Posted on 03/18/2005 9:24:01 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Terri Schiavo's parents will be holding a news conference at 12 pm central.
When someone comes to kill you -- you should kill him first.
Of those Greer -- would now be the rodef -- to use the Hebrew.
It appears to me that NOBODY knows the truth. It's one contradiction after another. In the meantime, they have REMOVED her feeding tube.
But. And this is a big one, Terri's situation is different.
She needs to be treated. She needs as much physical therapy as possible. She needs a chance. A chance she hasn't been given. That's a difference.
I'm going to have my living will amended. If I'm in a coma because of what might be foul play, I want to be treated aggressively for up to a year before the plug is pulled. I want a chance too.
If it's old age and a painful disease, no extraordinary measures, please. But that's not this circumstance. And everyone senses it.
There are too many unanswered questions here. Why didn't the husband get help for her when help would have mattered? Wouldn't most grieving husbands want to try something? He didn't give up after trying. He didn't try. If Terri really felt like he said, why didn't she sign a living will? Does the state default to no treatment, no help, and starvation death in cases of potential foul play?
Something stinks in this case, and we all feel it. The stench reaches to our souls. This doesn't feel like respect for a woman's wish to die peacefully, it feels like murder.
I must admit that thought has gone through my mind several times. HE is the one who should NOT live. But, let's not forget who is ALLOWING this to happen.
Are you serious? I am skeptical that Terri actually said that considering she can't speak to my knowledge.
Have you read the GAL report?
Not really. We won't be missing him if somebody does.
She has had a CAT scan - the court records prove it - but that won't stop those who claim to support her from falsely repeating that she hasn't. That leads me to question the other claims made by these folks about which tests have and have not been done.
From here Btw, Terri has 3 policemen in her room and 2 at her door.
this is a rush and breaking from me and Floriduh Voter.
We got news on what happened to Terri. Terri said "I--want--to--live" and was heard by a policeman. They ushered out the Schindlers and the policeman now denies the story. They went ahead bent on continuing. Terri is talking, and she is being silenced!!!!
Time for action. I can do little, could be bumped any moment from the library computer. Please whoever needs to know this and can help now it the time to step in. Floriduh Voter is doing an incredible job in getting the word out but we need your help.
If I do not reply it is because I am being bumped off this access. Also this may be overtaken by events, but this just happened and I was privy to the info when it broke.
8mm
You'd better know what "artificially" means!!!!
I had lunch today and was sooooo happy because I thought saving Terri was a done deal. Now I will stop eating. I can't die because I have a family and must continue to support my family. But only water for now. Until Terri is safe.
When the Federal Marshal(s) went to the Hospice House Woodside, they were accompanied by local police (agency unknown). Terri's parents were present at the time. In her room, they had asked Terri if she wanted to live. Her vocal answer was, "Yes". It is reported by Sherri's sources that Terri's parents then tried to get Terri to speak one word at a time to say, "I .. want .. to .. live". It was while Terri was speaking that the police reportedly came into the room. Other details are quite sketchy. I admit to being very uneasy handling this comment as a third (or fourth, etc) party. However, it was eeevil conservative's wish that I do so. She further requests that you go to Empire Journal (Scoop1) for more breaking information.
I'll pick up water when I just can't take it anymore. I guess it's time to find out just how far I can go - and how much Terri really does suffer.
If starvation and dehydration wasn't painful, there would be no need to give her morphine.
Good point.
“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism =
1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.
2. A violation of etiquette.
3. An impropriety, mistake, or incongruity.
, at least in a republican government.” - Thomas Jefferson
In his later years Jefferson warned:
“We already see the [judiciary] power, installed for life, responsible to no authority … advancing with a noiseless and steady pace to the great object of consolidation. The foundations are already deeply laid by their decisions for the annihilation of constitutional State rights and the removal of every check, every counterpoise to the engulfing power of which themselves are to make a sovereign part.”
In 1804 – perhaps not coincidentally just one year after the Supreme Court usurped the role of ultimate and unchallengeable arbiter of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison – Jefferson wrote,
“The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”
Jefferson later wrote,
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. … their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided…its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. … When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough.”
Further,
“It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary – an irresponsible body…working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed.”
Jefferson concluded,
“But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs.” Perhaps it is time for the States – and the people – to reassert their authority “in convention”.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee due process of law in federal and state court proceedings. These amendments prevent the government from depriving an individual of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
TERRI HAS NOT HAD HER DAY IN COURT
but the husband has had his day !
"she has NOT had an MRI "
I don't think it's a good idea to try an MRI on someone with a brain stimulator implant ...
Prayers for Terri and her family.
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