I completely understand where you are coming from. I just want people to remember that Jeb nor the President started this and both, especially Jeb, did a lot to try to save Terri. Maybe not everything, but they did do something.
I just want people who live in Florida to focus on getting Greer and those Senators out of office, then change whatever laws need to be changed. And I am sure you will have a Governor in Jeb that will sign them.
If it hadn't been for Jeb, Terri would have died in 2003.
If he took Terri today, the courts wouldn't let him keep her, and she would still be put to death.
Even if he managed to hold on to her till he was out of office (which would be a short period of time, because he would absolutely be impeached for breaking a legal court order), whoever came next would most certainly enforce the court's ruling, and Terri would still be put to death.
In the meantime, nobody would touch end of life things, lest they be branded outlaws, and the culture of death would certainly win.
Think about it.
And before you call me a troll, go look at my posting history.
"I just want people to remember that Jeb nor the President started this and both, especially Jeb, did a lot to try to save Terri. Maybe not everything, but they did do something."
Pilate: "I find no evil in this man."
Crowd: "Crucify him!"
Pilate, fearing a riot, washed his hands of the matter and handed him over to be crucified.
Pilate did a lot. He tried to reason with the crowd. He tried to calm them down. He offered a murderer, but the crowd chose the murderer over the man Pilate knew to be innocent. Pilate knew that he didn't have to order the crucifixion, but he knew that there would be a riot, which he would have to suppress with force, and he knew that the leaders in Rome had already criticized him for being too cruel.
And Jesus was just a nobody anyways. Innocent, maybe, but saving his life was not worth facing a riotous and angry local populace, and then possibly being removed from office by Rome. Thus calculated Pontius Pilate.
He argued with the crowd, and did not move them, so he washed his hands of the matter and let Jesus be tortured to death.
Pilate tried!
Never let it be said that Pontius Pilate did nothing!
He did quite a bit, trying every maneuver he could think of in order to save the man's life, because he knew the man to be innocent. But in the end, Pilate was not going to risk his prestige and position by flatly exerting his executive power to actually SAVE the innocent man's life.
Perhaps Pilate and his supporters figured that, with time, everyone would remember him for the aqueducts and roads and town markets he built, and nobody would remember his perfectly understandable unwillingness to really press the matter concerning some nobody over which people were on the verge of riot.
Pilate tried, and look how we remember him for those architectural marvels!
The men in the Blackhawk at Mogadishu tried too. They also failed their mission. But they gave their last full measure of honor on the field, got their injured out, protected their dead, and when they retired, their honor was intact. The price of THEM "trying" was some of their lives.
Neither Jeb nor Pilate were in personal danger.
It was a reputational thing.
And their failure is what made their reputation.