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There's somebody “in here”…but is there anybody “out there”?
Pamela Hennessy.com/blog ^
| Feb 17, 2005
| Pamela Hennessy
Posted on 02/17/2005 5:54:30 PM PST by amdgmary
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To: trussell
I join with all the others here in prayer for Teri and her loved ones!
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To: MarMema
Yes, one of the reasons that there is a statute of limitations for many crimes is that the memories of the people involved can get clouded over the years, thus they are not always very credible. It should be no difference here, but Greer has treated these statements by Michael and his family as facts. I wish a jury had been allowed to decide whether or not those were factual statements.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:40:49 PM PST
by
Ohioan from Florida
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
To: Ohioan from Florida
Yes, one of the reasons that there is a statute of limitations for many crimes is that the memories of the people involved can get clouded over the years, thus they are not always very credible. I like that. A statute of limitations should of applied to Michael's "za zam, I just remembered she didn't want to live like this," 7 or 8 years after the 'accident' alone.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:57:52 PM PST
by
bjs1779
("It is unlikely that Terri currently needs the feeding tube." Dr. Hammesfahr's exaimination 2002)
To: bjs1779
I like that. A statute of limitations should of applied to Michael's "za zam, I just remembered she didn't want to live like this," 7 or 8 years after the 'accident' alone. If Terri's case were handled by an honest judge, none of this would be an issue because Michael has shown himself to be a liar in enough ways that his words are not credible.
Given that Terri's case is being handled by a judge who will pretend the facts are whatever he needs them to be, regardless of evidence, I don't think such a statute of limitations would have any impact. Michael could claim Terri recovered briefly two weeks ago and said she wanted to die, and Greer would believe her.
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posted on
02/20/2005 1:57:12 PM PST
by
supercat
(For Florida officials to be free of the Albatross, they should let it fly away.)
To: MarMema; Ohioan from Florida; Agrarian; Kolokotronis; katnip; monkfan; NYer; Tantumergo; ...
Of course, MarMema, we should all pray for this soul and others like her. It is indeed unimaginable that out of "mercy" and "respect" for human life we
kill people by the slowest and very torturous method, "naturally" (but nonetheless
intentionally), yet refuse to end their lives quickly and painlessly because that would be "wrong."
I have seen this "mindset" when I lived in New York, on certain days of the week (I won't mention which), when it is forbidden for some religious groups to use anything "mechanical." So, if they want the light switched on or off, they let an ashtray press the switch or tell a child to turn the lights off -- that way gravity "did it," or the innocent child did it and thereby the law wasn't violated.
It seems to me, we have come a long way, perhaps too long, in our quest for human rights, giving in to rationalism instead of mercy, forgetting that only do we not have a right to our own life (because we can't keep it), but we certainly have no right to end anyone else's life deliberately no matter what the process of what "does it".
Deliberate act with the purpose of ending someone's life is -- murder no matter how legal(istic) minds sugarcoat it.
I have included our Catholic brethren with the same petition to pray with us.
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posted on
02/20/2005 3:49:56 PM PST
by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: MarMema; kosta50
I'm praying for her daily and for us as a country that we do not allow her slow and cruel murder.
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posted on
02/20/2005 4:00:08 PM PST
by
katnip
(Starving sick people to death is immoral and Un-American)
To: kosta50; MarMema; Ohioan from Florida; Agrarian; Kolokotronis; katnip; monkfan; NYer; Tantumergo; ..
I agree with everything you have written, which is probably no surprise to this pinged group. That said, your comment put me in mind of something my mother asked me to do when she lay dying, quite young by today's standards, of cancer. About ten days before she died she asked me to get the priest for anointing and communion. Then after he left, she took my hand and said, "Tell the priest to "say the prayers"!" I asked her what prayers. She said he'd know. I did and the priest just looked grave and said to tell my mother he would. After she died he told me they were prayers for a peaceful and easy imminent death. That's just what she had.
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posted on
02/20/2005 4:03:51 PM PST
by
Kolokotronis
(Nuke the Cube!)
To: amdgmary; american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; ...
Disability advocates have long supported Ms. Schiavos retained right to receive ordinary care and have argued that labeling a simple gastronomy tube artificial life support would immediately and dramatically endanger entire groups of people within the disabled community. Catholic Ping - Come home for Easter and experience Gods merciful love. Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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posted on
02/20/2005 4:40:42 PM PST
by
NYer
("The Eastern Churches are the Treasures of the Catholic Church" - Pope John XXIII)
To: Kolokotronis
Bump and Prayers for Terri.
To: laweeks
And every federal prison has a stocked legal library and that these libraries are the most used resources in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A prisoner is allowed to build a brief, represent him/her selves and get sufficient time alloted to this effort.
Terry Schiavo has been confined to her room for the last 5 years without any access by anyone to her.
This is a complete denial of civil rights.
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:10:00 PM PST
by
franky
(Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
To: Kolokotronis
Thank you for sharing that. God is merciful.
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posted on
02/20/2005 5:10:39 PM PST
by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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