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| Long Cut
Posted on 03/29/2005 8:58:34 AM PST by Long Cut
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To: Chad Fairbanks
That's rather horrifying.
681
posted on
03/29/2005 1:53:57 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: .38sw
As a Christian, Pro-life conservative, I find it horrifying, too... America is a place that allows ME to worship as I choose, not a place for me to force others to worship as I do...
Wish more people could see that.
682
posted on
03/29/2005 1:56:04 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
To: lugsoul
What he said the other day was along the lines of "Evangelicals put the Republicans in office, and if they don't do what we say - if Terri dies - there will be hell to pay."Interesting choice of words...
Barbara Olsen's book on HRC was called "Hell to Pay".
Uh-oh.
To: lugsoul
very few of them are willing to step up and say that Terri's feeding tube should be removed if her wishes in that regard were clear. That has never been disproven in court. And it is logical to follow what the next of kin says. All of us, today, are subject to our spouses' pronounciations should we end up incapacitated at this very hour. Don't we accept that as FACT?
684
posted on
03/29/2005 1:56:41 PM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
To: Steel Wolf
I can't help but think that the courts had plenty of opportunity to stop this from happening, if there had been any desire to see a fair result. It seems that there are just so
many laws that those who know them best get to pick and choose which ones they want to apply. To me, this sort of arbitrary application of the law is in itself lawlessness. In another case, for example, a petition like the one submitted by the DCF, with no more or less a factual basis, might have been accepted. It seems as if way too much is left up to the discretion of the judge.
Whether or not this was "by the book", the result is clearly not justice. I am just taken aback that unmentioned Consitutional penumbrae guarantee a "right" to abortion and sodomy and other demented behaviors, but a mere statute seems to override explicitly enumerated and inalienable rights.
I just don't have the experience in these kind of messes to put my finger on what exactly is the problem, but I do know that it stinks to high heaven, and whatever the law may say, this woman is being slowly murdered in a horrific way that I wouldn't wish on anyone, and it doesn't at all appear that she wants to die.
685
posted on
03/29/2005 1:58:04 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
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To: MineralMan
So if your wife decides to murder you, I should butt out of that?
686
posted on
03/29/2005 1:58:45 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Certainly the last thing I'd want is for someone like Randall Terry making rules for how I worship, and how I should live, and claim that he's speaking for God. How arrogant.
687
posted on
03/29/2005 1:59:00 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: Chad Fairbanks
< Jar Jar>How wude!!< /Jar Jar>
Seriously, I wonder how much damage this individual is doing to the image of Conservatives with this kind of crap.
688
posted on
03/29/2005 2:02:13 PM PST
by
RebelBanker
(To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
To: .38sw
"I'm also a former liberal, now turned freedom lover."
You know what they say: once a rat, always a rat.
689
posted on
03/29/2005 2:02:22 PM PST
by
Stakka Skynet
("Actors are cattle." -Alfred Hitchcock)
To: MineralMan
Sorry, I know that last comment wasn't very helpful, I apologize.
It's just damn frustrating to see the tools of law twisted so badly that they can starve a helpless woman to death and it's all legal.
I'll fight to preserve your choices, help me fight to preserve peoples' lives.
What can we do to prevent the absence of a living will from being used as a license to kill?
690
posted on
03/29/2005 2:03:14 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
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To: Stakka Skynet
"If a FReeper finds this an acceptable means to discuss this and other issues, they are welcome to join in and participate. Those who find pleasure in attacks, flame-baiting, slander, stalking, and personal atacks will be ignored, and their egos will go unfed." Thanks for bumping the thread.
691
posted on
03/29/2005 2:04:58 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: thoughtomator
"it doesn't at all appear that she wants to die"
Again, that's what it comes down to - the Courts, all the way up the chain, disagree with you on this point.
And you've already stated that her wishes are immaterial - what matters is that you don't want her to die.
692
posted on
03/29/2005 2:06:08 PM PST
by
lugsoul
(Wild Turkey)
To: Stakka Skynet
You know what they say: once a rat, always a rat. Wow. Let's all go to people's profile pages and use info there for personal attacks.
You are morally, and intellectually, bankrupt.
Have a nice day.
693
posted on
03/29/2005 2:06:38 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
To: MrNatural
Over here, at 668. On a side note, I drew some inspiration for the idea from from our esteemed liberal relative. (I can just imagine him lurking through these threads, popcorn in hand, watching with wry amusement as FR self destructs) ;-)
694
posted on
03/29/2005 2:06:51 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(Try new Free Republic Lite! - Lite on reason, but with 1000% more hyperbole!)
To: Chad Fairbanks
You forgot to add: "and not very interesting".
695
posted on
03/29/2005 2:07:30 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: Stakka Skynet
"I'm also a former liberal, now turned freedom lover."You know what they say: once a rat, always a rat.
I'm also a former liberal. And I'll don't even like cheese. Are only genetically pure conservatives welcome here? I thought being a convert was okay.
696
posted on
03/29/2005 2:10:04 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(Try new Free Republic Lite! - Lite on reason, but with 1000% more hyperbole!)
To: Steel Wolf
There are quite a few converts here. It just shows that a lot of us grew up, and apparently, some didn't.
697
posted on
03/29/2005 2:11:10 PM PST
by
.38sw
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To: Stakka Skynet
"If a FReeper finds this an acceptable means to discuss this and other issues, they are welcome to join in and participate. Those who find pleasure in attacks, flame-baiting, slander, stalking, and personal atacks will be ignored, and their egos will go unfed."Thanks for bumping the thread.
699
posted on
03/29/2005 2:15:07 PM PST
by
.38sw
To: thoughtomator
I'll have to think that one over for a while. I don't like the idea of forced medical procedures any more than I like the idea of deliberately letting someone die. Fair enough.
700
posted on
03/29/2005 2:16:09 PM PST
by
malakhi
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