data sources....

 So the ACLU doesn't want any crosses on Federal land ??

 

Hillary was out golfing one day, building her presidential image, when she hit her ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.

The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes." When she freed the frog he said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes: Whatever you wish for, your husband will also get ten times more or better!"

Then she said, "That would be okay," and for her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis that women will flock to."

She replied,"That will be okay because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will only have eyes for me." So, KAZAM - she's the most beautiful woman in the world! For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world.

The frog said, "That will make your husband the richest man in the world and he will be ten times richer than you."

She said, "That will be okay because what is mine is his and what is his is mine." So, KAZAM -she's the richest woman in the world!

The frog then asked about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."

There are dozens of very good books on the subject, written in layman's language by the very people who are doing this research. You'd be amazed to discover how much in agreement they all are.

Ah, great men do think alike... and De Gustibus Non Disputandum.....

They explain their thinking, their evidence, and how they arrive at their conclusions. Very stimulating reading. Try it.

More like imaginative thinking, as in science-FICTION.

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You describe Europe's internal consumption of filth, but don't quite get it - the premise is we are the world's leading exporters of filth in the form of movies, music, fashion, and drug culture. "

It's no wonder people don't like Catholics.

or Americans. or Muslims.

I THINK EVERY CATHOLIC IN THE WORLD SHOULD WRITE TO THIS BLITHERING IDIOT AND TELL HIM HE NEEDS IMMEDIATE PSYCHIATRIC HELP!!!

Calm down;no need to shout....

Your nurse will be here soon with the pills....

Do they hate Americans, really?

Some of them do....

The title is true, for the typical American thinks of the MidEast as a Semitic blur of Jews and Arabs.

Note that Bud distinguishes the "fundamentalists" . Agree with the rest of the paragraph.

As seen in post 19, the 'moral failings' that include our slaughter of civilians seems to be a key, and reasonable, point of contention.

Uh, no.

You sure had that stock Islam in America file loaded and ready to go!

Thanks for the lesson in Islamic Law but the question addressed is the cluelessness of the typical American re Muslims, as seen in many recent street interviews. I think Bud handled that quite well.

Suggest you open another thread if you want to discuss your issue: living under Islamic rule here.

If I asked as a hypothetical Muslim, "Why does the US hate us?", would you post If the US ruled Arabia?

And sorry that I missed exactly where Bud condoned killing 10,000 Americans.
Was this it? we were shocked by the sheer joy certain elements within the Arab world were expressing over the horrific deaths of so many Americans….

the 9/13 NY Daily News: Ramzi Yousef, the terrorist convicted of the first(!) WTC attack in 1993, admitted in a FBI report that his choice of the WTC as a target was to cause maximum civilian mortality by toppling one tower into the other. His primary goal was 250,00 deaths, to match the Japanese civilian A-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This hope was that heavy loss of life would bring home to the American people the plight of the Palestinians and cause Americans to realize that continued support of Israel would result effectively in a war.

However, for a handle on the likely credibility of any FBI report, see my post on the James Kopp manhunt.
Good Kopp, bad Kopp?

Many Americans are clueless about our national relationship with Muslims.

From the CatholiCity e-letter, here's what Bud Macfarlane Jr. said: (I can't resist - This Bud's for you! )