Posted on 03/31/2005 7:45:43 AM PST by churchillbuff
Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 68, on the Judiciary:
The judiciary "will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. ...The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; ...It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. """"
JUDGE GREER USURPED EXECUTIVE POWER BY ORDERING LOCAL COPS TO REPEL THE STATE FAMILY AND CHILDREN INVESTIGATORS AND JEB'S DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT., THIS AMOUNTED TO AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIAL COUP. IT WAS LAWLESS, AN AFFRONT TO CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWER AND TO JEB BUSH'S LEGAL PREROGATIVES AS GOVERNOR. JEB LET THIS REBEL JUDGE GET AWAY WITH IT. NUFF SAID
Keep it up. We need to demand accountability from all our representatives.
No, they should have ordered the sheriffs to stand aside.
Judge Greer does not enforce the laws, the Governor does, and the sheriffs could not lawfully resist the Governor enforcing the law. That would be a criminal act.
The Florida legislature could have stopped this, and blew it. The state of Florida is a deranged and evil dominion of Satan and should be nuked.
BUMP
How true!
But the american people hardly ever vote a judge out of office.. no matter how badly they perform, or how they trample on people's rights..
Check on the voting record concerning judges in your area..
I will bet you dollars to doughnuts, it is close to 100% of judges are voted to remain in their position of authority every voting cycle, without exception..
While I routinely vote to remove them from office, I am invariably out-voted, 100 to 1..
So, who's fault is it they're in office?
Greer will be voted back into office come november, or 2006, whenever it comes up for vote..
This won't make a difference..
Parenthetical title and everything. Too bad you couldn't find a current article, but trolls have their limitations.
For the record, the judge made a number of judgement calls in which he was not burdened by the law and they all went against the Schindlers.
For the record the Schindlers never had a case and the results in court show it. They had no medical evidence from credible doctors, no legal standing and no case. It was obvious from day one to any objective observer which is why the mob was whipped up to intimidate the courts and politicians.
To their shame many politicians made fools of themselves to accomodate the desires of that mob only to have it turn on them when its wishes were not achieved. No surprise to any familiar with the actions of mobs.
The Pres and the Gov did everything they could within the law. They must respect the rule of law or they will basically be telling us there is no reason to.
Is there something wrong with the way this situation played out? You bet ya! But pointing fingers and blaming other people for not breaking the law seems pretty stupid if we did nothing to help them.
We need to make changes in our own lives to prevent this kind of event from occurring in the future. Through living wills, passing new laws that protect those that do not have a living will, allowing living parents to have more choices when husbands choose to terminate their spouses life-support. And to also ask, who the hell has the authority and is it in the right place? We seem to be quick to give that responsibility to the government. If anything, this is just one more big example of the government not helping us when we need it. Stop putting all your trust in them! Time to make some changes.
Perhaps her death will be the catalyst that perpetuates the change that is needed and could not be rectified in 13 days. These questions we face could have easily been discussed when she was put on life support to begin with, but we waited until after her husband made a legal decision to suddenly be concerned about Terri and the laws.
Blame Michael, or don't blame him, it's possible that none of this awareness would have come to light if he had not taken the action he did. I personally have been on the fence seeing validity while standing in the shoes of all persons directly involved. Is Terri's life one worth living? Is Michael evil or saintly? Are Terri's parents blinded from reality with their undying love and hope for Terri? Should we have broken the law and created an additional crisis or possible killings of others just doing their job in the attempt? Is putting a person in Terri's condition on life support for the rest of her life unreasonable when we put convicted murderers up for life every single day? Are we letting the Government have too much say in what our lives should be like? The courts? The insurance companies? And a myriad of other questions!
Jeb Bush was the last man to turn his back on a dying innocent disabled woman . . . and he walked away. There will be hell to pay - not just Jeb Bush but every one who participated in this murder.
You are incorrect. The courts took the case.
Hell, in the end, quite possibly. But I'm not confident there will be accountability in the near term. The Bush bros. understandably want this issue to go away. Congress is unlikely to buck them. The Florida Legislature already wimped out, I don't expect a different result now.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised to see Michael Schiavo reap millions in Hollywood deals. And freepers have already gone back to saluting George Bush as a fearless leader.
You really think the lackeys from some hick sheriff department would've stood their ground into a shootout with the national guard?
Jeb could've done the same thing Eisenhower did to Orval Faubus at Little Rock high school. He declared that Terri's blood was not on his hands and chose not to.
This case, having destroyed the credibility of the GOP, will make reigning in the judiciary much more difficult, as well as increase the difficulty of banning gay marriage.
That is the result of allowing emotion and thoughtlessness to get the upper hand. The willingness of the GOP to pander to these forces is an unmitigated disaster.
The Antis were not concerned about state judicial power being to great just the federal. So your boys are totally out of the picture wrt to this and the sooner you stop the deception the better.
Calling the state of Florida "...deranged and the evil dominion of satan..." and calling for it to be "nuked" is as lunatic a statement as has ever been made on FR. It is a clear indication of the level of lunacy of these alleged "pro-lifers"
The sooner you people get away from the GOP far, far away the better you are an embarassment to rationality, humanity and Christianity.
Unfortunately this will be the hideous face shown by the RATmedia as representative of the GOP.
That is indicative of nothing. There was nothing here. It was dead on arrival and even non-lawyers could tell you that. All you have is increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories to explain the total failure in the courts of the Schindlers.
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